cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Semiclassical Quantization of Effective String Theory and Regge Trajectories
Creators: name: Baker, M.
name: Steinke, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We begin with an effective string theory for long distance QCD, and evaluate the semiclassical expansion of this theory about a classical rotating string solution, taking into account the the dynamics of the boundary of the string. We show that, after renormalization, the zero point energy of the string fluctuations remains finite when the masses of the quarks on the ends of the string approach zero. The theory is then conformally invariant in any spacetime dimension D. For D=26 the energy spectrum of the rotating string formally coincides with that of the open string in classical Bosonic string theory. However, its physical origin is different. It is a semiclassical spectrum of an effective string theory valid only for large values of the angular momentum. For D=4, the first semiclassical correction adds the constant 1/12 to the classical Regge formula.
description: 65 pages, revtex, 3 figures, added 2 references
Flopping-mode electric dipole spin resonance
Creators: name: Croot, X.
name: Mi, X.
name: Putz, S.
name: Benito, M.
name: Borjans, F.
name: Burkard, G.
name: Petta, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditional approaches to controlling single spins in quantum dots require the generation of large electromagnetic fields to drive many Rabi oscillations within the spin coherence time. We demonstrate "flopping-mode" electric dipole spin resonance, where an electron is electrically driven in a Si/SiGe double quantum dot in the presence of a large magnetic field gradient. At zero detuning, charge delocalization across the double quantum dot enhances coupling to the drive field and enables low power electric dipole spin resonance. Through dispersive measurements of the single electron spin state, we demonstrate a nearly three order of magnitude improvement in driving efficiency using flopping-mode resonance, which should facilitate low power spin control in quantum dot arrays.
Communities' Perceptions and Knowledge of Ecosystem Service
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Kato, Edward
name: Bhandary, Prapti
name: Nkonya, Ephraim
name: Ibrahim, Hassan Ishaq
name: Agbonlahor, Mure
name: Ibrahim, Hussaini Yusuf
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Kato, Edward
name: Bhandary, Prapti
name: Nkonya, Ephraim
name: Ibrahim, Hassan Ishaq
name: Agbonlahor, Mure
name: Ibrahim, Hussaini Yusuf
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: ecosystem services
subject: awareness
subject: knowledge
subject: perception
subject: rural community
subject: forest
subject: Nigeria

description: This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides a valuable means of gaining insight into the opportunities and constraints that face ES management in a multiuser landscape. Land use preferences are influenced by a variety of motives, attitudes, and values intrinsic to every individual’s decisionmaking. Knowledge can affect attitudes and behavioral intentions, and a positive attitude toward the environment has been found to predict conservation practices. Using primary data collected from a village survey of 102 villages in Nigeria between November 2012 and February 2013, this study assesses local communities’ awareness, perceptions, and knowledge of a broad range of ES and examines the key factors that explain the variations in the level of awareness across communities, with a special focus on land uses within landscapes. We found that exposure to forest and lowland floodplains was positively correlated with people’s level of awareness of ES, highlighting the importance of direct experience and local context in shaping people’s perceptions toward ES. Such considerations should be taken into account when designing policies aimed at addressing natural resources and environmental management issues. While provisioning services were generally well recognized, consistent with findings of previous studies, a majority of the sampled villages also appreciated spiritual values as a cultural service. Communities’ awareness and knowledge about regulating and supporting ES were generally very low, including those services that are important for maintaining the stability and productivity of agroecosystems (for example, pollination and biological pest control), warranting a greater role for agricultural extension to play in influencing community levels of awareness of ES in Nigeria. Furthermore, incorporating new concepts and topics about ES into the primary school curriculum will better educate people about the importance of ES. Finally, our assessment of communities’ attitudes toward payments for environmental services suggests a need to respect local communities’ preferences, norms, and traditions when designing policies that encourage natural resources management.
Examining Self-Selection and the Impacts of Integrated Pest Management Adoption on Yield and Gross Margin: Evidence from Ghana
Creators: name: Owusu, Victor
name: Kakraba, Isaac
name: Owusu, Victor
name: Kakraba, Isaac
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Ghana
subject: Gross Margin
subject: Impact Assessment
subject: Integrated Pest Management
subject: Selection Bias
subject: Yield

description: This article investigates the impact of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) adoption on yields and gross margins of vegetable farmers using survey data from the Ashanti Region in Ghana. A parametric approach that accounts for selection bias in IPM adoption is employed to evaluate the direct impact of adoption of pest monitoring only, pesticide application only and both pest monitoring and pesticides application on yields and gross margins. The empirical results from the study show selectivity effects for the impact of adoption of pest monitoring and adoption of both IPM practices on yields of vegetable farmers but no selectivity effects for the impacts on gross margins. Assessment of yield and gross margin of IPM adopters in sub- Saharan Africa must account for selectivity effects.
A Study in Attitudes Shaping Cooperative Leadership
Creators: name: Zivkovic, Sanja
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Johnson, Phillip
name: Park, John
name: Zivkovic, Sanja
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Johnson, Phillip
name: Park, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agricultural cooperatives
subject: managers
subject: board of directors
subject: relationship

description: Cooperatives are a unique type of business because of linked and close roles performed by three main groups of stakeholders: members-owners, directors and managers. Cooperatives differ from other corporations because the producers-members-owners and directors who control the cooperative are composed of the same set of people, thus the members of the board are shareholders themselves. This special dynamic creates a unique situation in terms of the relationship between the board of directors, which exerts ownership control, and the manager who exerts managerial control. Success of a cooperative mainly depends on good board - manager relationships. This study focused on an evaluation of the relationship between the board of directors and managers. Data were gathered through a survey to the general managers and the chairmen of agricultural cooperatives in Texas. The coordinated responses of the board chairmen and managers from the same cooperatives were analyzed. This study examined variables such as organizational commitment, loyalty, teamwork, strategy, and communication between the board and managers. Furthermore, the study observed the differences in perceptions of priorities of certain matters. In addition, characteristics that directors and managers valued the most about each other were reported. The findings indicated that managers behaved as stewards and good players in a cooperative game as they reported high fulfillment and commitment to their cooperatives. In addition, both managers and chairmen reported a high level of satisfaction with their relationship. However, they both required more communication with each other.
Ambrysus teutonius La Rivers 1951
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Naucoridae
Ambrysus
Ambrysus teutonius

description: Ambrysus teutonius La Rivers, 1951
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
 Distribution in Brazil: Central-West, Southeast, and South regions (MT, MG, SC, RS) (Nieser et al. 1999; Melo & Nieser 2004; Neri et al. 2005; Pelli et al. 2006; Souza et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Assessment of a multiplex PCR and Nanopore-based method for dengue virus sequencing in Indonesia
Creators: name: Stubbs, Samuel C. B.
name: Blacklaws, Barbara A.
name: Yohan, Benediktus
name: Yudhaputri, Frilasita A.
name: Hayati, Rahma F.
name: Schwem, Brian
name: Salvaña, Edsel M.
name: Destura, Raul V.
name: Lester, James S.
name: Myint, Khin S.
name: Sasmono, R. Tedjo
name: Frost, Simon D. W.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research
Positive-strand RNA viruses
Dengue virus
Disease surveillance
Virus sequencing
Nanopore sequencing

description: Abstract: Background: Dengue virus (DENV) infects hundreds of thousands of people annually in Indonesia. However, DENV sequence data from the country are limited, as samples from outbreaks must be shipped across long-distances to suitably equipped laboratories to be sequenced. This approach is time-consuming, expensive, and frequently results in failure due to low viral load or degradation of the RNA genome. Methods: We evaluated a method designed to address this challenge, using the ‘Primal Scheme’ multiplex PCR tiling approach to rapidly generate short, overlapping amplicons covering the complete DENV coding-region, and sequencing the amplicons on the portable Nanopore MinION device. The resulting sequence data was assessed in terms of genome coverage, consensus sequence accuracy and by phylogenetic analysis. Results: The multiplex approach proved capable of producing near complete coding-region coverage from all samples tested (x¯ = 99.96%, n = 18), 61% of which could not be fully amplified using the current, long-amplicon PCR, approach. Nanopore-generated consensus sequences were found to be between 99.17–99.92% identical to those produced by high-coverage Illumina sequencing. Consensus accuracy could be improved by masking regions below 20X coverage depth (99.69–99.92%). However, coding-region coverage was reduced at this depth (x¯ = 93.48%). Nanopore and Illumina consensus sequences generated from the same samples formed monophyletic clades on phylogenetic analysis, and Indonesian consensus sequences accurately clustered by geographical origin. Conclusion: The multiplex, short-amplicon approach proved superior for amplifying DENV genomes from clinical samples, particularly when the virus was present at low concentrations. The accuracy of Nanopore-generated consensus sequences from these amplicons was sufficient for identifying the geographic origin of the samples, demonstrating that the approach can be a useful tool for identifying and monitoring DENV clades circulating in low-resource settings across Indonesia. However, the inaccuracies in Nanopore-generated consensus sequences mean that the approach may not be appropriate for higher resolution transmission studies, particularly when more accurate sequencing technologies are available.
Additional file 1 of The CD64/CD28/CD3ζ chimeric receptor reprograms T-cell metabolism and promotes T-cell persistence and immune functions while triggering antibody-independent and antibody-dependent cytotoxicity
Creators: name: Caratelli, Sara
name: De Paolis, Francesca
name: Silvestris, Domenico Alessandro
name: Baldari, Silvia
name: Salvatori, Illari
name: Tullo, Apollonia
name: Lanzilli, Giulia
name: Gurtner, Aymone
name: Ferri, Alberto
name: Valle, Cristiana
name: Padovani, Simona
name: Cesarini, Valeriana
name: Sconocchia, Tommaso
name: Cifaldi, Loredana
name: Arriga, Roberto
name: Spagnoli, Giulio Cesare
name: Ferrone, Soldano
name: Venditti, Adriano
name: Rossi, Piero
name: Pesole, Graziano
name: Toietta, Gabriele
name: Sconocchia, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Magnetic and superconducting phase diagrams and transition temperatures predicted using text mining and machine learning
Creators: name: Court, Callum J.
name: Cole, Jacqueline M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/639/301/1034/1037
/639/766/119/997
/639/766/119/1003
/639/301/119/997
/639/301/119/1003
article

description: Abstract: Predicting the properties of materials prior to their synthesis is of great importance in materials science. Magnetic and superconducting materials exhibit a number of unique properties that make them useful in a wide variety of applications, including solid oxide fuel cells, solid-state refrigerants, photon detectors and metrology devices. In all these applications, phase transitions play an important role in determining the feasibility of the materials in question. Here, we present a pipeline for fully integrating data extracted from the scientific literature into machine-learning tools for property prediction and materials discovery. Using advanced natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning techniques, we successfully reconstruct the phase diagrams of well-known magnetic and superconducting compounds, and demonstrate that it is possible to predict the phase-transition temperatures of compounds not present in the database. We provide the tool as an online open-source platform, forming the basis for further research into magnetic and superconducting materials discovery for potential device applications.
Determination of Primordial Metallicity and Mixing in the Type IIP Supernova 1993W
Creators: name: Baron, E.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Branch, David
name: Hauschildt, Peter H.
name: Turatto, M.
name: Cappellaro, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a large grid of synthetic spectra and compare them to early spectroscopic observations of SN 1993W. This supernova was discovered close to its explosion date and at a recession velocity of 5400 km/s is located in the Hubble flow. We focus here on two early spectra that were obtained approximately 5 and 9 days after explosion. We parameterize the outer supernova envelope as a power-law density profile in homologous expansion. In order to extract information on the value of the parameters a large number of models was required. We show that very early spectra combined with detailed models can provide constraints on the value of the power law index, the ratio of hydrogen to helium in the surface of the progenitor, the progenitor metallicity and the amount of radioactive nickel mixed into the outer envelope of the supernova. The spectral fits reproduce the observed spectra exceedingly well. The spectral results combined with the early photometry predict that the explosion date was 4.7 \pm 0.7 days before the first spectrum was obtained. The ability to obtain the metallicity from early spectra make SN IIP attractive probes of chemical evolution in the universe and by showing that we have the ability to pin down the parameters of the progenitor and mixing during the supernova explosion, it is likely to make SN IIP useful cosmological distance indicators which are at the same time complementary to SNe Ia.
description: 30 pages, 4 Tables, 16 Figures (some color), submitted to ApJ
Independent influences of maternal obesity and fetal sex on maternal cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Teulings, Noor E. W. D.
name: Wood, Angela M.
name: Sovio, Ulla
name: Ozanne, Susan E.
name: Smith, Gordon C. S.
name: Aiken, Catherine E.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/692/308/174
/692/699/75
/692/499
article

description: Abstract: Background/Objectives: Successful pregnancy requires the de novo creation of low-resistance utero-placental and feto-placental circulations and incomplete remodeling of this vasculature can lead to maternal or fetal compromise. Maternal BMI and fetal sex are known to influence vascular compliance and placental development, but it is unknown if these are independent or synergistic effects. Here we aim to investigate the impact of maternal obesity, fetal sex, and any interaction thereof on maternal cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy, by assessing the physiological drop of uterine artery doppler pulsatility (UtA-PI) and umbilical artery doppler pulsatility index (UA-PI) over gestation. Subjects/Methods: Nulliparous women with a singleton pregnancy participating in a prospective cohort study (n = 4212) underwent serial UtA-PI and UA-PI measurements at 20-, 28- and 36-weeks gestation. Linear mixed regression models were employed to investigate the influence of maternal BMI, fetal sex and interactions thereof on the magnitude of change in UtA-PI and UA-PI. Results: Throughout gestation, UtA-PI was higher for male fetuses and UA-PI was higher for female fetuses. The physiological drop of UtA-PI was significantly smaller in overweight (change −24.3% [95%CI −22.3, −26.2]) and obese women (change −21.3% [−18.3, −24.3]), compared to normal-weight women (change −25.7% [−24.3, −27.0]) but did not differ by fetal sex. The physiological drop in UA-PI was greater for female than male fetuses (–32.5% [−31.5, −33.5] vs. −30.7% [−29.8, −31.7]) but did not differ by maternal BMI. No interactions between maternal BMI and fetal sex were found. Conclusions: Maternal cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy is independently associated with maternal BMI and fetal sex. Our results imply sexual dimorphism in both maternal cardiovascular adaptation and feto-placental resistance.
Analysing the economic value of meteorological information to improve crop risk management decisions in a dynamic context
Creators: name: Cerdá, Emilio
name: Quiroga, Sonia
name: Cerdá, Emilio
name: Quiroga, Sonia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Cost-loss ratio
subject: Crop yield protection
subject: dynamic decision models
subject: climate risks

description: We evaluate the added value of a forecast service that can provide probabilistic predictions for adverse weather events for two differentiated seasons, corresponding to the same productive cycle. The paper builds on a cost-loss dynamic model, by considering the role of forecasting systems in the decision making process. We present the analytical solution for this problem which is consistent with the numerical results in the literature. However, we prove that there is a range of regions for the optimal policy depending on the cost of crop protection, the avoided loss and the quality of the information available. Finally, we illustrate the results with a numerical example.
The Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann legacy in mathematical relativity II. Quantum laws of motion
Creators: name: Tahvildar-Zadeh, A. Shadi
name: Kiessling, Michael K. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q, 83C

description: We report on recent developments towards a relativistic quantum mechanical theory of motion for a fixed, finite number of electrons, photons, and their anti-particles, as well as its possible generalizations to other particles and interactions.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, Rapport by the first author given at the 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Univ. Roma 1 (La Sapienza), Rome, Italy, July 3, 2018
Non-Interactive Blind Signatures from RSA Assumption and More
Creators: name: Paracucchi, Eugenio
name: Hanzlik, Lucjan
name: Zanotto, Riccardo
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2025

description: Blind signatures have received increased attention from researchers and practitioners. They allow users to obtain a signature under a message without revealing it to the signer. One of the most popular applications of blind signatures is to use them as one-time tokens, where the issuing is not linkable to the redeeming phase, and the signature under a random identifier forms a valid token. This concept is the backbone of the Privacy Pass system, which uses it to identify honest but anonymous users and protect content delivery networks from botnets.

Non-interactive blind signatures for random messages were introduced by Hanzlik (Eurocrypt'23). They allow a signer to create a pre-signature with respect to a particular public key, while the corresponding secret key can later be used to finalize the signature. This non-interaction allows for more applications than in the case of blind signatures. In particular, the author suggested using regular PKI keys as the recipient public key, allowing for a distribution of one-time tokens to users outside the system, e.g., to public keys of GitHub users, similar to airdropping of cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately, despite introducing this concept, the paper fails to provide schemes that work with keys used in the wild.

We solve this open problem. We introduce a generic construction of non-interactive blind signatures that relies on Yao's garbled circuit techniques and provide particular improvements to this generic setting. We replace oblivious transfer with their non-interactive variant and show how to construct them so that the recipient's public key, encoding the OT choice, is a standard RSA public key (e,N). To improve the efficiency of the garbling, we show how to garble the signing algorithm of the pairing-based Pointcheval-Sanders (PS) signatures and the RSA-based signature scheme with efficient protocols by Camenisch and Lysyanskaya. Our technique also apply to the well-known BBS signatures. All our improvements are of independent interest and are central to our contribution.
Ambrysus truncaticollis
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Naucoridae
Ambrysus
Ambrysus truncaticollis

description: Ambrysus truncaticollis (De Carlo, 1935)
Geographical distribution: Brazil and Argentina.
 Distribution in Brazil: Southeast and South regions (SP, SC, RS) (De Carlo 1935; Usinger 1941; Nieser et al. 1999).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Farmer’s subjective elicited water response function for intensive olives and compromise programming method for irrigation supply decision
Creators: name: Berbel, Julio
name: Gutiérrez-Martín, Carlos
name: Berbel, Julio
name: Gutiérrez-Martín, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Compromise programming
subject: deficit
subject: irrigation
subject: decision maker judgement
subject: probability density function
subject: water production function

description: This research analyses the subjective crop yield-water relationship and proposes a method to determine water supply in irrigated olives. The probability density for water response functions (PDF) is elicited from a series of interviews carried out on a wide group of farmers. The elicitation technique is based upon the triangular distribution (highest possible, most frequent and lowest possible) and estimates of yield related to water supply (low, ‘normal’ and full irrigation). The model presented illustrates the possibility of implementing simple decision models to support farmers to manage water considering the objectives of maximizing profit and minimizing risk.
Free expansion of attractive and repulsive Bose-Einstein condensed vortex states
Creators: name: Adhikari, Sadhan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Free expansion of attractive and repulsive Bose-Einstein condensed vortex states formed in an axially symmetric trap is investigated using the numerical solution of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In a repulsive condensate the vortex-core radius is much smaller than the radial root-mean-square (rms) radius, which makes the experimental observation of the vortex core difficult. The opposite is found to be true in an attractive condensate which makes it a better candidate for experimental observation. Also, in all cases the ratio of vortex-core radius to radial rms radius increases as the angular momentum of the vortex increases. This makes the vortex states with higher angular momenta more suitable for experimental confirmation.
description: 5 revtex pages, 7 postscript figures
Additional file 1 of Tele-care intervention performed by parents involving specific task- environment- participation (STEP protocol) for infants at risk for developmental delay: protocol of randomized controlled clinical trial
Creators: name: Lima, Camila Resende Gâmbaro
name: dos Santos, Adriana Neves
name: dos Santos, Mariana Martins
name: Morgan, Catherine
name: Rocha, Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending: default, default dependency and industry potential
Creators: name: Mammadova, Leyla
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 149999 Economics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The thesis presents three empirical chapters on the credit risk and industry potential of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) market. The first empirical chapter explores default risk which considers macroeconomic factors in addition to traditional determinants such as credit scores, loan-to-income level, employability, and the credit history of the borrower. The importance of the macroeconomic environment on the lending market is highlighted by Gremi (2013). Logistic regression has been applied to one of the biggest P2P platforms operating in the United States (US), Lending Club, on borrowers from 2007 to 2016. The results show the grading system and FICO score are the significant factors associated with the default of loans. This thesis also finds a significant negative relationship between the macroeconomic environment and the performance of the P2P loans.The second empirical chapter explores default dependency in P2P lending with a specific focus on asymmetric tail dependency. Five different copula families are used to capture possible non-linearity and asymmetric properties of the loan portfolios. Using the monthly loan dataset of one of the biggest P2P Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) lenders, Funding Circle, from 2010 to 2018, the study covers six different risky loan segments and, therefore, fifteen loan portfolio pairs. From the estimations of the entire distribution and upper tails of fifteen portfolio pairs, the study finds that the Gumbel copula, which represents right-tail dependence, fits the empirical data best in eight out of fifteen portfolios. In three cases, the joint default distribution shows symmetric tail dependence represented by Student’s t copula. The results highlight the importance of the joint default distributions of portfolios, in addition to individual defaults of each borrower.The third empirical chapter investigates the industry potential of P2P loans in the UK. Quarterly growth rates of P2P consumer and business loans are fitted to the Bass, Logistic, and Gompertz models from 2005 to 2019. The goodness of fit measures strongly supports the soundness of the Gompertz model for P2P Business and Consumer Lending. Selected models are used to forecast the diffusion pattern for the next 5 years and predict the industry potential of P2P lending. According to the estimations, total cumulative loan allocation through P2P platforms in the UK will reach nearly £24 billion by the end of 2024. The market potential is expected to be triple the current size and reach £32 billion, while the P2P business lending keeping its dominant position, compared to P2P consumer lending.
The role of private sector in development: The relation between public-private investment in infrastructure and agricultural exports in developing countries
Creators: name: Soriano, Bárbara
name: Garrido, Alberto
name: Soriano, Bárbara
name: Garrido, Alberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural exports
subject: development
subject: panel data
subject: public-private investment in infrastructure

description: Increasing foreign private investment in developing countries explains why the Public-Private Investment (PPI) is becoming a key tool to reach the development goal. This article analyzes the relation between PPI in infrastructure and agricultural exports in developing countries. We use the panel data approach (52 countries and 17 years). Results show that PPI in infrastructure has a positive impact on agricultural exports of developing countries. The impact is greater in developing countries with higher income rates. This suggests that the lower income countries require the intervention of public sector without which private investment cannot help to economic development.
Exo-hydrogenated Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Yildirim, T.
name: Gülseren, O.
name: Ciraci, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extensive first-principles study of fully exo-hydrogenated zigzag (n,0) and armchair (n,n) single wall carbon nanotubes (C$_n$H$_n$), polyhedral molecules including cubane, dodecahedrane, and C$_{60}$H$_{60}$ points to crucial differences in the electronic and atomic structures relevant to hydrogen storage and device applications. C$_n$H$_n$'s are estimated to be stable up to the radius of a (8,8) nanotube, with binding energies proportional to 1/R. Attaching a single hydrogen to any nanotube is always exothermic. Hydrogenation of zigzag nanotubes is found to be more likely than armchair nanotubes with similar radius. Our findings may have important implications for selective functionalization and finding a way of separating similar radius nanotubes from each other.
description: 5 pages, 4 postscript figures, Revtex file, To be appear in Physical Review B
Carvalhoiella beckeri De Carlo 1963
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Naucoridae
Carvalhoiella
Carvalhoiella beckeri

description: Carvalhoiella beckeri De Carlo, 1963
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
Distribution in Brazil: Southeast Region (MG) (De Carlo 1963; Vianna & Melo 2003).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Additional file 1 of MoxR effects as an ATPase on anti-stress and pathogenicity of Riemerella anatipestifer
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Yanhao
name: He, Yushan
name: Hou, Yarong
name: Li, Xuedi
name: Yang, Xueying
name: Zhou, Zutao
name: Li, Zili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Strains and plasmids involved in this study. The plasmids and strains involved in this study are listed in the table.
Proceedings Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software
Creators: name: Martins, Francisco
name: Orchard, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern hardware platforms, from the very small to the very large, increasingly provide parallel and distributed computing resources for applications to maximise performance. Many applications therefore need to make effective use of tens, hundreds, and even thousands of compute nodes. Computation in such systems is thus inherently concurrent and communication centric. Effectively programming such applications is challenging; performance, correctness, and scalability are difficult to achieve. The development of effective programming methodologies for this increasingly parallel landscape therefore demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of foundational and practical ideas. The International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES) is dedicated to work in this area. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from different fields to exchange new ideas about these challenges to modern and future programming, where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. This proceedings covers the 11th edition of PLACES, which was co-located with ETAPS 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Investigating the growth of AlGaN/AlN heterostructure by modulating the substrate temperature of AlN buffer layer
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Neha
name: Krishna, Shibin
name: Goswami, Lalit
name: Jain, Shubhendra Kumar
name: Pandey, Akhilesh
name: Gundimeda, Abhiram
name: Vashishtha, Pargam
name: Singh, Jasveer
name: Singh, Sandeep
name: Gupta, Govind
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Article
4. Materials (general)
AlGaN film
Epitaxial growth
PAMBE
Crystalline quality
Al incorporation

description: Abstract: We have investigated the impact of AlN buffer layer growth parameters for developing highly single crystalline AlGaN films. The low mobility of Al adatoms and high temperature for compound formation are amongst the major causes that affects the growth quality of AlGaN films. Thus, proper optimization need to be carried out for achieving high quality AlGaN due to an augmented tendency of defect generation compared to GaN films. Thus, growth conditions need to be amended to maximize the incorporation ability of adatoms and minimize defect density. So, this study elaborates the growth optimization of AlGaN/AlN/Si (111) heterostructure with varied AlN buffer growth temperature (760 to 800 °C). It was observed that the remnant Al in low temperature growth of AlN buffer layer resist the growth quality of AlGaN epitaxial films. A highly single crystalline AlGaN film with comparatively lowest rocking curve FWHM value (~ 0.61°) and smooth surface morphology with least surface defect states was witnessed when AlN buffer was grown at 780 °C. From the Vegard’s law, the photoluminescence analysis unveils Aluminium composition of 31.5% with significantly reduced defect band/NBE band ratio to 0.3. The study demonstrates good crystalline quality AlGaN film growth with Aluminium content variation between ~ 30–39% in AlGaN/AlN heterostructure on Si(111) substrate leading to a bandgap range which is suitable for next-generation solar-blind photodetection applications.
Collider Implications of Universal Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Macesanu, C.
name: McMullen, C. D.
name: Nandi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the universal extra dimensions scenario of Appelquist, Cheng, and Dobrescu, in which all of the SM fields propagate into one extra compact dimension, estimated therein to be as large as $\sim (350$ GeV$)^{-1}$. Tree-level KK number conservation dictates that the associated KK excitations can not be singly produced. We calculate the cross sections for the direct production of KK excitations of the gluon, $\gs$, and two distinct towers of quarks, \qs and $\qt$, in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron Run I and II energies in addition to proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider energy. The experimental signatures for these processes depend on the stability of the lowest-lying KK excitations of the gluons and light quarks. We find that the Tevatron Run I mass bound for KK quark and gluon final states is about 350--400 GeV, while Run II can push this up to 450--500 GeV at its initial luminosity and 500--550 GeV if the projected final luminosity is reached. The LHC can probe much further: The LHC will either discover UED KK excitations of quarks and gluons or extend the mass limit to about 3 TeV.
description: 31 pages, LaTeX, 9 PostScript figures, 1 PostScript table. Version 2 corrects the errors in the analytic expressions of the amplitude squares
Are current EU cereal prices correlated?
Creators: name: Buczkowski, Rafal
name: García-Azcarate, Tomás
name: Buczkowski, Rafal
name: García-Azcarate, Tomás
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Cereals
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Europe

description: This paper evaluates the correlations between European cereal prices in up to 87 markets of 24 Member States. History and geography play a role: The highest correlations are observed between closely located internal markets of the “old” Union; prices are more correlated along transport routes, in particular rivers. We observe that 10 years after the Accession (8 in the case of Romania and Bulgaria) we do not have a complete integration between the “old” and the “new” Member States. We advance several possible explanations: Weaker producers’ organisations, lack of storage facilities, less efficient transport facilities.
Additional file 9 of SMRT and Illumina RNA sequencing reveal novel insights into the heat stress response and crosstalk with leaf senescence in tall fescue
Creators: name: Qian, Yiguang
name: Cao, Liwen
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Amee, Maurice
name: Chen, Ke
name: Chen, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. KEGG analysis of DEGs down-regulated by HT_72h and Sen.
Does Climate Variability Affect the Financial Sustainability of Farmers in Florida? A Causality Analysis
Creators: name: Marie, Kimberly
name: Solis, Daniel
name: Thomas, Michael
name: Alvarez, Sergio
name: Marie, Kimberly
name: Solis, Daniel
name: Thomas, Michael
name: Alvarez, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate
subject: Causality

description: The purpose of this research is to present a framework to analyze if there is any statistical correlation between climate variability and commodity prices in Northern Florida, and whether real causality effect exists. This assessment is significant because it aids to strengthen North Floridian farmers’ awareness as well as preparing them for possible fluctuations in their commodities’ by analyzing the correlation between the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and commodity prices. Because the study will be based on the assumption that a correlation between ENSO and commodity prices exists in Northern Florida; both linear and logarithm models, as well as econometric equations will be used to measure the hypothesis. These models fulfils a crucial role in evaluating the policy implications of climate change and how its effects can be mitigated.
Additional file 1 of Poor reporting quality of observational clinical studies comparing treatments of COVID-19 – a retrospective cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Ziemann, Sebastian
name: Paetzolt, Irina
name: Grüßer, Linda
name: Coburn, Mark
name: Rossaint, Rolf
name: Kowark, Ana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Data sheet used for analysis and data extraction. The present data sheet is an edited version of the original STROBE checklist [5]. It has been modified in accordance with the STROBE Explanation and Elaboration document [9].
Analysis of Health Needs and Responses during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.pdf
Creators: name: Alameldeen, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper will provide a discussion about the health needs and responses by the different governmental, Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations during the recent Ebola outbreak that occurred in West Africa in the three countries Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone focusing on Liberia since I was deployed there with an International Humanitarian Organization from the start of the outbreak in August 2014 till March 2015.
The paper will start with brief introduction of the current situation followed by background history of Ebola then focusing in the situation in the healthcare services in Liberia before and after the declaration of outbreak then providing some examples of the health needs and responses by the World Health Organization (WHO), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) then some lessons learnt and success stories from Lofa county in Liberia that was the first county in west Africa successful in reaching zero cases of Ebola patients and finally addressing some recommendations for the future.
The Status of Customary Land and the Future of Smallholder Farmers Under the Current Land Administration System in Zambia
Creators: name: Honig, Lauren
name: Mulenga, Brian P.
name: Honig, Lauren
name: Mulenga, Brian P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The past decade has ushered in an era of increasingly contentious land politics in Zambia, with investors, the government, and chiefs simultaneously blamed for injustices in land allocation. These conflicts over land have been exacerbated, and at times caused by the lack of transparency and available data on the status of land. While a variety of actors has real grievances with the security and efficiency of the current system of land allocation, smallholder farmers bear the brunt of the risk of continuing the status quo in land policy.
Toward Asymptotically-Optimal Inspection Planning via Efficient Near-Optimal Graph Search
Creators: name: Fu, Mengyu
name: Kuntz, Alan
name: Salzman, Oren
name: Alterovitz, Ron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inspection planning, the task of planning motions that allow a robot to inspect a set of points of interest, has applications in domains such as industrial, field, and medical robotics. Inspection planning can be computationally challenging, as the search space over motion plans that inspect the points of interest grows exponentially with the number of inspected points. We propose a novel method, Incremental Random Inspection-roadmap Search (IRIS), that computes inspection plans whose length and set of inspected points asymptotically converge to those of an optimal inspection plan. IRIS incrementally densifies a motion planning roadmap using sampling-based algorithms, and performs efficient near-optimal graph search over the resulting roadmap as it is generated. We demonstrate IRIS's efficacy on a simulated planar 5DOF manipulator inspection task and on a medical endoscopic inspection task for a continuum parallel surgical robot in anatomy segmented from patient CT data. We show that IRIS computes higher-quality inspection paths orders of magnitudes faster than a prior state-of-the-art method.
description: RSS 2019
Additional file 2 of Poor reporting quality of observational clinical studies comparing treatments of COVID-19 – a retrospective cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Ziemann, Sebastian
name: Paetzolt, Irina
name: Grüßer, Linda
name: Coburn, Mark
name: Rossaint, Rolf
name: Kowark, Ana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Additional data. Part A shows the number and percentage adherence to each individual checkpoint in case one item or sub-item was questioned by multiple checkpoints to target all requirements based on the STROBE’s explanation and elaboration document [9]. Part B shows differentiated data regarding partial item adherence. Non-adherence is hence divided in the two categories Item partially addressed and Item not addressed.