cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The regulation of apoptosis by toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 and associated mutants
Creators: name: Hung, Ryan Wei Yan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1), the primary virulence factor in toxic shock syndrome (TSS), is an exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus and a member of the superantigen family of T cell mitogens. Activation-induced cell death (AICD) of superantigen-reactive T cells is thought to play a role in modulating the hyperactive immune response and promoting host survival. While this form of apoptotic cell death occurs with the related staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A and B, conflicting reports exist for TSST-1. Therefore, the aim of this project was to investigate the regulation of apoptosis by TSST-1 and site-directed mutants. TSST-1 was found to exert either pro- or anti-apoptotic effects depending on the dose, thus resolving some of the contradictory reports in the literature. At commonly used concentrations (<1 μM), TSST-1 was less potent at inducing apoptosis than SEB. Moreover, there was evidence of early induction of anti-apoptotic pathways. The glycine 31-to-arginine site-directed mutant of TSST-1 (G31R) was serendipitously found to be potently pro-apoptotic at doses as low as 10-nM. This apoptosis was very rapid and broadly directed, affecting T cells, monocytes and T lymphoma-derived cell lines. Surprisingly, high doses of TSST-1 (<1 μM) also exhibited similarly potent, non-specific apoptosis much like G31R. The mechanism behind this novel form of apoptosis was examined by dissecting the involvement of components of the extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways. When ligated, classical death receptors like Fas receptor utilize the extrinsic pathway. In contrast, conditions unfavourable to cell survival such as growth factor withdrawal, ionizing radiation, and other cell damage can converge at the level of the mitochondria to trigger death through the intrinsic pathway. G31R-induced apoptosis was dependent on the intrinsic, but not the extrinsic, pathway. Because TSST-1 is not known to possess direct enzymatic effects that could account for its cytotoxicity, the most likely site of action for the induction of apoptosis by G31R and high-dose TSST-1 was considered to be a non-classical death receptor coupled to the intrinsic pathway, a phenomenon previously described. However, the upstream pathways remain unclear, so that other possibilities may include direct cell membrane disruption and/or induction of reactive oxygen species. Either way, this previously unknown apoptotic activity of TSST-1 may be relevant in pathogenesis, acting as a local immunosuppressant at infection sites by deleting lymphocytes and monocytes that transit into the region. With identification of the apical mechanism for apoptosis in this system, possibilities exist for the therapeutic use of G31R or its derivatives in the treatment of tumours and autoimmune diseases.
Spectator effects and lifetimes of heavy hadrons
Creators: name: Gabbiani, Fabrizio
name: Onishchenko, Andrei I.
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of subleading 1/m_b corrections to spectator effects in the ratios of beauty hadron lifetimes in heavy-quark expansion. We find that these effects are sizable and should be taken into account in systematic analyses of heavy hadron lifetimes. In particular, the inclusion of 1/m_b corrections brings into agreement the theoretical predictions and experimental observations of the ratio of lifetimes of Λ_b-baryon and B_d meson. We obtain τ(B_u)/τ(B_d) = 1.06 \pm 0.02, τ(B_s)/τ(B_d)= 1.00 \pm 0.01, τ(Λ_b)/τ(B_d)= 0.86 \pm 0.05.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures; replaced to match the published version. Minor modifications to the text, numerical problem affecting the \tau(B_u)/\tau(B_d) ratio is fixed
Synona melanopepla
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Synona
Synona melanopepla

description: 129. melanopepla (Mulsant, 1850)
Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh (Das et al. 2020b), Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; Sri Lanka; Vietnam; China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Elimination of the Blue Loops in the Evolution of Intermediate-mass Stars by the Neutrino Magnetic Moment and Large Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Mori, Kanji
name: Balantekin, A. Baha
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Famiano, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For searching beyond Standard Model physics, stars are laboratories which complement terrestrial experiments. Massless neutrinos in the Standard Model of particle physics cannot have a magnetic moment, but massive neutrinos have a finite magnetic moment in the minimal extension of the Standard Model. Large extra dimensions are a possible solution of the hierarchy problem. Both of these provide additional energy loss channels in stellar interiors via the electromagnetic interaction and radiation into extra dimensions, respectively, and thus affect stellar evolution. We perform simulations of stellar evolution with such additional energy losses and find that they eliminate the blue loops in the evolution of intermediate-mass stars. The existence of Cepheid stars can be used to constrain the neutrino magnetic moment and large extra dimensions. In order for Cepheids to exist, the neutrino magnetic moment should be smaller than the range ~2x10^{-10} to 4x10^{-11}mu_B, where mu_B is the Bohr magneton, and the fundamental scale in the (4+2)-spacetime should be larger than ~2 to 5 TeV, depending on the rate of the ^{12}C(alpha, gamma)^{16}O reaction. The fundamental scale also has strong dependence on the metallicity. This value of the magnetic moment is in the range explored in the reactor experiments, but higher than the limit inferred from globular clusters. Similarly the fundamental scale value we constrain corresponds to a size of the compactified dimensions comparable to those explored in the torsion balance experiments, but is smaller than the limits inferred from collider experiments and low-mass stars.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of the Planetary Host HD 13189: Highly-Evolved and Metal-Poor
Creators: name: Schuler, Simon C.
name: Kim, James H.
name: Tinker, Michael C.
name: King, Jeremy R.
name: Hatzes, Artie P.
name: Guenther, Eike W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the abundances of 13 elements in the planetary host HD 13189, a massive giant star. Abundances are found to be sub-solar, with [Fe/H] = -0.58 +/- 0.04$; HD 13189 is one of the most metal-poor planetary hosts yet discovered. Abundance ratios relative to Fe show no peculiarities with respect to random field stars. A census of metallicities of the seven currently known planet-harboring giants results in a distribution that is more metal-poor than the well-known metal-rich distribution of main sequence (MS) planetary hosts. This finding is discussed in terms of accretion of H-depleted material, one of the possible mechanisms responsible for the high-metallicity distribution of MS stars with planets. We estimate the mass of the HD 13189 progenitor to be 3.5 M_sun but cannot constrain this value to better than 2-6 M_sun. A stellar mass of 3.5 M_sun implies a planetary mass of m sin i = 14.0 +/- 0.8 M_J, placing the companion at the planet/brown dwarf boundary. Given its physical characteristics, the HD 13189 system is potentially unique among planetary systems, and its continued investigation should provide invaluable data to extrasolar planetary research.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
El SIAL y sus diferencias con el enfoque del desarrollo territorial en América Latina
Creators: name: Larroa, Rosa Maria
name: Larroa, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Sial
subject: DTR
subject: desarrollo

description: Se muestran las diferencias entre el enfoque de Sistemas Agroalimentarios Locales (Sial) y el Desarrollo Territorial Rural (DTR) en América Latina, en el sentido de que el Sial no tiene objetivos economicistas, sino que aspira a incorporar otras visiones sociales, políticas y culturales. El enfoque del DTR acepta como factor dado la macroeconomía basada en el modelo de acumulación neoliberal y la especulación alimentaria del sistema, que acentúa las desigualdades territoriales y promueve la nueva ruralidad como alternativa no agrícola en sociedades que han perdido soberanía alimentaria. Para el Sial la multifuncionalidad es parte de la resistencia y una forma de complementar la actividad campesina. Para el DTR la multifuncionalidad es una forma de alejamiento y desvinculación de la tierra. El Sial podría ser un instrumento de las organizaciones rurales para defender su territorio de la desposesión como forma de acumulación del capital, al mismo tiempo les permitiría afianzar la viabilidad campesina que les fue escatimada tras la implantación de la globalización neoliberal. En este sentido, el Sial es una herramienta para el desarrollo colectivo comunitario que tiene como centro a los productores y demás actores articulados en diferentes procesos. Los Sial se pueden ubicar en América Latina, pero con diferencias importantes en comparación a la forma en que se desarrollan en Europa y Norteamérica, como puede apreciarse en los casos de estudio de Brasil y México, en donde los principales obstáculos están vinculados con el poder económico y político nacional y transnacional, que no es considerado por el DTR.
Synonycha grandis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Synonycha
Synonycha grandis

description: 130. grandis (Thunberg, 1781)
Distribution: India (Widely distributed: Andamans, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal); Sri Lanka; Nepal; Japan; Indonesia; China; Widespread in the Orient.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
TrajectoryGeometry suggests cell fate decisions can involve branches rather than bifurcations.
Creators: name: Laddach, Anna
name: Pachnis, Vassilis
name: Shapiro, Michael
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Gene Expression
subject: Gene Expression
classificationCode: Developmental Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: Differentiation of multipotential progenitor cells is a key process in the development of any multi-cellular organism and often continues throughout its life. It is often assumed that a bi-potential progenitor develops along a (relatively) straight trajectory until it reaches a decision point where the trajectory bifurcates. At this point one of two directions is chosen, each direction representing the unfolding of a new transcriptional programme. However, we have lacked quantitative means for testing this model. Accordingly, we have developed the R package TrajectoryGeometry. Applying this to published data we find several examples where, rather than bifurcate, developmental pathways branch. That is, the bipotential progenitor develops along a relatively straight trajectory leading to one of its potential fates. A second relatively straight trajectory branches off from this towards the other potential fate. In this sense only cells that branch off to follow the second trajectory make a 'decision'. Our methods give precise descriptions of the genes and cellular pathways involved in these trajectories. We speculate that branching may be the more common behaviour and may have advantages from a control-theoretic viewpoint.
Dark-exciton driven energy funneling into dielectric inhomogeneities in two-dimensional semiconductors
Creators: name: Su, Haowen
name: Xu, Ding
name: Cheng, Shan-Wen
name: Li, Baichang
name: Liu, Song
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Berkelbach, Timothy C.
name: Hone, James
name: Delor, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optoelectronic and transport properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (2D TMDs) are highly susceptible to external perturbation, enabling precise tailoring of material function through post-synthetic modifications. Here we show that nanoscale inhomogeneities known as nanobubbles can be used for both strain and, less invasively, dielectric tuning of exciton transport in bilayer tungsten disulfide (WSe2). We use ultrasensitive spatiotemporally resolved optical scattering microscopy to directly image exciton transport, revealing that dielectric nanobubbles are surprisingly efficient at funneling and trapping excitons at room temperature, even though the energies of the bright excitons are negligibly affected. Our observations suggest that exciton funneling in dielectric inhomogeneities is driven by momentum-indirect (dark) excitons whose energies are more sensitive to dielectric perturbations than bright excitons. These results reveal a new pathway to control exciton transport in 2D semiconductors with exceptional spatial and energetic precision using dielectric engineering of dark state energetic landscapes.
Generalized adiabatic approximation to the asymmetric quantum Rabi model: conical intersections and geometric phases
Creators: name: Li, Zi-Min
name: Ferri, Devid
name: Tilbrook, David
name: Batchelor, Murray T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asymmetric quantum Rabi model (AQRM), which describes the interaction between a quantum harmonic oscillator and a biased qubit, arises naturally in circuit quantum electrodynamic circuits and devices. The existence of hidden symmetry in the AQRM leads to a rich energy landscape of conical intersections (CIs) and thus to interesting topological properties. However, current approximations to the AQRM fail to reproduce these CIs correctly. To overcome these limitations we propose a generalized adiabatic approximation (GAA) to describe the energy spectrum of the AQRM. This is achieved by combining the perturbative adiabatic approximation and the exact exceptional solutions to the AQRM. The GAA provides substantial improvement to the existing approaches and pushes the limit of the perturbative treatment into non-perturbative regimes. As a preliminary example of the application of the GAA we calculate the geometric phases around CIs associated with the AQRM.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes with additional and updated references
Liminal Learning: Understanding a Complex Adaptive Human Learning System through a Secondary School Internship Experience
Creators: name: Davis, Lisa Johnson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: Education
subject: 220202 History and Philosophy of Education
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Extracurricular internships have benefited students and organizations by providing exposure to the work environment and assisting in the development of job-related skills. The experience of internship can provide much more than a career-related opportunity. Internship may be a window from which to observe how individuals cognitively navigate unknown social spaces. How an individual contextualizes internship and how he/she attaches meaning to the experience may provide insight into the human process of learning and, specifically, how a complex human system adapts to change. This research study examines one such experience of internship in a secondary school setting in which high school juniors are immersed in the work environment for four weeks as part of their academic requirements for graduation. How an adolescent navigates and adapts to a foreign environment, having no daily support mechanisms such as friends, family, or teachers, will be explored.
A systems approach to liveability and sustainability: Defining terms and mapping relationships to link desires with ecological opportunities and constraints
Creators: name: De Chazal, Jacqueline
name: De Chazal, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: I offer a protocol for assessing the sustainability of liveability. This protocol draws on a framework developed to assess vulnerability, and offers two key pertinent features. These are (a) a capacity to incorporate multiple and shifting stakeholder values, and (b) a means of moving from expressions of liveability to underlying ecological attributes that deliver or constrain system change. The applicability of these features to both assessing the sustainability of liveability, and a reappraisal given system change are illustrated using data from a study site in the French Alps. The central place of values intrudes into liveability and sustainability so as to complicate the situation. Even so, the protocol presented here is able to ground the abstractions and equivocation in a transparent and explicit set of announcements. Laying the steps out in the open allows for consistency in comparison and replication without artificially removing the labile flexibility embedded in liveability and sustainability.
title: Improved Near Surface Residual Stress Characterisation through Development of an Uncertainty Estimator for the Eigenstrain Reconstruction Method
Creators: name: Veck, Samantha
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: Near surface tensile residual stresses contribute to structural degradation processes including fatigue initiation and crack growth and stress corrosion cracking. Characterisation of residual stress within 250 microns of the surface is challenging, with high uncertainty and limited spatial resolution provided by laboratory techniques such as Incremental Centre Hole Drilling (ICHD) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). Near surface characterisation improvement is crucial to reducing conservatism of structural integrity assessments for safety critical components. 

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction provides high spatial resolution and low uncertainty measurements, however it requires more resources than laboratory-based measurements, with access, time and cost restrictions. The Eigenstrain Reconstruction Method (ERM) uses limited measurement data to reconstruct a continuous description of stress over a part domain and is an attractive option for spatial resolution improvement. Unfortunately, it is unknown if ERM is suitable for use with laboratory-based data sets, if reconstruction error can be estimated and if uncertainty reduction occurs. 

The aim of this thesis is to determine if near surface residual stress characterisation improvement is possible using ERM with laboratory-based residual stress data. Systematic numerical and experimental studies are conducted to determine ERM feasibility for characterisation improvement and to develop an uncertainty estimator for the method. Experimental results are validated against synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements. 

The first original contribution to knowledge is the successful validation of ERM using laboratory-based residual stress data to reduce near surface uncertainty. A 49% reduction in average near surface uncertainty has been demonstrated at ICHD measurement positions. The second original contribution is the development and validation of an ERM uncertainty estimator. For the first time, ERM reconstructions are attributed an uncertainty value and can now be used quantitatively to support integrity assessments. The methods developed can be adopted without residual stress measurement technique advancement, providing immediate practical application opportunity.
Value Chains and Chains of Values: Tracing Tanzanian Tea
Creators: name: Loconto, A.
name: Loconto, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Certification
subject: Governance
subject: Global Value Chains

description: The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value chains for Tanzanian tea. This paper takes a look at a traditional export commodity, tea, and discusses the implications of involvement in value-based certification schemes (Ethical Trading Initiative, Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) on certified producers in Tanzania. Each of these certification schemes makes claims on specific values that it is instilling in a particular ‘value chain’. This paper specifically analyses the network construction of each certified value chain and answers the questions: 1) which actors are involved in each value chain, 2) which values are claimed as organizing principles of these value chains, and 3) what does this mix of actors and values contribute to our understanding of value chain governance. Between 2008 and 2010, eighty in-depth interviews were conducted with stakeholders who are certified against sustainability standards. Twenty-one focus groups were formed comprising certified smallholders and hired labourers. The conclusions suggest that despite claims about the ability to change trading relationships through the certification systems, most of the old networks are still in place. The certification systems only add additional buyers to global value chains that were already governed by highly relational and hierarchical mechanisms. These conclusions thus place in question some of the claims made by certification bodies as to their abilities to change practices.
Where is it Cheapest to Cut Carbon Emissions?
Creators: name: Stern, David I.
name: Lambie, Neil Ross
name: Stern, David I.
name: Lambie, Neil Ross
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: costs
subject: developing countries
subject: computable general equilibrium

description: The relative cost of carbon emissions reductions across regions depends on whether we measure cost by marginal or total cost, private or economy-wide cost, and using market or purchasing power parity exchange rates. If all countries are on the same marginal carbon abatement cost curve then lower marginal costs of abatement are associated with higher energy intensities and higher total costs of abatement in achieving proportional cuts in emissions, equal emissions per capita, or common global carbon price targets. We test this conjecture using the results of the GTEM computable general equilibrium model as presented in the climate change economics review conducted by the Australian Treasury Department. Rankings of countries by costs do differ depending on whether marginal or total cost is used. But some regions, including OPEC and the former USSR, have high marginal costs and high emissions intensities and, therefore, high total costs and others like the EU relatively low marginal and total costs. Under a global emissions trading regime real economy-wide costs of abatement are higher in developing economies with currencies valued below purchasing power parity and large differences between private and economy-wide costs such as India contributing to the high GDP losses experienced in those countries.
Spatially Resolved Ultraviolet Spectra of the High-Velocity Nuclear Outflow of NGC 1068
Creators: name: Groves, Brent
name: Cecil, Gerald
name: Ferruit, Pierre
name: Dopita, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ultraviolet emission-line maps of the narrow-line region (NLR) of NGC 1068. The maps span 115--318 nm, the biconical ionization cone, several posited jet/ISM interactions, and the compact knots whose optical spectra we reported previously resemble kinematically the quasar Associated Absorption Line systems. Across the NLR, we find that ultraviolet flux ratios are consistent with photoionization, not shock excitation, even for gas blueshifted abruptly to 3000 \kms relative to galaxy systemic velocity or for gas projected near the radio jet. The knots may be radiatively accelerated, photoablated fragments of molecular clouds.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Astrophysical Journal For a version with correct figures go to http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~bgroves/uv1068/
Cyclic Topology in Complex Networks
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Joo
name: Kim, Jin Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a cyclic coefficient $R$ which represents the cyclic characteristics of complex networks. If the network forms a perfect tree-like structure then $R$ becomes zero. The larger value of $R$ represents that the network is more cyclic. We measure the cyclic coefficients and the distributions of the local cyclic coefficient for both various real networks and the representative network models and characterize the cyclic structures of them.
Bank’s Employees Happiness Factor Analysis (a Study in Bank BTN Harmoni Branch, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Creators: name: Pangarso, Astadi
name: MAHIR PRADANA
name: Arry Widodo
name: K.D.B Putera
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management

description: Based on a preliminary study of eightrespondents obtained the findings which quantitatively thedata shown that are still not meet the ideal value of theemployees' happiness. The purpose of this study are todetermine and analyze what factors of SDP programemployees happiness for at Bank BTN Branch HarmoniJakarta using factor analysis method. This type of researchis contextual confirmatory descriptive and quantitative,population in this study were employees of the SDP totaling66 people at Bank BTN Branch Jakarta Harmoni. Thesampling technique used in this study is nonprobabilitysampling techniques with incidental sampling type. Researchshows the amount contributed five factors formed is65.453% means the five factors will support the happinessfor SDP program Bank BTN’s Harmoni Branch Jakartaemployees. Those five SDP program employees happinessfactors of BTN Harmoni branch, Jakarta are leadership,work relationship, work motivation, work skills dan workenvironment.
A multi-regional general equilibrium model to assess policy effects at regional level
Creators: name: Lovo, Stefania
name: Magnani, Riccardo
name: Perali, Carlo Federico
name: Lovo, Stefania
name: Magnani, Riccardo
name: Perali, Carlo Federico
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Multi regional general equilibrium model
subject: farm households
subject: interregional trade.

description: In this paper we develop a multi-regional general equilibrium model (MEG-R) to compare the social desirability of the CAP reform in the three Italian macro-regions: North, Center and South. The model employs a mixed complementary framework that allows for the decision of not producing a particular crop in one or more regions and presents an attempt to model interregional trade flows. The model incorporates the links between production and consumption that characterize farm household’s behavior and allows for heterogeneous household responses across regions. Results show a general tendency to reallocations from cereal crops to forage that appear more severe in the South. In this region, the reduction in crops cannot be translated into an effective expansion of fodder and could lead to the “deactivation” of the land.
Relationship between Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) cognitive abilities and early academic abilities in preschool children
Creators: name: Merkel, Carla
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Interest in the assessment of preschool children has grown considerably over the past few decades due to federal legislation in special education in the US, national goals on early school preparedness in both the US and Canada, and research on the importance of early preschool - experiences. This increase of interest in early assessment has lead to a need for evaluation of cognitive factors important to understanding early academic achievement in young children. Previous research exploring the role of specific cognitive abilities in academic performance or achievement has historically focused on school-age and adult populations, and has neglected to consider early academic abilities in preschool children, despite the recognized importance of the use of intelligence tests with this population. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between cognitive abilities as defined by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory and early academic abilities in preschool age children using the Woodcock-Johnson - Third Edition Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III COG), Tests of Achievement (WJ III ACH), and Diagnostic Supplement (WJ III DS) (Woodcock, McGrew, and Mather, 2001). Participants included 179 children, ages 3 years, 0 months to 6 years, 3 months. Pearson correlations were used to examine the relationships between the overall General Intellectual Ability (GIA) scores from the WJ III COG and DS, and the achievement clusters from the WJ III ACH. Additionally, individual stepwise regression equations were used to determine the cognitive abilities most important for early academic achievement in preschool-age children. The GIA - Early Development score demonstrated overall higher correlations with the achievement clusters than the GIA Standard and GIA Extended scores, providing support for the use of the GIA - Early Development score as an appropriate measure of general intellectual functioning for preschool children. Individual regression equations revealed that Comprehension-Knowledge, Processing Speed, Fluid Reasoning, and memory abilities were identified most consistently as important predictors of the WJ III ACH clusters: Pre-Academic Skills (Std), Pre-Academic Skills and Knowledge (Ext), Basic Reading Skills, Basic Writing Skills, and Math Reasoning. Limitations of the study, contributions to the field, and future avenues for research are discussed.
Vibidia Mulsant 1846
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Vibidia

description: Vibidia Mulsant, 1846
131. korschefskii (Mader, 1930)
Distribution: India; China.
Nomen nudum
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 287-288, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
The Natural Capital Indicator Framework (NCIF): A framework of indicators for national natural capital reporting
Creators: name: Fairbrass, Alison
name: Mace, Georgina
name: Ekins, Paul
name: Milligan, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: It is now widely recognised that components of the environment play the role of economic assets, termed natural capital, that are a foundation of social and economic development. National governments monitor the state and trends of natural capital through a range of activities including natural capital accounting, national ecosystem assessments, ecosystem service valuation, and economic and environmental analyses. Indicators play an integral role in these activities as they facilitate the reporting of complex natural capital information. One factor that hinders the success of these activities and their comparability across countries is the absence of a coherent framework of indicators concerning natural capital (and its benefits) that can aid decision-making. Here we present an integrated Natural Capital Indicator Framework (NCIF) alongside example indicators, which provides an illustrative structure for countries to select and organise indicators to assess their use of and dependence on natural capital. The NCIF sits within a wider context of indicators related to natural, human, social and manufactured capital, and associated flows of benefits. The framework provides decision-makers with a structured approach to selecting natural capital indicators with which to make decisions about economic development that take into account national natural capital and associated flows of benefits.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, 1 graphical abstract
FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOLERANCE IN STUDENTS THROUGH MUSIC TOURISM.
Creators: name: Abdumannatova, Aziza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The incomparable role of music in the spiritual development of a person has been recognized by scientists and experts. Music sounds express the most delicate feelings and experiences, regardless of the representative of any people or nation. Love for music, singing, art is formed in the family since childhood.
Climate Change and Game Theory
Creators: name: Wood, Peter John
name: Wood, Peter John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change negotiations
subject: game theory
subject: implementation theory
subject: coalition formation
subject: subgame perfect equilibrium

description: This survey paper examines the problem of achieving global cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contributions to this problem are reviewed from non-cooperative game theory, cooperative game theory, and implementation theory. Solutions to games where players have a continuous choice about how much to pollute, games where players make decisions about treaty participation, and games where players make decisions about treaty ratification, are examined. The implications of linking cooperation on climate change with cooperation on other issues, such as trade, is examined. Cooperative and non-cooperative approaches to coalition formation are investigated in order to examine the behaviour of coalitions cooperating on climate change. One way to achieve cooperation is to design a game, known as a mechanism, whose equilibrium corresponds to an optimal outcome. This paper examines some mechanisms that are based on conditional commitments, and could lead to substantial cooperation.
Inducing Strategic Bias: and its implications for Choice Modelling design
Creators: name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Burton, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Strategic bias
subject: choice modeling
subject: complexity

description: It has been suggested that the nature of the task within a multi-attribute multi-alternative choice experiment may be sufficiently complex to make it difficult for individuals to develop response strategies to strategically bias their answers. This experiment tested that hypothesis by setting experimental conditions that provide incentives for strategic bias. By changing design parameters one can investigate whether the strategic bias can be reduced. The answer is effectively no: under most circumstances, respondents could find a strategy that achieved significant bias in inferred preferences. The circumstances where this did not occur (involving ranking alternatives, rather than selecting a single preferred alternative) the inferred preferences reflected neither the intended bias, nor their original preferences, making the answers useless to both respondent and researcher.
Oxygen from the Lambda 7774 High-Excitation Triplet in Open Cluster Dwarfs: Hyades
Creators: name: Schuler, Simon C.
name: King, Jeremy R.
name: Terndrup, Donald M.
name: Pinsonneault, Marc H.
name: Murray, Norman
name: Hobbs, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oxygen abundances have been derived from the near-IR, high-excitation Lambda 7774 O I triplet in high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra of 45 Hyades dwarfs using standard one dimensional, plane-parallel LTE models. Effective temperatures of the stellar sample range from 4319-6301 K, and the derived relative O abundances as a function of T_eff evince a trichotomous morphology. At T_eff > 6100 K, there is evidence of an increase in the O abundances with increasing T_eff, consistent with non-LTE (NLTE) predictions. At intermediate T_eff (5450 < T_eff < 6100 K), the O abundances are flat, and star-to-star values are in good agreement, having a mean value of [O/H] = +0.25 +/- 0.02; however, systematic errors at the ~0.10 dex level might exist. The O abundances for stars with T_eff < 5450 K show a striking increase with decreasing T_eff, in stark contrast to expectations and canonical NLTE calculations. The cool Hyades triplet results are compared to those recently reported for dwarfs in the Pleiades cluster and the UMa moving group; qualitative differences between the trends observed in these stellar aggregates point to a possible age-related diminution of triplet abundance trends in cool open cluster dwarfs. Correlations with age-related phenomena, i.e., chromospheric activity and photospheric spots, faculae, and/or plages, are investigated. No correlation with Ca II H+K chromospheric activity indicators is observed. Multi-component LTE ``toy'' models have been constructed in order to simulate photospheric temperature inhomogeneities that could arise from the presence of starspots, and we demonstrate that photospheric spots are a plausible source of the triplet trends among the cool dwarfs.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ
The Effect of Compensation on the Performance of Police Hospital Employees in Bandung, Indonesia
Creators: name: Pangarso, Astadi
name: Ibnu Harry Darmawan
name: Irmansyah Ihsanul Kamil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management

description: Objective – The aim of this research is to test the correlation between the compensation variable to the performance ofpolice hospital employees. The increasing trend of hospital patients in 2012 and 2013 indicates that competition amonghospitals, particularly public hospitals, has increased. Therefore, as a hospital belonging to the classification of publichospitals, Bhayangkara Lv.(level) II Sartika Asih Bandung hospital should be able to improve its performance in orderto compete with other public hospitals. Methodology/Technique – Overall achievement of performance objectives is still below target among hospitals, andthe average performance on Bhayangkara Lv. II Sartika Asih Bandung hospital is no exception. This research usesdescriptive research to examine 77 Bayangkara Lv.II Sartika Asih Bandung Police Hospital employees usingproportional stratified random sampling. The analysis used in this research is a validity test, reliability test, simple linearregression analysis, coefficient determination, and T-test. Findings – The results of the determination coefficient test showed that compensation has an effect on employeeperformance (23.1% of Bhayangkara Lv. II Sartika Asih Bandung Hospital employees showed improved performanceas a result of compensation). Novelty – The management of Bhayangkara Lv. II Sartika Asih Bandung Hospital should pay greater attention to thetypes of compensation provided to employees, to increase employee performance. Type of Paper: Empirical.
Oenopia manipurensis Devi 1989
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia manipurensis

description: Oenopia manipurensis Devi, 1989 *
Oenopia manipurensis: Shantibala & Singh 1991.
Distribution: India: Manipur.
*Described in a PhD dissertation and not formally published.
Further notes
● Oenopia cashmirense (Korschefsky, 1935), originally described as Synharmonia cashmirense Korschefsky (1935:299) is included by Kovář(2007:621) as a distinct species in his catalogue of Palaearctic Coccinellidae. It is listed as a subspecies, Oenopia conglobata kashmirensis Korschefsky, 1935 in Wikispecies (URL: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Oenopia _conglobata_kashmirensis) and the original paper / description could not be verified.
● Coelophora octosignata Mulsant, 1850 (listed by Poorani 2002a) is removed as it is treated as a synonym of Phrynocaria unicolor by Kovář (2007: 623).
● Bulaea nevilli (Dohrn, 1882), included in Poorani’s checklist (2002) is removed from this list because of its uncertain status. The original description of this species suggests Illeis, not Bulaea, and Kovář (2007: 72) also proposed ‘ Illeis nevili’ (sic) as a changed combination for this name. Mader’s (1937) illustration of B. nevilli also indicates an Illeis sp. with black scutellar shield. The type specimen in Warsaw Museum was lost during the second world war and hence its status could not be confirmed (H. F̧rsch, in litt.).
● Coccinella nepalensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1982 is removed following Kovář’s (2007: 72) observation that ‘it was extralimital and its description was based on material of Lioadalia flavomaculata (De Geer, 1778), stated to be from Nepal but probably from Natal’.
● Coccinella krikkeni Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982 was removed from the Indian checklist by Poorani (2004) following Vandenberg’s (2002b) observation that it was a synonym of Cycloneda munda (Say), a species restricted to North America, and the labeling of the type material from ‘South India’ was a case of “accidental transport through commerce, or more likely, accident of mislabeling”.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 288-293, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
QMC Calculation of the Electronic Binding Energy in a C60 Molecule
Creators: name: Lin, Fei
name: Smakov, Jurij
name: Sorensen, Erik S.
name: Kallin, Catherine
name: Berlinsky, A. John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic energies are calculated for a Hubbard model on the $C_{60}$ molecule using projector quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Calculations are performed to accuracy high enough to determine the pair binding energy for two electrons added to neutral $C_{60}$. The method itself is checked against a variety of other quantum Monte Carlo methods as well as exact diagonalization for smaller molecules. The conclusion is that the ground state with two extra electrons on one $C_{60}$ molecule is a triplet and, over the range of parameters where QMC is reliable, has a slightly higher energy than the state with electrons on two separate molecules, so that the pair is unbound.
description: 7 pages, 4 EPS figures, RevTeX4
The critical end point of QCD
Creators: name: Gavai, R. V.
name: Gupta, Sourendu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the critical end point of QCD with two flavours of light dynamical quarks at finite lattice cutoff a=1/4T using a Taylor expansion of the baryon number susceptibility. We find a strong volume dependence of the position of the critical end point. In the large volume limit we obtain T^E/T_c \~ 0.95 and mu_B^E/T^E ~ 1.1, where T_c is the cross over temperature at zero chemical potential, and T^E and mu_B^E are the temperature and the baryon chemical potential at the critical end point. The small value of mu_B^E places it in the range of observability in energy scans at the RHIC.
description: this version contains all the figures that appear in the published journal version
Modelling the Pan-Spectral Energy Distribution of Starburst Galaxies: I. The role of ISM pressure & the Molecular Cloud Dissipation Timescale
Creators: name: Dopita, Michael
name: Groves, Brent
name: Fischera, Joerg
name: Sutherland, Ralph
name: Tuffs, Richard J.
name: Popescu, Cristina C.
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Reuland, Michiel
name: Leitherer, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we combine the stellar spectral synthesis code STARBURST 99, the nebular modelling code MAPPINGS IIIq, a 1-D dynamical evolution model of \HII regions around massive clusters of young stars and a simplified model of synchrotron emissivity to produce purely theoretical self-consistent synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for (solar metallicity) starbursts lasting some $10^8$ years. These SEDs extend from the Lyman Limit to beyond 21 cm. We find that two ISM parameters control the form of the SED; the pressure in the diffuse phase of the ISM (or, equivalently, its density), and the molecular cloud dissipation timescale. We present detailed SED fits to Arp 220 and NGC 6240, and we give the predicted colors for starburst galaxies derived from our models for the IRAS and the Spitzer Space Observatory MIPS and IRAC instruments. Our models reproduce the spread in observed colors of starburst galaxies. Finally, we present absolute calibrations to convert observed fluxes into star formation rates in the UV (GALEX), at optical wavelengths (H$α$), and in the IR (IRAS or the Spitzer Space Observatory). (Abstract Truncated)
description: 56 pages, 16 figures, accepted by The Apstrophysical Journal For version with full, colour figures go to http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~bgroves/starburst/