cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Managing Migration through Quotas: An Option-theory Perspective
Creators: name: Moretto, Michele
name: Vergalli, Sergio
name: Moretto, Michele
name: Vergalli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Immigration
subject: Real Option
subject: Quota System

description: Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified framework . To do this, we have used a real option approach to migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision where quotas represent an upper bound limit. Our results show that the paradox of counterbalancing immigration policies is not odd but it could be in line with an optimal policy to control migration inflow. In particular, we show that if the government controls the information related to the immigration quota system it could delay the mass entry of immigrants maintaining, in the long run, the required immigration stock and controlling the flows in the short-run.
Metrioppia oregonensis Woolley and Higgins 1969
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Metrioppiidae
Metrioppia
Metrioppia oregonensis

description: Metrioppia oregonensis Woolley and Higgins, 1969
 Geographic Location: BC: Vancouver Is., Broken Is. Group, Clayoquot Sound (Lindo 2015).
 Habitats: temperate coniferous rainforest.
 Distribution: Western Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Preliminary Evaluation of Selected Provisions
Creators: name: Westhoff, Patrick C.
name: Westhoff, Patrick C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The “Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007” was signed into law in December 2007. This report provides a snapshot of estimated impacts of selected provisions of EISA on biofuel and agricultural markets.
Investigating investment strategies for tackling antibiotic resistance. A quantitative and qualitative assessment.
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Anuja
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Antibiotic resistance (AbR) is a growing, multifaceted public-health concern. Bacteria harbouring AbR are found in diverse hosts, human and animal, and in the environment. To further our current understanding of AbR, four key evidence frameworks are needed. Firstly, there has been no systematic retrieval or assessment of the evidence on the multi-setting risk factors across all drug-bug combinations of AbR in humans. Secondly few frameworks examine how well the currently implemented interventions are targeting key risks driving AbR. Thirdly, future investment needs in light of the Points 1-2 above are lacking. Lastly, an assessment of the process-level-barriers to tackling AbR is needed for successful implementation of interventions. This thesis aims to inform these four evidence frameworks and provide policymakers tools to investigate investment strategies to tackle AbR in humans. METHOD Four key methods were utilised to meet the objectives of this thesis. Firstly, a systematic review was conducted to identify key risk factors of AbR. Secondly, a network-mapping technique was applied to explore clinical-effectiveness of currently implemented interventions. Thirdly, a dynamic transmission model was used to investigate areas of better resource-allocation. Lastly, a qualitative study was conducted using a systems-thinking approach to develop causal-loop models that identified process-level barriers to tackling AbR. FINDINGS Easier to quantify risks of AbR are being targeted by policy and ground-level interventions using a top-down implementation approach. Current interventions have limited evidence on their long-term efficacy of tackling AbR. For cost-efficiency, the model recommends policymakers to focus investment in the community. The interconnectivity of system-level factors (e.g. infrastructure, competing-priorities) impact system-wide engagement which fuel the process-level barriers to tackling AbR. CONCLUSION To help identify targets for sustainable interventions, research investment is needed to further investigate underlying factors driving AbR. Awareness of the drivers of AbR leading to greater engagement could enable successful implementation of long-term measures to effectively tackle AbR.
Primordial Gravitational Waves and Inflation: CMB and Direct Detection With Space-Based Laser Interferometers
Creators: name: Cooray, Asantha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The curl-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization probe horizon-scale primordial gravitational waves related to inflation. A significant source of confusion is expected from a lensing conversion of polarization related to density perturbations to the curl mode, during the propagation of photons through the large scale structure. Either high resolution CMB anisotropy observations or 21 cm fluctuations at redshifts 30 and higher can be used to delens polarization data and to separate gravitational-wave polarization signature from that of cosmic-shear related signal. Separations based on proposed lensing reconstruction techniques for reasonable future experiments allow the possibility to probe inflationary energy scales down to 10^15 GeV. Beyond CMB polarization, at frequencies between 0.01 Hz to 1 Hz, space-based laser interferometers can also be used to probe the inflationary gravitational wave background. The confusion here is related to the removal of merging neutron star binaries at cosmological distances. Given the low merger rate and the rapid evolution of the gravitational wave frequency across this band, reliable removal techniques can be constructed. We discuss issues related to joint constraints that can be placed on the inflationary models based on CMB polarization information and space-based interferometers such as the Big Bang Observer.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures. Review article based on invited lectures at the Daniel Chalonge International School of Astrophysics: WMAP and the Early Universe, Observatoire de Paris, December 2004. To appear in proceedings (Eds. N. G. Sanchez & H. J. De Vega)
Paenoppia Woolley and Higgins 1965
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Metrioppiidae
Paenoppia

description: Paenoppia sp.
 Geographic Location: BC: Vancouver Is., Walbran Valley (Lindo & Winchester 2006).
 Genus Parapyroppia Pérez-Iñigo and Subías, 1979
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Gravity, Dual Gravity and A1+++
Creators: name: Glennon, Keith
name: West, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the non-linear realisation of the semi-direct product of the very extended algebra A1+++ and its vector representation. This theory has an infinite number of fields that depend on a spacetime with an infinite number of coordinates. Discarding all except the lowest level field and coordinates the dynamics is just Einstein's equation for the graviton field. We show that the gravity field is related to the dual graviton field by a duality relation and we also derive the equation of motion for the dual gravity field.
description: 27 pages
Additional file 1 of Temporospatial shifts within commercial laboratory mouse gut microbiota impact experimental reproducibility
Creators: name: Mandal, Rabindra K.
name: Denny, Joshua E.
name: Waide, Morgan L.
name: Qingsheng Li
name: Bhutiani, Neal
name: Anderson, Charles D.
name: Baby, Becca V.
name: Venkatakrishna R. Jala
name: Egilmez, Nejat K.
name: Schmidt, Nathan W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Bacterial beta diversity analysis between mice from different Taconic IBUs. Same samples and analysis as in Fig. 2. PCoA plot shows beta diversity using Jaccard distance (A), Unweighted (C) UniFrac and (E) Weighted UniFrac distance and their statistical significance is shown by (B), (D) and (F), respectively. Box end depicts lower and upper quartile and horizontal line inside box is median while points outside whisker are outliers. Y-axis shows distance of IBUs on X-axis to IBUs on the top of vertical columns. Statistical significance is compared between IBUs on top of vertical columns to IBUs on the X-axis by pairwise PERMANOVA with 999 permutations. * = p
Crop Production Cost and Outook
Creators: name: Carpenter, Brent
name: Brees, Melvin
name: Carpenter, Brent
name: Brees, Melvin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: This report explains how the general trend of production input price inflation will continue during the 2008 crop year. It provides price increase information on seeds, fertilizer, building materials and more.
Mechanical and Vibrational Properties of Three-Dimensional Dimer Packings Near the Jamming Transition
Creators: name: Shiraishi, Kumpei
name: Mizuno, Hideyuki
name: Ikeda, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We comprehensively study mechanical and vibrational properties of dimer packings in three-dimensional space with particular attention on critical scaling behaviors near the jamming transition. First, we confirm the dependence of the packing fraction at the transition on the aspect ratio, the isostatic contact number at the transition, and the scaling dependence of the excess contact number on the excess density. Second, we study the elastic moduli, bulk and shear moduli, and establish power-law scaling of them. Finally, we study the vibrational density of states and its characteristic frequency. The vibrational density of states shows two plateaus in the lower- and higher-frequency regions, which are characterized by rotational and translational vibrational modes, respectively. The onset frequency of the lower-frequency plateau scales linearly to the square root of excess density. The scaling laws in the mechanical and vibrational properties are consistent between two- and three-dimensional dimers, and they are identical to those in spheres.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, and Supplemental Material; references added
Measuring Welfare Effects of an FMD Outbreak in the United States
Creators: name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
name: Lee, John G.
name: Seitzinger, Ann Hillberg
name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
name: Lee, John G.
name: Seitzinger, Ann Hillberg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: economic effects
subject: foot-and-mouth disease
subject: livestock
subject: meat

description: Questions have been raised regarding the economic costs of food-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the United States. This analysis examines how welfare changes are measured and argues that they must be decomposed by groups. Producers with animals quarantined and slaughtered because of FMD measure their welfare change using lost sales. Producers not quarantined measure their welfare change using producer surplus. The change in national sales revenue is accurate when the supply elasticity is low. Welfare changes for consumers also must be decomposed because the change in aggregate consumer surplus hides important shifts in welfare among groups of consumers.
Parapyroppia Perez-Inigo and Subias 1979
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Ceratoppiidae
Parapyroppia

description: Parapyroppia sp.
 Geographic Location and Habitats: AB: ABMI Sites (Walter at al. 2014); NL: between Corner Brook and Little Grand Lake, Balsam fir forests (Dwyer et al. 1997, 1998).
 Genus Pyroppia Hammer, 1955
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Mandatory Livestock Price Reporting, Market Transparency and Grid Price Dispersion
Creators: name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Li, Jing
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Li, Jing
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: fed cattle
subject: grid pricing
subject: market transparency
subject: price dispersion

description: Mandatory livestock price reporting (MPR) was implemented in April 2001. Empirical evidence indicates a significant change in the weekly variability of publicly reported fed cattle grid premiums and discounts occurred after MPR implementation. We evaluated the effect of increased market transparency resulting from implementation of MPR on grid premium and discount dispersion lelvels. Empirical results suggest that increased trransparency is compatible with either an increase or a decrease in dispersion. These results suggest that during the pre-MPR periods, the weekly premium and discount point estimators were derived from a non-representative sample.
Estimating the Quality of Open Access Journals
Creators: name: Roinila, Markku
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open access
open access journals
predatory journals
predatory publishers

description: Open access has created a new unfortunate phenomenon, the so-called predatory publishers and journals who sell publishing services through email spam. In many cases, these keen service providers are in the business solely for collecting article processing charges, not publishing the articles or developing research. In this webinar, we will introduce you to the characteristic features of these journals / publishers and explain by which criteria one can tell the good journals from the predatory journals for your publishing purposes.
Fully 3D Monte Carlo image reconstruction in SPECT using functional regions
Creators: name: Bitar, Z. El
name: Lazaro, D.
name: Coello, C.
name: Breton, V.
name: Hill, D.
name: Buvat, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Image reconstruction in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is affected by physical effects such as photon attenuation, Compton scatter and detector response. These effects can be compensated for by modeling the corresponding spread of photons in 3D within the system matrix used for tomographic reconstruction. The fully 3D Monte Carlo (F3DMC) reconstruction technique consists in calculating this system matrix using Monte Carlo simulations. The inverse problem of tomographic reconstruction is then solved using conventional iterative algorithms such as maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM). Although F3DMC has already shown promising results, its use is currently limited by two major issues: huge size of the fully 3D system matrix and long computation time required for calculating a robust and accurate system matrix. To address these two issues, we propose to calculate the F3DMC system matrix using a spatial sampling matching the functional regions to be reconstructed. In this approach, different regions of interest can be reconstructed with different spatial sampling. For instance, a single value is reconstructed for a functional region assumed to contain uniform activity. To assess the value of this approach, Monte Carlo simulations have been performed using GATE. Results suggest that F3DMC reconstruction using functional regions improves quantitative accuracy compared to the F3DMC reconstruction method proposed so far. In addition, it considerably reduces disk space requirement and duration of the simulations needed to estimate the system matrix. The concept of functional regions might therefore make F3DMC reconstruction practically feasible.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 3rd International Conference on maging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences : ITBS2005, Milos Island, Greece, 25-28 september 2005, submitted to NIMA
An Econometric Analysis of Price Dynamics in the Presence of a Price Floor: The Case of American Cheese
Creators: name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Kim, Kwansoo
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Kim, Kwansoo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: censored regression
subject: market liberalization
subject: model selection
subject: price dynamics
subject: price volatility

description: In this paper, we present an econometric analysis for the effects of a price floor on price dynamics and price volatility. A price floor (implemented as a part of government pricing policy) provides a censoring mechanism for price determination. We specify and estimate a dynamic Tobit model under time-varying volatility. The model is applied to analyze the effects of a price support program on price dynamics and price volatility in the U.S. American cheese market. The econometric analysis provides useful insights on price dynamics in the presence of a government-determined price floor.
Benefits of exercise in addition to diet in people with type 2 diabetes: Study protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: R.G. Memelink
name: Hijlkema, Aveline
name: Hummel, Mitchell
name: M.T. Streppel
name: Berk, Kirsten
name: Tieland, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: Health Sciences

description: Study protocol "Benefits of exercise in addition to diet in people with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis"
Additional file 3 of Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties
Creators: name: Mohtasham Ghaffari
name: Rakhshanderou, Sakineh
name: Ramezankhani, Ali
name: Mehrabi, Yadollah
name: Safari-Moradabadi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary material 3. A summary of the quality of the domains examined on the basis of a checklist COSMIN for oral health assessment tools.
Additional file 2 of Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties
Creators: name: Mohtasham Ghaffari
name: Rakhshanderou, Sakineh
name: Ramezankhani, Ali
name: Mehrabi, Yadollah
name: Safari-Moradabadi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary material 2. Criteria for quality rating of measurement properties.
Leviathan and pure public goods in a federation with mobile populations
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Chikara
name: Yamaguchi, Chikara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pure public goods
subject: Leviathan
subject: household mobility

description: This paper investigates properties of the second best allocation in a federation where regional governments provide a pure public good non-cooperatively and policy makers are neither entirely benevolent nor wholly self-serving. A high degree of household mobility across regions forces the governments to raise the efficiency of the public good, however, it also helps to waste resources. It is shown that regional Leviathans not only under-provide the public good but also decrease the amount of wasteful expenditures as households become less mobile. Central government’s intervention can enhance efficiency if households are attached to particular regions.
Short-imaginary-time quantum critical dynamics in the J-Q$_3$ spin chain
Creators: name: Shu, Yu-Rong
name: Yin, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the short-imaginary-time quantum critical dynamics (SITQCD) in the J-Q$_3$ spin chain, which hosts a quasi-long-range-order phase to a valence bond solid transition. By using the scaling form of the SITQCD with a saturated ordered phase, we are able to locate the critical point at $q_{\rm c}=0.170(14)$. We also obtain the critical initial slip exponent $θ=-0.507(3)$ and the static exponent $β/ν=0.498(2)$. More strikingly, we find that the scaling dimension of the initial order parameter $x_{0}$ is close to zero, which suggests that the initial order parameter is a marginal operator. As a result, there is no initial increase behavior of the order parameter in the short-imaginary-time relaxation process for this model, which is very different from the relaxation dynamics in the Ising-type phase transitions. Our numerical results are realized by the projector quantum Monte Carlo algorithm.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
title: Современные проблемы правового регулирования статуса судьи в Российской Федерации
Creators: name: Иванова, В.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В статье рассматривается целесообразность создания единой концепции закона, который будет определять правовое положение судей, и устранит противоречия, которые существуют в настоящее время.
Groundwater markets and water use efficiency: The case of Karnataka
Creators: name: Deepak, S.C.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
name: Nagaraj, N.
name: Deepak, S.C.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
name: Nagaraj, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Groundwater markets
subject: efficiency
subject: equity

description: This study, based on primary data collected from 120 groundwater users in eastern dry zone of Karnataka compares the water use efficiency among different categories of water users, viz. well owners who do not sell water, well owners who sell water either for agricultural or non-agricultural use and water buyers (both agricultural and nonagricultural). Some of the important findings are- • The cropping pattern varies between categories, with both the sellers and buyers preferring low water intensive mulberry crop, while the self user's category grew more water intensive crops. • Farmers who sold water for non-agricultural purposes earned the highest return (because of higher end-use price) and also made the most efficient use of water. Thus, making a point that end-use pricing is a key in shaping marginal productivity of water. • Compared to the self-users, farmers selling water for either agricultural or non-agricultural purposes realized higher marginal productivity. Thus,groundwater markets acted as an effective tool in enhancing efficient use of a scarce resource.This study explores efficiency and equity in groundwater markets in the hard rock areas of Karnataka. It compares the water use efficiency of farmers using groundwater for irrigating their land and also selling it for agricultural purpose (WSA, n=30), farmers using water for irrigating their land and also selling for non-agriculture purpose (WSNA, n=15), farmers who do not either sell or buy water but use it on their farms (WO, n=30), farmers who are buying groundwater for agriculture purpose (WBA, n=30), and buyers of water for non-agriculture purpose (WBNA, n=15). The Nash equilibrium framework describing the bargaining power of buyers and sellers of groundwater is used. Sidlaghatta taluk in eastern dry agroclimatic zone (EDZ) of Karnataka is chosen because it supports intensive groundwater markets. The objective of the study is to find out water use efficiencies among different groups of water users with the hypothesis that WSNA obtain higher water use efficiency than WSA, WBA, and WO.
An Automated Method for the Detection and Extraction of HI Self-Absorption in High-Resolution 21cm Line Surveys
Creators: name: Gibson, Steven J.
name: Taylor, A. Russell
name: Higgs, Lloyd A.
name: Brunt, Christopher M.
name: Dewdney, Peter E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe algorithms that detect 21cm line HI self-absorption (HISA) in large data sets and extract it for analysis. Our search method identifies HISA as spatially and spectrally confined dark HI features that appear as negative residuals after removing larger-scale emission components with a modified CLEAN algorithm. Adjacent HISA volume-pixels (voxels) are grouped into features in (l,b,v) space, and the HI brightness of voxels outside the 3-D feature boundaries is smoothly interpolated to estimate the absorption amplitude and the unabsorbed HI emission brightness. The reliability and completeness of our HISA detection scheme have been tested extensively with model data. We detect most features over a wide range of sizes, linewidths, amplitudes, and background levels, with poor detection only where the absorption brightness temperature amplitude is weak, the absorption scale approaches that of the correlated noise, or the background level is too faint for HISA to be distinguished reliably from emission gaps. False detection rates are very low in all parts of the parameter space except at sizes and amplitudes approaching those of noise fluctuations. Absorption measurement biases introduced by the method are generally small and appear to arise from cases of incomplete HISA detection. This paper is the third in a series examining HISA at high angular resolution. A companion paper (Paper II) uses our HISA search and extraction method to investigate the cold atomic gas distribution in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.
description: 39 pages, including 14 figure pages; to appear in June 10 ApJ, volume 626; figure quality significantly reduced for astro-ph; for full resolution, please see http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/hisa/cgps1_survey/
The effect of heat conduction on the interaction of disk and corona around black holes
Creators: name: Meyer-Hofmeister, E.
name: Meyer, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heat conduction plays an important role in the balance between heating and cooling in many astrophysical objects, e.g. cooling flows in clusters of galaxies. Here we investigate the effect of heat conduction on the interaction between a cool disk and a hot corona around black holes. Using the one-radial-zone approximation, we study the vertical structure of the disk corona and derive evaporation and coronal mass flow rates for various reduced thermal conductivities. We find lower evaporation rates and a shift in the evaporation maxima to smaller radii. This implies that the spectral state transition occurs at a lower mass flow rate and a disk truncation closer to the black hole. Reductions of thermal conductivity are thought to be magnetically caused and might vary from object to object by a different configuration of the magnetic fields.
description: accepted for publication in A & A, 5 pages
Market Interactions, Farmer Choices, and the Sustainability of Growing Advanced Biofuels
Creators: name: Jiang, Yong
name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Jiang, Yong
name: Swinton, Scott M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biomass
subject: energy
subject: advanced biofuels
subject: corn
subject: land use
subject: switchgrass
subject: cellulosic ethanol

description: Advanced biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol are of great interest for their potential to supply a significant portion of U.S. fuel needs plus advantages over corn grain-based ethanol. The sustainability of agriculture-based advanced biofuels depends on how farmers would respond in providing biomass feedstock, yet economic behavior by farmers has been under recognized by the science community. Focusing on markets and policy incentives, this research shows that farmers are unlikely to convert current grain cropland to grow a dedicated cellulosic biomass crop such as switchgrass. However, the financial incentives to harvest cellulosic biomass provided by the 2008 farm bill may stimulate corn production due to demand for corn grain for feed and ethanol and corn residues for advanced biofuels. The prospect of continuous, possibly expanding corn production for advanced biofuels raises the same environmental issues as for corn grain-based ethanol. To assure the environmental sustainability of advanced biofuels production, environmental policies are needed to complement existing bioenergy initiatives.
Additional file 1 of Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties
Creators: name: Mohtasham Ghaffari
name: Rakhshanderou, Sakineh
name: Ramezankhani, Ali
name: Mehrabi, Yadollah
name: Safari-Moradabadi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Pyroppia dentata Krivolutsky 1974
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Ceratoppiidae
Pyroppia
Pyroppia dentata

description: Pyroppia dentata Krivolutsky, 1974
 Geographic Location: AK: Pribilof Islands (Behan 1978a).
 Distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Consistent Independent Low-Rank Matrix Analysis for Determined Blind Source Separation
Creators: name: Kitamura, Daichi
name: Yatabe, Kohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Independent low-rank matrix analysis (ILRMA) is the state-of-the-art algorithm for blind source separation (BSS) in the determined situation (the number of microphones is greater than or equal to that of source signals). ILRMA achieves a great separation performance by modeling the power spectrograms of the source signals via the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Such a highly developed source model can solve the permutation problem of the frequency-domain BSS to a large extent, which is the reason for the excellence of ILRMA. In this paper, we further improve the separation performance of ILRMA by additionally considering the general structure of spectrograms, which is called consistency, and hence we call the proposed method Consistent ILRMA. Since a spectrogram is calculated by an overlapping window (and a window function induces spectral smearing called main- and side-lobes), the time-frequency bins depend on each other. In other words, the time-frequency components are related to each other via the uncertainty principle. Such co-occurrence among the spectral components can function as an assistant for solving the permutation problem, which has been demonstrated by a recent study. On the basis of these facts, we propose an algorithm for realizing Consistent ILRMA by slightly modifying the original algorithm. Its performance was extensively evaluated through experiments performed with various window lengths and shift lengths. The results indicated several tendencies of the original and proposed ILRMA that include some topics not fully discussed in the literature. For example, the proposed Consistent ILRMA tends to outperform the original ILRMA when the window length is sufficiently long compared to the reverberation time of the mixing system.
description: Submitted to EURASIP J. Adv. Signal. Process. Accepted on Oct. 30, 2020
Role of Debt Crises on the Economy of Developing
Creators: name: Aqsa Chanda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
subject: 150105 Management Accounting
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement

description: In this era where every field of life is rapidly growing and developing, it is too difficult rather impossible for a country to finance all developing expenditures with its own resources. So to cop up with this problem of insufficient revenue for expenditure, the country borrows money from internal as well as from external resources. In certain limits this practice is normal, but during last few decades it has been noticed that debts are growing extraordinary in all countries generally but particularly in under developed countries. The rationale of this research is to elaborate the impact of debt crises on the economy of developing countries. Recent crises in developing countries have demonstrated the weakness of real sectors to changes in financial market conditions. Better management of government’s balance sheet may significantly decrease the frequency of debt crises. The outbreak of the developing countries debt crises has realized to the people that immense increase in public debt has turned out a serious problem.
Terpenoids from marine and terrestrial sources
Creators: name: Craig, Kyle Sheldon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Studies on the Indonesian sponge Hippospongia sp. led, via bioactivity-guided fractionation, to the isolation of six linear norsesterterpene carboxylic acids. Rhopaloic acids B (35) and C (36) were known, but rhopaloic acids D(37)-G(40) were novel in structure. These compounds are the first known natural product inhibitors of RCE-protease, an important new target in cancer therapy. [diagrams not included] Two investigations of weedy plants, Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Vernonia baldwinii, whose extracts showed activity in a cell-based assay for G2 checkpoint inhibitors, were undertaken. Six sesquiterpenes were isolated for each weed (41-46, 47 and related compounds, respectively). With respect to A. artemisiifolia, an additional four sesquiterpenes were semi-synthesized in an effort to understand the requirements necessary for biological activity. When 47 was hydrogenated under standard conditions it no longer contained an α-β unsaturated ester side chain and biological activity was lost. Sesquiterpenes 42-44 represent some of the first compounds known to be both G2 checkpoint inhibitors and antimitotic agents, while 47 has the ability to activate phosphorylation of nucleolin and tau, making it a potential tool for the study of Alzheimer's disease pathology. [diagrams not included] In our continuing investigations into the chemistry of the Caribbean octocoral, Erythropodium caribaeorum, two additional briarane diterpenes 48-49 were isolated. A novel erythrane diterpene 50 and two novel aquariane diterpenes 51-52 were also isolated. The aquariane skeleton appears to be derived via a vinylcyclopropane rearrangement of an erythrane precursor. [diagrams not included]
Additional file 2 of A systematic review of global health capacity building initiatives in low-to middle-income countries in the Middle East and North Africa region
Creators: name: Naal, Hady
name: Koussa, Maria El
name: Hamouch, Melissa El
name: Hneiny, Layal
name: Saleh, Shadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Bibliography of Grey Literature GHCB sources among LMICs in the MENA
Marr, N., Testi e ricerche di filologia armeno-giorgiana
Creators: name: Guidi, Ignazio
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 1 Nr. 2 (1901): Oriens christianus, Band 1, Heft 2
The dynamic annihilation of a rational competitive fringe by a low-cost dominant firm
Creators: name: Berck, Peter
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Berck, Peter
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: competition
subject: industry
subject: marketing
subject: mathematical models

description: A low-cost dominant firm will drive all competitive fringe firms out of the market if all firms have rational expectations; however, the dominant firm will not predate (price below marginal cost). Since a dominant firm will not drive out fringe firms if they have myopic expectations, it may be in the dominant firm’s best interests to inform the fringe. The effects of governmental intervention on the optimal path and welfare are presented.
The real exchange rate process and its real effects: The cases of Mexico and the USA
Creators: name: Grier, Kevin
name: Hernandez-Trillo, Fausto
name: Grier, Kevin
name: Hernandez-Trillo, Fausto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: real exchange rate volatility
subject: economic growth
subject: electoral cycle

description: Exchange rate management is a salient macroeconomic issue, especially in developing countries. In this paper, we study political economy factors that may affect the real exchange rate (RER) process and the real economic effects of the RER. We review recent literature on the effects of elections on the exchange rate, and adapt Ball’s (1992) model to show that uncertainty about the future course of policy may make more appreciated RER’s less predictable. We also review the literature on the real effect of RER appreciations and of RER uncertainty. We then construct a simultaneous GARCH-M model of the joint determination of the RER and output capable of testing our hypotheses simultaneously in a single model. We estimate the model using data first from Mexico, a developing country, and the US. In Mexico we find that elections significantly affect the evolution of the RER, that more appreciated RERs are less predictable, that RER depreciations lower output growth and that RER uncertainty lowers output growth, even when controlling for its wellstudied effect on trade. By contrast, none of these effects are found in the US data.
Pyroppia lanceolata Hammer 1955
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Ceratoppiidae
Pyroppia
Pyroppia lanceolata

description: Pyroppia lanceolata Hammer, 1955
 Geographic Location: AK: Barrow (Hammer 1955a; Hurd & Lindquist 1958; Bohnsack 1968, 1973; Douce 1976; Behan & Hill 1978); Cape Thompson (Watson et al. 1966); northern and northwestern coastal plain; Atqasuk; Denali NP (Behan 1978a); YT: coastal plain (Behan-Pelletier 1997b).
 Habitat: tussock tundra.
 Distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of global health capacity building initiatives in low-to middle-income countries in the Middle East and North Africa region
Creators: name: Naal, Hady
name: Koussa, Maria El
name: Hamouch, Melissa El
name: Hneiny, Layal
name: Saleh, Shadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search Strategy.
Diet quality and income in Rural and Urban China: evidence from the Health and Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Capacci, Sara
name: Mazzocchi, Mario
name: Liu, Y.
name: Capacci, Sara
name: Mazzocchi, Mario
name: Liu, Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Nutrition
subject: diet quality
subject: China

description: The specific objective of this paper is the investigation of the link between an improvement in Chinese households’ wealth and the quality of their diet and the role played by this relationship on the overall nutrition transition process. Better economic conditions mean a worsening of the diet in terms of higher energy intakes from fats, only partially compensated by higher fruit and vegetable intakes. China nutrition transition is going on and the rapid economic growth may lead to adverse health consequences if the negative effects of this transition will not be contrasted.
Joint Prediction and Time Estimation of COVID-19 Developing Severe Symptoms using Chest CT Scan
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiaofeng
name: Song, Bin
name: Shi, Feng
name: Chen, Yanbo
name: Hu, Rongyao
name: Gan, Jiangzhang
name: Zhang, Wenhai
name: Li, Man
name: Wang, Liye
name: Gao, Yaozong
name: Shan, Fei
name: Shen, Dinggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapidly worldwide spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it is of great importance to conduct early diagnosis of COVID-19 and predict the time that patients might convert to the severe stage, for designing effective treatment plan and reducing the clinicians' workloads. In this study, we propose a joint classification and regression method to determine whether the patient would develop severe symptoms in the later time, and if yes, predict the possible conversion time that the patient would spend to convert to the severe stage. To do this, the proposed method takes into account 1) the weight for each sample to reduce the outliers' influence and explore the problem of imbalance classification, and 2) the weight for each feature via a sparsity regularization term to remove the redundant features of high-dimensional data and learn the shared information across the classification task and the regression task. To our knowledge, this study is the first work to predict the disease progression and the conversion time, which could help clinicians to deal with the potential severe cases in time or even save the patients' lives. Experimental analysis was conducted on a real data set from two hospitals with 422 chest computed tomography (CT) scans, where 52 cases were converted to severe on average 5.64 days and 34 cases were severe at admission. Results show that our method achieves the best classification (e.g., 85.91% of accuracy) and regression (e.g., 0.462 of the correlation coefficient) performance, compared to all comparison methods. Moreover, our proposed method yields 76.97% of accuracy for predicting the severe cases, 0.524 of the correlation coefficient, and 0.55 days difference for the converted time.
What do unions do at the large scale? Macro-economic evidence from a panel of OECD countries
Creators: name: Asteriou, Dimitrios
name: Monastiriotis, Vassilis
name: Asteriou, Dimitrios
name: Monastiriotis, Vassilis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Trade unions
subject: productivity growth
subject: panel data econometrics

description: This paper investigates the long-run relationship between trade unionism and productivity using a panel data set comprising of 18 OECD economies. Much of the existing evidence on this issue derives from micro-economic studies, with limited attention paid to long-run dynamics and economy-wide effects. Using the mean group and pooled mean group estimation techniques on cross-country panel data, the paper offers support to the "productivity-increasing face of unionism" hypothesis, revealing a positive relationship between trade union density and per worker output.
title: Использование систем видеоконференц-связи в уголовном судопроизводстве России
Creators: name: Ильина, А.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Настоящая статья посвящена использованию систем видеоконференцсвязи в уголовном судопроизводстве России. Автором проводится анализ статистических данных применения систем видеоконференц-связи при рассмотрении уголовных дел (материалов) в судах первой инстанции, из которого следует, что количество применений систем видеоконференц-связи при рассмотрении уголовных дел и материалов в судах первой инстанции неизменно растет. Выделяются некоторые преимущества рассматриваемой технологии, такие как гарантированность обеспечения разумного срока уголовного судопроизводства и процессуальная экономия. На
основании исследования зарубежного законодательства обозначается актуальная проблема российского уголовного процесса, которая заключается в невозможности в настоящее время использовать системы видеоконференц-связи на стадии предварительного расследования.