cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Do all patients with functional motor-incomplete (AIS-D) traumatic spinal cord injury need specialized inpatient functional rehabilitation? A prospective observational cohort study proposing clinical criteria for home-based rehabilitation after acute care
Creators: name: Richard-Denis, Andréane
name: Dionne, Antoine
name: Mputu, Pascal Mputu
name: Mac-Thiong, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health
Hematology

description: Functional motor-incomplete AIS-D traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) represents an important growing population in neuro-traumatology. There is thus an important need for establishing strategies to optimize SCI rehabilitation resources. This study aims at proposing eligibility criteria to select individuals who could be discharged home (home-based rehabilitation) after acute care following an AIS-D tSCI and investigate its impact on the long-term functional status and quality of life (QOL), as compared to transfer to inpatient functional rehabilitation (IFR) resources. An observational prospective cohort study. A single Level-1 specialized trauma center. 213 individuals sustaining an AIS-D tSCI. Home-based rehabilitation based on clinical specific criteria to be assessed by the acute care team. Functional status and QOL as assessed by the Spinal Cord Independence Measure version 3 and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire one year following the injury, respectively. A total 37.9% of individuals fulfilled proposed criteria for home-based rehabilitation after acute care. As expected, this group was significantly younger, experienced lesser comorbidities and acute complications, and showed higher motor and sensory function compared to the IFR group. Home-rehabilitation was associated with a higher long-term functional status, physical and psychological QOL, when accounting for relevant confounding factors after an acute AIS-D tSCI. There was no readmission due to failure of home-based rehabilitation. Home-based rehabilitation in selected individuals sustaining an acute AIS-D tSCI is a safe and interesting strategy to optimize the long-term outcome in terms of functional recovery, physical and psychological QOL, as well as to optimize inpatient rehabilitation resources. The proposed eligibility criteria can be used by the acute care team to select the optimal discharge orientation in this important subpopulation.
Does stronger primary care improve access to health services for persons with spinal cord injury? Evidence from eleven European countries
Creators: name: Bychkovska, Olena
name: Tederko, Piotr
name: Strøm, Vegard
name: Juocevicius, Alvydas
name: Gemperli, Armin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: To determine the association between the strength of primary care and perceived access to follow-up care services among persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Data analysis of the International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) cross-sectional, community-based questionnaire survey conducted in 2017-2019. The association between the strength of primary care (Kringos et al., 2003) and access to health services was established using univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis, adjusted for socio-demographic and health status characteristics. Community in eleven European countries: France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. 6658 adults with chronic SCI. None. Share of persons with SCI that reported unmet healthcare needs as a measure of access. Twelve percent of the participants reported unmet healthcare needs: the highest in Poland (25%) and lowest in Switzerland and Spain (7%). The most prevalent access restriction was service unavailability (7%). Stronger primary care was associated with lower odds of reporting unmet healthcare needs, service unavailability, unaffordability and unacceptability. Females, persons of younger age and lower health status, had higher odds of reporting unmet needs. In all investigated countries, persons with chronic SCI face access barriers, especially with service availability. Stronger primary care for the general population was also associated with better health service access for persons with SCI, which argues for further primary care strengthening.
Radio to gamma-ray variability study of blazar S5 0716+714
Creators: name: Rani, B.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Fuhrmann, L.
name: Boettcher, M.
name: Lott, B.
name: Aller, H. D.
name: Aller, M. F.
name: Angelakis, E.
name: Bach, U.
name: Bastieri, D.
name: Falcone, A. D.
name: Fukazawa, Y.
name: Gabanyi, K. E.
name: Gupta, A. C.
name: Gurwell, M.
name: Itoh, R.
name: Kawabata, K. S.
name: Krips, M.
name: Lähteenmäki, A. A.
name: Liu, X.
name: Marchili, N.
name: Max-Moerbeck, W.
name: Nestoras, I.
name: Nieppola, E.
name: Quintana-Lacaci, G.
name: Readhead, A. C. S.
name: Richards, J. L.
name: Sasada, M.
name: Sievers, A.
name: Sokolovsky, K.
name: Stroh, M.
name: Tammi, J.
name: Tornikoski, M.
name: Uemura, M.
name: Ungerechts, H.
name: Urano, T.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a series of radio, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray observations of the BL Lac object S50716+714 carried out between April 2007 and January 2011. The multi-frequency observations were obtained using several ground and space based facilities. The intense optical monitoring of the source reveals faster repetitive variations superimposed on a long-term variability trend at a time scale of ~350 days. Episodes of fast variability recur on time scales of ~ 60-70 days. The intense and simultaneous activity at optical and gamma-ray frequencies favors the SSC mechanism for the production of the high-energy emission. Two major low-peaking radio flares were observed during this high optical/gamma-ray activity period. The radio flares are characterized by a rising and a decaying stage and are in agreement with the formation of a shock and its evolution. We found that the evolution of the radio flares requires a geometrical variation in addition to intrinsic variations of the source. Different estimates yield a robust and self-consistent lower limits of δ> 20 and equipartition magnetic field B_eq > 0.36 G. Causality arguments constrain the size of emission region θ< 0.004 mas. We found a significant correlation between flux variations at radio frequencies with those at optical and gamma-rays. The optical/GeV flux variations lead the radio variability by ~65 days. The longer time delays between low-peaking radio outbursts and optical flares imply that optical flares are the precursors of radio ones. An orphan X-ray flare challenges the simple, one-zone emission models, rendering them too simple. Here we also describe the spectral energy distribution modeling of the source from simultaneous data taken through different activity periods.
description: 25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Main Journal
Open Science and the European Initiative on Reforming Research Assessment
Creators: name: Di Donato, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: research assessment reform
open science

description: The contribution aims at presenting the main elements of the European Initiative on Reforming Research Assessment, and its connections with, and implications for the adoption of Open Science practices. Gli Enti pubblici di ricerca per la Scienza Aperta - Primo convegno nazionale del gruppo di lavoro Open Science della CoPER Aula Marconi - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, 6-7 dicembre 2022 https://agenda.infn.it/e/ConvegnoOpenscienceCoPER2022 Organizzazione del convegno Giovanni De Simone (CNR), Stefano Bianco (INFN), Anna Grazia Chiodetti (INGV), Mario Locati (INGV) Organizzazione delle sessioni Emanuela Secinaro (INRIM), Roberta Maggi (CNR), Silvia Giannini (CNR), Susanna Terracini (INDAM), Francesco Lazzarini (ISPRA), Pasquale Lubrano (INFN), Francesca Di Donato (CNR), Roberto Caso (UniTN), Angela Saraò (OGS), Alessandra Giorgetti (OGS), Roberta Vigni (ISPRA), Antonella Gasperini (INAF) Segreteria Rita Ciampichetti, Valentina Desantis e Sara Santorsa (CNR) - Irene Piergentili, Lia Sabatini (INFN LNF)
title: Cycloadditions of Aceheptylene—A Facile Synthesis of Dicyclopenta[ef,kl]heptalenes
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Diehl, Herbert
name: Richarz, Winfried
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: Similarly to pentalene, azulene[¹], and cyclopent[cd]azulene[²], the readily accessible aceheptylene (1)[³] undergoes cycloaddition with activated alkynes to form novel polycyclic systems in a surprisingly simple manner.
Farmer Cooperatives: Cash Grain Farmers, Members, and Use
Creators: name: Rotan, Beverly L.
name: Wissman, Roger A.
name: Kraenzle, Charles A.
name: Gray, Thomas
name: Adams, Celestine C.
name: Rotan, Beverly L.
name: Wissman, Roger A.
name: Kraenzle, Charles A.
name: Gray, Thomas
name: Adams, Celestine C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Farmer cooperatives
subject: grain
subject: members
subject: marketing
subject: farm supply purchases

description: More than 65 percent of all grain farmers were either members or nonmember patrons of marketing and/or farm supply cooperatives in 1980 and 1986. Other findings from analysis of the data include: a decrease in nonmember nonpatrons from 1980 to 1986 and an increase in the proportion of cash grain farmers holding cooperative membership. Also, cash grain farmers’ economic participation in cooperatives was often at the highest expenditure level, particularly through farm supply expenditures; and, in general, as farm size increased, a larger percent of cash grain farmers participated in cooperatives with the exception of farmers in the largest size classes. In 1980, cash grain farmers in the Northern Plains, Pacific, Northeast, Corn Belt, and Mountain regions had the largest proportion of farmers involved in cooperatives. In 1986, the Northern Plains, Mountain, Pacific, and Lake States had the largest proportion of cash grain farmers involved in cooperatives.
Improved Accuracy of the Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Modeling using Multirate Discrete Domain
Creators: name: Ashrafidehkordi, Fargah
name: De Carne, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Power hardware in the loop simulation
PHIL accuracy
continuous
single-rate discrete
multirate discrete

description: Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) enables realistic hardware testing interfacing with a simulated environment. The PHIL nature calls for power interfaces, such as analog-to-digital converters, the power amplifier, and sensors, containing latency and noise. These elements are non-ideal, leading to inaccuracies and even instability. Accordingly, accurate modeling of a PHIL setup has become a challenging research topic. This paper presents accurate modeling of a PHIL setup approaching the actual hybrid analog/digital PHIL characteristics to ensure high accuracy in a wide frequency spectrum range. The proposed technique applies multirate discrete modeling, considering digital/analog sections as if in an actual setup. The accuracy is defined and evaluated over the frequency range of interests. The prominent voltage-type ideal transformer method (V-ITM) is employed as the interface algorithm. The proposed multirate discrete modeling is compared with purely continuous and singular discrete modeling approaches, considering all interface delays and dynamics while operating different hardware, namely, RL and RLC load. Frequency responses reveal a significant accuracy improvement in the proposed method. The step response similarly confirms the better performance of the proposed model in replicating the transients. The modeling methods are simulated using Simulink/MATLAB to confirm the validity of the proposed model.
Developing and assessing brief questionnaire measurements of political media and discussion
Creators: name: Long, Jacob A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Measuring communication is among the most difficult and consequential issues in the discipline. Even the most promising methods tend to have serious drawbacks in terms of feasibility, accuracy, or scope. This study develops two brief questionnaire measures to assess the frequency and partisan orientation of political media exposure and discussion. Addressing the challenge of accurate self-reporting in survey research, especially under time constraints, cognitive interviews were conducted to refine the measures. Initial quantitative validity evidence suggests moderate correlations with related constructs, indicating the measures’ potential utility in capturing meaningful variation in political communication behaviors.
title: Hoja de ruta para una Formación Profesional dual de calidad
title: Roadmap to high-quality dual VET
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Euler, Dieter
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2023
Subjects: Formación dual
Dual vocational education and training
Transfer

description: El sistema de formación dual se considera un modelo de éxito en todo el mundo, pero ¿cómo puede transferirse este modelo de éxito a otros países?

El Prof. Dr. Dieter Euler aborda esta cuestión en un nuevo estudio en el que desglosa el sistema de formación dual en varios elementos y analiza su transferibilidad en varias fases de aplicación. Su enfoque, muy orientado a la práctica y la aplicación, muestra cómo puede ser una transferencia de elementos individuales y cómo éstos pueden adaptarse a las condiciones marco de un país.

El estudio se publica en alemán, inglés, francés y español.
X-ray transition yields of low-Z kaonic atoms produced in Kapton
Creators: name: Bazzi, M.
name: Beer, G.
name: Berucci, C.
name: Bombelli, L.
name: Bragadireanu, A. M.
name: Cargnelli, M.
name: Curceanu, C.
name: d'Uffizi, A.
name: Fiorini, C.
name: Ghio, F.
name: Guaraldo, C.
name: Hayano, R. S.
name: Iliescu, M.
name: Ishiwatari, T.
name: Iwasaki, M.
name: Kienle, P.
name: Sandri, P. Levi
name: Longoni, A.
name: Marton, J.
name: Okada, S.
name: Pietreanu, D.
name: Ponta, T.
name: Quaglia, R.
name: Vidal, A. Romero
name: Sbardella, E.
name: Scordo, A.
name: Shi, H.
name: Sirghi, D. L.
name: Sirghi, F.
name: Tatsuno, H.
name: Tudorache, A.
name: Tudorache, V.
name: Doce, O. Vazquez
name: Widmann, E.
name: Zmeskal, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray transition yields of kaonic atoms produced in Kapton polyimide (C22H10N2O5) were measured for the first time in the SIDDHARTA experiment. X-ray yields of the kaonic atoms with low atomic numbers (Z = 6, 7, and 8) and transitions with high principal quantum numbers (n = 5-8) were determined. The relative yield ratios of the successive transitions and those of carbon-to-nitrogen (C:N) and carbon-to-oxygen (C:O) were also determined. These X-ray yields provide important information for understanding the capture ratios and cascade mechanisms of kaonic atoms produced in a compound material, such as Kapton.
description: Accepted in Nucl. Phys. A (2013)
Validation of the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale among Indian Healthy Adults
Creators: name: S, Sahu
name: V, Sharma
name: S, Sara
name: Malik, Deepak
name: A, Preti
name: T, Bhatia
name: S, Deshpande
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Psychotic Like Experiences (PLEs) have been reported in several cultures. The 16 item Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale-Extended (LSHS-E) measures hallucination like experiences (HLEs) in the general population. This study investigated the psychometric properties and the factor structure of LSHS-E Hindi among healthy adults of Delhi. LSHS-E was translated from English to Hindi and then back to English. It was administered as a paper pencil questionnaire to 182 adults from the general population. Reliability of LSHS-E Hindi was measured using Cronbach's alpha and factor structure was established using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). It was tested against the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE-42) for convergent and divergent validity. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was performed to identify subgroups with different endorsement of HLEs. Among 182, 18 participants reporting mental and neurological disorders were excluded. LSHS-E Hindi had good reliability (0.85; 95% CI: 0.82 to 0.88). CFA of Hindi LSHS-E revealed the a priori four-factor solution to be best, namely: 'intrusive thoughts', 'vivid daydreams', 'multisensory HLEs', 'auditory and visual HLEs'. LSHS-E Hindi showed stronger correlation with positive domain of CAPE than with negative and depression domains. LCA revealed three classes: low, intermediate and high endorsement of HLEs. Participants with highest endorsement of HLEs were less educated and had highest endorsement on all CAPE dimensions. LSHS-E Hindi has good psychometric properties and can be used to study HLEs in Indians. The four-factor structure model depicts the multidimensionality of HLEs, with 'intrusive thoughts' being the most commonly reported HLE in the sample. LCA supports the continuum hypothesis of HLEs.
A Crack in the Conformal Window
Creators: name: Safdi, Benjamin R.
name: Klebanov, Igor R.
name: Lee, Jeongseog
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In {\cal N} = 2 superconformal three-dimensional field theory the R-symmetry is determined by locally maximizing the free energy F on the three-sphere. Using F-maximization, we study the {\cal N} = 2 supersymmetric U(N_c) gauge theory coupled to N_f pairs of fundamental and anti-fundamental superfields in the Veneziano large N_c limit, where x = N_f / N_c is kept fixed. This theory has a superconformal window 1 \leq x \leq \infty, while for x < 1 supersymmetry is broken. As we reduce x we find "a crack in the superconformal window" - a critical value x_c \approx 1.45 where the monopole operators reach the unitarity bound. To continue the theory to x < x_c we assume that the monopoles become free fields, leading to an accidental global symmetry. Using the Aharony dual description of the theory for x < x_c allows us to determine the R-charges and F for 1 \leq x < x_c. Adding a Chern-Simons term removes the transition at x_c. In these more general theories we study the scaling dimensions of meson operators as functions of x and κ= |k| / N_c. We find that there is an interesting transition in behavior at κ= 1.
description: 36 pages, 13 figures; v2 refs added, minor improvements, section 2.5 added on RG flows and the F-theorem; v3 refs added, minor improvements
Long-term prediction of functional independence using adjusted and unadjusted single items of the functional independence measure (FIM) at discharge from rehabilitation
Creators: name: García-Rudolph, Alejandro
name: Wright, Mark
name: García, Loreto
name: Sauri, Joan
name: Cegarra, Blanca
name: Tormos, Josep Maria
name: Opisso, Eloy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Being able to survive in the long-term independently is of concern to patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), their relatives, and to those providing or planning health care, especially at rehabilitation discharge. Most previous studies have attempted to predict functional dependency in activities of daily living within one year after injury. (1) build 18 different predictive models, each model using one FIM (Functional Independence Measure) item, assessed at discharge, as independent predictor of total FIM score at chronic phase (3–6 years post-injury) (2) build three different predictive models, using in each model an item from a different FIM domain with the highest predictive power obtained in objective (1) to predict “good” functional independence at chronic phase and (3) adjust the 3 models from objective (2) with known confounding factors. This observational study included 461 patients admitted to rehabilitation between 2009 and 2019. We applied regression models to predict total FIM score and “good” functional independence (FIM motor score ≥ 65) reporting adjusted R2, odds ratios, ROC-AUC (95% CI) tested using 10-fold cross-validation. The top three predictors, each from a different FIM domain, were Toilet (adjusted R2 = 0.53, Transfers domain), Toileting (adjusted R2 = 0.46, Self-care domain), and Bowel (adjusted R2 = 0.35, Sphincter control domain). These three items were also predictors of “good” functional independence (AUC: 0.84–0.87) and their predictive power increased (AUC: 0.88–0.93) when adjusted by age, paraplegia, time since injury, and length of stay. Discharge FIM items accurately predict long-term functional independence.
ByzRev 03.2021.022: Alessandra Bucossi – Anna Calia (eds.), Contra Latinos et adversus Graecos.
Creators: name: Monticini, Francesco
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2021

description: Alessandra Bucossi – Anna Calia (eds.), Contra Latinos et adversus Graecos. The Separation between Rome and Constantinople from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 286 = Bibliothèque de Byzantion 22). Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT: Peeters 2020. XVI, 586 pp. – ISBN: 978-90-429-3785-7 (€ 110)
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 3 (2021)
The k-space Origins of Scattering in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
Creators: name: Alldredge, Jacob W.
name: Calleja, Eduardo M.
name: Dai, Jixia
name: Eisaki, H.
name: Uchida, S.
name: McElroy, Kyle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a general, computer automated procedure that inverts the q-space scattering data measured by spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy (SI-STM) to determine the k-space scattering structure. This allows a detailed examination of the k-space origins of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) pattern in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x. This new method allows the measurements of the differences between the positive and negative energy dispersions, the gap structure and it also measures energy dependent scattering length scale. Furthermore, the transitions between the dispersive QPI, the checkerboard and the pseudogap are mapped in detail allowing the exact nature of these transitions to be determined for both positive and negative energies. We are also able to measure the k-space scattering structure over a wide range of doping (p ~ 0.22 to 0.08), including regions where the octet model is not applicable. Our technique allows a complete picture of the k-space origins of the spatial excitations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x to be mapped out, providing for better comparisons between SI-STM and other experimental probes of the band structure and validating our new general approach for determining the k-space scattering origins from SI-STM data.
Fiber scrambling for high-resolution spectrographs. I. Lick Observatory
Creators: name: Spronck, Julien F. P.
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Kaplan, Zachary A.
name: Schwab, Christian
name: Szymkowiak, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we report all results obtained with a fiber scrambler on the Hamilton spectrograph at Lick Observatory. We demonstrate an improvement in the stability of the instrumental profile using this fiber scrambler. Additionally, we present data obtained with a double scrambler that further improves the stability of the instrument by a factor 2. These results show that errors related to the coupling between the telescope and the spectrograph are the dominant source of instrumental profile variability at Lick Observatory. In particular, we show a strong correlation between instrumental profile variations and hour angle, most likely due to pointing-dependent illumination of the spectrograph optics.
Analytic Treatment of Tipping Points for Social Consensus in Large Random Networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Weituo
name: Lim, Chjan
name: Szymanski, Boleslaw K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a homogeneous pair approximation to the Naming Game (NG) model by deriving a six-dimensional ODE for the two-word Naming Game. Our ODE reveals the change in dynamical behavior of the Naming Game as a function of the average degree < k > of an uncorrelated network. This result is in good agreement with the numerical results. We also analyze the extended NG model that allows for presence of committed nodes and show that there is a shift of the tipping point for social consensus in sparse networks.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Cooperative Involvement and Opportunities in the Seed Industry
Creators: name: Chesnick, David S.
name: Staiert, Jim
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Chesnick, David S.
name: Staiert, Jim
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Seed
subject: cooperative
subject: research
subject: production
subject: marketing
subject: sales

description: This study examines both the strengths and weaknesses of cooperative involvement in the seed industry. Although the focus is on cooperatives, investor-owned firms and public research institutions are also discussed. The three major areas studied in this report are research, production, and marketing. The 14 interviews conducted included 9 regional cooperatives, 3 investor-owned firms, and 2 agricultural experiment stations. The rapidly changing seed industry provides the cooperative system with a unique opportunity to assist the American farmer.
Charge fluctuations in nano-scale capacitors
Creators: name: Limmer, David T.
name: Merlet, Céline
name: Salanne, Mathieu
name: Chandler, David
name: Madden, Paul A.
name: van Roij, René
name: Rotenberg, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fluctuations of the charge on an electrode contain information on the microscopic correlations within the adjacent fluid and their effect on the electronic properties of the interface. We investigate these fluctuations using molecular dynamics simulations in a constant-potential ensemble with histogram reweighting techniques. This approach offers in particular an efficient, accurate and physically insightful route to the differential capacitance that is broadly applicable. We demonstrate these methods with three different capacitors: pure water between platinum electrodes, and a pure as well as a solvent-based organic electrolyte each between graphite electrodes. The total charge distributions with the pure solvent and solvent-based electrolytes are remarkably Gaussian, while in the pure ionic liquid the total charge distribution displays distinct non-Gaussian features, suggesting significant potential-driven changes in the organization of the interfacial fluid.
title: Cycloadditionsreaktionen des Aceheptylens - Eine einfache Synthese von Dicyclopent[ef,kl]heptalenen
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Diehl, Herbert
name: Richarz, Winfried
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: Wie Pentalen und Azulen[¹] sowie Cyclopent[cd]azulen[²] reagiert das leicht zugängliche Aceheptylen (1)[³] mit aktivierten Alkinen unter Cycloaddition zu neuartigen polycyclischen Systemen in überraschend einfacher Weise.
Agronomy Operations of Local Cooperatives
Creators: name: Dunn, John R.
name: Rotan, Beverly L.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Dunn, John R.
name: Rotan, Beverly L.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: local cooperatives
subject: agricultural chemicals
subject: fertilizers
subject: sales

description: This report examines the sales and sales methods that local cooperatives used to sell agricultural chemicals and fertilizers and how these factors affected the cooperatives’ sales of these products from 1983 through 1988. Data gathered through a special survey about sales and sales methods of these two products were combined with data from the annual Agricultural Cooperative Service surveys. Of the original 868 cooperatives in 1985, 91 merged with other cooperatives, went out of business, or were sold to investor-owned firms by 1990.
Estrategias y formatos de comunicación radiofónica y televisiva para la participación ciudadana frente a COVID-19
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: comunicación
radio
televisión
Covid-19
Participación
ciudadanos
democracia

description: Presentación realizada en las jornadas de investigación e innovación de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador) X Investiga UTPL https://eventos.utpl.edu.ec/x-investigautpl-v-innovautpl
Suppressing longitudinal double-layer oscillations by using elliptically polarized laser pulses in the hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration regime
Creators: name: Wu, Dong
name: Zheng, C. Y.
name: Zhou, C. T.
name: Yan, X. Q.
name: Yu, M. Y.
name: He, X. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that well collimated mono-energetic ion beams with a large particle number can be generated in the hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration regime by using an elliptically polarized laser pulse with appropriate theoretically determined laser polarization ratio. Due to the $\bm{J}\times\bm{B}$ effect, the double-layer charge separation region is imbued with hot electrons that prevent ion pileup, thus suppressing the double-layer oscillations. The proposed mechanism is well confirmed by Particle-in-Cell simulations, and after suppressing the longitudinal double-layer oscillations, the ion beams driven by the elliptically polarized lasers own much better energy spectrum than those by circularly polarized lasers.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, Phys. Plasmas (2013) accepted
Poisoning during the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown: retrospective analysis of exposures reported to French poison control centres
Creators: name: Le Roux, Gaël
name: Sinno-Tellier, Sandra
name: Puskarczyk, Emmanuel
name: Labadie, Magali
name: von Fabeck, Katharina
name: Pélissier, Fanny
name: Nisse, Patrick
name: Paret, Nathalie
name: Descatha, Alexis
name: Vodovar, Dominique
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The aim was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French Poison Control Centre (PCC) call characteristics. Reported cases of xenobiotic exposures from 1 March to 30 April in 2018, 2019, and 2020 were extracted from the French National Database of Poisonings. The collected data included call, patient, and exposure characteristics for both general calls and for calls involving sentinel xenobiotic categories related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 exposures were compared to 2018–2019 exposures by using simple logistic models in order to provide effect size with odds ratios. From March to April 2020, 32,182 exposures were reported to French PCCs with an overall increase of 5.6% compared to exposures in the same time frame in 2018–2019. A similar increase in calls was observed in non-epidemic and epidemic COVID-19 areas with an increase in calls from the public (+13.6%) while calls from health-professionals decreased (−7.5%). Despite the increase in exposures, the incidence of symptomatic exposures remained stable (−0.4%) with a decrease in severity (moderate/severe −17.2%). A significant increase in exposures to home cleaning products containing biocides, essential oils, and alcohol-based hand sanitizers (odds ratio >1.3, p The COVID-19 pandemic altered calls to French PCCs with a small increase in calls during the study period and changes in the pattern of exposure. These changes possibly reflected the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic i.e., limited access to primary care, fear of contracting COVID-19 and anxiety related to home isolation.
Poisoning during the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown: retrospective analysis of exposures reported to French poison control centres
Creators: name: Le Roux, Gaël
name: Sinno-Tellier, Sandra
name: Puskarczyk, Emmanuel
name: Labadie, Magali
name: von Fabeck, Katharina
name: Pélissier, Fanny
name: Nisse, Patrick
name: Paret, Nathalie
name: Christine, Tournoud
name: Laborde-Casterot, Jérôme Langrand Hervé
name: Caré, Weniko
name: Franchitto, Nicolas
name: Simon, Nicolas
name: de Haro, Luc
name: Paradis, Camille
name: Audrey, Nardon
name: Anne-Marie, Patat
name: Legeay, Marion
name: Deguigne, Marie
name: Azzouz, Ramy
name: Descatha, Alexis
name: Vodovar, Dominique
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The aim was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French Poison Control Centre (PCC) call characteristics. Reported cases of xenobiotic exposures from 1 March to 30 April in 2018, 2019, and 2020 were extracted from the French National Database of Poisonings. The collected data included call, patient, and exposure characteristics for both general calls and for calls involving sentinel xenobiotic categories related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 exposures were compared to 2018–2019 exposures by using simple logistic models in order to provide effect size with odds ratios. From March to April 2020, 32,182 exposures were reported to French PCCs with an overall increase of 5.6% compared to exposures in the same time frame in 2018–2019. A similar increase in calls was observed in non-epidemic and epidemic COVID-19 areas with an increase in calls from the public (+13.6%) while calls from health-professionals decreased (−7.5%). Despite the increase in exposures, the incidence of symptomatic exposures remained stable (−0.4%) with a decrease in severity (moderate/severe −17.2%). A significant increase in exposures to home cleaning products containing biocides, essential oils, and alcohol-based hand sanitizers (odds ratio >1.3, p The COVID-19 pandemic altered calls to French PCCs with a small increase in calls during the study period and changes in the pattern of exposure. These changes possibly reflected the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic i.e., limited access to primary care, fear of contracting COVID-19 and anxiety related to home isolation.
On Spatial and Platial Dependence: Examining Shrinkage in Spatially Dependent Multilevel Models
Creators: name: Wolf, Levi John
name: Anselin, Luc
name: Arribas-Bel, Daniel
name: Mobley, Lee Rivers
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Multilevel models have been applied to study many geographical processes in epidemiology, economics, political science, sociology, urban analytics, and transportation. They are most often used to express how the effect of a treatment or intervention might vary by geographical group, a form of spatial process heterogeneity. In addition, these models provide a notion of “platial” dependence: observations that are within the same geographical place are modeled as similar to one another. Recent work has shown that spatial dependence can be introduced into multilevel models and has examined the empirical properties of these models’ estimates. Systematic attention to the mathematical structure of these models has been lacking, however. This article examines a kind of multilevel model that includes both “platial” and “spatial” dependence. Using mathematical analysis, we obtain the relationship between classic multilevel, spatial multilevel, and single-level models. This mathematical structure exposes a tension between a main benefit of multilevel models, estimate shrinkage, and the effects of spatial dependence. We show, both mathematically and empirically, that classic multilevel models may overstate estimate precision and understate estimate shrinkage when spatial dependence is present. This result extends long-standing results in single-level modeling to multilevel models.
Postwildfire Landscape Identity in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Three Study Cases from the Coastal Range of Central Chile
Creators: name: Ojeda, Carolina G.
name: Castillo, Edilia Jaque
name: Castillo, Sandra Fernández
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: 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

description: Mediterranean ecosystems have been more frequently exposed to wildfires in recent decades. Those wildfires are caused by changes in land use and land cover that enable extensive forestry and farming. This qualitative research investigates a changing landscape identity related to a subjective perception after cyclical and seasonal wildfires (2012–2017). In this regard, we conducted twelve semistructured interviews among inhabitants from Quillón, Florida, and Yumbel (Mediterranean central Chile). The questions considered elements of the visual landscape, perception, identity, and management policies regarding landscape. Consequently, the core results of the research are the following: (1) Loss of traditional livelihood becomes more important than the damage of physical characteristics of a landscape (land cover, vegetation, and aesthetic features); (2) the relationship between the individual’s perception of the landscape and the identity of the landscape changed drastically, especially before and after 2017 where wildfires followed patterns that were predicted by inhabitants; and (3) the community’s expectations concerning reconstruction aid from the government were turned into frustration and feelings of helplessness. Considering this information, we suggest that a landscape identity is a holistic approach that helps us to understand the changes generated by fire disturbance in biophysical, social, and economic aspects.
CPT analysis with top physics
Creators: name: Cembranos, Jose A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility of observing CPT violation from top anti-top production in hadronic colliders. We study a general approach by analyzing constraints on the mass difference between the top and anti-top quarks. We present current bounds from Tevatron data, and comment on the prospects for improving these bounds at the LHC and the ILC.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Massive Stars in the Galaxies of the Local Group
Creators: name: Massey, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The star-forming galaxies of the Local Group act as our laboratories for testing massive star evolutionary models. In this review, I briefly summarize what we believe we know about massive star evolution, and the connection between OB stars, Luminous Blue Variables, yellow supergiants, red supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars. The difficulties and recent successes in identifying these various types of massive stars in the neighboring galaxies of the Local Group will be discussed.
description: Invited paper for New Astronomy Reviews, special Local Group issue
On the distance of the Magellanic Clouds using Cepheid NIR and optical-NIR Period Wesenheit Relations
Creators: name: Inno, L.
name: Matsunaga, N.
name: Bono, G.
name: Caputo, F.
name: Buonanno, R.
name: Genovali, K.
name: Laney, C. D.
name: Marconi, M.
name: Piersimoni, A. M.
name: Primas, F.
name: Romaniello, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the largest near-infrared (NIR) data sets, $JHKs$, ever collected for classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). We selected fundamental (FU) and first overtone (FO) pulsators, and found 4150 (2571 FU, 1579 FO) Cepheids for Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and 3042 (1840 FU, 1202 FO) for Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Current sample is 2--3 times larger than any sample used in previous investigations with NIR photometry. We also discuss optical $VI$ photometry from OGLE-III. NIR and optical--NIR Period-Wesenheit (PW) relations are linear over the entire period range ($0.0
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Quantum discord and remote state preparation
Creators: name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role played by quantum discord in mixed-state computation is widely debated since, in spite of evidence of its importance in creating quantum advantages, even in the absence of entanglement, there are not direct proofs of its necessity in these computational tasks. Recently the presence of discord was shown to be necessary and sufficient for remote state preparation for a broad class of quantum channels [B. Dakić et al., Nat. Phys. 8, 666 (2012)]. Here, we show that this property is not universal. There are states whose discord cannot be considered as a quantum resource, since it has been produced locally, that are useful for remote state preparation, and there are bona fide discordant states that are of no help.
Cooperative Marketing of Pulses
Creators: name: Hunley, Charles
name: Hunley, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Pulse production in the United States is geographically specific and concentrated. Marketing channels are constantly changing, and concentration at the rehandler and processer levels continues to increase. Large proprietary companies continue to concentrate and vertically integrate. As national packagers, processors, and exporters they buy directly from pulse producers. Farmer cooperatives, as a whole, have neither kept pace with these developments nor taken advantage of the value-added benefits associated with retail marketing. Cooperatives do, however, have the potential to counteract their competition’s position by pooling resources and developing marketing outlets in the domestic and export chain.
Semileptonic decays $B_c\to(η_c,J/Ψ)lν$ in the perturbative QCD approach
Creators: name: Wang, Wen-Fei
name: Fan, Ying-Ying
name: Xiao, Zhen-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the semileptonic decays of $B_c^- \to (η_c,J/ψ)l^-\barν_l$. We firstly evaluate the $B_c \to (η_c,J/Ψ)$ transition form factors $F_0(q^2)$, $F_+(q^2)$, $V(q^2)$ and $A_{0,1,2}(q^2)$ by employing the pQCD factorization approach, and then we calculate the branching ratios for all considered semileptonic decays. Based on the numerical results and the phenomenological analysis, we find that: (a) the pQCD predictions for the values of the $B_c \to η_c$ and $B_c \to J/Ψ$ transition form factors agree well with those obtained by using other methods; (b) the pQCD predictions for the branching ratios of the considered decays are $Br\left(B_c^- \toη_c e^-\barν_e(μ^-\barν_μ)\right) =(4.41^{+1.22}_{-1.09})\times10^{-3}$, $Br\left(B_c^- \toη_cτ^-\barν_τ\right) =(1.37^{+0.37}_{-0.34})\times10^{-3}$, $Br(B_c^- \to J/Ψe^-\barν_e(μ^-\barν_μ)) =(10.03^{+1.33}_{-1.18})\times10^{-3}$, and $Br\left(B_c^- \to J/Ψτ^-\barν_τ\right) =(2.92^{+0.40}_{-0.34})\times10^{-3}$; and (c) we also define and calculate two ratios of the branching ratios $R_{η_c}$ and $R_{J/Ψ}$, which will be tested by LHCb and the forthcoming Super-B experiments.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, typos removed, some modifications in content and the numerical results. To be published in Chinese Physics C
Estimation of Lateral Distribution Function in Extensive Air Showers by Using AIRES Simulation System
Creators: name: Al-Rubaiee, A. Ahmed
name: Jumaah, Ahmed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the estimation of the lateral distribution function in Extensive Air showers was performed by using a system for air shower simulations which is called AIRES version 2.6 for different hadronic models like (QGSJET99, SIBYLL and SIBYLL1.6). The simulation was fulfilled in the high energy range (10^15-10^19 eV) for different primary particles like (gamma, protons and iron nuclei) for vertical showers. This simulation can be used to reconstruct the type and energy of the particle that generated Extensive Air showers for charged particles that registered with different arrays.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/9911331, arXiv:astro-ph/9905185 by other authors
Local triple derivations on C*-algebras and JB*-triples
Creators: name: Burgos, María
name: Fernández-Polo, Francisco J.
name: Peralta, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a first result we prove that every continuous local triple derivation on a JB$^*$-triple is a triple derivation. We also give an automatic continuity result, that is, we show that local triple derivations on a JB$^*$-triple are continuous even if not assumed a priori to be so. In particular every local triple derivation on a C$^*$-algebra is a triple derivation. We also explore the connections between (bounded local) triple derivations and generalised (Jordan) derivations on a C$^*$-algebra.