cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Call for Greater Emphasis on Qualitative Inquiry in the Agriculture Research Methodology Curriculum in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Lewis, Lerona Dana
name: Lewis, Lerona Dana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Qualitative Inquiry
subject: agricultural research methods
subject: curriculum reform

description: Post secondary training in agriculture in the Caribbean currently equips students with quantitative techniques which often require consistent and reliable sources of quantitative data. Yet, a recurring theme of most quantitative work conducted in the Caribbean is the constraints experienced by the researcher due to data limitations. Drawing on the work of Dooley (2007), Miller (2006) and Warmbrod (1987), this paper presents a theoretical argument that calls for a paradigm shift in the teaching of research methodology in agriculture, in the Caribbean, from the current approach, to one which will incorporate qualitative inquiry (Butler-Kisber, 2008) as a reliable methodology for investigation within the field of agriculture, in small Caribbean islands where undertaking quantitative studies has proved to be challenging. The thick descriptions (Geertz, 1973) obtained through qualitative inquiry can be used to understand the “particularizability” (Donmoyer, 1990) of the situation. There is rich data grounded in the experiences of those involved in agricultural production that is often ignored/discounted because of the inability of researchers to recognize and utilize it, due to lack of training. Exemplars from the researchers personal experience working in agriculture in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan, will be used to support the claims made in this paper.
Exact Kerr-like solution and its shadow in a gravity model with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Ding, Chikun
name: Liu, Changqing
name: Casana, R.
name: Cavalcante, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an exact Kerr-like black hole solution by solving the corresponding gravitational field equations in Einstein-bumblebee gravity model where Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken once a vector field acquires a vacuum expectation value. Results are presented for the purely radial Lorentz symmetry breaking. In order to study the effects of this breaking, we consider the black hole shadow and find that the radial of the unstable spherical orbit on the equatorial plane $r_c$ decreases with the Lorentz breaking constant $\ell>0$, and increases with $\ell<0$. These shifts are similar to those of Einstein-aether black hole. The effect of the LV parameter on the black hole shadow is that it accelerates the appearance of shadow distortion, and could be detected by the new generation of gravitational antennas.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Using Portfolio Theory in Crop Selection to Ensure the Sustainable Economic Success of New Cropping Enterprises
Creators: name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Barkley, Andrew P.
name: Nalley, Lawton Lanier
name: Barkley, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Portfolio Theory
subject: Risk Aversion
subject: Adoption of Alternative Crops
subject: Crop Revenue Assurance

description: There are large and often worrisome risks when a country leaves one agricultural sector and invests in another. As the Windward Islands and the Caribbean countries diversify out of the banana and sugar sectors the question arises is how to reduce the risk and ensure returns to producers to successfully and sustainably establish other agricultural enterprises. When producers decide to diversify into a new crop such as maize, wheat, rice, or any crop with multiple cultivars they are faced with not only production decisions but which cultivars to sow. Producers often plant more than one cultivar each year in an attempt to diversify yield risk. However, producers typically select combinations based on cultivar descriptions, intuition, and average yields, potentially ignoring one of the most important pieces of information: the relationship between varieties. Extension agencies worldwide have programs that allow producers to select specific cultivars and receive recommendations on optimum seeding rates, seedbed preparation, seeding date range, and drill width. A critical gap in these recommendations concerns what is perhaps the most important recommendation of all: which varieties to plant for optimal diversification.
Five Lectures On Dissipative Master Equations
Creators: name: Englert, Berthold-Georg
name: Morigi, Giovanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 1 First Lecture: Basics 1.1 Physical Derivation of the Master Equation 1.2 Some Simple Implications 1.3 Steady State 1.4 Action to the Left 2 Second Lecture: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of L 2.1 A Simple Case First 2.2 The General Case 3 Third Lecture: Completeness of the Damping Bases 3.1 Phase Space Functions 3.2 Completeness of the Eigenvectors of L 3.3 Positivity Conservation 3.4 Lindblad Form of Liouville Operators 4 Fourth Lecture: Quantum-Optical Applications 4.1 Periodically Driven Damped Oscillator 4.2 Conditional and Unconditional Evolution 4.3 Physical Signicance of Statistical Operators 5 Fifth Lecture: Statistics of Detected Atoms 5.1 Correlation Functions 5.2 Waiting Time Statistics 5.3 Counting Statistics
description: 58 pages, 10 figures; book chapter to appear in ``Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments'', Lecture Notes in Physics, (Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York). Notes of lectures given in Dresden,23-27 April 2001
Farm-scale analysis of the potential uptake of carbon offset activities
Creators: name: Moss, Jonathan
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
name: Moss, Jonathan
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: carbon markets
subject: transaction costs
subject: project feasibility

description: Carbon mitigation through land-use change and forestry has received considerable attention as a low-cost method of addressing climate change. However, spatial and productive heterogeneity is often lost in broader scale analyses frequently used to inform climate mitigation policy. Most research to date does not integrate these analyses with transaction costs; often a significant barrier to implementation. This paper demonstrates a technique for assessing project feasibility while considering both transaction costs and spatial heterogeneity. Ignoring farm heterogeneity was found to significantly overestimate both the market price of carbon and quantity of carbon sequestration required before projects become feasible.
A simple Lewis acid induced reaction of phenols with electrophiles: Synthesis of functionalized 4H-chromenes and ortho-benzylphenols
Creators: name: Chinnabattigalla Sreenivasulu
name: Ditto Abraham Thadathil
name: Pal, Sumit
name: Satyanarayana Gedu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Lewis acid ZnCl2 promoted cyclization protocol to 4H-chromenes is accomplished, using readily available phenols and acetophenones as starting materials. Interestingly, the process is feasible under the solvent free environment. Synthesis of a variety of 4H-chromenes have been accomplished using this strategy. In addition, this concept is extended to the synthesis of ortho-benzylphenols by treating phenols either with styrenes or secondary benzylic alcohols.
Conus imperialis Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus imperialis

description: 28. Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758 (Figure 29)
 Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758: 712, no. 251 (lectotype, LSL (65 x 37 mm) (Walls 1979); locality unknown).
 Conus fuscatus Born, 1778: 126–127, no. 1780 (lectotype, NMW (53 x 31 mm) (Kohn 1964; Walls 1979); " Mauritius ").
 Cucullus coronaducalis Röding, 1798: 38, no. 464 (representation of lectotype, Martini 1773: pl. 62, fig. 693 (41 x 26 mm); locality unknown).
 Cucullus regius Röding, 1798: 38, no. 465 (representation of lectotype, Chemnitz 1788: pl. 139, fig. 1289 (44 x 25 mm) (Kohn 1975); locality unknown).
 Conus viridulus Lamarck, 1810: 31, no. 9 (representation of type, Kiener 1845: pl. 7, fig. 1 (65 x 36 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); "Océan austral").
 Conus queketti E.A. Smith, 1906: 22, pl. 7, fig. 1 (holotype, BMNH (27 x 14 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); "Isezela, Natal").
 Conus dautzenbergi Fenaux, 1942: 2, fig. 2 (" Madagascar ").
 Conus douvillei Fenaux, 1942: 2–3, fig. 5 (" Madagascar ").
 Conus imperialis compactus Wils, 1970: 8, 12, pl. 2, fig. 7 (lectotype, ZMA (71 x 43 mm) (Coomans et al. 1985a); "Nosy Bé, Madagascar ").
 Conus imperialis nigrescens Barros e Cunha, 1933: 17, no. 9 (holotype, MZUC (66 x 39 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); locality unknown).
 Conus imperialis flavescens Barros e Cunha, 1933: 18, no. 10 (two syntypes, MZUC (42 x 25; 39 x 20.5 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); locality unknown).
 Material examined: MBMCS 128, 1 specimen, SL 48 mm; SW 24 mm.
 Description. Shell moderately large, solid and glossy. Body whorl conical; outline nearly straight and tapering to a narrow base. Body whorl with several low, widely spaced spiral ridges near basal third. Shoulder wide, angulate and strongly tuberculate. Spire very low; irregularly stepped, tip rounded, blunt; outline slightly concave. Post nuclear spire whorls distinctly tuberculate. Aperture narrow slightly wider anteriorly; outer lip sharp, thick.
Ground colour white. Body whorl encircled with two brown bands variable in width, split into axial streaks and blotches. Spiral rows of alternating blackish-brown and white dashes extending from base to shoulder, rows closer near anterior. Base, siphonal fasciole and basal part of columella bluish grey suffused with brown. Spire dull white with small brownish blotches and streaks. Aperture white.
  Distribution. Conus imperialis  has not been previously reported from India.
The specimen described herein was collected from Tuticorin and Keelakarai (Table 6) by trawling in 40– 80 m and 20–50 m.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on pages 32-33
Conus madagascariensis Sowerby II 1858
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus madagascariensis

description: 36. Conus madagascariensis Sowerby II, 1858 (Figure 37)
 Conus madagascariensis Sowerby II, 1858: 43, sp. 371, pl. 24, fig. 582 (three syntypes, BMNH (44 x 22; 42 x 23.5; 38.5 x 20.5 mm); " Madagascar ").
 Material examined: MBMCS 136, 6 specimens, SL 42–68 mm; SW 18–29 mm.
 Description. Shell medium sized to moderately large, moderately solid. Body whorl ventricosely conical to conoid-cylindrical; outline moderately convex at adapical third, straight below; left side often slightly concave near base. Aperture somewhat wider at base than near shoulder. Shoulder angulate. Spire low, outline slightly concave to slightly sigmoid, with a straight sided apex. Body whorl with weak spiral ridges on basal third.
Ground colour white, often variably tinged with violet, sometimes more prominently so at base. Body whorl with rather fine and regular network of dark brown lines edging numerous tiny to medium sized white tents. Overlying light brown to reddish brown spiral streaks, spots, flecks or blotches generally arranged in interrupted spiral bands on each side of centre and interspersed with spiral lines of alternating darker brown and white markings. Aperture white. Periostracum yellow, thin, translucent and smooth.
 Distribution. Kohn (1978) first reported C. madagascariensis (as ‘ C. pennaceus Born’) from India, citing Hare Island, Tuticorin. He has also referred to a museum specimen (in BMNH) collected from there. C. madagascariensis is restricted to south India (Röckel et al. 1995).
The specimens reported herein were collected from Gulf of Mannar by trawling in 9–30 m around the fringe coral reef islands and a large number of specimens from Kanyakumari by trawling in 20–50 m (Table 6).
 Remarks. Specimens of C. madagascariensis are often difficult to distinguish from C. pennaceus. However, the consistently straight-sided apex and rather uniformly reticulate pattern on the body whorl of C. madagascariensis distinguishes the latter. Although previously reported only from Tuticorin, during the three years of this survey not even a single specimen was encountered at Tuticorin.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on pages 37-38
Killer-like receptors and GPR56 progressive expression defines cytokine production of human CD4+ memory T cells
Creators: name: Truong, Kim-Long
name: Schlickeiser, Stephan
name: Vogt, Katrin
name: Boës, David
name: Stanko, Katarina
name: Appelt, Christine
name: Streitz, Mathias
name: Grütz, Gerald
name: Stobutzki, Nadja
name: Meisel, Christian
name: Iwert, Christina
name: Tomiuk, Stefan
name: Polansky, Julia K.
name: Pascher, Andreas
name: Babel, Nina
name: Stervbo, Ulrik
name: Sauer, Igor
name: Gerlach, Undine
name: Sawitzki, Birgit
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: human CD4+ memory T cells
subject: cytokine production
subject: GPR56
subject: killer cells
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: All memory T cells mount an accelerated response on antigen reencounter, but significant functional heterogeneity is present within the respective memory T-cell subsets as defined by CCR7 and CD45RA expression, thereby warranting further stratification. Here we show that several surface markers, including KLRB1, KLRG1, GPR56, and KLRF1, help define low, high, or exhausted cytokine producers within human peripheral and intrahepatic CD4+ memory T-cell populations. Highest simultaneous production of TNF and IFN-γ is observed in KLRB1+KLRG1+GPR56+ CD4 T cells. By contrast, KLRF1 expression is associated with T-cell exhaustion and reduced TNF/IFN-γ production. Lastly, TCRβ repertoire analysis and in vitro differentiation support a regulated, progressive expression for these markers during CD4+ memory T-cell differentiation. Our results thus help refine the classification of human memory T cells to provide insights on inflammatory disease progression and immunotherapy development.
Macroscopic Matter Wave Quantum Tunnelling
Creators: name: Shukla, Khemendra
name: Chen, Po-Sung
name: Chen, Jun-Ren
name: Chang, Yu-Hsuan
name: Liu, Yi-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and its detailed process is largely unexplored. We report the experimental observation of macroscopic quantum tunneling of Bose-Einstein Condensate in a hybrid trap. By exerting a non-adiabatic kick to excite a collective rotation mode of the trapped condensate, a periodic pulse train, which remains as condensate, is then out-coupled by quantum tunneling. This non-equilibrium dynamics is analogue to tunneling ionization. The imaged tunneling process shows the splitting of matter-wave packet by the potential barrier. The controversial "tunneling time" question is found inadequate, from the point of view of wave propagation. The realized matter-wave pulse train can also be a passive pulsed atom laser for atom interferometer applications.
description: 22 Pages, 6 figures
Thermodynamics with long-range interactions: from Ising models to black-holes
Creators: name: Oppenheim, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New methods are presented which enables one to analyze the thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions. Generically, such systems have entropies which are non-extensive, (do not scale with the size of the system). We show how to calculate the degree of non-extensivity for such a system. We find that a system interacting with a heat reservoir is in a probability distribution of canonical ensembles. The system still possesses a parameter akin to a global temperature, which is constant throughout the substance. There is also a useful quantity which acts like a {\it local temperatures} and it varies throughout the substance. These quantities are closely related to counterparts found in general relativity. A lattice model with long-range spin-spin coupling is studied. This is compared with systems such as those encountered in general relativity, and gravitating systems with Newtonian-type interactions. A long-range lattice model is presented which can be seen as a black-hole analog. One finds that the analog's temperature and entropy have many properties which are found in black-holes. Finally, the entropy scaling behavior of a gravitating perfect fluid of constant density is calculated. For weak interactions, the entropy scales like the volume of the system. As the interactions become stronger, the entropy becomes higher near the surface of the system, and becomes more area-scaling.
description: Corrects some typos found in published version. Title changed 22 pages, 2 figures
Georgia Farmers’ Perceptions of Production Barrier in Organic Vegetable and Fruit Agriculture
Creators: name: Nelson, Mack C.
name: Styles, Erika K.
name: Pattanaik, Nalini
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Brown, James
name: Nelson, Mack C.
name: Styles, Erika K.
name: Pattanaik, Nalini
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Brown, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: organic production
subject: logit analysis
subject: produce

description: Profit maximizing farm producers attempt to minimize risk in their business by utilizing available cost effective methods and information. This research attempts to identify production barriers to vegetable and fruit producers adopting organic methods of production and determine which of these barriers to organic production influence adoption most. The data for this study is from a 2014 state wide telephone survey of Georgia’s vegetable and fruit producers. Producers were segregated into five groups; those using 100 percent conventional methods, more conventional than organic, those using about 50 percent organic and 50 percent conventional, more organic than conventional, and 100 percent organic method. Results are based on logit analysis of producers’ perceptions of barriers, farm and socioeconomic characteristics. A number of factors including producers’ evaluation of production barriers are shown to influence adoption of organic production methods. Among perception factors and characteristics influencing adoption are organic certification costs, reluctance to adopt new production methods, lower organic yields, liability of organic producers is higher, labor costs, producer age, educational attainment, years of organic farming experience and farm size (measured as gross annual farm sales).
Electrowetting diminishes contact line friction in molecular wetting
Creators: name: Johansson, Petter
name: Hess, Berk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use large-scale molecular dynamics to study dynamics at the three-phase contact line in electrowetting of water and electrolytes on no-slip substrates. Under the applied electrostatic potential the line friction at the contact line is diminished. The effect is consistent for droplets of different sizes as well as for both pure water and electrolyte solution droplets. We analyze the electric field at the contact line to show how it assists ions and dipolar molecules to advance the contact line. Without an electric field, the interaction between a substrate and a liquid has a very short range, mostly affecting the bottom, immobilized layer of liquid molecules which leads to high friction since mobile molecules are not pulled towards the surface. In electrowetting, the electric field attracts charged and polar molecules over a longer range which diminishes the friction.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Fluids
One-pot B(C6F5)3 catalyzed cascade synthesis of 2-substituted-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones
Creators: name: Achut R. Shinde
name: Mane, Yogesh D.
name: Dnyanoba B. Muley
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A new and efficient B(C6F5)3 catalyzed domino strategy has been developed for the synthesis of 2-substituted quinazolinones. The reaction utilizes 2-aminobenzamide and aldehydes for a one-pot protocol. A wide range of substrate scope, functional group tolerance, and operational simplicity with excellent yield are synthetically useful features.
Conus pretiosus Nevill and Nevill 1874
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus pretiosus

description: 46. Conus pretiosus Nevill and Nevill, 1874 (Figure 47)
 Conus pretiosus Nevill & Nevill, 1874: 22 (holotype, ZSI (59.5 x 24 mm); "Andamans").
 Conus phuketensis da Motta, 1978: 4, fig. 2.pl. 67 (holotype, MHNG (81 x 33 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); "off the coastal waters from Phuket Islands South West Thailand westward toward the Andaman Islands in the Andaman Sea").
 Material examined: MBMCS146, 4 specimens, SL 48–80 mm; SW 21–33 mm.
 Description. Shell moderately large to large, moderately solid. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline convex adapically and straight below. Shoulder angulate. Spire of moderate height, stepped, outline straight, apex pointed and sharp. Body whorl smooth. Outer lip thin and sharp. Periostracum thin and translucent.
Ground colour white to cream. Body whorl with narrow brown (cream to yellowish brown) spiral bands from base to shoulder. Overlying spiral rows of variously sized and shaped brown to dark brown markings fuse into variably prominent interrupted spiral bands, below shoulder and above centre. Spire whorls white to brown, early whorls white to pale brown. Post nuclear sutural ramps white or cream with brown radial streaks and blotches. Aperture pale pinkish; exterior pattern visible on the outer lip margin. Periostracum brown and translucent.
 Distribution. Nevill & Nevill (1874) reported this species for the first time from the Andaman Islands. Röckel et al. (1995) recorded one specimen from Tuticorin and another from Bay of Bengal; the exact locality of the latter was not given.
The specimens described herein were collected from Keelakarai and Pamban (Table 6) by trawling in 40– 60 m.
  Remarks. Conus pretiosus  is extremely rare and probably restricted to Gulf of Mannar. Fishermen of Pamban consider it a rare species and differentiate it from other cones by naming it as ‘Pamban vallapoo’.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on page 43
Quantum Elliptic Calogero-Moser Systems from Gauge Origami
Creators: name: Chen, Heng-Yu
name: Kimura, Taro
name: Lee, Norton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically study the interesting relations between the quantum elliptic Calogero-Moser system (eCM) and its generalization, and their corresponding supersymmetric gauge theories. In particular, we construct the suitable characteristic polynomial for the eCM system by considering certain orbifolded instanton partition function of the corresponding gauge theory. This is equivalent to the introduction of certain co-dimension two defects. We next generalize our construction to the folded instanton partition function obtained through the so-called "gauge origami" construction and precisely obtain the corresponding characteristic polynomial for the doubled version, named the elliptic double Calogero-Moser (edCM) system.
description: 36 pages, added references
The macroscopic dynamics in separable neural networks
Creators: name: Chen, Yong
name: Wang, Ying Hai
name: Yang, Kong Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parallel dynamics is given in the case of neural networks with separable coupling through starting from Coolen-Sherrington (CS) theory. It is shown that this retrieve dynamics as is the case of sequential evolution in the postulate of away from saturation and finite temperature. The finite-size effects is governed by a homogeneous Markov process, which differs from the time-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process in sequential dynamics. PACS number(s): 87.10.+e, 75.10.Nr, 02.50.+s
description: 5 pages
Psychophysiological stress response and memory in borderline personality disorder
Creators: name: Duesenberg, Moritz
name: Wolf, Oliver T.
name: Metz, Sophie
name: Roepke, Stefan
name: Fleischer, Juliane
name: Elias, Valentina
name: Renneberg, Babette
name: Otte, Christian
name: Wingenfeld, Katja
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: alpha-amylase
subject: memory
subject: stress
subject: cortisol
subject: borderline personality disorder
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Previously, we found that patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) but not healthy controls (HC) showed improved memory retrieval after hydrocortisone administration. Objective: In this study, we examined whether increases in endogenous cortisol after psychosocial stress are associated with memory function in patients with BPD and in healthy individuals. Methods: We recruited 49 female patients with BPD and 49 female HC. All participants were exposed to a psychosocial stressor, the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and a control condition (Placebo (P-)TSST) in randomized order. Salivary cortisol, alpha amylase (sAA) and blood pressure were measured in response to stress. Subsequently, we examined free recall of a previously learned word list, autobiographical memory, and working memory. Results: We found a stress*time*group interaction effect for the cortisol response and for sAA to stress, which is mainly triggered by a slightly different increase in cortisol between groups from pre to post TSST. Furthermore, BPD patients showed a less pronounced increase in diastolic blood pressure compared to HC after stress. There was no effect of stress on memory performance in any tests, either in healthy controls or in patients with BPD. Conclusion: Our results suggest a slightly blunted response of the HPA axis and the sympathetic nervous system to stress in BPD compared to healthy women. In contrast to hydrocortisone administration, psychosocial stress did not improve memory retrieval in BPD patients. This might be explained by lower cortisol concentrations and parallel increases in norepinephrine and negative affect after stress.
Timing the Purchase of Livestock Risk Protection Insurance for Feeder Cattle
Creators: name: Griffith, Andrew P.
name: Lewis, Karen E.
name: Boyer, Christopher N.
name: Griffith, Andrew P.
name: Lewis, Karen E.
name: Boyer, Christopher N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Insurance
subject: Risk management
subject: cattle

description: Livestock Risk Protection Insurance (LRP) is a risk management tool available to cattle producers protecting against price declines. It can be used to establish a price floor much like a put option. The primary difference between put options and LRP is LRP can be purchased for as few as one animal while put options are based on 50,000 pound contracts. Thus, LRP can be utilized by cattle producers of any size. LRP is generally offered five times a week with insurance termination dates ranging from 13 to 52 weeks and coverage levels from 70 to 100 percent. The objective of this research is to determine how far in advance feeder cattle producers should purchase LRP to maximize their expected price received given an expected cattle marketing month. Daily LRP offerings were obtained for 600 to 900 pound feeder cattle in Tennessee from 2007 through 2014. Expected price received is defined as the CME Feeder Cattle Index price plus the indemnity payment less the LRP premium. Data were subjected to a mixed model to determine differences in the expected price received for different coverage periods given an expected cattle marketing month.
Teisei zōyaku Sairan igen. Kan no 11
訂正増譯采覧異言.巻之十一
Creators: name: Yamamura, Masanaga.
Publisher: name: [place of publication unknown : publisher not identified]
Year: 2021

description: Cover title: 増譯采覧異言 Zōyaku Sairan igen (Enlarged Sairan igen); 采覧異言 Sairan igen is a geographical work by 新井白石 Arai Hakuseki in 1713. The 14 volumes include a preface volume, 12 volumes of text, and a volume of maps. The maps are coloured with the exception of the last four, which have only the boundaries outlined in red. All the maps occupy two facing pages, with one exception (Beans 1803.9) [East Indies]. Contents: (Beans 1803.1) 歐羅巴洲與地圖 Yōroppashū yochizu (General map of Europe); (Beans 1803.2) Horutogaru Isuhania Furansu Itaria Serumania Aran Heruheshia Suuyusserurando ijō nanakoku no zu (Map of the seven countries Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Switzerland); (Beans 1803.3) Teemaruka Noruweshiakoku Shueshiakoku ijō nikoku no zu [and] Koroodo Buritaniakoku no zu (Scandinavia [and] British Isles); (Beans 1803.4) [Balkans, Black Sea region and Asia Minor]; (Beans 1803.5) [Southern Russia and Poland]; (Beans 1803.6) 亞細亞洲與地圖 Ajiashū yochizu (General map of Asia); (Beans 1803.7) [East Asia]; (Beans 1803.8) [Southern Asia]; (Beans 1803.9) [East Indies]; (Beans 1803.10) 亞弗利加洲與地圖 Afurikashū yochizu (General map of Africa); (Beans 1803.11) 南亞墨利加洲與地圖 Minami Amerikashū yochizu (General map of South America); (Beans 1803.12) 北亞墨利加洲與地圖 Kita Amerikashū yochizu (General map of North America). Cited in: WSN; 125
Higgs plus two jet production at LHC and VLHC
Creators: name: Oleari, Carlo
name: Zeppenfeld, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider gluon-fusion and weak-boson fusion production of Higgs plus two jets in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=14 TeV (LHC) and sqrt{s}=50, 100, 200 TeV (VLHC). We give cross sections for Higgs masses between 115 GeV and 200 GeV, and discuss the experimental cuts that should be applied in order to enhance the weak-boson fusion contribution with respect to the gluon-fusion background.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures. Uses revtex4. Contribution to Snowmass 2001
Sensitive Colorimetric Determination of Cyromazine Using a Gold Nanoparticle (Au NP) Based Sensor with Smartphone Detection
Creators: name: Shi, Qiang
name: Wang, Ting
name: Zheng, Ying
name: Guo, Qian
name: Wang, Bing
name: Zhu, Sujuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Molecular Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A highly sensitive colorimetric sensor based on the aggregation of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) and a smartphone camera as detector is reported for the determination of cyromazine. In the presence of cyromazine, a decrease in the characteristic SPR absorbance peak of Au NPs is observed at 520 nm. A color change in the solution of Au NPs was observed from burgundy to purple and then to blue gray with a red shift of the absorbance peak from 520 to 666 nm with increasing cyromazine concentration. The reaction parameters were investigated to optimize the sensitivity. The best conditions for cyromazine were 0.125 mM of Au NPs, pH 4.0, 25 °C, reaction time of 7 min, and 0.5 mM of sodium bisulfate. The absorbance ratio at 666 nm and 520 nm (A666/A520) as a function of the concentration of cyromazine provided a linear relationship from 0.3 to 0.7 μM. The visible color changes were captured with a smartphone camera. The digital images were analyzed by the WeChat applet for color recognition extraction for red-green-blue conversion. The limits of detection were 0.3 μM with the naked eye and 8.13 nM with a spectrophotometer. These values are lower than those in the literature. The method provides a simple, time-saving, and portable strategy for the determination of cyromazine.
Collaborative leadership in EMU governance: a matter of cognitive proximity
Creators: name: Müller, Henriette
name: Esch, Femke A. W. J. Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Collaborative leadership has stood at the heart of European politics since its inception. Yet EU scholars have only recently started to examine the concept and mainly from an institutional perspective. This article conceptualises the phenomenon of collaborative leadership from an actor-centered perspective. It explores a central condition for successful collaborative leadership identified in the literature: the existence of shared beliefs among the leaders involved. To do this, the article focuses on four events in the history of European Economic and Monetary Union. Using the method of cognitive mapping, the study establishes the extent of congruence in the beliefs on European integration and fiscal and monetary policy of the four leadership trios overseeing these events. On the basis of a survey of leading experts in the field, the article reveals that the level of cognitive proximity in leaders’ beliefs aligns with the perceived success with which the trios exerted collaborative leadership.
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging using a preclinical 1 T PET/MRI in healthy and tumor-bearing rats
Creators: name: Albrecht, Jakob
name: Polenz, Dietrich
name: Kühl, Anja A.
name: Rogasch, Julian M. M.
name: Leder, Annekatrin
name: Sauer, Igor M.
name: Babos, Magor
name: Mócsai, Gabor
name: Beindorff, Nicola
name: Steffen, Ingo G.
name: Brenner, Winfried
name: Koziolek, Eva J.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: DWI
subject: ADC
subject: Tumor microenvironment
subject: Hepatocellular carcinoma
subject: Preclinical
subject: 1 Tesla
subject: PET/MRI
subject: Rats
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Hybrid positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanners are increasingly used for both clinical and preclinical imaging. Especially functional MRI sequences such as diffusionweighted imaging (DWI) are of great interest as they provide information on a molecular level, thus, can be used as surrogate biomarkers. Due to technical restrictions, MR sequences need to be adapted for each system to perform reliable imaging. There is, to our knowledge, no suitable DWI protocol for 1 Tesla PET/MRI scanners. We aimed to establish such DWI protocol with focus on the choice of b values, suitable for longitudinal monitoring of tumor characteristics in a rat liver tumor model. Material and methods: DWI was first performed in 18 healthy rat livers using the scanner-dependent maximum of 4 b values (0, 100, 200, 300 s/mm2). Apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) were calculated from different b value combinations and compared to the reference measurement with four b values. T2-weighted MRI and optimized DWI with best agreement between accuracy, scanning time, and system performance stability were used to monitor orthotopic hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) in five rats of which three underwent additional 2-deoxy-2-(18F)fluoro-D-glucose(FDG)-PET imaging. ADCs were calculated for the tumor and the surrounding liver parenchyma and verified by histopathological analysis. Results: Compared to the reference measurements, the combination b = 0, 200, 300 s/mm2 showed the highest correlation coefficient (rs = 0.92) and agreement while reducing the acquisition time. However, measurements with less than four b values yielded significantly higher ADCs (p < 0.001). When monitoring the HCC, an expected drop of the ADC was observed over time. These findings were paralleled by FDG-PET showing both an increase in tumor size and uptake heterogeneity. Interestingly, surrounding liver parenchyma also showed a change in ADC values revealing varying levels of inflammation by immunohistochemistry. Conclusion: We established a respiratory-gated DWI protocol for a preclinical 1 T PET/MRI scanner allowing to monitor growth-related changes in ADC values of orthotopic HCC liver tumors. By monitoring the changes in tumor ADCs over time, different cellular stages were described. However, each study needs to adapt the protocol further according to their question to generate best possible results.
Conus pertusus Hwass
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus pertusus

description: 44. Conus pertusus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (Figure 45)
 Conus pertusus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792: 686–687, no. 75 (lectotype, MHNG (50.5 x 24.5 mm) (Walls 1979); "les mers des grandes Indes").
 Conus amabilis Lamarck, 1810: 425, no. 137 (lectotype, MHNG (29 x 16 mm) (Kohn 1981); "Mers des grandes Indes").
 Conus festivus Dillwyn, 1817: 413, no. 116 (lectotype, ZMUC (23x 13 mm) (Kohn 1986); "Molucca Islands").
 Material examined: MBMCS144, 3 specimens, SL 40–45 mm; SW 25–28 mm.
 Description. Shell moderately small and moderately heavy with high gloss. Body whorl conical, outline convex just below shoulder, straight below. Shoulder angulate. Spire of moderate height, outline convex, apex sharp. Aperture narrow, slightly wider anteriorly; outer lip thin, sharp, and straight. Body whorl smooth except for a few weak spiral ribs at base.
Ground colour white, body whorl with orange red blotches fusing into two variably broad spiral bands on each side of the centre. Adapical and central white bands crossed by axial blotches. Aperture pale pink.
 Distribution. Kohn (2001) first reported this species from India without giving precise locality data.
The specimens described herein were collected from Mandapam and Keelakarai (Table 6) by trawling in 8–20 m, around coral islands of Gulf of Mannar.
 Remarks. Except Kohn (2001), no previous record of C. pertusus is known from India. This species is probably restricted to the Gulf of Mannar and appears to be a rare species along the TamilNadu Coast.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on page 42
On the difference between proton and neutron spin-orbit splittings in nuclei
Creators: name: Isakov, V. I.
name: Erokhina, K. I.
name: Mach, H.
name: Sanchez-Vega, M.
name: Fogelberg, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest experimental data on nuclei at $^{132}$Sn permit us for the first time to determine the spin-orbit splittings of neutrons and protons in identical orbits in this neutron-rich doubly-magic region and compare the case to that of $^{208}$Pb. Using the new results, which are now consistent for the two neutron-rich doubly magic regions, a theoretical analysis defines the isotopic dependence of the mean field spin-orbit potential and leads to a simple explicit expression for the difference between the spin-orbit splittings of neutrons and protons. The isotopic dependence is explained in the framework of different theoretical approaches.
description: 8 pages, revtex
Rank $Q$ E-string on a torus with flux
Creators: name: Pasquetti, Sara
name: Razamat, Shlomo S.
name: Sacchi, Matteo
name: Zafrir, Gabi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss compactifications of rank $Q$ E-string theory on a torus with fluxes for abelian subgroups of the $E_8$ global symmetry of the $6d$ SCFT. We argue that the theories corresponding to such tori are built from a simple model we denote as $E[USp(2Q)]$. This model has a variety of non trivial properties. In particular the global symmetry is $USp(2Q)\times USp(2Q)\times U(1)^2$ with one of the two $USp(2Q)$ symmetries emerging in the IR as an enhancement of an $SU(2)^Q$ symmetry of the UV Lagrangian. The $E[USp(2Q)]$ model after dimensional reduction to $3d$ and a subsequent Coulomb branch flow is closely related to the familiar $3d$ $T[SU(Q)]$ theory, the model residing on an S-duality domain wall of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ $SU(Q)$ SYM. Gluing the $E[USp(2Q)]$ models by gauging the $USp(2Q)$ symmetries with proper admixtures of chiral superfields gives rise to systematic constructions of many examples of $4d$ theories with emergent IR symmetries. We support our claims by various checks involving computations of anomalies and supersymmetric partition functions. Many of the needed identities satisfied by the supersymmetric indices follow directly from recent mathematical results obtained by E. Rains.
description: 54 pages, 21 figures
Sharing Frailty-related information in perioperative care: an analysis from a temporal perspective
Creators: name: Fürstenau, Daniel
name: Spies, Claudia
name: Gersch, Martin
name: Vogel, Amyn
name: Mörgeli, Rudolf
name: Poncette, Akira-Sebastian
name: Müller-Werdan, Ursula
name: Balzer, Felix
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Critical care
subject: Frailty
subject: Geriatric medicine
subject: Health data exchange
subject: Information technology
subject: Intensive care medicine
subject: Perioperative care
subject: Temporal dynamics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND: Especially patients older than 65 years undergoing surgery are prone to develop frailty-related complications that may go far beyond the index hospitalization (e.g., cognitive impairment following postoperative delirium). However, aging-relevant information are currently not fully integrated into hospitals' perioperative processes. METHODS: We introduce a temporal perspective, which focuses on the social construction of time, to better understand existing barriers to the exchange of frailty-related data, targeting complexity research. Our chosen context is perioperative care provided by a tertiary hospital in Germany that has implemented a special track for patients over 65 years old undergoing elective surgery. The research followed a participatory modelling approach between domain and modelling experts with the goal of creating a feedback loop model of the relevant system relationships and dynamics. RESULTS: The results of the study show how disparate temporal regimes, understood as frameworks for organizing actions in the light of time constraints, time pressure, and deadlines, across different clinical, ambulant, and geriatric care sectors create disincentives to cooperate in frailty-related data exchanges. Moreover, we find that shifting baselines, meaning continuous increases in cost and time pressure in individual sectors, may unintentionally reinforce - rather than discourage - disparate temporal regimes. CONCLUSIONS: Together, these results may (1) help to increase awareness of the importance of frailty-related data exchanges, and (2) impel efforts aiming to transform treatment processes to go beyond sectoral boundaries, taking into account the potential benefits for frail patients arising from integrated care processes using information technology.
The Impacts of Compulsory Crop Insurance in the Brazilian Dairy Sector
Creators: name: Carvalho, Glauco Rodrigues
name: Costa, Rafael
name: Carvalho, Glauco Rodrigues
name: Costa, Rafael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: insurance
subject: policy analysis
subject: structural model

description: The dairy sector is an important segment of the Brazilian agribusiness. From the demand side, dairy products are the second most important in terms of household expenditure on food. From the supply side, Brazil is the 4th largest country in milk production with more than 32 billion liters per year. Moreover, nearly 1.3 million of dairy farmers are in operation, most of which characterized as small family farms. The rural credit is the main mechanism in terms of dairy policy. A program called PRONAF was created in 1996 to support small farmers by offering them special financial provisions, such as low interest rates. However, in 2013 the Brazilian Government through Central Bank imposed mandatory farm insurance as a condition to access rural credit. The impact of this policy on the dairy sector is unknown and this paper aims to evaluate such a policy. A structural econometric model of the Brazilian dairy sector is used to quantify the effect of that change on the production, consumption and milk price. The impact will be considered relative to a ten-year baseline scenario ending in 2022. Annual equilibrium prices are solved by minimizing the squared difference between supply and demand for four different markets: cheese, butter, milk powder, and fresh dairy products. Contributions to policy makers, private companies, and future researches are expected.