cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger: towards a coherent policy agenda
Creators: name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Stamoulis, Kostas
name: Stringer, Randy
name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Stamoulis, Kostas
name: Stringer, Randy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Alleviating hunger and poverty has been and continues to be the pre-dominant policy challenge facing global and national decision makers. This paper argues that policy interventions for addressing this challenge should be designed in the context of emerging global, regional and national trends. This paper discusses four major trends that are shaping the future food economy and consequently the prospects for meeting the hunger and poverty goals. These trends are: i) rapid urbanisation in the developing world and its impact on food markets; ii) increasing integration of global food markets through trade; iii) deterioration of natural resource base and the degradation of the global and local commons; and iv) rising transactions costs in the acquisition and use of science and technology for development.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-af839t.pdf
Agricultural policy and food security in Liberia
Creators: name: Tefft, James
name: Tefft, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: Improving access to food through broad-based participation in income-generating activities in key agricultural supply chains, together with the development of safety nets that protect the welfare of Liberia's diverse types of vulnerable individuals and households represent two of the major food security challenges facing the Liberian government after fourteen years of civil conflict. Responding to these challenges will depend largely on how the government responds to five major challenges in transitioning from an emergency situation to one focused on longterm development: 1) resettling IDPs and reintegrating ex-combatants; 2) reducing the real cost of food; 3) improving macroeconomic management and governance; 4) generating broad-based growth in rural incomes through smallholder development; and 5) developing public sector capacity to analyze, plan, prioritize, coordinate and monitor policies and programs. Success in addressing these issues may depend largely on the ability to go beyond strictly technical responses to develop innovative actions that take into account the numerous and complex socio-political factors existing in the country in the post-conflict period.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ag069e.pdf
Exploring Hospital Policy Makers’ Understandings of Forensic Inpatient Sexualities
Creators: name: Poole, Jason
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020

description: Background: UK professionals’ understandings of their roles with regards to service users’ sexualities is an under-explored area in clinical research and training, particularly within forensic mental health pathways where they may be exclusively conceptualised in terms of their potential negative underpinnings and outcomes. Secure services typically have no policies governing or promoting sexual expression, and tend to prohibit sexual intimacy. However, recent developments in national guidance and findings emerging from UK-based and international research raise questions as to this approach’s utility in providing rehabilitative care. To date, no research has investigated forensic hospital policy-makers’ sense-making practices around detainees’ sexualities. Aims: This study aims to examine hospital policy-makers’ understandings of forensic detainees’ sexualities, and how these relate to their experiences of practice and their vision of a policy governing sexual expression in hospital. The research is one part of a broader project that has previously explored detainees’ and professionals’ understandings of how sexualities operate within forensic institutions, and aims to support the development of policy and training materials. Methods: The present research draws upon a social constructionist epistemology, using a qualitative, thematic decomposition approach to examine the socially-sedimented discourses at play within the forensic hospital. Ten policymakers were recruited the largest provider of forensic inpatient services in the UK, and participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings: Three themes were identified: 1) Risk and Uncertainty, 2) Artificial Realities, 3) Detained Bodies. The implications of each of these are discussed in terms of their sub-themes. Conclusion: Despite being broadly consistent with policy-makers’ understandings of holistic, rehabilitative practice, the prospect of lessening restrictions on detainees’ sexual expression presents a number of challenges and concerns. ‘Traditional’ institutional and populist discourses concerning forensic professionals’ responsibility to prevent harm tended to supersede those supporting positive risk-taking and human rights-based approaches. The propensity for UK tabloid media to depict forensic detainees and professionals in an unfavourable light, and the accompanying potential for increased government scrutiny, was understood as a primary barrier to enacting less restrictive practices. The hospital itself was positioned as vulnerable to the predations of wider society.
Studying the $D_1D$ molecule in the Bethe-Salpeter equation approach
Creators: name: Wang, Zhen-Yang
name: Qi, Jing-Juan
name: Xu, Jing
name: Guo, Xin-Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possible bound states of the $D_1D$ system in the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) formalism in the ladder and instantaneous approximations. By solving the BS equation numerically with the kernel containing one-particle exchange diagrams and introducing three different form factors (monopole, dipole, and exponential form factors) at the vertices, we investigate whether the isoscalar and isovector $D_1D$ bound states may exist, respectively. We find that $Y(4260)$ could be accommodated as a $D_1D$ molecule, whereas the interpretation of $Z_2^+(4250)$ as a $D_1D$ molecule is disfavored. The bottom analog of $Y(4260)$ may exist but that of $Z_2^+(4250)$ does not.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, and 4 tables
An Information Theory Approach on Deciding Spectroscopic Follow Ups
Creators: name: Astudillo, Javiera
name: Protopapas, Pavlos
name: Pichara, Karim
name: Huijse, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Classification and characterization of variable phenomena and transient phenomena are critical for astrophysics and cosmology. These objects are commonly studied using photometric time series or spectroscopic data. Given that many ongoing and future surveys are in time-domain and given that adding spectra provide further insights but requires more observational resources, it would be valuable to know which objects should we prioritize to have spectrum in addition to time series. We propose a methodology in a probabilistic setting that determines a-priory which objects are worth taking spectrum to obtain better insights, where we focus 'insight' as the type of the object (classification). Objects for which we query its spectrum are reclassified using their full spectrum information. We first train two classifiers, one that uses photometric data and another that uses photometric and spectroscopic data together. Then for each photometric object we estimate the probability of each possible spectrum outcome. We combine these models in various probabilistic frameworks (strategies) which are used to guide the selection of follow up observations. The best strategy depends on the intended use, whether it is getting more confidence or accuracy. For a given number of candidate objects (127, equal to 5% of the dataset) for taking spectra, we improve 37% class prediction accuracy as opposed to 20% of a non-naive (non-random) best base-line strategy. Our approach provides a general framework for follow-up strategies and can be extended beyond classification and to include other forms of follow-ups beyond spectroscopy.
Non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance
Creators: name: Goychuk, Igor
name: Hanggi, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenological linear response theory of non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance (SR) is put forward for stationary two-state renewal processes. In terms of a derivation of a non-Markov regression theorem we evaluate the characteristic SR-quantifiers; i.e. the spectral power amplification (SPA) and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), respectively. In clear contrast to Markovian SR, a characteristic benchmark of genuine non-Markovian SR is its distinctive dependence of the SPA and SNR on small (adiabatic) driving frequencies; particularly, the adiabatic SNR becomes strongly suppressed over its Markovian counterpart. This non-Markovian SR theory is elucidated for a fractal gating dynamics of a potassium ion channel possessing an infinite variance of closed sojourn times.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Bounds on the interior geometry and pressure profile of static fluid spheres
Creators: name: Martin, Damien
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is a famous result of relativistic stellar structure that (under mild technical conditions) a static fluid sphere satisfies the Buchdahl--Bondi bound 2M/R <= 8/9; the surprise here being that the bound is not 2M/R <= 1. In this article we provide further generalizations of this bound by placing a number of constraints on the interior geometry (the metric components), on the local acceleration due to gravity, on various combinations of the internal density and pressure profiles, and on the internal compactness 2m(r)/r of static fluid spheres. We do this by adapting the standard tool of comparing the generic fluid sphere with a Schwarzschild interior geometry of the same mass and radius -- in particular we obtain several results for the pressure profile (not merely the central pressure) that are considerably more subtle than might first be expected.
description: 20 pages. Uses: iopart.cls setstack.sty
Sardinia Radio Telescope observations of Local Group dwarf galaxies -- I. The cases of NGC6822, IC1613, and WLM
Creators: name: Tarchi, A.
name: Castangia, P.
name: Surcis, G.
name: Brunthaler, A.
name: Henkel, C.
name: Pawlowski, M.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Melis, A.
name: Casu, S.
name: Murgia, M.
name: Trois, A.
name: Concu, R.
name: Darling, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Almost all dwarf galaxies in the Local Group that are not satellites of the Milky Way or M31, belong to either one of two highly-symmetric planes. It is still a matter of debate, whether these planar structures are dynamically stable or whether they only represent a transient alignment. Proper motions, if they could be measured, could help to discriminate between these scenarios. Such motions could be determined with multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) of sources that show emission from water and methanol at frequencies of 22 and 6.7 GHz, respectively. We report searches for such masers. We have mapped three Local Group galaxies, NGC6822, IC1613 and WLM in the bands covering the water vapor and methanol lines. These systems are members of the two above mentioned planes of galaxies. We have produced deep radio continuum (RC) maps and spectral line cubes. The former have been used to identify star forming regions and to derive global galactic star formation rates (SFRs). These SFRs turn out to be lower than those determined at other wavelengths in two of our sources. This indicates that dwarf galaxies may follow predictions on the RC-SFR relation only in individual regions of enhanced radio continuum emission, but not when considering the entire optical body of the sources. No methanol or water maser emission has been confidently detected, down to line luminosity limits of ~0.004 and 0.01 solar luminosities, respectively. This finding is consistent with the small sizes, low SFRs and metallicities of these galaxies.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS. A high-resolution version of the paper can be found at the link http://erg.oa-cagliari.inaf.it/preprints/SRT_LGdwarfs_I.pdf
Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy
Creators: name: Migotto, Mauro
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Beegle, Kathleen
name: Migotto, Mauro
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Beegle, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both 'qualitative-subjective' and 'quantitative-objective' indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjective-type information is scarce, especially using representative household surveys. The aim of this paper is to compare information on self-perceived food consumption adequacy from the subjective modules of household surveys with standard quantitative indicators, namely calorie consumption, dietary diversity and anthropometry. Datasets from four countries are analyzed: Albania, Madagascar, Nepal and Indonesia. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and multivariate regression show that the 'subjective' indicator is at best poorly correlated with standard quantitative indicators. The paper concludes that while subjective food adequacy indicators may provide insight on the vulnerability dimension of food insecurity, they are too blunt an indicator for food insecurity targeting. An effort towards developing improved subjective food security modules that are contextually sensitive should go hand in hand with research into how to improve household survey data for food security measurement along other dimensions of the phenomenon, particularly calorie consumption.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-af286t.pdf
Weak lensing clusters from HSC survey first-year data: Mitigating the dilution effect of foreground and cluster member galaxies
Creators: name: Hamana, Takashi
name: Shirasaki, Masato
name: Lin, Yen-Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a weak lensing cluster search using Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC survey) first-year data. We pay special attention to the dilution effect of cluster member and foreground galaxies on weak lensing signals from clusters of galaxies; we adopt the globally normalized weak lensing estimator which is least affected by cluster member galaxies, and we select source galaxies by using photometric redshift information to mitigate the effect of foreground galaxies. We produce six samples of source galaxies with different low-$z$ galaxy cuts, construct weak lensing mass maps for each of the source sample, and search for high peaks in the mass maps that cover an effective survey area of $\sim$120 deg$^2$. We combine six catalogs of high peaks into a sample of cluster candidates which contains 124 high peaks with signal-to-noise ratios greater than five. We cross-match the peak sample with the public optical cluster catalog constructed from the same HSC survey data to identify cluster counterparts of the peaks. We find that 107 out of 124 peaks have matched clusters within 5 arcmin from peak positions. Among them, we define a sub-sample of 64 secure clusters that we use to examine dilution effects on our weak lensing cluster search. We find that source samples with the low-$z$ galaxy cuts mitigate the dilution effect on weak lensing signals of high-$z$ clusters ($z > 0.3$), and thus combining multiple peak catalogs from different source samples improves the efficiency of weak lensing cluster searches.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ. A version with full resolution figures and additional information about our weak lensing cluster search are available from http://th.nao.ac.jp/MEMBER/hamanatk/HWL16a/HWL16a.html
Carnet nº 26 (p. 11)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 7-2-1932
Supporting Inclusion and Social and Emotional Learning Through Peer Relationships for Children with Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Gray, Shannon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Children with Down syndrome (DS) often experience social isolation and peer rejection possibly resulting from social competency deficits related to executive functioning (EF). This project explores the dyadic relationship between Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and EF in children. Therefore, this project examines how improvements in peer relationships and SEL competencies may lead to improvements in EF, and suggests the cultivation of positive peer relationships through the promotion of SEL competencies in inclusive classrooms can be an effective intervention that impacts developmental outcomes for students with DS. The literature reviewed describes peer and teacher relationships and the efficacy of classroom-based SEL interventions to uphold these relationships. It also provides an overview of how the specific contributions of EF including inhibitory control, working memory, and set shifting support the development of SEL competencies in individuals with DS. In addition, this project incorporates a workshop that focuses on raising awareness of the barriers to social inclusion children with DS face as well as some possible solutions for improving developmental, social, and academic outcomes for these students. Recommendations include the proposal of a model of classroom intervention designed to enhance developmental outcomes for children with DS. This model is congruent with research that illustrates how classroom-based SEL interventions result in improved relationships between peers and teachers, contributing to a positive classroom climate.
From the green revolution to the gene revolution: how will the poor fare?
Creators: name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Raney, Terri
name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Raney, Terri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: The past four decades have seen two waves of agricultural technology development anddiffusion to developing countries. The first wave was initiated by the Green Revolution inwhich an explicit strategy for technology development and diffusion targeting poor farmers in poor countries made improved germplasm freely available as a public good. The second wave was generated by the Gene Revolution in which a global and largely private agricultural research system is creating improved agricultural technologies that flow to developing countries primarily through market transactions. The Green Revolution strategy for food crop productivity growth was based on the premise that, given appropriate institutional mechanisms, technology spillovers across political and agro-climatic boundaries can be captured. A number of significant asymmetries exist between developed and developing, e.g.: agricultural systems, market institutions and research and regulatory capacity. These asymmetries raise doubts as to whether the Gene Revolution has the same capacity to generate spillover benefits for the poor. A strong public sector ' working cooperatively with the private sector ' is essential to ensure that the poor benefit from the Gene Revolution.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-af276t.pdf
Leveraging Multi-Method Evaluation for Multi-Stakeholder Settings
Creators: name: Bauer, Christine
name: Zangerle, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we focus on recommendation settings with multiple stakeholders with possibly varying goals and interests, and argue that a single evaluation method or measure is not able to evaluate all relevant aspects in such a complex setting. We reason that employing a multi-method evaluation, where multiple evaluation methods or measures are combined and integrated, allows for getting a richer picture and prevents blind spots in the evaluation outcome.
description: 3 pages, ImpactRS 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark
Additional file 6 of Correlation of skin rash and overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine and erlotinib – results from a non-interventional multi-center study
Creators: name: C. Westphalen
name: Kukiolka, Tobias
name: Garlipp, Benjamin
name: Hahn, Lars
name: Fuchs, Martin
name: Malfertheiner, Peter
name: Reiser, Marcel
name: Kütting, Fabian
name: Heinemann, Volker
name: Beringer, Andreas
name: Waldschmidt, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Type, frequency and grade of skin-related adverse events in the study population.
Large deviations and support results for nonlinear Schrodinger equations with additive noise and applications
Creators: name: Gautier, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10; 60H15; 35Q55; 35Q51

description: Sample path large deviations for the laws of the solutions of stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equations when the noise converges to zero are presented. The noise is a complex additive gaussian noise. It is white in time and colored space wise. The solutions may be global or blow-up in finite time, the two cases are distinguished. The results are stated in trajectory spaces endowed with projective limit topologies. In this setting, the support of the law of the solution is also characterized. As a consequence, results on the law of the blow-up time and asymptotics when the noise converges to zero are obtained. An application to the transmission of solitary waves in fiber optics is also given.
Exploring Therapists Reflective Experiences of Working with British Ethnic Minorities with Eating Disorders
Creators: name: Kanakam, Natalie
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Eating disorders
ethnic minority
culture
clinical psychology
family therapy
therapist

description: Research highlights that ethnic minority females are less likely to receive a diagnosis or treatment for an eating disorder (ED). The other half of the therapeutic alliance is therapists, and their role and input should not be understated when aiming for positive outcomes for this group. This research explores therapists perspectives in terms of their experiences; what working with this group means to the therapists themselves; and their experience of working with cultural concepts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 therapists in the UK, London and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Shame was often cited as a barrier to accessing help. This had different influences on their therapeutic work, such as not questioning shame or linking this to a negative interpretation of parents. There was also the concept that ethnic minorities were more likely to present with emotional and interpersonal factors fuelling the ED, although this conflicted with the notion of the Western body ideal being an influence. Participants also revealed a feeling of being restricted by service management, having a limited time to reflect on cultural issues, and the worry about being offensive or doing something wrong. Subtle steps can be taken to encourage new and creative ways of addressing the issues highlighted. Services and guidelines should support therapists through regular reflective practice on cultural issues. Hierarchy in teams could be addressed by encouraging diversity in decision making. To break down the perceived barrier of shame, the use of cultural genograms and cultural scripts could be encouraged to understand the ED context. Referral guides could be developed to inform primary care of the warning signs of EDs that may not feature in the diagnostic criteria. Recommendations should aim to balance the nuances of the individual, alongside a systematic rollout to address unmet needs.
title: 01_0410
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Additional file 3 of Correlation of skin rash and overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine and erlotinib – results from a non-interventional multi-center study
Creators: name: C. Westphalen
name: Kukiolka, Tobias
name: Garlipp, Benjamin
name: Hahn, Lars
name: Fuchs, Martin
name: Malfertheiner, Peter
name: Reiser, Marcel
name: Kütting, Fabian
name: Heinemann, Volker
name: Beringer, Andreas
name: Waldschmidt, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Results of multivariate Cox proportional hazard models for overall and progression-free survival.
Commercializing small farms: reducing transaction cost
Creators: name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Khwaja, Yasmeen
name: Meijer, Madelon
name: Pingali, Prabhu
name: Khwaja, Yasmeen
name: Meijer, Madelon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Broad changes are taking place in agrifood systems worldwide. These changes are driven by economic development, increase in per caput incomes, changing technology and urbanization. Consumers are changing their dietary preferences and shopping habits, resulting in substantial organizational and institutional changes throughout the food marketing chain. Growing concentration at all levels is taking place, particularly in the retail sector, and private sector standards for food quality and safety are proliferating. Increasingly exchange is arranged through the use of contracts. These changes have significant implications for growth, poverty and food security. For the small farmer in particular there are difficulties to meet the standards and contractual requirements. They are faced with a new set of transaction costs that emerge from dealing with a food system characterized by different rules, regulations and players. Increased transactions costs deter entry of small farmers into the market. This paper looks at required interventions aimed at reducing transaction costs to encourage increased farmer participation in competitive markets.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-af144t.pdf
Ο εμπορικός πόλεμος μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας και ο αντίκτυπος του στην παγκόσμια οικονομία
Creators: name: Χαζίζι, Τζουλιάνα Τσλιρίμ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Εμπορικός Πόλεμος
Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
Κίνα
Σχέσεις των δύο χωρών
Αντίκτυπο στην Παγκόσμια Οικονομία
Trade War
United States of America
China
Bilateral Relations
Impact on the World Economy

description: Στο πλαίσιο του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών ‘Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων (MBA)’ του τμήματος Οικονομικών Σπουδών του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης διενεργήθηκε η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία με θέμα ‘Ο εμπορικός πόλεμος μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας και ο αντίκτυπος του στην παγκόσμια οικονομία.’ Στην διπλωματική αυτή εργασία γίνεται μια ανάλυση για τον εμπορικό πόλεμο που έχει αναπτυχθεί μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας και στον αντίκτυπο του πολέμου αυτού παγκοσμίως. Στην εισαγωγή της εργασίας γίνεται μια αναφορά στην έννοια του εμπορικού πολέμου. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο αναλύονται οι οικονομίες των δύο χωρών και πως αυτές έχουν εξελιχθεί με το πέρασμα του χρόνου. Γίνεται μια ανάλυση της σχέσης των χωρών αυτών πριν την εμφάνιση του εμπορικού πολέμου. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο, αναλύονται οι κύριοι λόγοι που οδήγησαν στο εμπορικό πόλεμο μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο, αναλύονται οι τρόποι επίθεσης των ΗΠΑ στη Κίνα και τα αντίποινα της Κίνας. Στον τέταρτο κεφάλαιο, εξετάζονται οι σχέσεις των δύο χωρών σήμερα, δηλαδή τρία χρόνια μετά την έναρξη του εμπορικού πολέμου. Στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο, αναλύεται ο αντίκτυπος του εμπορικού πολέμου στην παγκόσμια οικονομία. Στο έκτο και τελευταίο κεφάλαιο αναλύεται η μεταβολή του εμπορίου τόσο μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας όσο και με χώρες ανά τον κόσμο για την περίοδο 2018-2020 και τέλος τα συμπεράσματα που έχουν προκύψει από την παρούσα έρευνα.
description: In the framework of the Postgraduate Program "Business Administration (MBA)" of the Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the present dissertation entitled “The trade war between the US and China and its impact on the world economy” was conducted. This dissertation provides an analysis of the trade war between the United States and China and the impact of this war on the world. The introduction analyzes the meaning of the trade war. The first chapter analyzes the economies of the two countries and how they have evolved over time. An analysis is made of the relationship between these countries before the conflict of the trade war. The second chapter analyzes the main reasons that led to the trade war between the United States and China. Chapter 3 analyzes US ways of attacking China and China's retaliation. The fourth chapter examines the relations between the two countries today, three years after the beginning of the trade war. The fifth chapter analyzes the impact of the trade war on the world economy. The sixth and final chapter analyzes the change in US and Chinese trade both between themselves and with countries around the world for the period 2018-2020. Finally the conclusions are presented.
Additional file 4 of Correlation of skin rash and overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine and erlotinib – results from a non-interventional multi-center study
Creators: name: C. Westphalen
name: Kukiolka, Tobias
name: Garlipp, Benjamin
name: Hahn, Lars
name: Fuchs, Martin
name: Malfertheiner, Peter
name: Reiser, Marcel
name: Kütting, Fabian
name: Heinemann, Volker
name: Beringer, Andreas
name: Waldschmidt, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. Summary and grade of adverse events in the study population.
Tomorrow's hunger: a framework for analysing vulnerability to food insecurity
Creators: name: Løvendal, Christian Romer
name: Knowles, Marco
name: Løvendal, Christian Romer
name: Knowles, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: While traditional food security analysis offers an ex post view on who the food insecure are and why they are so, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward-looking way of analysing causes and, more importantly, options for reducing food insecurity. This approach can help improve policy responses to food insecurity. The paper seeks to expand a standard food security analytical framework by including risks and the ability to manage these at different levels in order to reduce the probability of people being food insecure in the future. It looks at how different shocks can impact availability, access and utilization and, uses a twin-track approach to identify policy options for reducing vulnerability.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-af140t.pdf
Additional file 5 of Correlation of skin rash and overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine and erlotinib – results from a non-interventional multi-center study
Creators: name: C. Westphalen
name: Kukiolka, Tobias
name: Garlipp, Benjamin
name: Hahn, Lars
name: Fuchs, Martin
name: Malfertheiner, Peter
name: Reiser, Marcel
name: Kütting, Fabian
name: Heinemann, Volker
name: Beringer, Andreas
name: Waldschmidt, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
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: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Type and frequency of adverse events and adverse drug reactions in the study population.
Optimality of feedback control for qubit purification under inefficient measurement
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuxiao
name: Wang, Xiyue
name: Martin, Leigh
name: Whaley, K. Birgitta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum system may be purified, i.e., projected into a pure state, faster if one applies feedback operations during the measurement process. However existing results suggest that such an enhancement is only possible when the measurement efficiency exceeds 0.5, which is difficult to achieve experimentally. We address the task of finding the global optimal feedback control for purifying a single qubit in the presence of measurement inefficiency. We use the Bloch vector length, a more physical and practical quantity than purity, to assess the quality of the state, and employ a backward iteration algorithm to find the globally optimal strategy. Our results show that a speedup is available for quantum efficiencies well below 0.5, which opens the possibility of experimental implementation in existing systems.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Some Inhomogeneous Magnetized Viscous Fluid Cosmological Models with Varying $Λ$
Creators: name: Pradhan, Anirudh
name: Srivastav, Sudhir Kumar
name: Jotania, Kanti R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some cylindrically symmetric inhomogeneous viscous fluid cosmological models with electro-magnetic field are obtained. To get a solution a supplementary condition between metric potentials is used. The viscosity coefficient of bulk viscous fluid is assumed to be a power function of mass density. Without assumin g any {\it ad hoc} law, we obtain a cosmological constant as a decreasing function of time. The behaviour of the electro-magnetic field tensor together with some p hysical aspects of the model are also discussed.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
The abundance of galactic planets from OGLE-III 2002 microlensing data
Creators: name: Snodgrass, Colin
name: Horne, Keith
name: Tsapras, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the 389 2002 OGLE-III observations of Galactic Bulge microlensing events we select 321 that are well described by a point-source point-lens lightcurve model. From this sample we identify n=1 event, 2002-BLG-055, which we regard as a strong planetary lensing candidate, and another, 2002-BLG-140, which is a possible candidate. If each of the 321 lens stars has 1 planet with a mass ratio q=m/M=10^{-3} and orbit radius a=R_E, the Einstein ring radius, analysis of detection efficiencies indicates that 14 planets should have been detectable with Δχ^2 > 25. Assuming our candidate is due to planetary lensing, then the abundance of planets with q=10^{-3} and a=R_E is n_p \approx n/14 = 7%. Conversion to physical units (M_Jup, and AU) gives the abundance of `cool Jupiters' (m \approx M_Jup, a \approx 4 AU) per lens star as n_p \approx n/5.5 = 18%. The detection probability scales roughly with q and (Δχ^2)^{-1/2}, and drops off from a peak at a \approx 4 AU like a Gaussian with a dispersion of 0.4 dex.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Towards an Understanding of Men’s Experiences of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS)
Creators: name: Farrar, Sally
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS)
experiences
men
chronic pelvic pain

description: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a chronic pain condition that can affect men of any age, and has an estimated prevalence of up to 16% (Mehik, Hellström, Lukkarinen, Sarpola, & Järvelin, 2000). Aetiology is currently unknown, and it is a highly heterogeneous condition characterised by persistent pain in the pelvic region, urinary difficulties, and sexual dysfunction. Current literature indicates that it pervades many aspects of men’s lives, and is associated with a significantly impaired quality of life, comparable to other long-term conditions such as Crohn’s disease, diabetes mellitus, and congestive heart failure (McNaughton Collins et al., 2001; Wenninger, Heiman, Rothman, Berghuis, & Berger, 1996). Despite this, extremely few studies have explored men’s experiences of living with CP/CPPS. This study aimed to increase understanding of men’s experiences of living with CP/CPPS, with a particular consideration of how they influence and are influenced by social contexts and relationships. A qualitative approach was adopted, and data from 8 semi-structured interviews was analysed using thematic analysis. All participants were based in the UK and had a diagnosis of CP/CPPS. Duration of illness within the sample ranged from 3 to 43 years. Three overarching themes were constructed: ‘trying to make sense of what is “wrong” in “a spiral of confusion,”’ ‘managing day-to-day with an illness that is debilitating and unpredictable,’ and ‘sociality and isolation.’ Similar to other studies, it was found that participants often experienced CP/CPPS as an overwhelming and frightening illness, which could challenge day-to-day life, and the assumptions men held about themselves. Relationships and social contexts were found to be important contexts in which participants sought support and made sense of what it meant to live with CP/CPPS. A number of clinical and research implications are discussed, highlighting that there is much more that can be done to alleviate suffering for men affected by CP/CPPS.
Heavy Quarkonia Spectroscopy and Decays
Creators: name: Mahlke, Hanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental status of stable bound states made out of heavy quarks is reviewed. The need for a way to deal with the non-perturbative transitions involved calls for precision measurements on one hand, and for discovery of as yet undetected states to confirm predictions on the other. In this article, recent experimental contributions to heavy quarkonia spectroscopy and decay will be reviewed, mostly from data analyzed by the BES and CLEO collaborations. The most dramatic recent discoveries include the detection of the first stable L=2 state, and a first non-pionic hadronic transition in the Upsilon system, and a first measurement of chi_cJ --> Lambda Lambdabar. Scans of the psi' and Upsilon(1,2,3S) resonances are used to add information on partial and total decay widths.
description: Invited talk at the XXIII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC03), Zeuthen, Germany, June 2003, 14 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures. PSN SAAT02
Entretien de Nida Ayid al-Khazali auprès de Jamila al-Muhammad à propos de la mosquée Cheikh Rashid d'al-Ramtha
Creators: name: al-Muhammad, Jamila
name: Nida Ayid Al-Khazali (Enquêtrice)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-3139
description: Coverage: Al-Ramtha, Jordanie
Quintessence Problem and Brans-Dicke Theory
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
name: Chakraborty, N. C.
name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown that Brans-Dicke (BD) theory in anisotropic cosmological model can alone solve the quintessence problem and we have accelerated expanding universe without any quintessence matter. Also the flatness problem has been discussed in this context.
description: 6 Latex pages, No figure, Revtex style
Αλογονοξικά οξέα σε κολυμβητικές δεξαμενές- Αξιολόγηση της έκθεσης
Creators: name: Καψαλάκη, Κυριακή Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αλογονοξικά οξέα
Κολυμβητικές δεξαμενές
Εκτίμηση κινδύνου
Haloacetic acids
Swimming pools
Risk assessment

description: H απολύμανση του νερού των κολυμβητικών δεξαμενών είναι απαραίτητη για την αδρανοποίηση των παθογόνων μικροοργανισμών και γίνεται συνήθως με τη μέθοδο της χλωρίωσης. Κατά την αντίδραση του χλωρίου με την οργανική ύλη του νερού, τις ανθρώπινες εκκρίσεις (ιδρώτας, ούρα, σάλιο), τα προϊόντα προσωπικής φροντίδας σχηματίζουν διάφορες κατηγορίες παρα¬προϊόντων απολύμανσης (Disinfection By-Products DBPs), μερικά από τα οποία έχουν τοξική, καρκινογόνο ή μεταλλαξιογόνο δράση. Στην εργασία αυτή εξετάζεται η παρουσία των εννέα αλογονοξικών οξέων (HAAs) σε εσωτερικές και εξωτερικές δεξαμενές κολύμβησης. Επιπλέον προσδιορίζονται τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά του νερού όπως το pH, η αλκαλικότητα, ο δια¬λυτός οργανικός άνθρακας (DOC), το ολικό άζωτο (TN), το ελεύθερο χλώριο, η απορρόφηση UV254nm και η SUVA. Στην εργασία παρουσιάζονται οι συγκεντρώσεις των HAAs, η συσχέτισή τους με τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά των νερών και τις συνθήκες που επικρατούν καθώς και οι πιθανοί κίνδυνοι από την έκθεση σε αυτές τις ενώσεις.
description: Swimming is a year-round activity widely enjoyed for leisure as well as exercise, beneficial for human health. To conserve the positive aspects of aquatic activities attention should be paid to hygienic and chemical water quality. Chlorination is usually employed to prevent exposure to pathogenic microorganisms. However, the reaction of chlorine with organic matter from fill¬ing water and human inputs (ie constituents of sweat and urine, skin particles, personal care products) results in the formation of various disinfection by-products (DBPs), some of them are toxic, carcinogenic and genotoxic. The aim of this study is to investigate the occurrence of haloacetic acid ( HAAs) in public indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The analysis of DBPs was carried out by GC-ECD according to the EPA standard Method 552.3. Moreover, other water quality parameters such as pH, alkalinity, DOC, TN, Cl were measured. The concentra¬tions and profile of HAAs are presented. Possible correlations between HAAs and water quality parameters and characteristics of swimming pools as well as possible health/exposure risks are discussed.
Agrilus pyritosus Kerremans 1900
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus pyritosus

description: Agrilus pyritosus Kerremans
 Agrilus pyritosus Kerremans, 1900a: 5, 23, 35–36. Lectotype by present designation, ♂, BMNH: “ SYNTYPE [p] [round label with blue border] \ Sumatra Weyers [Kerremans' MS] \ pyritosus Kerr. Type [Kerremans' MS] \ Kerremans 1903–59 [p] \ A. pyritosus Kerrem. Sumatra [h]” and seven paralectotypes with the same locality data. Described from eight syntypes.
 Remarks. Only two paralectotypes are conspecific with the lectotype, five of them belong to two different species.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2005, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genus Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini), pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 1073 (1) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050739