cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coherent control of nuclear spin isomers of molecules: The role of molecular motion
Creators: name: Chapovsky, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular center-of-mass motion is taken into account in the theory of coherent control of nuclear spin isomers of molecules. It is shown that infrared radiation resonant to the molecular rovibrational transition can substantially enrich nuclear spin isomers and speed up their conversion rate.
description: REVTEX, 13 pages + 3 eps figures
Topological Insulators by Topology Optimization
Creators: name: Christiansen, Rasmus E.
name: Wang, Fengwen
name: Sigmund, Ole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An acoustic topological insulator (TI) is synthesized using topology optimization, a free material inverse design method. The TI appears spontaneously from the optimization process without imposing requirements on the existence of pseudo spin-1/2 states at the TI interface edge, or the Chern number of the topological phases. The resulting TI is passive; consisting of acoustically hard members placed in an air background and has an operational bandwidth of $\approx$12.5\% showing high transmission. Further analysis demonstrates confinement of more than 99\% of the total field intensity in the TI within at most six lattice constants from the TI interface. The proposed design hereby outperforms a reference from recent literature regarding energy transmission, field confinement and operational bandwidth.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Study on Soil Infiltration Capability and Its Impact Factors of Different Land Use Types in Purple Soil Region
Creators: name: MO, Bin
name: CHEN, Xiaoyan
name: LIU, Tao
name: YANG, Yicui
name: LIN, Zhixing
name: HUANG, Xiufeng
name: HUANG, Qiliang
name: JIAN, Hui
name: ZHOU, Tujin
name: SHEN, Yunkang
name: MO, Bin
name: CHEN, Xiaoyan
name: LIU, Tao
name: YANG, Yicui
name: LIN, Zhixing
name: HUANG, Xiufeng
name: HUANG, Qiliang
name: JIAN, Hui
name: ZHOU, Tujin
name: SHEN, Yunkang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Forestry
subject: Soil infiltration capability
subject: Point source infiltration
subject: Different land-use types
subject: Soil physical and chemical properties
subject: Correlation

description: Soil infiltration capacity is the hot spot topic of soil erosion studies and soil physical and chemical properties have great influence on it. A new infiltration method point-source infiltration method is used to precisely evaluate the infiltration capacity in different purple soil land use types. And correlation analysis on soil physical and chemical properties and soil infiltration capacity of different land use types is performed. Results show that: (i) there is a large difference among soil physical and chemical properties in different land use types, soil water content, non-capillary porosity, capillary porosity, content of > 0.25 mm aggregates and organic matter content in the top soil are greater than those in the subsoil; (ii) soil infiltration capacity shows differences among different land use types. Land use shows great effects, in general, initial infiltration rate and average infiltration rate decrease in the order: woodland slope> slope farmland> grassland, steady infiltration rate decreases in the order: slope farmland>woodland> grassland and the time reaching stable state decreases in the order: slope farmland> woodland>grassland; (iii) correlation analysis shows that there is a significantly positive correlation between initial infiltration rate and wet sieve MWD value and structural damage rate, and it has a significantly negative correlation with capillary porosity; (iv) steady infiltration rate and non-capillary porosity show the significantly positive correlation, and it has a significantly negative correlation with the soil bulk density; (v) the average infiltration rate and non-capillary porosity and structural damage rate show a positive correlation and the correlation coefficient is large and there is a negative correlation between average infiltration rate and soil bulk density and capillary porosity, and the absolute value of correlation coefficient is relatively large. The results of this research can provide the theoretical basis for soil infiltration study in purple soil area.
Optimisation of accelerated biodiesel production under near infrared radiation from de-oiled mustard and sunflower cakes
Creators: name: Monosij Maitra
name: Swapnendu Chatterjee
name: Punam Mukhopadhyay
name: Rajat Chakraborty
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: An energy-efficient intensification protocol for biodiesel (fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE)) production from the mustard de-oiled cake (MDC) and sunflower de-oiled cake (SDC) through concurrent esterification-transesterification reactions has been disclosed employing near-infrared radiation retrofitted batch reactor. The triglycerides and free fatty acids of the de-oiled cake were converted to FAEE through a one-pot synthesis in the presence of ethanol and one of the co-solvents viz. acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and n-hexane. The optimal condition (75:1 (w/w) ethanol to de-oiled cake ratio, 70°C infrared radiation temperature, 2.5 wt. % H2SO4 catalyst concentration, and 1000 rpm stirrer speed) for maximum FAEE yield was evaluated deploying Taguchi L9 orthogonal method. Higher FAEE yield was achieved under infrared radiation for both MDC (82.4 ± 0.01%) and SDC (81.7 ± 0.02%), in comparison with the conventionally heated reactor (MDC: 56.1 ± 0.02%; SDC: 54 ± 0.02%) employing identical process condition. This enlightened the energy-efficacy of the infrared radiation in accelerating the FAEE yield within a much shorter reaction time. The FAEE composition was assessed by FTIR and GC-MS analyses. The fuel properties of the product biodiesel conformed to EN standards. Thus, a feasible and efficient protocol for the conversion of de-oiled cakes to biodiesel could be explored.
Metrocoris nigrofascioides Chen & Nieser 1993
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Metrocoris
Metrocoris nigrofascioides

description: Metrocoris nigrofascioides Chen & Nieser, 1993
 Material examined. – Datai rain forest: 1 male, 2 females (apterous), HE1; Telaga Tujuh – Air Telaga: 1 male, 4 females (apterous), 2 females (macropterous), HZ1b; 2 males, 2 females (apterous), TAD0613. Sungei Lengara: 1 male (apterous), HZL3 b. Air Tejun: 1 male, 3 females (apterous), HZL10; 3 males, 2 females (macropterous), KV6; 1 female (apterous), TAD0623. Durian Perangis: 1 male (apterous), 2 males, 5 females (macropterous), KV2. Gunung Raya: 2 males, 3 females (macropterous), TAD0617.
 Remarks. – See M. squamifer.
 Distribution. – Originally described from Myanmar and Thailand (Chen & Nieser, 1993), later recorded from Vietnam (Zettel & Chen, 1996) and West Malaysia (Yang & Kovac, 1995; Yang et al., 1999; Cheng et al., 2001).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032
A Study on the Forms and Characteristics of Landscape Trees in Landscaping
Creators: name: XIA, Bing
name: XIA, Bing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Landscape trees
subject: Landscaping
subject: Forms
subject: Characteristics

description: The landscape tree is an important part of landscape, with a strong visual effect. This paper elaborates and discusses the concept of landscape trees as well as the forms and characteristics of landscaping, and summarizes the rules and features of landscape trees in plant landscaping, in order to provide a reference for the landscape construction practice.
Problems and Recommendations for Confirmation of Land Right in Rural Areas
Creators: name: FAN, Xiaodi
name: HE, Puming
name: FAN, Xiaodi
name: HE, Puming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Confirmation of land right
subject: Problems
subject: Recommendations

description: Land, the foundation of agriculture and farmers, is the most basic capital goods of agricultural production. Confirmation of land right in rural areas not only effectively protects the land contract management right of peasants and helps to realize the informatization management of land contract, but also lays a foundation for land circulation and scale management. In addition, it also promotes the realization of agricultural modernization. This paper analyzes the problems in the confirmation of land right and sets forth recommendations under the premise of realizing the importance of confirmation of land right.
title: Transcription d'un entretien auprès d’une assistante sociale travaillant au sein de la maternité German Urquidi dans la ville de Cochabamba en Bolivie
Creators: name: Geffroy, Céline
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: T-4939
description: L’assistante sociale qui est interrogée déclare que le personnel soignant (médecins, psychologues, assistants sociaux, kinésithérapeutes) collaborent et ont crée un comité sur l’allaitement afin d’inciter un maximum de mères à allaiter. Leur rôle est aussi d’informer par tous les moyens (notamment sur les places publiques) à prendre connaissances des savoirs liés à l’allaitement, de ses avantages et bénéfices comme la description précise des qualités et propriétés du colostrum. Ce groupe de soutien informent les mères sur l’importance de l’alimentation des nourrissons et donne des précisions sur la texture, l’aspect, et les nutriments du colostrum. Une vidéo est même projetée aux mères. Elle décrit les avantages de l’allaitement tant sur le plan médical que sur celui de la relation mère-enfant car les croyances rurales, comme celle de jeter le premier lait perçu comme nocif, sont très présentes. Enfin ils interviennent beaucoup auprès des toutes jeunes mamans, victimes de grossesses non désirées. Différents thèmes comme la transmission des savoirs par les mères, la position d’accouchement, les traditions, et les coutumes locales (alimentation, croyances), l’appartenance ethnique, les relations sexuelles etc., sont abordés.
Fresh-Keeping Technology of Zander Fillet with Vacuum Packaging and Partial Freezing
Creators: name: ZHANG, Qiang
name: DAI, Wenting
name: JIN, Xinwen
name: ZHANG, Qiang
name: DAI, Wenting
name: JIN, Xinwen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Zander fillet
subject: Partial freezing
subject: Vacuum packaging
subject: Freshness

description: In order to explore the fresh-keeping methods for zander fillet, we use vacuum packaging and partial freezing to process zander fillet, conduct a comparative analysis of sensory characteristics, percentage of water loss, stiffness period, muscle stiffness, TVB-N and water activity during the storage, and assess the fresh-keeping effect of zander fillet under the conditions of vacuum packaging and partial freezing. The results show that zander can be dead after being placed into the 2℃ water for 30 min, and the stiffness period can be extended about 100 min compared with natural death; the percentage of water loss under the conditions of vacuum packaging before partial freezing is 2.6% lower than under the conditions of partial freezing before vacuum packaging; after being stored at -7℃ and -4℃ for 15 days, TVB-N of fillet ≤15 mg/kg; TVB-N of fillet at -7℃ is 25% lower than at -4℃.
Investing in Photovoltaics: Timing, Plant Sizing and Smart Grids Flexibility
Creators: name: Bertolini, Marina
name: D’Alpaos, Chiara
name: Moretto, Michele
name: Bertolini, Marina
name: D’Alpaos, Chiara
name: Moretto, Michele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Smart Grids
subject: Renewable Energy Sources
subject: Real Options
subject: Prosumer

description: In Italy and in many EU countries, the last decade was characterized by a large development of distributed generation power plants. Their presence determined new critical issues for the design and management of the overall energy system and the electric grid due to the presence of discontinuous production sources. It is commonly agreed that contingent problems that affect local grids (e.g. inefficiency, congestion rents, power outages, etc.) may be solved by the implementation of a “smarter” electric grid. The main feature of smarts grid is the great increase in production and consumption flexibility. Smart grids give producers and consumers, the opportunity to be active in the market and strategically decide their optimal production/consumption scheme. The paper provides a theoretical framework to model the prosumer’s decision to invest in a photovoltaic power plant, assuming it is integrated in a smart grid. To capture the value of managerial flexibility, a real option approach is implemented. We calibrate and test the model by using data from the Italian energy market.
Constraining axion-like particles from rare pion decays
Creators: name: Altmannshofer, Wolfgang
name: Gori, Stefania
name: Robinson, Dean J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraviolet completions for axion-like particles (ALPs) lighter than the neutral pion generically induce ALP-neutral pion mixing, and are therefore sensitive to direct constraints on the mixing angle. For ALPs below the pion mass, we demonstrate that strong and novel bounds on the ALP-pion mixing angle can be extracted from existing rare pion decay data, measured by the PIENU and PIBETA experiments.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, published version
Design and Characterization of Superconducting Nanowire-Based Processors for Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Training
Creators: name: Onen, Murat
name: Butters, Brenden A.
name: Toomey, Emily
name: Gokmen, Tayfun
name: Berggren, Karl K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally intensive task and requires massive volumes of data transfer. Performing these operations with the conventional von Neumann architectures creates unmanageable time and power costs. Recent studies have shown that mixed-signal designs involving crossbar architectures are capable of achieving acceleration factors as high as 30,000x over the state of the art digital processors. These approaches involve utilization of non-volatile memory (NVM) elements as local processors. However, no technology has been developed to-date that can satisfy the strict device requirements for the unit cell. This paper presents the superconducting nanowire-based processing element as a cross-point device. The unit cell has many programmable non-volatile states that can be used to perform analog multiplication. Importantly, these states are intrinsically discrete due to quantization of flux, which provides symmetric switching characteristics. Operation of these devices in a crossbar is described and verified with electro-thermal circuit simulations. Finally, validation of the concept in an actual DNN training task is shown using an emulator.
Energy and environmental performance of a near-zero-effluent rice straw to butanol production plant
Creators: name: Sambit Dutta
name: Shiladitya Ghosh
name: Dinabandhu Manna
name: Chowdhury, Ranjana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Present article focuses on the energy and environmental performance of a rice straw (RS) biorefinery producing bio-butanol as the main product, ethanol and acetone as the by-products and combined heat and power. The analysis highlights the strategic usage of RS-derived glucose and xylose as primary substrates for biobutanol production. The principle of utilization of total carbon and the fulfillment of the criterion of zero-waste management has been followed along with the generation of in-house energy to offset the energy expenditure and reduce CO2 emission. The overall yields of butanol, ethanol and acetone are 28.53kg, 0.84kg and 6.61kg respectively from 100kg RS. By performing energy analysis in this system for 100kg RS, energy content of lignin, extractives and biogas introduced to CHP have been estimated to be 674.78MJ. Net energy input to the steam turbine of the CHP is 539.83MJ and the outputs of electricity and heat energy are 130MJ and 194MJ, respectively. While the energy efficiency of CHP is 87%, the overall efficiency of the biorefinery through generation of alcohol/solvents and recovery of waste energy in the CHP is 68.2%. Due to the substitution of gasoline by butanol and through electricity generation, reduction of CO2 emission by 36.14kg is possible.
An Investigation into the Dynamics of EU Agricultural Imports from Mediterranean Partner Countries
Creators: name: Mili, Samir
name: Mili, Samir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
subject: agricultural trade
subject: Global Value Chain
subject: buyer survey

description: This contribution explores the buyer side of the value chains for the main agricultural products sourced from the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) in North Africa and Middle East into the EU, taking Spain as study case of these European import flows. Using the Global Value Chain (GVC) approach, it provides new survey-based evidence for better understanding and profiling the opportunities and constraints for these trade flows, and therefore deriving implications to improve the efficiency of the target value chains both in origin and in destination. Primary information has been gathered using two complementary methods. First, a buyer survey has been conducted through structured questionnaires directed to major Spanish importing and trading companies of orange, strawberry, tomato and olive oil sourced from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey. Subsequently, survey results have been supplemented by in depth, semi-structured interviews to a representative group of knowledgeable experts from the academic, public administration and business sectors. Results show differences depending on the product and the country studied. The approach used has been efficient in fulfilling the research objectives. It complements conventional quantitative inquiries where available evidence reveals serious difficulties to conduct thorough empirical analysis of the functioning of this trade with quantitative models. It is shown that the suggested approach is an alternative avenue to overcome these difficulties.
Constraints on Omega_m, Omega_L, and Sigma_8, from Galaxy Cluster Redshift Distributions
Creators: name: Holder, Gilbert
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Mohr, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the counts of galaxy clusters in future deep cluster surveys can place strong constraints on the matter density, Omega_m, the vacuum energy density, Omega_L, and the normalization of the matter power spectrum, sigma_8. Degeneracies between these parameters are different from those in studies of either high--redshift type Ia Supernovae (SNe), or cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. Using a mass threshold for cluster detection expected to be typical for upcoming SZE surveys, we find that constraints on Omega_m and sigma_8 at the level of roughly 5% or better can be expected, assuming redshift information is known at least to z=0.5 and in the absence of significant systematic errors. Without information past this redshift, Omega_L is constrained to 25%. With complete redshift information, deep (M_{lim}= 10^{14}h^{-1}{M_sun}), relatively small solid angle (roughly 12 {deg}^2) surveys can further constrain Omega_L to an accuracy of 15%, while large solid angle surveys with ground-based large-format bolometer arrays could measure Omega_L to a precision of 4% or better.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJL, minor revisions
Closing the policy-practice gaps in Nigeria’s desertification interventions: a qualitative document analysis of sustainable practice
Creators: name: Abdullahi Mohammad Jalam
name: Sharaai, Amir Hamzah
name: Mariani Ariffin
name: Norzalina Zainudin
name: Musa, Haruna Danladi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: In Nigeria’s frontline states, the southward dryland degradation continues due to the failure of interventions to address the human and natural causes. This study provides a theory-driven evaluation to ascertain the causes of desertification intervention’s poor performance. It provides a conceptual model for scaling up interventions towards achieving the 2030 target 15:3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Guided by intervention theory, relevant policy documents on desertification control were analyzed via Qualitative Document Analysis and triangulated by a semi-structured interview, and secondary data with the aid of ATLAS.ti 8. Findings revealed that a weak integration of Sustainable Practice across the policy cycle is responsible for notable gaps in the areas of an absence of participation of Civil Society Organizations and the use of Indigenous Knowledge, non-involvement of local government, and poor community ownership. Others include monitoring lapses, and the non-inclusion of the Land Degradation Neutrality concept – leading to failure in the Sustainability of Policy Instrument. A pragmatic approach integrating multi-stakeholder participation, the establishment of grass-root structure, and situation awareness should be incorporated across the policy cycle. The need for the development of Key Performance Indicators for tracking the progress of the Pan-African Great Green Wall initiative is also required.
Modelling the Pig Supply Chain: a Network Analysis Applied to the Italian Case
Creators: name: Clemente, Flavia
name: Nasuelli, Piero
name: Baggio, Rodolfo
name: Clemente, Flavia
name: Nasuelli, Piero
name: Baggio, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: food supply chain
subject: network analysis
subject: Italian pig meat chain
subject: fresh and seasoned products

description: Various economic theories and many approaches in the study of food chains have produced, over the years, a variety of models. They are used as tools for analysis and forecasting, and often offer a basis for the development in software of various kinds. In an earlier stage of our field research we developed a model mapping the dense network of links connecting the actors of the supply chains of products of animal origin of the Italian territory. An initial version of the model has shown the basic characteristics of the system and already provided a number of interesting insights (Clemente et al., 2015a, 2015b). The Eva.CAN model (Evaluation of Complex Agro‐food Networks) is a complex network model representing together the chains of milk (cow, goat, sheep and buffalo), and beef and pig meat along with all their products, fresh and matured, in which the links represent the economic exchanges between the different actors. In this next phase of analysis our aim is to show, in particular, a study of the structure of the Italian pig meat sector (fresh and cured products), the dynamics of import of raw materials and export of processed products, and also those of consumption on the Italian territory. A special attention is given to our PDO products, considered among the best in the World as for quality and quantity. The pig production in Italy reached 1.6 million tons. The meat of more than 70% of the bred animals is destined to the production of PDO products (In Italy the PDO products are 21 out of a total of 36 European). The industry imports nearly 1.2 million tons of meat that is intended in part to fresh consumption and in part to the transformation. In the analysis we use a higher amount of actual data pertaining to a greater number of years compared to the previous works. We apply network analytic methods to assess the topology (structural characteristics) of the network which is known to affect the overall functionality and dynamics (Newman, 2010). For the analysis of the sector it is important to understand what is the mix of processed products destined to domestic consumption and exports that allow the company to get the best economic performance. On this basis a series of simulations can provide different development scenarios. The evidence resulting from these allows examining possible strategic suggestions for what concerns business management and policies to be adopted in the whole sector.
Growth kinetic study of electrochemically active bacterium Shewanella putrefaciens MTCC 8104 on acidic effluent of jute stick pyrolysis
Creators: name: Jigisha Panda
name: Chowdhury, Ranjana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Production of bioelectricity from waste streams using electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) has a great prospect. This article focuses on the assessment of the assimilation of acid-rich pyroliquid (APL), appearing from the waste stream of pyrolysis unit of jute stick, by one of EAB, Shewanella putrefaciens MTCC 8104. At the optimum temperature ( = 37°C) and pH ( = 4), the strain can assimilate up to 230 ppm of acetic acid per hour. Microscopic analysis indicates the presence of nanowires in the bacteria. Diauxic growth pattern is exhibited when both APL and whey are used as carbon sources. The minimum inhibitory concentration of acetic acid against S. putrefaciens has been determined to be 8000 ppm. Growth kinetics of the strain has been determined by using APL having acetic acid concentration between 100 and 7500 ppm, as carbon source. While the Monod model can explain the growth in the uninhibited zone, Wayman model has been proved to be the fittest by statistical analysis using the Akaike Information Criterion. The kinetic parameters μmax, Ks and Ki are 0.11 h−1, 13.17 and 75930.1 mg/L, respectively, with R2 value of 0.977.
Innovation and Interactions: A Bibliometrics Study on intra‐firm Coordination
Creators: name: De Avila Santos, João Heitor
name: De Barcellos, Marcia Dutra
name: Sauvée, Loïc
name: De Avila Santos, João Heitor
name: De Barcellos, Marcia Dutra
name: Sauvée, Loïc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Innovation
subject: Interactions
subject: Coordination
subject: Intra‐firm
subject: Bibliometrics

description: The way the firm uses its technological resources and competences, the ability to combine/recombine components, methods, processes and techniques to offer products and services plays a central role on the innovation process (AFUAH, 2002). As Indarti (2010) points out, the interactions are a key element in the process of gaining access to, acquire, and develop knowledge for the stimulation of a firm’s activities in the field of innovation. From the intra‐firm perspective, to innovate, Paruchuri (2010) argues that a firm that can improve the diffusion of knowledge internally will benefit from enhanced innovative activity. Aalbers (2015) reflecting on the governance of knowledge sharing inside organizations, suggest that knowledge may come to be difficult to transfer because of the boundaries dynamics. In light of these authors insights the aim of this paper is to present an overview of the research regarding Interactions, Innovation and Intra‐firm Coordination. For that, we performed a bibliometrics study within the Web of Science (WoS) and the Elsevier’s Scopus libraries. A final sample of 111 papers were built after several refinements. The results suggest a growing tendency of the publications on the subject. The most cited papers have a gap of almost twelve years in between it, which shows that the construction of knowledge, about the topics innovation interactions and intra‐firm coordination are still attached to what was published a long time ago, for the initiators of this research field, but the works of Dolfsma et al (2008) and Leendert et al (2015) shows us a new trend and that new researchers are using these brand new works as references to perform new studies.
Chelipoda MACQUART 1823
Creators: name: Plant, Adrian R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Chelipoda

description: Chelipoda Macquart, 1823
 Diagnosis. – A characteristic genus of the Empididae subfamily Hemerodromiinae with raptorial forelegs distinctly separated from the mid legs and fore femur bearing distinct rows of setae ventrally (Figs. 25–27). Chelipoda is distinguished from other southeast Asian Hemerodromiinae by the combination of (1) Postpedicel longer than wide, stylus longer (2) Katatergital setae present (3) Male genitalia strongly reflexed anteriorly (4) Cell dm closed (crossvein dm-cu present) (5) Anal vein (A 2 +CuA 2) present (6) Cell br usually longer than cell bm, crossveins closing them not closely aligned (Fig. 28).
description: Published as part of Plant, Adrian R., 2009, Diversity Of Chelipoda Macquart, 1823 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) In Northern Thailand With Discussion Of A Biodiversity ' Hot Spot' At Doi Inthanon, pp. 255-277 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 256, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342006
Two-scale momentum theory for time-dependent modelling of large wind farms
Creators: name: Nishino, Takafumi
name: Dunstan, Thomas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a theory based on the law of momentum conservation to define and help analyse the problem of large wind farm aerodynamics. The theory splits the problem into two sub-problems; namely an 'external' (or farm-scale) problem, which is a time-dependent problem considering large-scale motions of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) to assess the amount of momentum available to the ABL's bottom resistance at a certain time; and an 'internal' (or turbine-scale) problem, which is a quasi-steady (in terms of large-scale motions of the ABL) problem describing the breakdown of the ABL's bottom resistance into wind turbine drag and land/sea surface friction. The two sub-problems are coupled to each other through a non-dimensional parameter called 'farm wind-speed reduction factor' or 'farm induction factor,' for which a simple analytic equation is derived that can be solved iteratively using information obtained from both sub-problems. This general form of coupling allows us to use the present theory with various types of flow models for each scale, such as a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model for the external problem and a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for the internal problem. The theory is presented for a simplified wind farm situation first, followed by a discussion on how the theory can be applied (in an approximate manner) to real-world problems; for example, how to estimate the power loss due to the so-called 'wind farm blockage effect' for a given large wind farm under given environmental conditions.
A General Formalism for Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
Creators: name: Soderberg, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and investigate an extension of the classical random graph to a general class of inhomogeneous random graph models, where vertices come in different types, and the probability of realizing an edge depends on the types of its terminal vertices. This approach provides a general framework for the analysis of a large class of models. The generic phase structure is derived using generating function techniques, and relations to other classes of models are pointed out.
description: 7 pages, no figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Gonodactylellus viridis
Creators: name: Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Stomatopoda
Gonodactylidae
Gonodactylellus
Gonodactylellus viridis

description: Gonodactylellus viridis (Serène, 1954)
(Fig. 2I)
 Gonodactylus chiragra var. viridis Serène, 1954: 6, 7, 10, 74, 75, 76, 87, fig. 13–3 (type locality: Cauda Bay, Vietnam). Gonodactylus viridis. — Manning 1978: 4, fig. 2a–c. — Moosa 1989: 226.
 Gonodactylellus incipiens. — Manning 1995: 63: fig. 24 [TL 30 mm female only, not G.incipiens (Lanchester, 1903)]. Gonodactylinus viridis. — Ahyong & Norrington 1997: 100. — Manning 1995: 66–68, figs. 8c, d, 9c, 10e, 11c, 25a. Gonodactylellus viridis. — Ahyong 2001: 63–64, fig. 31. — Hamano 2005: 12, 23, fig. 2-5h–j.
 Material. RUMF-ZC-01273, 1 male (TL 18 mm), Ara Beach, 26°18'58.9" N, 126°46'26.0"E, intertidal stn 01, 16 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01270, 1 female (TL 37 mm), Shinri Beach, 26°21'13.4" N, 126°42'59.6" E, intertidal stn 3, 18 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01271, 2 males (TL 21–24 mm), 4 females (TL 17–27 mm), Ishidatami, Oh-jima Islet, 26°20'09.6" N, 126°49'29.2" E, intertidal stn 5, 18–19 Nov 2009; AM P87566, 1 female (TL 25 mm), Ishidatami, Oh-jima Islet, 26°20'09.6" N, 126°49'29.2" E, intertidal stn 5, 18–19 Nov 2009.
 Remarks. Gonodactylellus viridis as currently understood represents a species complex, but the present specimens represent G. viridis sensu stricto. Moosa (1989) first recorded G. viridis from the Ryukyus.
 Distribution. Andaman Sea and northwestern Australia eastwards to Taiwan and Japan; intertidal to shallow subtidal.
description: Published as part of Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T., 2012, Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan *, pp. 232-251 in Zootaxa 3367 on page 240
Mergers & Acquisitions in the Food Business: How did the 2002 and 2008/2009 Economic Crises Impact Corporate Valuation?
Creators: name: Declerck, Francis
name: Declerck, Francis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: market multiples
subject: transaction market multiples
subject: valuation
subject: transaction
subject: M&A
subject: food

description: Transaction market multiples are widely used as benchmarks for negotiation between buyers and sellers. This research focuses on financial performance expressed as transaction market multiples of sales, EBITDA and net profit for the 2002-2009 period. The number of transactions declined much more in 2002 than in 2008 and 2009, but the value of transactions displayed the opposite trend. The 2008-2009 economic crisis impacted the valuation of food companies more than the 2002 crisis. Market multiples declined much more in 2009 than in 2002 and 2003. On average, transaction multiples are stable, even though their values on a given year are affected by economic cycles. The EV/EBITDA provides results with smaller spread than EV/ Sales and EV/net profit. The present research shows that valuations of dairy companies are quite close to the average valuations in the food business. But valuations of wines and spirits companies are a lot higher than other food business companies. Transaction market multiples at food subsector level provide more accurate tools to the stakeholders of M&A in order to avoid over-payment and financial distress.
Learning to Learn: A Case for the Heterogeneous Expectations Hypothesis in Industrialized Markets
Creators: name: Ng, Desmond
name: Chen, Liming
name: Ng, Desmond
name: Chen, Liming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: prices dynamics
subject: heterogeneous expectations
subject: learning
subject: and industrialized supply chain

description: A cobweb model is developed where the heterogeneous expectation hypothesis is examined. An agent’s heterogeneous expectation involves the development of a “higher ordered learning” process in which agents over time develop expectations that are consistent with rational expectations. In addition, as cob web models are production based systems, an agents’ heterogeneous expectations are influenced by a specialization of activities. The case of the industrialization of the U.S. hog-pork industry is used to illustrate the influence of these features on the equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of a modified cob-web model.
Analysis of the Supply Chain and Logistics Practices of Warqe Food Products in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Chaka, Ashenafi
name: Kenea, Tadesse
name: Gebresenbet, Girma
name: Chaka, Ashenafi
name: Kenea, Tadesse
name: Gebresenbet, Girma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Warqe
subject: supply chain
subject: logistics
subject: Ethiopia

description: Warqe (Enset) is a multipurpose perennial plant, domesticated and grown as a food crop only in Ethiopia. Kocho, bulla, and amicho are food products of warqe. This study analysed the supply chain and logistics practices of warqe foods. Supply chain management concept was used to analyse the warqe-based food chain. Eight supply chain actors were identified. It was observed that the supply chain of warqe foods and the relationship between chain actors was very complex, long and overlapping. The major constraints identified in the chain were poor information flow, poor transportation system, using perishable packaging, lack of cooperation between actors, a poor infrastructure such as road and warehouse services, and poor policies concerning the warqe market. There is a need for cooperation and coordination between the chain actors to create an effective information sharing system. Shared warehouses need to be built near producers and market places. Transportation, packaging and handling need to be improved. Research is required to develop an integrated, efficient and effective logistics for warqe supply and marketing chain.
What Do Gravitational Lens Time Delays Measure?
Creators: name: Kochanek, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational lens time delays depend on the Hubble constant, the observed image positions, and the surface mass density of the lens in the annulus between the images. Simple time delay lenses like PG1115+080, SBS1520+530, B1600+434, PKS1830-211 and HE2149-2745 have H0 = A(1-)+B(e-1) where the two coefficients A ~ 90km/s Mpc and B ~ 10km/s Mpc depend on the measured delays and the observed image positions, is the mean surface density in the annulus between the images, and there is a small correction from the logarithmic slope e ~ 2 of the surface density profile, k ~ R^(1-e), in the annulus. These 5 systems are very homogeneous, since for fixed H0=100h km/s Mpc they must have the same surface density, =1.11-1.22 h +/- 0.04, with an upper bound of 0.07 on any dispersion in beyond those due to the measurement errors. If the lenses have their expected dark halos, ~ 0.5 and H0=51+/-5 km/s Mpc, while if they have constant mass-to-light ratios, ~ 0.1-0.2 and H0=73+/-8 km/s Mpc. More complicated lenses with multiple components or strong perturbations from nearby clusters, like RXJ0911+0551 and Q0957+561, are easily recognized because they have significantly different coefficients.
description: Submitted to ApJ. 18 pages, no figures
Developing Exchange in Short Local Foods Supply Chains
Creators: name: Engelseth, Per
name: Engelseth, Per
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Local foods
subject: Short supply chains
subject: Logistics
subject: Contingency theory
subject: Interdependencies
subject: Exchange economy

description: The supply chain management of foods is commonly associated with modernistic large-scale production. This involves long transport distances of foods to reach consumers. In the case of local foods, supply chains are shorter. Based on a case study of five local foods producer's supply of their products to a common retailer, the supply chain of local foods is modelled conceptually and modes of development are pointed out based on contingency theory and supply chain management literature. Findings reveal that since these chains are transparent, reciprocal interdependency is abundant mainly because human perception creates a sufficient understanding of the operations management issues pertinent within this simple inter-organisational structure. Local foods supply chains are similar to service supply chains. This includes that both are short in nature and associated with bi-directional interaction between the customer and supplier. Developing short supply chains in local foods supply is associated with improving the exchange economy found in short supply chains. This also implies that development of local foods supply is associated with two paths which may be complementary. First, the use of improved intensive technology associated with reciprocal interdependency to develop efficiencies in the bi-directional and somewhat complex interaction. Alternatively local foods suppliers may seek to reduce this form of reciprocal interdependency thereby increasing the impact of pooled interdependencies and enabling using mediating technology involving standardising interaction such as through increased standardised products and packaging as well as automation of information connectivity.
D2.1 Inventory of the success cases and go-to-business scenario - 1st release
Creators: name: Galani, Andriani
name: Stepisnik Perdih, Tadej
name: Papadopoulou, Pinelopi
name: Nazos, Theocharis
name: Malamis, Simos
name: Levikov, Nika
name: Roscani, Valerio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: success cases
subject: Business

description: The "Inventory of Success Cases and Go-To-Business Scenario" (D2.1) is a key deliverable under Work Package 2 (WP2) of the INNO4CFIs project, coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). This report compiles best practices and innovative approaches in Carbon Farming and the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus, drawing insights from recent research, databases, previous projects, and partner networks. It presents a comprehensive inventory of success cases and outlines a business scenario designed for SMEs, enabling them to integrate Nexus and Carbon Farming methods to enhance their sustainability, resilience, and financial prospects. The document systematically categorizes case studies based on general information, methodologies, impacts, scalability, and governance frameworks, while also identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluating interventions. Furthermore, it introduces the INNO4CFIs Go-To-Business Scenario, illustrating how SMEs can adopt carbon farming practices, access funding, and participate in carbon credit markets. This initial release establishes a foundation for further refinements, with an updated version planned for Month 36, ensuring alignment with evolving Carbon Farming policies, market trends, and sustainability goals.
Supplementary Material from Smooth muscle contractility causes the gut to grow anisotropically
Creators: name: Khalipina, Diana
name: Kaga, Yusuke
name: Dacher, Nicolas
name: Chevalier, Nicolas R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The intestine is the most anisotropically-shaped organ, but, when grown in culture, embryonic intestinal stem cells form star- or sphere-shaped organoids. Here, we present evidence that spontaneous tonic and phasic contractions of the circular smooth muscle of the embryonic gut cause short-time scale elongation of the organ by a purely mechanical, self-squeezing effect. We present an innovative culture set-up to achieve embryonic gut growth in culture and demonstrate by three different methods (embryological, pharmacological and microsurgical) that gut elongational growth is compromised when smooth muscle contractions are inhibited. We conclude that the cumulated short-term mechanical deformations induced by circular smooth muscle lead to long-term anisotropic growth of the gut, thus demonstrating a self-consistent way by which the function of this organ (peristalsis) directs its shape (morphogenesis). Our model correctly predicts that longitudinal smooth muscle differentiation later in embryogenesis slows down elongation, and that several mice models with defective gut smooth muscle contractility also exhibit gut growth defects. We lay out a comprehensive scheme of forces acting on the gut during embryogenesis and of their role in the morphogenesis of this organ. This knowledge will help design efficient in vitro organ growth protocols and handle gut growth pathologies such as Short Bowel Syndrome.
Bound states in straight quantum waveguides with combined boundary conditions
Creators: name: Dittrich, Jaroslav
name: Kriz, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living in the two-dimensional straight strip. We impose the combined Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on different parts of the boundary. Several statements on the existence or the absence of the discrete spectrum are proven for two models with combined boundary conditions. Examples of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are computed numerically.
description: 24 pages, LaTeX 2e with 4 eps figures