cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Environmental and Health Motivations on the Organic Share of Produce Purchases
Creators: name: Durham, Catherine A.
name: Durham, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: organic produce share
subject: health
subject: environment

description: As demand and supply of organic produce has increased, it has become possible to distinguish between the many individuals that express a preference for organic and the share of their purchases that is organically produced. This study examines the share of a consumer’s produce purchases that are organic, and how that is influenced by economic factors, environmental and health motivations, and demographic characteristics. Results from a model of organic preference are compared to those from a model of organic buying proportions. Buying proportion models are also estimated separately for those that preferred organic and those that preferred conventional produce. A limitation in this study is that it evaluates stated buying proportions rather than actual purchases.
Extending holomorphic mappings from subvarieties in Stein manifolds
Creators: name: Forstneric, Franc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32E10, 32E30, 32H02

description: Suppose that Y is a complex manifold with the property that any holomorphic map from a compact convex set in a complex Euclidean space C^n (for any n) to Y is a uniform limit of entire maps from C^n to Y. We prove that a holomorphic map from a closed complex subvariety X_0 in a Stein manifold X to the manifold Y extends to a holomorphic map of X to Y provided that it extends to a continuous map. We then establish the equivalence of four Oka-type properties of a complex manifold. We also generalize a theorem of Siu and Demailly on the existence of open Stein neighborhoods of Stein subvarieties in complex spaces.
description: Ann. Inst. Fourier, to appear
Protest Adjustments in the Valuation of Watershed Restoration Using Payment Card Data
Creators: name: Collins, Alan R.
name: Rosenberger, Randall S.
name: Collins, Alan R.
name: Rosenberger, Randall S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: contingent valuation
subject: protest bias
subject: watershed restoration
subject: sample selection
subject: grouped Tobit

description: When using a willingness-to-pay (WTP) format in contingent valuation (CV) to value water-shed restoration, respondents may protest by questioning why they should pay to clean up a pollution problem that someone else created. Using a sample selection interval data model based on Bhat (1994) and Brox, Kumar, and Stollery (2003), we found that the decision to protest and WTP values were correlated. Protest sample selection bias resulted in a 300 percent overestimate of mean WTP per respondent. Using different ad hoc treatments of protesters, protest bias resulted in moderate effects (-10 percent to +14 percent) after controlling for sample selection bias.
Faargia gentilii
Creators: name: Mondaca, José
name: Fierro, Andrés
name: Rothmann, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Faargia
Faargia gentilii

description: Faargia gentilii (Martínez, 1975) (Fig. 2)
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Chilean tanyproctines (i.e., Chilenopilus Smith & Mondaca, Myloxena Berg, and Luispenaia Martínez) by the black coloration on the head, pronotum, and legs and the elytra reddish brown (Fig. 2A). Dorsal surface covered with long and dense pubescence, tawny on head and pronotum; thorax ventrally with dense pubescence. Antennae long, with 9 antennomeres, club with 3 antennomeres. Protibia with 2 subacute, external teeth. Protibial and metatibial spurs absent (Fig. 2A). Protarsomere, mesotarsomere, and metatarsomere 5 with curved and dentate claw.
 Examined material. 4 males at: Chile, La Araucanía, Lonquimay, Agua Enterrada, 38°35’34,40’’S - 71°00’14,60’’W, 1464 m, light trap, 26-iv-2018, P. Pulgar (SAGC).
 Distribution. The native range of F. gentilii includes Argentina, in the provinces of Neuquén and Chubut (Martínez 1975, 1982) (Fig. 3). New country record: Chile, Araucanía, Malleco Province (Fig. 3).
 Habitat. Specimens of F. gentilii have been collected in a semi-arid steppe environment dominated by low-elevation thorny scrub composed of shrubs of the genera Adesmia, Berberis and Mulinum, as well as a grass cover (Stipa and Poa) typical of the Patagonian steppe. The main capture site is located east of the city of Lonquimay, 8.5 km from the border with Argentina. The distribution corresponds to the Patagonian subregion and Central Patagonian province in southern Argentina, from central Mendoza, widening through Neuquén, Río Negro, and Chubut, to northern Tierra del Fuego. In Chile, in addition to the more northerly passes in Araucanía this habitat is extensive in Aisén and Magallanes provinces (Morrone 2001).
description: Published as part of Mondaca, José, Fierro, Andrés & Rothmann, Sergio, 2019, Parochodaeus bituberculatus (Erichson) (Coleoptera: Ochodaeidae) and Faargia gentilii (Martínez) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), two species newly discovered in Chile, pp. 187-190 in Zootaxa 4608 (1) on page 188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/3993595
Toward an evidence-informed, theory-driven model for continuing medical education
Creators: name: White, Marc I.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis develops the basis for an evidence-informed, theory-driven educational model for planning, implementing and evaluating continuing medical education (CME). Using an historical and conceptual analysis the author argued current CME educational planning models, based on Tyler's Curriculum Model, failed to build a systematic body of knowledge to improve learning and teaching and are founded on historical, structural, organizational and pedagogical factors that arose from research and beliefs about learning prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century. Using a case study of a three-year province-wide, evidence-informed, multi-agency, comprehensive education program to enhance family and emergency physicians' knowledge and skills regarding the diagnosis and management of whiplash-associated disorders, the thesis demonstrates the feasibility and adaptability of using the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model for CME. The PRECEDEPROCEED Model is a community-oriented and epidemiological-based educational planning model that provides a systematic approach to identifying and organizing contextual factors influencing knowledge uptake and knowledge utilization. The case study provides a basis for modifying the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model as a tool for planning, implementing and evaluating CME programs. The changes are intended to assist CME planners in integrating behavioural and non-behaviour factors with theory and best practices in the actual "curriculum" or intervention-program design. In addition, the proposed modification to the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model adheres to the standards established by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation as to what a comprehensive evaluation should address. Based on the case study, the thesis recommends a modification to the current PRECEDE-PROCEED model of health promotion that provides a clearer conceptual understanding of the structure, components and theoretical underpinnings of an emerging evidence-informed, theory-based curriculum model.
Time-evolving controllability of effective connectivity networks during seizure progression
Creators: name: Scheid, Brittany H.
name: Ashourvan, Arian
name: Stiso, Jennifer
name: Davis, Kathryn A.
name: Mikhail, Fadi
name: Pasqualetti, Fabio
name: Litt, Brian
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Over one third of the estimated 3 million people with epilepsy in the US are medication resistant. Responsive neurostimulation from chronically implanted electrodes provides a promising treatment option and alternative to resective surgery. However, determining personalized optimal stimulation parameters, including when and where to intervene to guarantee a positive patient outcome, is a major open challenge. Network neuroscience and control theory offer useful tools that may guide improvements in parameter selection for control of anomalous neural activity. Here we use a novel method to characterize dynamic controllability across consecutive effective connectivity (EC) networks based on regularized partial correlations between implanted electrodes during the onset, propagation, and termination phases of thirty-four seizures. We estimate regularized partial correlation adjacency matrices from one-second time windows of intracranial electrocorticography recordings using the Graphical Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (GLASSO). Average and modal controllability metrics calculated from each resulting EC network track the time-varying controllability of the brain on an evolving landscape of conditionally dependent network interactions. We show that average controllability increases throughout a seizure and is negatively correlated with modal controllability throughout. Furthermore, our results support the hypothesis that the energy required to drive the brain to a seizure-free state from an ictal state is smallest during seizure onset; yet, we find that applying control energy at electrodes in the seizure onset zone may not always be energetically favorable. Our work suggests that a low-complexity model of time-evolving controllability may offer new insights for developing and improving control strategies targeting seizure suppression.
description: Main text is 7 pages and contains 4 figures, supplement is 17 pages and contains 9 figures and one table
SUCCESS THROUGH SKILLS: A STUDY OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN CHENGALPATTU DISTRICT
Creators: name: N. Ramalakshmi* & Dr. S. Umamageswari**
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The primary goal of this study was to examine the factors that contributed to the growth of small and medium-sized women-owned enterprises in the Chengalpattu District. Other important goals of the investigation included learning more about the difficulties these female entrepreneurs faced, the differences between educated and uneducated women entrepreneurs' perceptions of success factors, and the forces that drive and inspire these women to launch their own businesses. Over 130 female entrepreneurs self-administered a questionnaire to gather the study's sole source of primary data. The data were analyzed using various statistical method. The findings show the importance of targeted interventions to address both educational disparities and societal challenges, thereby creating a more supportive environment for women entrepreneurs in the region.
JT supergravity and Brezin-Gross-Witten tau-function
Creators: name: Okuyama, Kazumi
name: Sakai, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study thermal correlation functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity. We focus on the case of JT supergravity on orientable surfaces without time-reversal symmetry. As shown by Stanford and Witten recently, the path integral amounts to the computation of the volume of the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces, which is characterized by the Brezin-Gross-Witten (BGW) tau-function of the KdV hierarchy. We find that the matrix model of JT supergravity is a special case of the BGW model with infinite number of couplings turned on in a specific way, by analogy with the relation between bosonic JT gravity and the Kontsevich-Witten (KW) model. We compute the genus expansion of the one-point function of JT supergravity and study its low-temperature behavior. In particular, we propose a non-perturbative completion of the one-point function in the Bessel case where all couplings in the BGW model are set to zero. We also investigate the free energy and correlators when the Ramond-Ramond flux is large. We find that by defining a suitable basis higher genus free energies are written exactly in the same form as those of the KW model, up to the constant terms coming from the volume of the unitary group. This implies that the constitutive relation of the KW model is universal to the tau-function of the KdV hierarchy.
description: 36 pages, v2: typos corrected, footnotes and references added, v3: several explanations added, typos corrected, published version
Meromorphic Lax representations of (1+1)-dimensional multi-Hamiltonian dispersionless systems
Creators: name: Szablikowski, Blazej M.
name: Blaszak, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rational Lax hierarchies introduced by Krichever are generalized. A systematic construction of infinite multi-Hamiltonian hierarchies and related conserved quantities is presented. The method is based on the classical R-matrix approach applied to Poisson algebras. A proof, that Poisson operators constructed near different points of Laurent expansion of Lax functions are equal, is given. All results are illustrated by several examples.
description: 28 pages
Public Price Reporting in the Cash Market for Live Cattle: A Spatial Market Approach
Creators: name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: public price reporting
subject: spatial markets
subject: market integration
subject: price transparency
subject: price discovery
subject: livestock markets

description: Legislative authorization for the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 was renewed in October of 2006. One of the cited justifications for implementing mandatory reporting was that the voluntary reporting system for the slaughter cattle cash market was unable to provide accurate and timely market information. We extend the spatial market analysis literature by developing a methodology for detecting distortions in spatial relationships across related price series. Using spatially linked regional markets, we compare state-level mandatory price-reporting data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture voluntarily reported state data to determine if the spatial relationship between price-reporting mechanisms was disrupted by market distortions prior to implementation of federal mandatory price reporting. We found no empirical evidence of system failure; therefore, we conclude that market thinning or noncompetitive behavior had not reached the level necessary to disrupt the ability of the voluntary price-reporting system to provide timely and accurate price information.
Additional file 1 of CircRNA hsa_circRNA_0000069 promotes the proliferation, migration and invasion of cervical cancer through miR-873-5p/TUSC3 axis
Creators: name: Shuaisai Zhang
name: Zhengli Chen
name: Jinxue Sun
name: An, Na
name: Xi, Qinghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.Fig. S1. Effect of TUSC3 overexpression in SiHa and Hela cells. Western blots analysis of SiHa and Hela cells transiently transfected with vector or pcDNA3.1-TUSC3. Fig. S2. a. qRT-PCR analysis of hsa_circ_0000069 expression in SiHa and HeLa cells transfected with vector or pcDNA3.1-TUSC3. b. Cell counting kit-8 assays were used to measure the proliferation ability of siHa and HeLa cells transfected with vector or pcDNA3.1-TUSC3. c and d Transwell assays were used to determine the cell migration and invasion of hsa_circ_0000069 in SiHa and HeLa cells transfected with vector or pcDNA3.1-TUSC3. All data is representative of three independent experiments and expressed as mean ± SD. P value in Figure 2b was determined by a one-way ANOVA, and the others were determined by two-tailed Student’s unpaired t-test, **P < 0.01. Fig. S3. Full uncropped immunoblot images of Fig. 2f with molecular weight markers and details of the antibodies with dilution. Fig. S4. Full uncropped immunoblot images of Fig.6b (left), Fig.6c (middle), and Fig.7a (right) with molecular weight markers and details of the antibodies with dilution.
Classification of States in O(8) Proton-Neutron Pairing Model
Creators: name: Kota, V. K. B.
name: Alcaras, Castilho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isoscalar (T=0) plus isovector (T=1) pairing hamiltonian in LS-coupling, which is important for heavy N=Z nuclei, is solvable in terms of a O(8) algebra for some special values of the mixing parameter that measures the competition between T=0 and T=1 pairing. The O(8) algebra is generated, amongst others, by the $S=1,T=0$ and $S=0,T=1$ pair creation and annihilation operators . Shell model algebras, with only number conserving operators, that are complementary to the $O(8) \supset O_{ST}(6) \supset O_S(3) \otimes O_T(3)$, $O(8) \supset [ O_S(5) \supset O_S(3) ] \otimes O_T(3)$ and $O(8) \supset [ O_T(5) \supset O_T(3)] \otimes O_S(3)$ sub-algebras are identified. The problem of classification of states for a given number of nucleons (called `plethysm' problem in group theory), for these group chains is solved explicitly for states with O(8) seniority $v=0, 1, 2, 3$ and 4. Using them, band structures in isospin space are identified for states with $v=0, 1, 2$ and 3.
description: 52 pages, 12 tables
Explaining recently studied intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs) with jet powering
Creators: name: Soker, Noam
name: Kaplan, Noa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the jet-powered ILOT scenario to two recently studied intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs), and find the relevant shell mass and jets' energy that might account for the outbursts of these ILOTs. In the jet-powered ILOT scenario accretion disk around one of the stars of a binary system launches jets. The interaction of the jets with a previously ejected slow shell converts kinetic energy to thermal energy, part of which is radiated away. We apply two models of the jet-powered ILOT scenario. In the spherical shell model the jets accelerate a spherical shell, while in the cocoon toy model the jets penetrate into the shell and inflate hot bubbles, the cocoons. We find consistent results. For the ILOT (ILRT: intermediate luminosity red transient) SNhunt120 we find the shell mass and jets' energy to be Ms=0.5-1Mo and E2j=5e47erg, respectively. The jets' half opening angle is alpha=30-60 degrees. For the second peak of the ILOT (luminous red nova) AT2014ej we find these quantities to be Ms=1-2Mo and E2j=1.5e48erg, with alpha=20-30 degrees. The models cannot tell whether these ILOTs were powered by a stellar merger that leaves one star, or by mass transfer where both stars survived. In both cases the masses of the shells and energies of the jets suggest that the binary progenitor system was massive, with a combined mass of M1+M2>10Mo.
description: Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
On Horror: Transcreation, Imagery and the Grotesque in Les Chants de Maldoror
Creators: name: Gates, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Translation
Transcreation
Lautréamont
Maldoror
Ducasse
Horror
Grotesque
Imagery

description: This thesis will explore the ways in which the effects and affects of horror can be enhanced though the technique of hypotyposis. In an experimental translation of Les Chants de Maldoror (1874) by the Comte de Lautréamont, I will endeavour to draw out the imagery already in the source text in order to make the target text more horrific to the reader. In some places, I will change the course of the plot itself in order to make the target text more terrifying to the reader. The focus of this thesis will be on horror as an experience of the grotesque, and on the ambivalent mental state that the grotesque compels in the reader as they wait for a resolution to a scene, or attempt to resolve irreconcilable aspects of a certain object or being. I will begin with a historical overview of the concepts “grotesque,” “horror” as a literary genre, and “body horror.” Then, I will examine the ambivalence inherent in Maldoror (1874), the suspension generated by its narrative style and its genre, as well as how this ambivalence is used to prolong the affects of horror. I will explain how they are used to increase the time during which the reader is suspended in ambivalence. I will then proceed to examine hypotyposis as it relates to the valency of poetic imagery and the “real-in-the-instant” as theorized by Barbara Folkart. I will then explain the experimentation implicit in my translation through the lens of Haroldo de Campos’ “transcreation.” After a thorough analysis of my translation as compared to another, by Guy Wernham (1965 [1943]), it will be seen that hypotyposis is an extremely useful tool that can be put to great use in evoking horror.
An Analysis of Consolidation for the Farm Supply Sector
Creators: name: Taylor, William J.
name: Vogler, Larry L.
name: Taylor, William J.
name: Vogler, Larry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Changing farm numbers and a changing farm supply industry have prompted many regional cooperatives to consider consolidation of local branches as a means of remaining profitable. A behavioral model has been developed that would permit management of regional cooperatives to consider consolidation of product lines or complete branch closures. This model was used in an empirical analysis of a regional cooperative with an overinvestment in capital assets in its local branches. The results indicated that product line consolidation of major products would result in a greater savings than store closure.
Marr, N., Conversione degli Armeni, Giorgiani, Abchasi e Alani per opera di S. Gregorio
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. 5 (1905): Oriens christianus, Band 5
Forestry to Support Increased Agricultural Production: Focus on Employment Generation and Rural Development
Creators: name: Dhyani, S.K.
name: Samra, J.S.
name: , Ajit
name: Handa, A.K.
name: , Uma
name: Dhyani, S.K.
name: Samra, J.S.
name: , Ajit
name: Handa, A.K.
name: , Uma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: India possesses several advantages due to its varied ecological range and agro-climates to cultivate several important and diverse commercial food commodities ranging from cereals, fruits and spices to medicinal plants. The country has abundance of human resource comprising skilled, educated, technical and scientific manpower on one hand and unskilled manpower on the other. Forests- and agriculture-based industries are a major source of employment in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors all over the country. This article has presented a brief overview of the potential of forest and agriculture in generating employment, providing livelihood and environmental services, sequestration of green house gases, carbon trading, rehabilitation of degraded lands, production of fuel wood, etc. There are clear linkages and synergies between agricultural production and sustainable forest management. If the sustainability of the agriculture and forests can be assured, food security and employment generation would go in long-term perpetuity.
The comparative effects of computer mediated interactive instruction and traditional instruction on music achievement in guitar performance
Creators: name: Green, Bryan Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effects of computer-mediated interactive instruction and traditional instruction on music achievement in guitar performance. The researcher examined practical and pedagogical issues involved in learning to play the guitar within both Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and traditional learning environments. Specifically, the researcher examined 1) the effects of two types of instructional methodologies on guitar tonal, rhythm, harmonic, and melodic performance skills of eighth grade students who possess higher or lower audiation abilities, and 2) the effects of two types of instructional methodologies on general music achievement of eighth grade students who possess higher or lower audiation abilities. Fifty-three eighth-grade students were taught to play the guitar using either computer-assisted guitar instruction or traditional face-to-face instruction. The instructional content of the "Interactive Guitar" software (Gouzouasis, 1996b) was used for both treatment groups. The instructional sequence was based on the development of audiation-based singing, tonal and rhythm skills, and on the development of executive guitar techniques. All participants followed a set of routines organized in lesson format and participated by watching, listening, and echoing. Student guitar performance and music achievement were assessed after five weeks of instruction. Results of the post treatment measures identified that the type of instruction (traditional or CAI) does not affect guitar performance or music achievement. Also, regardless of the type of instruction, students who possess higher musical aptitude achieve higher levels of guitar tonal, harmonic, and melodic performance skills than students who possess lower musical aptitude. The results demonstrated no difference in the effectiveness of CAI instruction or traditional instruction on guitar performance. Furthermore, as the capability of CAI software designers to adapt to individual learner needs increases, one might anticipate a parallel increase in the effectiveness in music learning.
Star count analysis of the interstellar matter in the region of L1251
Creators: name: Balázs, L. G.
name: Ábrahám, P.
name: Kun, M.
name: Kelemen, J.
name: Tóth, L. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the ISM distribution in and around the star forming cloud L1251 with optical star counts. A careful calculation with a maximum likelihood based statistical approach resulted in B,V,R,I extinction distributions from the star count maps. A distance of 330+/-30 pc was derived. The extinction maps revealed an elongated dense cloud with a bow shock at its eastern side. We estimated a Mach number of M~2 for the bow shock. A variation of the apparent dust properties is detected, i.e. the Rv=Av/E{B-V} total to selective extinction ratio varies from 3 to 5.5, peaking at the densest part of L1251. The spatial structure of the head of L1251 is well modelled with a Schuster-sphere (i.e. n=5 polytropic sphere). The observed radial distribution of mass fits the model with high accuracy out to 2.5pc distance from the assumed center. Unexpectedly, the distribution of NH3 1.3 cm line widths is also well matched by the Schuster solution even in the tail of the cloud. Since the elongated head-tail structure of L1251 is far from the spherical symmetry the good fit of the linewidths in the tail makes it reasonable to assume that the present cloud structure has been formed by isothermal contraction.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrate Counts
Creators: name: Bose, Manik Lal
name: Dey, Madan Mohan
name: Bose, Manik Lal
name: Dey, Madan Mohan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the dietary pattern and incidence of poverty in Bangladesh by using household income, expenditure and food consumption survey data. Results have shown wide-spread inequalities in income and expenditure distribution. Among food items, the inequalities have been found very low for cereals and high for livestock and horticulture commodities and various types of fish species in both rural and urban areas. The analysis of food poverty, its depth and severity has revealed a typical hidden poverty that could not be brought up by analyzing economic poverty. The food poverty has been found high for pulses, horticulture and livestock commodities among both economically rich and poor households. Fish, livestock, horticulture and pulses sectors should be accorded high priority to diversify the dietary pattern towards high quality food and improve the nutritional food-security of households in Bangladesh.
Effect of Liberalization on Institutional Agricultural Credit Flow and its Relationship with Average Cost of Cultivation in Indian Agriculture
Creators: name: Khan, A.R.
name: Tewari, S.K.
name: Shukla, A.N.
name: Khan, A.R.
name: Tewari, S.K.
name: Shukla, A.N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: This paper has examined (i) the nature and extent of inter-state disparities in per hectare flow of short-term institutional credit to agriculture, and (ii) its relationship with average cost of cultivation across states. It has covered all the six regions of the country comprising seventeen agriculturally most important states having about 96 per cent agricultural land in the country. It has revealed that inter-regional disparities in per hectare flow of institutional credit as measured through coefficient of variation (CV) had increased during the pre-liberalization period between 1980-81 and 1990-91. During the post-liberalization era (1991-92 to 2001-02), the inter-regional disparities have reduced. The per hectare institutional credit flow has shown that in most of the states across the country the coverage has increased though in different degrees during the post-liberalization stage over the pre-liberalization period. But, the coverage has still remained very low (below 20 per cent of cost of cultivation), except in the four states of southern region and Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in the northern region in 2001-02.
Additional file 1 of Phylogenetic analysis of the ATP-binding cassette proteins suggests a new ABC protein subfamily J in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
Creators: name: Janaina Figueira-Mansur
name: Schrago, Carlos G.
name: Salles, Tiago S.
name: Alvarenga, Evelyn S. L.
name: Vasconcellos, Brenda M.
name: Melo, Ana Claudia A.
name: Moreira, Monica F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Sequences.txt: Rad50, SMC and MutS sequences highlighted Walker A and Walker B motifs and ABC signature.
Label-free Plasmonic Detection of Untethered Nanometer-sized Brownian Particles
Creators: name: Baaske, Martin Dieter
name: Neu, Peter Sebastian
name: Orrit, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical detection of individual nanometer-sized analytes, virus particles, and protein molecules holds great promise for understanding and control of biological samples and healthcare applications. As fluorescent labels impose restrictions on detection bandwidth and require lengthy and invasive processes, label-free optical techniques are highly desirable. Powerful label-free optical methods have recently emerged, such as interferometric scattering microscopy, plasmonic nanoparticle-based assays and microcavity-based assays. Although highly sensitive, these methods are so far restricted to integration times in excess of microseconds. This often imposes a requirement to impede analyte motion during these periods via specific molecular tethers, unspecific adsorption or confining arrangements. Here we introduce an optical technique capable of transforming gold nanorods commonly used as photostable labels into highly localized high-speed probes. Our method provides a time resolution well below microseconds. This mitigates the requirement for molecular tethers and allows us to detect single untethered nanoparticles in Brownian motion traversing sub atto-liter sensing volumes. Our method opens a novel gateway for the investigation of highly localized and highly dynamic nanoscale systems and constitutes a first step towards the label-free recognition of single untethered proteins.
description: Manuscript and suppl. information are on 30 pages and possess 16 figures
Banking Sector Reforms and Co-operative Credit Institutions in Maharashtra: A Synthesis
Creators: name: Shah, Deepak
name: Shah, Deepak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance

description: The credit cooperatives in Maharashtra have shown slower growth in their membership and institutional financing. On the other hand, a faster growth has been observed in outstandings against loan advances. A lackadaisical attitude of Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) has been observed towards SC/ST members, particularly in terms of their coverage, pattern of loan advances to them and recovery pattern. The study has identified several issues that need to be taken cognizance of to revitalize the rural credit delivery system through the cooperatives. One of these is wide variations in total and crop loan advances across various districts and regions of Maharashtra. A decline in the loan advances with rise in GCA in the Konkan region is another issue, but the most important one among all is the mounting overdues and non-performing assets (NPAs) of the cooperatives operating in both forward and backward regions of Maharashtra. The viability of two central level credit institutions, viz. Sangli District Central Cooperative Bank and Buldana District Central Cooperative Bank, has been estimated. In order to rejuvenate the rural credit delivery system through cooperatives, the major problems facing the system, viz. high transaction cost, poor repayment performance, mounting NPAs, distributional aspect of credit, low coverage of SC/ST members, etc. need to be tackled with more fiscal jurisprudence reserving exemplary punishment for willful defaults, particularly by the large farmers.
Livestock Sector in North-Eastern Region of India: An Appraisal of Performance
Creators: name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
name: Elumalai, K.
name: Singh, Dhiraj Kumar
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
name: Elumalai, K.
name: Singh, Dhiraj Kumar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Although agriculture is the prime source of livelihood for a majority of rural population in the North-Eastern region (NER) of India, dependence on livestock as an alternative source of income is significant. Responding to the burgeoning demand for livestock products in a sustainable manner is a big challenge. The widening gap between the demand and supply of livestock products can be met through bringing out changes in the production structure or opening up the international trade. In this context, an analysis of performance and factors influencing development of the livestock sector in NER has been carried out. The growth of livestock sector has been found slower in the NER than at the national level. However, a significant proportion of landless labourers, small and marginal farmers have access to livestock resources and acceleration in the growth of livestock in NER offers significant opportunities for household income augmentation and employment generation. Several factors identified to influence households’ decision to rear livestock include availability of labour, occupation, caste, farm-size, availability of irrigation, and access to information sources. The study has shown that the NE states should take technical, institutional and policy initiatives for the improvement of breeds, feed availability, disease control and food safety of livestock.
Profitability of Cotton on a Pest Management Continuum in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh
Creators: name: Rao, C.A. Rama
name: Rao, M. Srinivasa
name: Naraiah, P.
name: Malathi, B.
name: Reddy, Y.V.R.
name: Rao, C.A. Rama
name: Rao, M. Srinivasa
name: Naraiah, P.
name: Malathi, B.
name: Reddy, Y.V.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The plant protection response of farmers in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh has been examined with particular reference to the adoption of Bt cotton varieties and IPM components. The farmers have been found to follow a wide range of practices to manage the insect pests in cotton. The use of chemical insecticides has accounted for, about 37 per cent of the total variable costs. No significant reduction in plant protection expenditure has been recorded on adoption of Bt varieties without IPM practices. The adoption of IPM practices, however, has led to reduced use of insecticides and increased profitability. The saving on plant protection chemicals has more than compensated the cost of adopting IPM components. Consequently, the net returns have been found increased considerably from cotton cultivation.
Probing new physics effects in $Λ_b \to Λ(\to pπ^-)\ell^+\ell^-$ decay via model independent approach
Creators: name: Nasrullah, Aqsa
name: Ahmed, Ishtiaq
name: Aslam, M. Jamil
name: Asghar, Z.
name: Shafaq, Saba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The New Physics (NP) effects are studied in the rare baryonic decay $Λ_b \to Λ(\to pπ^-)\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$, with unpolarized $Λ_b$ using most general model independent approach by introducing new axial(vector), (pseudo)scalar and tensor operators in the weak effective Hamiltonian corresponding to $b\to s$ transitions. Recently, for $Λ_b \to Λ(\to pπ^-)μ^{+}μ^{-}$ decay the LHCb collaboration has measured the branching ratio $(d\mathcal{B}/ds)$, lepton- and hadron-side forward-backward asymmetries, denoted by $A_{FB}^{\ell}$ and $A_{FB}^Λ$, respectively, and the longitudinal polarization fraction $F_L$ both in the low- and high-recoil regions. To see whether the new $VA$, $SP$ and $T$ couplings can accommodate the available experimental data of these observables, first we have examined their influence on these observables and later we have checked the imprints of these new couplings on a number of interesting but yet not measured observables. It is found that compared to the $VA$ the $SP$ couplings favor experimental data for all the four observables but still no individual coupling is able to accommodate all of the available data simultaneously. To achieve this goal, the pairs of new WCs are taken to check their range that simultaneously satisfy constraints of $B$-Physics and available LHCb data on $d\mathcal{B}/ds$, $F_L$, $A_{FB}^{\ell}$ and $A_{FB}^Λ$ in several bins for the decay channel under consideration. We find that most of the available data could be accommodated by the different pairs of $VA$ and $SP$ WCs giving more severe constraints on the parametric space of these WCs that is still satisfied with the $B$-physics data.
Determinants of Women's Participation in Self-Help Group (SHG)-Led Microfinance Programme in Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Anjugam, M.
name: Ramasamy, C.
name: Anjugam, M.
name: Ramasamy, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Factors determining participation of women in microfinance programme in Tamil Nadu have been identified following the multi-stage purposive and random sampling technique and selecting Coimbatore and Ramanathapuram districts for the study. It has been observed that socially backward, landless and marginal farm households participate more in this programme. Possession of livestock and consumer goods by the member households has been found to deter the joining of group. However, the number of households having informal borrowings, especially from moneylenders has been recorded to be higher among the members before joining the group. Analysis of determinants of women’s participation in microfinance programme using probit model has revealed that the age of women and value of productive assets other than land have a significant negative influence on their participation. However, social backwardness, indebtedness and presence of other microcredit programmes in the same or nearby villages have a significant positive influence on women’s participation in this programme.
Inversion symmetry breaking in noncollinear magnetic phase of a triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2
Creators: name: Kimura, T.
name: Lashley, J. C.
name: Ramirez, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetoelectric and magnetoelastic phenomena correlated with a phase transition into noncollinear magnetic phase have been investigated for single crystals of CuFeO2 with a frustrated triangular lattice. CuFeO2 exhibits several long-wavelength magnetic structures related to the spin frustration, and it is found that finite electric polarization, namely inversion symmetry breaking, occurs with noncollinear but not at collinear magnetic phases. This result demonstrates that the noncollinear spin structure is a key role to induce electric polarization, and suggests that frustrated magnets which often favor noncollinear configurations can be plausible candidates for magnetoelectrics with strong magnetoelectric interaction.
description: 15 pages
p-Nuclearity in a New Perspective
Creators: name: Fewster, Christopher J.
name: Ojima, Izumi
name: Porrmann, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T05, 47B10, 47L25

description: In this paper we try to settle some confused points concerning the use of the notion of p-nuclearity in the mathematical and physical literature, pointing out that the nuclearity index in the physicists' sense vanishes for any p > 1. Our discussion of these issues suggests a new perspective, in terms of epsilon-entropy and operator spaces, which might permit connections to be drawn between phase space criteria and quantum energy inequalities.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX. Some references and a result on p-nuclearity for Banach spaces with Schauder basis have been added. Minor changes in version 3 to match the published article
Additional file 1 of Reduced DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Creators: name: Park, Chun Il
name: Kim, Hae Won
name: Sumoa Jeon
name: Kang, Jee In
name: Kim, Se Joo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary material. Evaluation of Normality for DNA methylation levels of CpG sites. Supplementary Fig. 1. Histograms of the variables of the CpG sites for each group in males and females. Table S1. Results of MANCOVAa of DNA methylation at OXTR CpG sites between drug-naïve patients with OCD and drug-treated patients with OCD for men and women. Table S2. Partial correlationa between DNA methylation levels at OXTR1 CpG1 and CpG2 and OC symptom dimensions based on OCI-R-K in drug-naïve patients with OCD (n = 45)
Sesamum Cultivation in Punjab: Status, Potential and Constraints
Creators: name: Grover, D.K.
name: Singh, J.M.
name: Grover, D.K.
name: Singh, J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Sesamum, once an important oilseed crop, has been loosing its importance on the cropping map of the state agriculture, owing to favourable production and marketing environment for other crops like paddy. The study has reported the trends in area, production and yield of sesamum, its relative profitability, factors affecting productivity and various constraints inhibiting its growth in the state. The area under sesamum that had declined over the years, has shown a little progress due to oilseeds development programmes, initiated by the Govt. during late-1980s. On the comparative economics front, sesamum has been found to provide lower returns as compared to paddy. The benefit cost ratio of sesamum has been found to be 1.36 which shows its profitability in absolute terms, but compared with its competing crop, it is much lower. The state average productivity of the crop has been almost stagnant over the years, reflecting inadequate research efforts for the upliftment of sesamum in the state. The regression analysis has brought out that sesamum productivity can be enhanced by spending more on plant protection measures and human labour for pesticide spray. Major biotic constraints faced by sesamum growers have been identified as diseases and pests, while lack of irrigation and drought have been the major abiotic constraints. To give a boost to the sesamum cultivation in the state, two-dimensional efforts, viz technological upgradation and effective market support are required.
Do Native and Invasive Labels Affect Consumer Willingness to Pay for Plants? Evidence from Experimental Auctions
Creators: name: Yue, Chengyan
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Anderson, Neil O.
name: Yue, Chengyan
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Anderson, Neil O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: native plants
subject: invasive plants
subject: willingness to pay
subject: labeling
subject: auction
subject: marketing

description: The ultimate objective of commercial horticultural activities is to satisfy the needs of the final consumer. Consumer demand for novel plants drives the ornamental plant industry. Therefore, dispersal of native and invasive horticultural plants can be understood by considering the decisions/choices of consumers who decide which plants to purchase from retailers. In contrast to previous studies on invasive and native plants, this study uses an experimental auction to elicit consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for labeled native and invasive attributes. Results from a censored random effect model show that consumers’ WTP for plants decreases when the plants are labeled as invasive and increases when plants are labeled as native. The study finds that consumers discount an invasive attribute more for native than for non-native plants. Consumers’ sociodemographics and attitudes—age, income, gender, concern about environment, interest in plant quality, ease of care and sensitivity to price—significantly alter consumer’s WTP for native and invasive attributes. The implications of this study are notable given the consumers’ increasing concern about the environment and recent debate over sustainable labeling of plants by the horticulture industry.