cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Abgeschliffene Mammutstoßzähne aus dem Emschertal
Creators: name: Brandt, Karl
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1963

description: Es werden zwei Fragmente von Mammut-Stoßzähnen beschrieben, die aus den basalen „Knochen-Schichten" der Emscher-Niederterrasse (letzte Eiszeit) bei Herne und Bottrop entstammen. Beide Stoßzahn-Fragmente zeigen am distalen Ende Schliffmarken, die auf Scharrbewegungen im gefrorenen Schnee oder Sand zurückgeführt werden. Ein drittes Fundstück zeigt beidseitig zur Spitze des Stoßzahn-Fragmentes hin meißelartige Abflachungen. Vermutlich wurde dieser Stoßzahn als Arbeitszahn zum Ausgraben von Pflanzen oder zum Suchen nach Wasser benutzt; vielleicht liegt aber auch ein Artefakt vor. Das vierte Fundstück endlich, allseitig stark gerundet, am proximalen Ende mit poliert erscheinender Oberfläche, stammt aus der Knochenschicht des Schwarzbachtales bei Gelsenkirchen-Hessler. Es wird vermutet, daß es sich hierbei um ein altpaläolithisches Gerät handelt, das wie die bekannten „Glockenschaber" aus Knochen zum Enthaaren der Tierfelle verwandt wurde.
description: research
Anaxipha Saussure 1874
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
name: Anso, Jérémy
name: Jourdan, Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Anaxipha

description: Genus Anaxipha Saussure, 1874
 Anaxipha Saussure, 1874: 370.
 TYPE SPECIES. — Gryllus pulicarius Burmeister, 1838 by subsequent designation (Rehn, 1905).
 ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Fig. 3A; Otte & Alexander 1983: fig. 161. Male genitalia: Otte et al. 1987: fig. 19. Calling songs: Otte & Alexander 1983: fig. 163.
EMENDED DIAGNOSIS FOR NEW CALEDONIAN SPECIES. — After Otte & Alexander (1983) and material preserved in MNHN. Head dorsum not fully flat between eyes. TI with an outer tympanum; inner tympanum lacking. FWs not hairy. HWs not developed. TIII with three pairs of long and thin alternate subapical spurs; only five relatively short apical spurs, ventral inner spur lacking.
 Male. No dorsal gland on abdomen. FWs flat in lateral view. Stridulatory apparatus complete; mirror well-developed, most often diamond shaped. Apical field reduced. Metanotal glands present or lacking. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallus well-developed, symmetrical or almost so, and not hyperthelic; distal pseudepiphallus with two lateral long and thin lobes, and two shorter median ones; on each side, median and lateral lobes separated (Anaxipha undescribed species) or not (Anaxipha caledonica Otte, 1987) by an additional thin process; distal margins of lobes plain (Anaxipha caledonica, Otte et al. 1987: fig. 19B) or serrated (Anaxipha undescribed species), resembling some species of Vanuaxipha Otte & Cooper, 2007; pseudepiphallic parameres symmetrical, flat.
 Female. FW length and colour as in males. Ovipositor: distal margins of dorsal and ventral valves highly crenulated (see Otte et al. 1987: fig. 19C).
 DISTRIBUTION. — World-wide. Known in New Caledonia by only one species from Grande Terre, on the western coast near Koumac (A. caledonica). Additional material attests the presence of Anaxipha at Parc provincial de la Rivière Bleue in the South of Grande Terre and at the base of Mont Mou (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, pp. 405-452 in Zoosystema 38 (4) on pages 415-416, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578278
Ein speläochronologischer Beitrag zur postglazialen Klimageschichte
Creators: name: Franke, Herbert W.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1966

description: Höhlensinter bietet gute Voraussetzungen für die Anwendung der Radiocarbon-Datierung. Es werden einige Ergebnisse von Messungen an Stalagmiten mitgeteilt; die Untersuchung erfolgte im C14-Laboratorium des 2. Physikalischen Instituts der Universität Heidelberg. Nimmt man für sekundären Kalk einen Rezentstandard von 85% an, so liegen die Wachstumsperioden der untersuchten Stalagmiten innerhalb des postglazialen Klimaoptimums. Das bestärkt die Ansicht, daß die Wachstumsgrenzen von Sintergenerationen Zeitmarken für klimatische Übergangsphasen sind. Zur genaueren Prüfung der Situation ist eine Meßreihe geplant, aus der sich C14-Daten für die postglaziale Klimageschichte ergeben sollten.
description: research
title: The Biochemical Basis of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
Creators: name: Needs, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: The enzyme peptide: N-glycanase (EC 3.5.1.52) is an endoglycosidase which cleaves N-linked glycans from incorrectly folded glycoproteins exported from the endoplasmic reticulum during ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Clinical mutations in this enzyme (resulting in loss or decrease in function) are responsible for the rare congenital disorder termed N-GLY1. N-GLY1 disorder was first identified by next generation sequencing in 2012, and as such there exists little information as to the cellular effects of N-glycanase deficiency. In this study, N-glycanase deficiency was examined in a well-characterised cell model (HEK-293). Cellular effects were examined following pharmacological inhibition of N-glycanase using carbobenzoxy-valyl-ananyl-aspartyl-[O-methyl]-fluoromethylketone (Z-VAD-fmk) and, genetic knockdown by siRNA. Attempts were also made to generate a knockout cell line using CRISPR/Cas9. Using molecular and cellular techniques, this study has confirmed that in HEK-293, pharmacological N-glycanase inhibition or siRNA knockdown does not activate ER stress, oxidative stress or change the glycoprotein profile of the cell. Both treatments were associated with a small increase in ThT fluorescence associated with protein aggregates and identified that autophagy was increased in pharmacological N-glycanase inhibition and siRNA knockdown, and that this likely represents a protective measure. Autophagy dysregulation using ATG13 KO MEF cells found a change in the redox environment of the cell. This effect was further exacerbated in both HEK293, WT MEFs and ATG13 KO MEFs by growth in glucose-free media supplemented with galactose to reduce glycolysis as an energy source. This is suggestive of mitochondrial dysregulation, although no changes in mitochondrial membrane potential or mitochondrial content were identified. Proteomics analysis of immuno-precipitated autophagosomes induced under pharmacological N-glycanase inhibition and siRNA knockdown revealed increased intensity of mitochondrial proteins in these samples indicative of mitophagy which may play a role in the cellular response to impairments of N-glycanase function.
Unsupervised Learning of KB Queries in Task-Oriented Dialogs
Creators: name: Raghu, Dinesh
name: Gupta, Nikhil
name: Mausam
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: Task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems often need to formulate knowledge base (KB) queries corresponding to the user intent and use the query results to generate system responses. Existing approaches require dialog datasets to explicitly annotate these KB queries -- these annotations can be time consuming, and expensive. In response, we define the novel problems of predicting the KB query and training the dialog agent, without explicit KB query annotation. For query prediction, we propose a reinforcement learning (RL) baseline, which rewards the generation of those queries whose KB results cover the entities mentioned in subsequent dialog. Further analysis reveals that correlation among query attributes in KB can significantly confuse memory augmented policy optimization (MAPO), an existing state of the art RL agent. To address this, we improve the MAPO baseline with simple but important modifications suited to our task. To train the full TOD system for our setting, we propose a pipelined approach: it independently predicts when to make a KB query (query position predictor), then predicts a KB query at the predicted position (query predictor), and uses the results of predicted query in subsequent dialog (next response predictor). Overall, our work proposes first solutions to our novel problem, and our analysis highlights the research challenges in training TOD systems without query annotation.
description: Presented at ACL 2021
Der Ablauf des Erdzeitalters
Creators: name: Woldstedt, Paul
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1966

description: Es wird eine schematische Kurve für das ganze Eiszeitalter, zunächst für Mitteleuropa, gezeichnet. Sie gilt aber auch für die ganze übrige Welt. Sie ist keine maßstabsgerechte Temperaturkurve; dafür reichen die Daten noch nicht aus. Die Einteilung geschieht so, daß drei Abschnitte unterschieden werden (Alt-, Mittel- und Jungquartär), die jedesmal aus zwei Zyklen (Kalt- und Warmzeit) bestehen. Das Altquartär umfaßt dabei wahrscheinlich noch einen weiteren Zyklus, der ebenfalls aus einer Kalt- und einer Warmzeit von geringerem Ausmaß besteht. Der Umfang der Kaltzeiten scheint im Laufe der Entwicklung zuzunehmen und sein Maximum in der Mindel- oder Riß-Eiszeit zu erreichen. Die Zahlen, die nach der K/Ar-Methode für die menschliche Entwicklung angegeben werden, sind in ihrer jetzigen Größenordnung schwer in der Kurve unterzubringen.
description: research
Magnetische Aspekte zum Rodderberg-Vulkan (Bonn)
Creators: name: Pucher, Rudolph
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 2003

description: Der Rodderberg bei Bonn ist der nördlichste Teil des Osteifel-Vulkanfeldes aus dem Pleistozän. Seine mehrphasige Entstehungsgeschichte ist verzahnt mit den fluviatilen Sedimenten des Rheins und den äolischen Sedimenten aus den Eiszeiten. Die dort aufgeschlossenen Gesteine Basalt, Löß und vulkanthermisch beeinflusster Löß erlauben den Vergleich von Magnetisierungen von Materialien etwa gleichen Alters, aber unterschiedlicher Zusammensetzung und Geschichte. Die von der lokalen Erdmagnetfeld-Richtung deutlich abweichende flache Magnetisierungsrichtung der Basaltproben ist durch Blitzschlag verursacht worden und stellte sich als Beispiel von Blitzschlag-Magnetisierung heraus. Aus der Verteilung der Deklination der Magnetisierung konnte die Einschlagstelle der Blitze in etwa 5 m vom Probenprofil ermittelt werden. Eine aeromagnetische Vermessung des Rodderberges hat neue Hinweise zu seiner Struktur ergeben: Die Anomalie erstreckt sich von NNW nach SSE, der magnetisch wirksame Teil der Vulkanstruktur beschränkt sich auf den Bereich innerhalb des topographisch erkennbaren Kraters. Der umlaufende Schlacke-Aschewall ist magnetisch nicht erkennbar. Unterschiede der Anomalieform aus Messungen am Boden und in 35 m Höhe (Aeromagnetik) legen den Schluss nahe, dass die magnetisch wirksame Kraterstruktur einen flachgründigen Körper aus pyroklastischem Material anzeigt. Mit einigem Abstand darunter ist weiterer Basalt zu erwarten. Mit dem Rodderberg scheint uns die Natur einen Vulkan zu liefern, der am Beginn von phreatomagmatischen Erscheinungen geprägt war, dessen zweite Hälfte seiner lang währenden Genese aber die eines mehr klassischen Vulkans war.
description: research
Additional file 1 of Fit for purpose. Co-production of complex behavioural interventions. A practical guide and exemplar of co-producing a telehealth-delivered exercise intervention for people with stroke
Creators: name: Ramage, Emily R.
name: Burke, Meredith
name: Galloway, Margaret
name: Graham, Ian D.
name: Janssen, Heidi
name: Marsden, Dianne L.
name: Patterson, Amanda J.
name: Pollack, Michael
name: Said, Catherine M.
name: Lynch, Elizabeth A.
name: English, Coralie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Intervention protocol mapped to the TIDieR Checklist.
Limiting Temperature, Limiting Curvature and the Cyclic Universe
Creators: name: Fukuma, Masafumi
name: Kawai, Hikaru
name: Ninomiya, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new type of cosmological model in which it is postulated that not only the temperature but also the curvature is limited by the mass scale of the Hagedorn temperature. We find that the big bang of this universe is smoothly connected to the big crunch of the previous universe through a Hagedorn universe, in which the temperature and curvature remain very close to their limiting values. In this way, we obtain the picture of a cyclic universe. By estimating the entropy gained in each big crunch and big bang, we reach the conclusion that our universe has repeated this process about forty times after it was created at the Planck scale. We also show that the model gives a scale-invariant spectrum of curvature perturbations.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures. Minor corrections in text and one reference added
A model of the 3-μm hydration band with Exponentially Modified Gaussian (EMG) profiles: application to hydrated chondrites and asteroids
Creators: name: Potin, S.
name: Manigand, S.
name: Beck, P.
name: Wolters, C.
name: Schmitt, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here a new method to model the shape of the 3-μm absorption band in the reflectance spectra of meteorites and small bodies. The band is decomposed into several OH/H2O components using Exponentially Modified Gaussian (EMG) profiles, as well as possible organic components using Gaussian profiles when present. We compare this model to polynomial and multiple Gaussian profile fits and show that the EMGs model returns the best rendering of the shape of the band, with significantly lower residuals. We also propose as an example an algorithm to estimate the error on the band parameters using a bootstrap method. We then present an application of the model to two spectral analyses of smectites subjected to different H2O vapor pressures, and present the variations of the components with decreasing humidity. This example emphasizes the ability of this model to coherently retrieve weak bands that are hidden within much stronger ones.
description: Accepted in Icarus
Members’ attitudes towards cooperatives and their perception of agency problems
Creators: name: Hakelius, Karin
name: Hansson, Helena
name: Hakelius, Karin
name: Hansson, Helena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: agency problems
subject: agricultural cooperative
subject: attitude
subject: governance
subject: factor analysis

description: This study examines whether and how members’ perceptions of agency problems, in terms of the decision problem and the follow-up problem, shape their attitudes to agricultural cooperatives. The study is based on empirical data collected through a postal questionnaire sent to 2,250 Swedish farmers in 2013 (response rate ~40%). Exploratory factor analysis of a set of attitudinal measurement items was used to assess members’ attitudes to agricultural cooperatives. Seemingly unrelated regression analysis was used to identify the impact of members’ perceptions of agency problems on the attitude measures obtained from the exploratory factor analysis. The results suggest that perceived agency problems significantly explain members’ attitudes to their cooperatives. Therefore, working with these problems can be a way for directors of cooperatives to influence members’ attitudes and, in continuation, behaviors to these. This would be one way of developing more sustainable member-director relationships in these cooperatives.
Additional file 1 of Options for improving low birthweight and prematurity birth outcomes of indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse infants: a systematic review of the literature using the social-ecological model
Creators: name: Karger, Shae
name: Bull, Claudia
name: Enticott, Joanne
name: Callander, Emily J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Baryon spectroscopy with spatially improved quark sources
Creators: name: Burch, Tommy
name: Gattringer, Christof
name: Glozman, Leonid Ya.
name: Hagen, Christian
name: Hierl, Dieter
name: Lang, C. B.
name: Schaefer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study baryons on the lattice with a special focus on excited states. For that purpose we construct several interpolators which differ in their Dirac structure. These interpolators are built from Jacobi smeared quarks with different widths in order to allow for operators with improved spatial wavefunctions. We compute all cross correlations and use the variational method to determine which combinations of operators have best overlap with ground and excited states. Our approach yields promising results for the spin-1/2 baryons: nucleon, sigma, xi and lambda. For the spin-3/2 baryons, delta and omega, we obtain results which are consistent with results of other groups.
description: LaTeX [PoS], 6 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at Lattice 2005 (Hadron spectrum and quark masses)
Automatic Generation of RAMS Analyses from Model-based Functional Descriptions using UML State Machines
Creators: name: Kaukewitsch, Christof
name: Papist, Henrik
name: Zeller, Marc
name: Rothfelder, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In today's industrial practice, safety, reliability or availability artifacts such as fault trees, Markov models or FMEAs are mainly created manually by experts, often distinctively decoupled from systems engineering activities. Significant efforts, costs and timely requirements are involved to conduct the required analyses. In this paper, we describe a novel integrated model-based approach of systems engineering and dependability analyses. The behavior of system components is specified by UML state machines determining intended/correct and undesired/faulty behavior. Based on this information, our approach automatically generates different dependability analyses in the form of fault trees. Hence, alternative system layouts can easily be evaluated. The same applies for simple variations of the logical input-output relations of logical units such as controllers. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach with the help of simple examples using a prototypical implementation of the presented concepts.
Der Löß in Bulgarien
Creators: name: Fotakiewa, Em.
name: Minkow, M.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1966

description: Der Löß in Bulgarien nimmt eine Fläche von 9800 km2 ein und ist ausschließlich in den Donaurandgebieten verbreitet. Er überdeckt mantelartig das ältere Relief — die pliozänen Denudations- und Sedimentationsoberflächen und pleistozänen Flußterrassen. Auf den Hochebenen liegt er auf Kreide-, Tertiär- und altpleistozänen Ablagerungen, von denen er durch eine aus rotbraunem, terrarossa-ähnlichem Lehm bestehende Verwitterungskruste getrennt ist. Auf den Terrassen liegt er auf altersunterschiedlichen Alluvialsedimenten. Die Mächtigkeit der Lößformation hängt von der Entfernung von der Donau und dem Alter des geomorphologischen Elementes, dem es aufliegt, ab. Auf den in unmittelbarer Nähe der Donau liegenden Hochebenen beträgt diese Mächtigkeit zwischen 50 und 60 m (in Lößrücken bis zu 102 m). Ungefähr 10 km südlich des Donauufers fällt diese Mächtigkeit schroff auf 25—30 m ab und erreicht in den südlichen Randgebieten kaum 4—5 m. Mit der Entfernung von der Donau verändert sich auch die lithofaziale Zusammensetzung, wobei die einzelnen lithofazialen Varietäten territorial als schmale, unter sich und zur Donau parallel verlaufende Streifen in folgender Reihenfolge auftreten: lößartiger Sand, sandiger Löß, typischer Löß, lehmiger Löß und lößartiger Lehm. Als Grundlage der Lößstratigraphie dienen die Fossilböden, die in bezug auf Zahl, Typ und räumliche Verbreitung hohe Beständigkeit aufweisen. Die Zahl der Lößhorizonte hängt vom Alter des Reliefelements, auf das sich der Lößkomplex ablagert, wie auch von den Erhaltungsbedingungen der primären Akkumulation ab. Auf den vorquartären und unterpleistozänen Reliefformen besteht der Lößkomplex aus sechs Lößhorizonten, die von fünf Fossilböden getrennt sind. Auf der 20—35-m-Terrasse (Riß/Würm I) finden sich drei Lößhorizonte, die durch zwei Fossilböden getrennt sind, auf der 12—15-m-Terrasse (Würm II) ein Lößhorizont. Auf Grund der paläopedologischen, paläontologischen und vorgeschichtlichen Daten und des Prinzips der stratigraphischen Analogie nehmen wir an, daß der erste Lößhorizont während des Mindel I, der zweite im Mindel II, der dritte zur Rißeiszeit (I u. II) der vierte im Würm I, der fünfte im Würm II, der sechste im Würm III abgelagert worden sind, wobei der zweite und der dritte der Fossilböden interglaziale und die übrigen interstadiale Böden darstellen. Die bisher durchgeführten Untersuchungen begründen die Annahme, daß der Löß in Bulgarien äolischen Ursprungs ist und aus den Überschwemmungsgebieten der Donau ausgeweht wurde.
description: research
Static potential in a topologically massive Born-Infeld theory
Creators: name: Gaete, Patricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a (2+1)-dimensional topologically massive Born-Infeld theory, we compute the interaction potential within the structure of the gauge-invariant but path-dependent variables formalism. The result is equivalent to that of $QED_3$ with a Thirring interaction term among fermions, in the short distance regime.
description: 8 pages
Do coffee cooperatives benefit farmers? An exploration of heterogeneous impact of coffee cooperative membership in Southwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Shumeta, Zekarias
name: D'Haese, Marijke
name: Shumeta, Zekarias
name: D'Haese, Marijke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: coffee
subject: cooperatives
subject: Ethiopia
subject: performance
subject: propensity score matching
subject: heterogeneity

description: Smallholder farmers’ participation in agricultural cooperatives is often promoted as a promising strategy for overcoming market imperfections and to increase farmers’ productivity and income. In recognition of this potential, in recent years, Ethiopia has shown renewed interest in promoting cooperatives. However, there is lack of empirical evidence of the impact that cooperatives have on farmers’ performance in Ethiopia. Using a matching technique, we evaluate the impact of coffee cooperatives on the performance of their member households in terms of income and coffee production. We use data from coffee farmers in south-west Ethiopia. The overall results suggest that members of cooperatives are not faring much better than non-members. The treatment effects we measured were not statistically significant from zero. Yet, the aggregate figures mask differences between cooperatives and amongst individual cooperative members. Average treatment effects on members differ between cooperatives, in general older members, those who have benefitted from more education and those with larger coffee plantations seem to benefit more from membership. Our analysis sheds light on the heterogeneity in the impact that membership of a cooperative can have: this differs by cooperative and by members within cooperatives, a finding that has important policy implications.
Performance of small and medium-sized food and agribusiness enterprises: evidence from Indian firms
Creators: name: Ali, Jabir
name: Ali, Jabir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: firm size
subject: small and medium enterprises
subject: business performance
subject: business obstacles
subject: enterprise survey

description: This paper analyses the size of food and agribusiness firms in India in relationship to business enterprise characteristics, performance, and obstacles through surveying 515 food and agribusiness firms operating in different regions of India using the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey 2014. Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests and analysis of variance were used to evaluate data using statistical software. Chi-square statistics identify significant differences in enterprise characteristics through examining firm size, location, gender ownership, type and age. An analysis of variance indicates significant differences in business performance across small, medium and large enterprises in term of input and output ratios. Obstacles facing firms are largely similar regardless of firm size in eleven of the sixteen business-obstacles surveyed. Results reveal that large enterprises perceive more challenges with telecommunication services, customs, trade regulations, and corruption, while small and medium firms face greater constraints gaining access to land and finance. This study is useful in helping to design policies that can efficiently support small and medium food and agribusiness enterprise development.
Study of scalar gradient fields by geometric measure theory
Creators: name: Schumacher, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Upper bounds of the Hausdorff volume of scalar gradient field graphs are derived by means of geometric measure theory. The approach reproduces that scalar gradient fields along a mean imposed scalar gradient become space filling for sufficiently high values of Schmidt numbers Sc. The bounds are consistent with findings from recent high-resolution numerical experiments for 1<= Sc <= 64, but too rough when compared with numerical simulations. A Reynolds number dependence of the bounds is found due to the additional scalar gradient stretching term in the equation of motion.
description: 6 pages, 2 Postscript figures
The relevance of business practices in linking smallholders and large agro-businesses in Sub-Sahara Africa
Creators: name: Kleemann, Linda
name: Kleemann, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: contract farming
subject: certification
subject: smallholders
subject: Ghana
subject: firm management practices

description: Smallholders often have to certify according to international standards and produce under contract for large agro-businesses to access export markets. While mostly positive effects for the farmers have been found for contracts and certifications, often these effects do not persist because contracts fail and certifications are not renewed. We suggest that individual firm behavior is crucial for the long-term success of farmeragro-business relationships. In this article, we use data of 386 smallholders in the pineapple export sector in Ghana, analyze them quantitatively and enrich it by a detailed case study of a large-scale agro-business in Ghana. The results show that, in an environment with weak contract enforcement, certification is an agent of change in farmer-agro-business relations and that building trust and aligning expectations of farmers and firms largely determine success. We conclude that individual firm behavior matters more than taken into account in previous research. Our case study shows that three ‘R’ – reliability, reputation and respect – constitute the basis for contract relationships that benefit all.
Quantum correlation alignment for unsupervised domain adaptation
Creators: name: He, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Correlation alignment (CORAL), a representative domain adaptation (DA) algorithm, decorrelates and aligns a labelled source domain dataset to an unlabelled target domain dataset to minimize the domain shift such that a classifier can be applied to predict the target domain labels. In this paper, we implement the CORAL on quantum devices by two different methods. One method utilizes quantum basic linear algebra subroutines (QBLAS) to implement the CORAL with exponential speedup in the number and dimension of the given data samples. The other method is achieved through a variational hybrid quantum-classical procedure. In addition, the numerical experiments of the CORAL with three different types of data sets, namely the synthetic data, the synthetic-Iris data, the handwritten digit data, are presented to evaluate the performance of our work. The simulation results prove that the variational quantum correlation alignment algorithm (VQCORAL) can achieve competitive performance compared with the classical CORAL.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Western Treatment of the Muslim Veil : French and American Sociopolitical Constructions of Hijab
Creators: name: Coger, Tamara
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Description to be added
Ignambina Otte 1987
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
name: Anso, Jérémy
name: Jourdan, Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Ignambina

description: Genus Ignambina Otte, 1987
 Ignambina Otte in Otte et al., 1987: 410.
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ignambina oubatchia Otte, 1987 by original designation.
 ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: None. Male genitalia: Otte et al. 1987: fig. 17C.
 DIAGNOSIS. — After Otte et al. (1987). Very similar to Koghiella, from which it can be separated by its male genitalia (pseudepiphallus very wide at base, with small, blunt spines on dorsal face; apex rounded and not bifurcate: Otte et al. 1987: fig. 17C). Female unknown.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia. Known from the type locality of the type species only (coastal forest near Oubatche: Otte et al. 1987: 410).
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, pp. 405-452 in Zoosystema 38 (4) on pages 420-422, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578278
The influence of value chain integration on performance: an empirical study of the malt barley value chain in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Watabaji, Mulugeta D.
name: Molnar, Adrienn
name: Dora, Manoj K.
name: Gellynck, Xavier
name: Watabaji, Mulugeta D.
name: Molnar, Adrienn
name: Dora, Manoj K.
name: Gellynck, Xavier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: value chain integration
subject: value chain performance
subject: malt barley value chain
subject: Ethiopia

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the interplay between value chain integration dimensions and value chain performance along the malt barley value chain in Ethiopia. The analyses were based on survey data sets obtained from 320 farmers and 100 traders and qualitative interview responses captured from sixty-two key informants selected from members of the chain. The structural equation modelling technique was employed to seek answer for the question of how value chain integration dimensions are related to performance. The results of the analyses showed the existence of positive relationships between coordination of activities and performance; between joint decision-making and performance at farmers-cooperatives interface; and between commitment towards long-term relationships and performance at farmers-traders interface. The study has made important empirical contributions in areas of value chain integration and performance and their interplays within the context of the studied malt barley value chain. The key findings of the study make important policy implications for agribusiness value chains in the developing countries. The study would open a venue for robust investigation based on a wider database from various agribusiness chains in Ethiopia or even beyond, for better validation of the findings.
Lokale Vergletscherungsspuren im westlichen Ausläufer des Napfberglandes (Schweiz)
Creators: name: Schlüchter, Christian
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1987

description: Über die quartäre Vergletscherungsgeschichte des Napfberglandes in der Zentralschweiz ist im Einzelnen wenig bekannt. Zwei Vergletscherungen sind allgemein anerkannt: a) die große Vergletscherung (= klassisches Riß) ist in der Form erratischer Leitgesteine belegt und (b) die letzte Eiszeit (= Würm) ist als Lokalvergletscherung durch glazigene Formen und bescheidene Ablagerungen bekannt gewesen. — Neue lokale Beobachtungen zeigen, daß die letzteiszeitliche Vergletscherung des Napfberglandes auch die westlichsten Ausläufer um 750 m erfaßt hat.
description: research
Pion Velocity near the Chiral Phase Transition
Creators: name: Sasaki, Chihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on the pion velocity at the critical temperature and study the quantum and hadronic thermal effects based on the vector manifestation (VM). We show the non-renormalization property on the pion velocity $v_π$, which is protected by the VM, and estimate the value of $v_π$ to be close to the speed of light.
description: 2 pages, talk given at the YITP workshop on ``Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions'' (Matter03), Dec. 1-3, 2003, Kyoto, Japan
Additional file 2 of Options for improving low birthweight and prematurity birth outcomes of indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse infants: a systematic review of the literature using the social-ecological model
Creators: name: Karger, Shae
name: Bull, Claudia
name: Enticott, Joanne
name: Callander, Emily J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Breathe Well, Be Well? Exploring the Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Measures of Breathing and Well-Being
Creators: name: Darkins, Rory
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Breathing
Well-being
Self-efficacy
Scale-development
Systematic Review
Meta-analysis
Flourishing
Positive Psychology

description: Breathing interventions are a commonly used and effective tool for improving well-being. Surprisingly, few breathing interventions include assessments of breathing, which limits the understanding of how breathing interventions contribute to specific well-being outcomes. This thesis addresses this oversight by exploring the relationship between objective and subjective breathing measures and well-being. This was achieved through three studies: Study 1 aimed to synthesise what is known about existing breathing measures as they relate to well-being through a systematic review and meta-analysis of literature that measured both an aspect of breathing and an aspect of subjective well-being. Three electronic databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Web of Science) were searched, yielding 5735 results, of which 57 met inclusion criteria. The main findings were that breathing was most often measured using objective measures, but these were not as strongly related to well-being as subjective measures. However, all subjective measures were deficit based, focusing on breathing dysfunction and symptoms. Most studies also used deficit-based measures of subjective well-being, such as anxiety, depression, and panic. Study 2 aimed to address this gap by developing and validating the first positive self-reported breathing measure – the ‘Perceived Breath Mastery Scale (PBM-S)’. The PBM-S was hypothesised to be associated with positive well-being. Results supported this, showing moderate to large correlations between the PBM-S and all positive well-being measures. Study 3 aimed to construct and validate a short form (9-item) alternative version of the PBM-S as well as a 12-item version that included dysfunctional breathing as a fourth factor. Results supported the validity of all versions of the PBM-S. This thesis marks a significant advancement in understanding regarding the relationship between measures of breathing and subjective well-being. It introduces the first research-based conceptulisation of subjectively optimal/masterful breathing, distinguishing it clearly from dysfunctional breathing and showing that each is relevant to different aspects of well-being. The development and validation of three novel measures offer researchers and practitioners a suite of tools to efficiently assess both perceived breath mastery and dysfunction. Ultimately, this thesis provides a foundation for understanding how breathing interventions can be designed, implemented, and evaluated to achieve desired well-being outcomes.
Amateur_Drones_Detection__Arxiv.pdf
Creators: name: Bilal, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 100503 Computer Communications Networks
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 80303 Computer System Security
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: Citation information:Zahoor Uddin, Muhammad Altaf, Muhammad Bilal, Lewis Nkenyereye, Ali Kashif Bashir,Amateur Drones Detection: A machine learning approach utilizing the acoustic signals in the presence of strong interference,Computer Communications,Volume 154,2020,Pages 236-245,ISSN 0140-3664,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.02.065.
--------------------------------------------------------Abstract-Owing to small size, sensing capabilities and autonomous nature, the Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous applications in various areas e.g., remote sensing, navigation, archaeology, journalism, environmental science, and agriculture. However, the un-monitored deployment of UAVs called the amateur drones (AmDr) can lead to serious security threats and risk to human life and infrastructure. Therefore, timely detection of the AmDr is essential for the protection and security of sensitive organizations, human life and other vital infrastructure. AmDrs can be detected using different techniques based on sound, video, thermal, and radio frequencies. However, the performance of these techniques is limited in sever atmospheric conditions. In this paper, we propose an efficient un-supervise machine learning approach of independent component analysis (ICA) to detect various acoustic signals i.e., sounds of bird, airplanes, thunderstorm, rain, wind and the UAVs in practical scenario. After unmixing the signals, the features like Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), the power spectral density (PSD) and the Root Mean Square Value (RMS) of the PSD are extracted by using ICA. The PSD and the RMS of PSD signals are extracted by first passing the signals from octave band filter banks. Based on the above features the signals are classified using Support Vector Machines (SVM) and K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) to detect the presence or absence of AmDr. Unique feature of the proposed technique is the detection of a single or multiple AmDrs at a time in the presence of multiple acoustic interfering signals. The proposed technique is verified through extensive simulations and it is observed that the RMS values of PSD with KNN performs better than the MFCC with KNN and SVM.
Supplementary material to "Fecal DNA metabarcoding reveals seasonal and annual variation in willow ptarmigan diet"
Creators: name: Nilsen, Erlend B.
name: Østnes, Jan Eivind
name: Kleven, Oddmund
name: Fossøy, Frode
name: Davey, Marie
name: Ingvaldsen, Elise W.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Lierne
subject: Wildlife
subject: climate change
subject: demography
subject: ecology
subject: ptarmigan

description: This registration contain processed data and raw data, as well as code scripts used to perform the analyses presented in the original article "Fecal DNA metabarcoding reveals seasonal and annual variation in willow ptarmigan diet".

The files and folder structure is detailed in the included ReadMe-file
Mass-Resolved Electronic Circular Dichroism Ion Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Daly, Steven
name: Rosu, Frederic
name: Gabelica, Valerie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DNA and proteins are chiral: their three-dimensional structure cannot be superimposed with its mirror image. Circular dichroism spectroscopy is widely used to characterize chiral compounds, but data interpretation is difficult in the case of mixtures. We recorded for the first time the electronic circular dichroism spectra of DNA helices separated in a mass spectrometer. We electrosprayed guanine-rich strands having various secondary structures as negative ions, irradiated them with a laser, and measured the difference in electron photodetachment efficiency between left and right circularly polarized light. The reconstructed circular dichroism ion spectra resemble the solution ones, thereby allowing us to assign the DNA helical topology. The ability to measure circular dichroism directly on biomolecular ions expands the capabilities of mass spectrometry for structural analysis.
description: main text (7 pages, 2 figures) + supporting information (20 pages, 11 figures)
Additional file 1 of Comparison of assessment scores for fatigue between multidimensional fatigue inventory (MFI-K) and modified chalder fatigue scale (mKCFQ)
Creators: name: Lim, Eun-Jin
name: Son, Chang-Gue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Classification of the questions in sections for MFI-K and mKCFQ. Table S2. Distance matrix.
Amonemobius Otte, Alexander & Cade 1987
Creators: name: Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
name: Anso, Jérémy
name: Jourdan, Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Amonemobius

description: Genus Amonemobius Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987
 Amonemobius Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987: 410.
 Amonomobius – Otte, Alexander & Cade 1987: 399 (typ. err.).
 TYPE SPECIES. — Amonemobius vexans Otte, 1987 by original designation.
 ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus pp: Otte et al. 1987: fig. 14G. Male genitalia: Otte et al. 1987: fig. 17B.
 DIAGNOSIS. — After Otte et al. (1987). Very similar to Koghiella. TI with a large outer tympanum. Head dorsum mostly pale but occiput with four small black stripes; region posterior to eyes black; dorsum of pronotum largely pale with a dark patch in each corner. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallus with a deep median cleft; pseudepiphallic parameres longer than pseudepiphallic sclerite (Otte et al. 1987: fig. 17B).
DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia. Known from the type locality of the type species only (Amoa river near Poindimié).
 HABITAT. — Otte et al. (1987: 411) mention that A. vexans has been “found on banks along a road through the forest in the Amoa valley”.
description: Published as part of Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, pp. 405-452 in Zoosystema 38 (4) on page 422, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578278
Probabilistic Extensions of the Erd\H os-Ko-Rado Property
Creators: name: Celaya, Anna
name: Godbole, Anant P.
name: Schleifer, Mandy Rae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D40

description: The classical Erd\H os-Ko-Rado (EKR) Theorem states that if we choose a family of subsets, each of size (k), from a fixed set of size (n (n > 2k)), then the largest possible pairwise intersecting family has size (t ={n-1\choose k-1}). We consider the probability that a randomly selected family of size (t=t_n) has the EKR property (pairwise nonempty intersection) as $n$ and $k=k_n$ tend to infinity, the latter at a specific rate. As $t$ gets large, the EKR property is less likely to occur, while as $t$ gets smaller, the EKR property is satisfied with high probability. We derive the threshold value for $t$ using Janson's inequality. Using the Stein-Chen method we show that the distribution of $X_0$, defined as the number of disjoint pairs of subsets in our family, can be approximated by a Poisson distribution. We extend our results to yield similar conclusions for $X_i$, the number of pairs of subsets that overlap in exactly $i$ elements. Finally, we show that the joint distribution $(X_0, X_1, ..., X_b)$ can be approximated by a multidimensional Poisson vector with independent components.
description: 18 pages
Zeno Dynamics of Quantum Chirps
Creators: name: Bayındır, Cihan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Zeno dynamics of quantum chirps. More specifically, we analyze the Zeno dynamics of a chirped solitary wave solution of the non-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) with a gain/loss term. We show that the motion of the quantum chirp can be inhibited by frequent measurements in the observation domain. In order to assess the effect of Zeno dynamics on the quantum chirp imaging resolution, we analyze and compare its point spread functions (PSF) under free evolution and under Zeno dynamics. Additionally, we investigate the effect of observation frequency on the quantum chirp profile as well as on its probability of lingering in the observation domain. Our results can be immediately used to investigate the signal properties of quantum chirps and their possible jamming properties by Zeno dynamics in quantum radar technology. Additionally, many potential applications in atomic physics and optics including nonlinear phenomena and chirps can be investigated using the approach presented in our paper.