cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EFEITOS DE UMA DESONERAÇÃO TRIBUTÁRIA NA ECONOMIA BRASILEIRA EM CENÁRIOS DE CRIAÇÃO DA ÁREA DE LIVRE COMÉRCIO DAS AMÉRICAS (ALCA)
Creators: name: Pereira, Matheus Wemerson Gomes
name: Teixeira, Erly Cardoso
name: Pereira, Matheus Wemerson Gomes
name: Teixeira, Erly Cardoso
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: integração regional
subject: tributos indiretos
subject: equilíbrio geral
subject: GTAPinGAMS
subject: competitividade setorial
subject: regional integration
subject: indirect taxes
subject: general equilibrium
subject: sectorial competition

description: O objetivo desse artigo é determinar os impactos da criação da Área de Livre Comércio das Américas (ALCA), a partir de uma desoneração tributária, na economia brasileira. Para isso, foram analisados diversos cenários que contam, além da eliminação das tarifas ao comércio entre os países do continente americano, com redução de 10% dos impostos indiretos que incidem sobre o consumo, sobre os insumos intermediários e sobre a produção brasileira. O modelo do GTAPinGAMS é usado como instrumental analítico, aplicado à versão 6.0 do banco de dados do GTAP. Os resultados indicam que, em todos os cenários de ALCA, a redução dos impostos indiretos em 10% aumentou a competitividade, promoveu o crescimento e o bem-estar do Brasil e elevou a receita tributária. O crescimento da economia variou de 0,17% a 0,31% e os ganhos de bem-estar, medidos pela variação equivalente, atingiram US$ 1,10 bilhão a US$ 2,03 bilhões.------------------------------------------------------The objective of this study is to determine the effects of the creation of FTAA stemming from a tax exemption in the Brazilian economy. Four different scenarios were analyzed taking into account the elimination of tariffs on imports among the member countries in the FTAA agreement. Other scenarios consider a 10% reduction in the indirect taxes. The GTAPinGAMs is used as an analytical tool, applied to the GTAP database version 6.0. The results show that for all scenarios of FTAA, the reduction of indirect taxes increase competition, promote growth and the welfare in Brazil, with increase in tax collection by the government. The growth of the economy ranges from 0.17% and 0.31% and gains of welfare, measured by the equivalent variation from US$1.10 billions and US$2.03 billions.
Holistic Parameteric Reconstruction of Building Models from Point Clouds
Creators: name: Li, Zhixin
name: Zhang, Wenyuan
name: Shan, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Building models are conventionally reconstructed by building roof points planar segmentation and then using a topology graph to group the planes together. Roof edges and vertices are then mathematically represented by intersecting segmented planes. Technically, such solution is based on sequential local fitting, i.e., the entire data of one building are not simultaneously participating in determining the building model. As a consequence, the solution is lack of topological integrity and geometric rigor. Fundamentally different from this traditional approach, we propose a holistic parametric reconstruction method which means taking into consideration the entire point clouds of one building simultaneously. In our work, building models are reconstructed from predefined parametric (roof) primitives. We first use a well-designed deep neural network to segment and identify primitives in the given building point clouds. A holistic optimization strategy is then introduced to simultaneously determine the parameters of a segmented primitive. In the last step, the optimal parameters are used to generate a watertight building model in CityGML format. The airborne LiDAR dataset RoofN3D with predefined roof types is used for our test. It is shown that PointNet++ applied to the entire dataset can achieve an accuracy of 83% for primitive classification. For a subset of 910 buildings in RoofN3D, the holistic approach is then used to determine the parameters of primitives and reconstruct the buildings. The achieved overall quality of reconstruction is 0.08 meters for point-surface-distance or 0.7 times RMSE of the input LiDAR points. The study demonstrates the efficiency and capability of the proposed approach and its potential to handle large scale urban point clouds.
description: Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2020
Portuguese Retailers’ Motivations to Adopt Front of Pack Nutrition Labels: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Caldeira, Monica
name: Sottomayor, Miguel
name: Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.
name: Caldeira, Monica
name: Sottomayor, Miguel
name: Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Nutrition labels
subject: retailers
subject: semi-structured interviews
subject: content analysis

description: Nutrition is an important food marketing differentiation criterion. There is growing evidence of the relation between diets and health conditions. Thus there is a potential conflict between industry and public health authorities over the use of nutrition labels. Understanding industry motivations for simplified nutrition labels use is paramount to scrutinize market dynamics, improve label policy design and its evaluation. The aim of this research is to ascertain how retailers perceive consumer’s attitudes to nutrition labels and what motivates their use. We conducted in-depth semi-structure interviews with senior managers in leading Portuguese retail chains. Our results suggest that retailers’ adopt FOP to aid their customers’ food choices, as a response to competitors’ moves and preempt labeling regulations. However, respondents were concerned on whether nutrition labels added value to their business, has a negative impact on sales in certain food categories and may hinder relations with suppliers.
The boundary driven zero-range process
Creators: name: Frómeta, Susana
name: Misturini, Ricardo
name: Neumann, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the asymptotic behaviour of the symmetric zero-range process in the finite lattice $\{1,\ldots, N-1\}$ with slow boundary, in which particles are created at site $1$ or annihilated at site $N\!-\!1$ with a rate proportional to $N^{-θ}$, for $θ\geq 1$. We present the invariant measure for this model and obtain the hydrostatic limit. In order to understand the asymptotic behaviour of the spatial-temporal evolution of this model under the diffusive scaling, we start to analyze the hydrodynamic limit, exploiting attractiveness as an essential ingredient. We obtain that the hydrodynamic equation has boundary conditions that depend on the value of $θ$.
Additional file 3 of Prevalence, indications and neonatal complications of caesarean deliveries in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Njim, Tsi
name: Bayee Swiri Tanyitiku
name: Mbanga, Clarence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3.
Additional file 4 of Prevalence, indications and neonatal complications of caesarean deliveries in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Njim, Tsi
name: Bayee Swiri Tanyitiku
name: Mbanga, Clarence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4.
Bath Assisted Cooling of Spins
Creators: name: Allahverdyan, A. E.
name: Gracia, R. Serral
name: Nieuwenhuizen, Th. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A suitable sequence of sharp pulses applied to a spin coupled to a bosonic bath can cool its state, i.e., increase its polarization or ground state occupation probability. Starting from an unpolarized state of the spin in equilibrium with the bath, one can reach very low temperatures or sizeable polarizations within a time shorter than the decoherence time. Both the bath and external fields are necessary for the effect which comes from the backreaction of the spin on the bath. This method can be applied to cool at once a disordered ensemble of spins. Since the bath is crucial for this mechanism, the cooling limits are set by the strength of its interaction with the spin(s).
description: 4 pages. Accepted in PRL
Gravitational-wave Signature of a First-order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Creators: name: Zha, Shuai
name: O'Connor, Evan P.
name: Chu, Ming-chung
name: Lin, Lap-Ming
name: Couch, Sean M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first-order quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase transition (PT) may take place in the protocompact star (PCS) produced by a core-collapse supernova (CCSN). In this work, we study the consequences of such a PT in a non-rotating CCSN with axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations. We find that the PT leads to the collapse of the PCS and results in a loud burst of gravitational waves (GWs). The amplitude of this GW burst is $\sim30$ times larger than the post-bounce GW signal normally found for non-rotating CCSN. It shows a broad peak at high frequencies ($\sim2500-4000$ Hz) in the spectrum, has a duration of $\lesssim5 {\rm ms}$, and carries $\sim3$ orders of magnitude more energy than the other episodes. Also, the peak frequency of the PCS oscillation increases dramatically after the PT-induced collapse. In addition to a second neutrino burst, the GW signal, if detected by the ground-based GW detectors, is decisive evidence of the first-order QCD PT inside CCSNe and provides key information about the structure and dynamics of the PCS.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, with Supplementary Materials. Corrected characteristic strain spectra, Fig. 4 and Fig. S3(b). Conclusion of original version is not affected. See also the PRL erratum
Fuelling starbursts and AGN
Creators: name: Knapen, Johan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is considerable evidence that the circumnuclear regions of galaxies are intimately related to their host galaxies, most directly through their bars. There is also convincing evidence for relations between the properties of supermassive black holes in the nuclei of galaxies and those of their host galaxy. It is much less clear, however, how stellar (starburst) and non-stellar (AGN) activity in the nuclear regions can be initiated and fuelled. I review gas transport from the disk to the nuclear and circumnuclear regions of galaxies, as well as the statistical relationships between the occurrence of nuclear activity and mechanisms which can cause central gas concentration, in particular bars and interactions. There are strong indications from theory and modelling for bar-induced central gas concentration, accompanied by limited observational evidence. Bars are related to activity, but this is only a weak statistical effect in the case of Seyferts, whereas the relation is limited to specific cases in starbursts. There is no observational evidence for a statistical connection between interactions and activity in Seyferts, and some evidence for this in starbursts, but probably limited to the extremes, e.g., ULIRGs. Some interesting hints at relations between rings, including nuclear rings, and the presence of nuclear activity are emerging. It is likely that the connection between the inflow of gaseous fuel from the disk of a galaxy on the one hand and the activity in its nuclear region on the other is not as straightforward as sometimes suggested, because the spatial- or time-scales concerned may be significantly different.
description: 18 pages Latex, 4 figures, 3 as postscript but Fig. 4 is submitted in jpeg format. Invited review, to appear in "Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note", eds. D.L. Block, K.C. Freeman, I. Puerari, R. Groess, & E.K. Block, Kluwer, in press
Scalability in Computing and Robotics
Creators: name: Hamann, Heiko
name: Reina, Andreagiovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Efficient engineered systems require scalability. A scalable system has increasing performance with increasing system size. In an ideal case, the increase in performance (e.g., speedup) corresponds to the number of units that are added to the system. However, if multiple units work on the same task, then coordination among these units is required. This coordination can introduce overheads with an impact on system performance. The coordination costs can lead to sublinear improvement or even diminishing performance with increasing system size. However, there are also systems that implement efficient coordination and exploit collaboration of units to attain superlinear improvement. Modeling the scalability dynamics is key to understanding efficient systems. Known laws of scalability, such as Amdahl's law, Gustafson's law, and Gunther's Universal Scalability Law, are minimalistic phenomenological models that explain a rich variety of system behaviors through concise equations. While useful to gain general insights, the phenomenological nature of these models may limit the understanding of the underlying dynamics, as they are detached from first principles that could explain coordination overheads among units. Through a decentralized system approach, we propose a general model based on generic interactions between units that is able to describe, as specific cases, any general pattern of scalability included by previously reported laws. The proposed general model of scalability is built on first principles, or at least on a microscopic description of interaction between units, and therefore has the potential to contribute to a better understanding of system behavior and scalability. We show that this model can be applied to a diverse set of systems, such as parallel supercomputers, robot swarms, or wireless sensor networks, creating a unified view on interdisciplinary design for scalability.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures
ECONOMICS OF BIOMASS GASIFICATION/COMBUSTION AT FUEL ETHANOL PLANTS
Creators: name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
name: Morey, R. Vance
name: De Kam, Matthew J.
name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
name: Morey, R. Vance
name: De Kam, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Ethanol
subject: Biomass
subject: Economics
subject: CHP
subject: Emissions
subject: Process heat
subject: Electricity production

description: Dry‐grind ethanol plants have the potential to reduce their operating costs and improve their net energy balances by using biomass as the source of process heat and electricity. We modeled various technology bundles of equipment, fuels, and operating activities that are capable of supplying energy and satisfying emissions requirements for dry‐grind ethanol plants of 190 and 380 million L (50 and 100 million gal) per year capacity using corn stover, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), or a mixture of corn stover and syrup (the solubles portion of DDGS). Results showed favorable rates of return on investment for biomass alternatives compared to conventional plants using natural gas and purchased electricity over a range of conditions. The mixture of corn stover and syrup provided the highest rates of return in general. Factors favoring biomass included a higher premium for low carbon footprint ethanol, higher natural gas prices, lower DDGS prices, lower ethanol prices, and higher corn prices.
description: Published in Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Vol. 25(3): 391‐400
The complexity of professional identity: Chinese university teachers teaching in physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes
Creators: name: Gong, Yueying
name: Young, Ann-Marie
name: Mac Phail, Ann
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: In this study, we explore how Chinese teachers, who are involved in PETE programmes in universities, understand their professional identity and what specific factors influence their professional identity as teacher educators. Initially, a sample of 15 Chinese university teachers involved in PETE were interviewed and five follow up interviews were conducted. The results expressed that Chinese university teachers lacked an understanding of the term ‘teacher educator’. Noting the diverse responsibilities and teaching to different groups of students, the majority of the participants perceived their professional identity more as university teachers than as teacher educators. One of the most significant factors positively impacting participants’ professional identity as teacher educators was their level of interaction with pre-service teachers. There is a need for future research on the diverse work of university teachers involved in teacher education and how their multifaceted roles and responsibilities may influence professional identity as teacher educators.
A Selection Rule for Multiquark Decays
Creators: name: Buccella, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By assuming SU(6)_cs symmetry for pentaquark decays one finds a selection rule, which strongly reduces the number of states able to decay into a baryon and a meson final state and allows an intriguing identification for the Theta^+ particle recently discovered with the prediction of a narrow width.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Efficient algorithm for RNA pseudoknotted secondary structure prediction given a pseudoknot free structure
Creators: name: Zhao, Yinglei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Pseudoknotted secondary structure prediction of nucleic acid molecules is an important problem in computational molecular biology. In this thesis, we introduce a Pseudoknot-Add algorithm for the problem of Predicting Pseudoknot Additions. In this problem, one is given as input a sequence S and pseudoknot free structure G, and the goal is to find the minimum free energy pseudoknotted structure R for S, that contains G. The Pseudoknot-Add algorithm has an overall time complexity of 0(n3), and a space complexity of 0(n3). We call the class of structures that our algorithm can predict density-2 structures. The density-2 structures include kissing hairpin structures, which occur in nature. Every density-2 structure R is a bi-secondary structure, i.e., can be partitioned into two pseudoknot free secondary structures G and G'. Our algorithm can handle pseudoknotted loops with an arbitrary number of bands.Other (9(n5) algorithms of Akutsu [12] and Dirks and Pierce [8] can not handle more than three bands and two bands respectively. The 0(n5) algorithm of Uemura et al. [13] can not handle density-2 structures with more than 3 bands either. With respect to given structure G, our algorithm finds the MFE density-2 structure R containing G. The structure R is not necessarily the MFE density-2 structure of the sequence 5, since G is given.
Twist of cholesteric liquid crystal cells: stability of helical structures and anchoring energy effects
Creators: name: Kiselev, A. D.
name: Sluckin, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider helical configurations of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) sandwiched between two substrates with homogeneous director orientation favored at both confining plates. We study the CLC twist wavenumber $q$ characterizing the helical structures in relation to the free twisting number $q_0$ which determines the equilibrium value of CLC pitch, $P_0=2π/q_0$. We investigate the instability mechanism underlying transitions between helical structures with different spiral half-turn numbers. Stability analysis shows that for equal finite anchoring strengths this mechanism can be dominated by in-plane director fluctuations. In this case the metastable helical configurations are separated by the energy barriers and the transitions can be described as the director slippage through these barriers. We extend our analysis to the case of an asymmetric CLC cell in which the anchoring strengths at the two substrates are different. The asymmetry introduces two qualitatively novel effects: (a) the intervals of twist wavenumbers representing locally stable configurations with adjacent helix half-turn numbers are now separated by the instability gaps; and (b) sufficiently large asymmetry, when the difference between azimuthal anchoring extrapolation lengths exceeds the thickness of the cell, will suppress the jump-like behaviour of the twist wavenumber.
description: uses revtex4, 23 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Prevalence, indications and neonatal complications of caesarean deliveries in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Njim, Tsi
name: Bayee Swiri Tanyitiku
name: Mbanga, Clarence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
The Knowledge Management Research of Agricultural Scientific Research Institution
Creators: name: Ding, Qiang
name: Zhang, Xiao-Hong
name: Song, Li-Rong
name: Ding, Qiang
name: Zhang, Xiao-Hong
name: Song, Li-Rong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural scientific research institution
subject: Knowledge management
subject: Knowledge economy
subject: Information technology
subject: China

description: Based on the perception of knowledge management from experts specification in different fields, and experts at home and abroad, the knowledge management of agricultural scientific research institution can build new platform, offer new approach for realization of explicit or tacit knowledge, and promote resilience and innovative ability of scientific research institution. The thesis has introduced functions of knowledge management research of agricultural science. First, it can transform the tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. Second, it can make all the scientific personnel share knowledge. Third, it is beneficial to the development of prototype system of knowledge management. Fourth, it mainly researches the realization of knowledge management system. Fifth, it can manage the external knowledge via competitive intelligence. Sixth, it can manage foster talents of knowledge management for agricultural scientific institution. Seventh, it offers the decision-making service for leaders to manage scientific program. The thesis also discusses the content of knowledge management of agricultural scientific research institution as follows: production and innovation of knowledge; attainment and organizing of knowledge; dissemination and share of knowledge; management of human resources and the construction and management of infrastructure. We have put forward corresponding countermeasures to further reinforce the knowledge management research of agricultural scientific research institution.
title: Bringing Light into the Darkness: Leveraging Hidden Markov Models for Blackbox Fuzzing
Creators: name: Borcherding, Anne
name: Giraud, Mark Leon
name: Häring, Johannes
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2025

description: Complementary data for the paper "Bringing Light into the Darkness: Leveraging Hidden Markov Models for Blackbox Fuzzing" published at the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2025). A Jupyter notebook for visualizing the data can be found here: https://github.com/anneborcherding/palpebratum
Editorial
Creators: name: Englert, Kathrin
name: Faust, Lene
name: Henrich-Franke, Christian
name: Gießmann, Sebastian
name: Müller, Claudia
name: Schubert, Cornelius
name: Voss, Ehler
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
subject: Media in action
subject: Media of cooperation

description: Editorial
Bragg diffraction of microcavity polaritons by a surface acoustic wave
Creators: name: Cho, K.
name: Okumoto, K.
name: Nikolaev, N. I.
name: Ivanov, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bragg scattering of polaritons by a coherent acoustic wave is mediated and strongly enhanced by the relevant exciton states resonant with the acoustic and optic fields simultaneously. In this case, in sharp contrast with conventional acousto-optics, the resonantly enhanced Bragg spectra reveal the multiple orders of diffracted light, i.e., a Brillouin band structure of parametrically driven polaritons can be directly visualized. We analyze the above scheme for polaritons in (GaAs) semiconductor microcavities driven by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) and show that for realistic values of the SAW, $ν_{\rm SAW} = 1$ GHz and $I_{\rm ac} \lesssim 100$ W/cm$^2$, the main acoustically-induced band gap in the polariton spectrum can be as large as $Δ^{\rm MC}_{\rm ac} \simeq 0.6$ meV, and the Bragg replicas up to $n=3$ can be observed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of Prevalence, indications and neonatal complications of caesarean deliveries in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Njim, Tsi
name: Bayee Swiri Tanyitiku
name: Mbanga, Clarence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Operation Risk of Rural Cooperative Economic Organization Based on Principal Component Analysis –A Case of Sichuan Province, China
Creators: name: Jia, Xian-Wei
name: Feng, Ling
name: Jia, Xian-Wei
name: Feng, Ling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Type of risk
subject: Influence degree
subject: Principal component analysis
subject: Risk prevention
subject: China

description: Based on the previous research, a total of 10 risk indices are selected according to the specific situation in Sichuan Province, such as natural risk, resource constraint risk, internal management risk, capital risk, technical input and output risk, market risk, contract credit risk, property risk and policy support risk. According to the questionnaire survey by cooperative economic organization of Sichuan Province, principal component analysis is used to analyze the importance and influence degree of the operation risk of rural cooperative economic organization. Result shows that in the operation of cooperative economic organization, management risk has greater influence degree and importance degree, which should be paid special attention to. Capital, property, price fluctuation, and quality of members have great degree of risk and are paid little attention to. The technical input and output risk and the contract credit risk have relatively low impact on the operation risk of cooperative economic organization and their importance is relatively low. Therefore, we should continue to maintain its advantages. Nature, resource constraint and policy support have relatively high risk awareness and low influence degree, belonging to the factors with priority attention which are controlled to some extent. Finally, suggestions are put forward, such as enhancing the management level of cooperative economic organizations, strengthening the farmers’ risk awareness, and improving the risk aversion ability of cooperative economic organization.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-27)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Interaction capture and synthesis of human hands
Creators: name: Kry, Paul G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis addresses several issues in modelling interaction with human hands in computer graphics and animation. Modifying motion capture to satisfy the constraints of new animation is difficult when contact is involved because physical interaction involves energy or power transfer between the system of interest and the environment, and is a critical problem for computer animation of hands. Although contact force measurements provide a means of monitoring this transfer, motion capture as currently used for creating animation has largely ignored contact forces. We present a system of capturing synchronized motion and contact forces, called interaction capture. We transform interactions such as grasping into joint compliances and a nominal reference trajectory in an approach inspired by the equilibrium point hypothesis of human motor control. New interactions are synthesized through simulation of a quasi-static compliant articulated model in a dynamic environment that includes friction. This uses a novel position-based linear complementarity problem formulation that includes friction, breaking contact, and coupled compliance between contacts at different fingers. We present methods for reliable interaction capture, addressing calibration, force estimation, and synchronization. Additionally, although joint compliances are traditionally estimated with perturbation-based methods, we introduce a technique that instead produces estimates without perturbation. We validate our results with data from previous work and our own perturbation-based estimates. A complementary goal of this work is hand-based interaction in virtual environments. We present techniques for whole-hand interaction using the Tango, a novel sensor that performs interaction capture by measuring pressure images and accelerations. We approximate grasp hand-shapes from previously observed data through rotationally invariant comparison of pressure measurements. We also introduce methods involving heuristics and thresholds that make reliable drift-free navigation possible with the Tango. Lastly, rendering the skin deformations of articulated characters is a fundamental problem for computer animation of hands. We present a deformation model, called EigenSkin, which provides a means of rendering physically- or example-based deformation models at interactive rates on graphics hardware.
The VSOP 5-GHz AGN Survey: IV. The Angular Size/Brightness Temperature Distribution
Creators: name: Horiuchi, S.
name: Fomalont, E. B.
name: Scott, W. K.
name: Taylor, A. R.
name: Lovell, J. E. J.
name: Moellenbrock, G. A.
name: Dodson, R.
name: Murata, Y.
name: Hirabayashi, H.
name: Edwards, P. G.
name: Gurvits, L. I.
name: Shen, Z-Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme) mission is a Japanese-led project to study radio sources with sub-milliarcsec angular resolution, using an orbiting 8-m telescope on board the satellite HALCA with a global earth-based array of telescopes. A major program is the 5 GHz VSOP Survey Program, which we supplement here with VLBA observations to produce a complete and flux-density limited sample. Using statistical methods of analysis of the observed visibility amplitude versus projected (u,v) spacing, we have determined the angular size and brightness temperature distribution of bright AGN radio cores. On average, the cores have a diameter (full-width, half-power) of 0.20 mas which contains about 20% of the total source emission, and (14+/-6)% of the cores are <0.04 mas in size. About (20+/-5)% of the radio cores have a source frame brightness temperature 10^{13}K, and (3+/-2)% have 10^{14}K. A model of the high brightness temperature tail suggests that the radio cores have a brightness temperatures approx 10^{12}K, and are beamed toward the observer with an average bulk motion of v/c=0.993 +/- 0.004.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 1 table Accepted ApJ
Participatory Agricultural Extension from the Prospective of Audience-centered Communication Theory
Creators: name: Zhao, Di
name: Wang, De-Hai
name: Zhao, Di
name: Wang, De-Hai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Audience-centered
subject: Participatory
subject: Agricultural extension
subject: Communication
subject: China

description: Transformation process to Audience-centered Communication Theory is introduced, as well as the basic idea of the theory in China. It is believed that using Audience-centered Communication theory can help to consolidate the theoretical basis of participatory agricultural extension. The communication essence of agricultural extension activity is studied, which is spreaders send information to farmers; then, farmers filter and process the information, transform it into their own experiences and feed back on time. Internet logical relationship between audience-centered communication and participatory agricultural extension is studied. Effects of Audience-centered Communication Theory on participatory agricultural extension are analyzed. One is that the Audience-centered Communication Theory defines the guidance and implementation basis of agricultural extension activities; the other is that bringing Audience-centered Communication Theory into agricultural extension research can help to expend the agricultural extension. Several enlightenments of the theory to participatory agricultural extension are obtained. Firstly, take audience as the orientation and focus on the needs of the audience. Secondly, advocate the participatory approach of process; and emphasize the importance of internal audience participation. Thirdly, establish two-way interaction mechanism; and make the promoters understand the implementation and performance status on time. Fourthly, develop vernacular knowledge; and better integrate the innovation and practice.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-28)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Optical and X-ray observations of stellar flares on an active M dwarf AD Leonis with Seimei Telescope, SCAT, NICER and OISTER
Creators: name: Namekata, Kosuke
name: Maehara, Hiroyuki
name: Sasaki, Ryo
name: Kawai, Hiroki
name: Notsu, Yuta
name: Kowalski, Adam F.
name: Allred, Joel C.
name: Iwakiri, Wataru
name: Tsuboi, Yohko
name: Murata, Katsuhiro L.
name: Niwano, Masafumi
name: Shiraishi, Kazuki
name: Adachi, Ryo
name: Iida, Kota
name: Oeda, Motoki
name: Honda, Satoshi
name: Tozuka, Miyako
name: Katoh, Noriyuki
name: Onozato, Hiroki
name: Okamoto, Soshi
name: Isogai, Keisuke
name: Kimura, Mariko
name: Kojiguchi, Naoto
name: Wakamatsu, Yasuyuki
name: Tampo, Yusuke
name: Nogami, Daisaku
name: Shibata, Kazunari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report multi-wavelength monitoring observations of an M-dwarf flare star AD Leonis with Seimei Telescope (6150--7930 Å), SCAT (Spectroscopic Chuo-university Astronomical Telescope; 3700--7500 Å), NICER (Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer; 0.2--12.0 keV), and collaborations of OISTER (Optical and Infrared Synergetic Telescopes for Education and Research) program. Twelve flares are detected in total which include ten H$α$, four X-ray, and four optical-continuum flares; one of them is a superflare with the total energy of $\sim$ 2.0$\times$10$^{33}$ erg. We found that (1) during the superflare, the H$α$ emission line full width at 1/8 maximum dramatically increases to 14 Å from 8 Å in the low-resolution spectra (R$\sim$ 2000) accompanied with the large white-light flares, (2) some weak H$α$/X-ray flares are not accompanied with white-light emissions, and (3) the non-flaring emissions show clear rotational modulations in X-ray and H$α$ intensity in the same phase. To understand these observational features, one-dimensional hydrodynamic flare simulations are performed by using the RADYN code. As a result of simulations, we found the simulated H$α$ line profiles with hard and high-energy non-thermal electron beams are consistent with that of the initial phase line profiles of the superflares, while those with more soft- and/or weak-energy beam are consistent with those in decay phases, indicating the changes in the energy fluxes injected to the lower atmosphere. Also, we found that the relation between optical continuum and H$α$ intensity is nonlinear, which can be one cause of the non-white-light flares. The flare energy budget exhibits diversity in the observations and models, and more observations of stellar flares are necessary for constraining the occurrence of various emission line phenomena in stellar flares.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, Accepted for Publication in PASJ
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-29)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
1E 1740.7-2942: temporal and spectral evolution from INTEGRAL and RXTE observations
Creators: name: Del Santo, M.
name: Bazzano, A.
name: Zdziarski, A. A.
name: Smith, D. M.
name: Bezayiff, N.
name: Farinelli, R.
name: De Cesare, G.
name: Ubertini, P.
name: Bird, A. J.
name: Cadolle-Bel, M.
name: Capitanio, F.
name: Goldwurm, A.
name: Malizia, A.
name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Natalucci, L.
name: Winkler, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of the monitoring of the black hole candidate 1E 1740.7-2942 with INTEGRAL, in combination with simultaneous observations by RXTE. We concentrate on broad-band spectra from INTEGRAL/IBIS and RXTE/PCA instruments. During our observations, the source spent most of its time in the canonical low/hard state with the measured flux variation within a factor of two. In 2003 September the flux started to decline and in 2004 February it was below the sensitivity level of the INTEGRAL and RXTE instruments. Notably, during the decline phase the spectrum changed, becoming soft and typical of black hole binaries in the intermediate/soft state.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A; typos corrected in the abstract
The Research on Countermeasures of Green Agricultural Development in Jiangsu Province
Creators: name: Du, Hua-Zhang
name: Du, Hua-Zhang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Green agriculture
subject: Advantages
subject: Restricted factors
subject: Development countermeasures
subject: China

description: Firstly, the thesis introduces the connotation of green agriculture, including that the green agriculture has 4 characteristics, namely openness, continuity, high efficiency and standardization, compared with the traditional agricultural development model. Secondly, the advantages of developing green agriculture in Jiangsu Province are discussed, namely rich agricultural resources，notable technological advantage, solid agricultural foundation, high quality of agriculture products, great market prospect of green consumption, and notable policy advantage. In view of the increasing shortage of natural resources, increasing restriction of rural labor force, increasing deterioration of rural environment, inadequate popularization of green agriculture, and fierce competition at home and abroad, the restricted factors of developing green agriculture in Jiangsu Province are introduced. Finally, in view of the agricultural concept innovation, green agricultural system innovation, agricultural technology innovation, agricultural management innovation, operation system innovation, ecological system innovation, development of tourism agriculture and regional differentiation development strategy, the relevant countermeasures and suggestions are put forward, in order to explore a new agricultural development model for Jiangsu’s modern agricultural development.
Galaxy Bias and Halo-Occupation Numbers from Large-Scale Clustering
Creators: name: Sefusatti, Emiliano
name: Scoccimarro, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that current surveys have at least as much signal to noise in higher-order statistics as in the power spectrum at weakly nonlinear scales. We discuss how one can use this information to determine the mean of the galaxy halo occupation distribution (HOD) using only large-scale information, through galaxy bias parameters determined from the galaxy bispectrum and trispectrum. After introducing an averaged, reasonably fast to evaluate, trispectrum estimator, we show that the expected errors on linear and quadratic bias parameters can be reduced by at least 20-40%. Also, the inclusion of the trispectrum information, which is sensitive to "three-dimensionality" of structures, helps significantly in constraining the mass dependence of the HOD mean. Our approach depends only on adequate modeling of the abundance and large-scale clustering of halos and thus is independent of details of how galaxies are distributed within halos. This provides a consistency check on the traditional approach of using two-point statistics down to small scales, which necessarily makes more assumptions. We present a detailed forecast of how well our approach can be carried out in the case of the SDSS.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Impact of Small-scale Production Mode on Citrus Industry of Hunan Province, China - Based on the Investigation on Citrus Industry in Shimen County
Creators: name: Hu, Zhi-Dan
name: Wang, Kui-Wu
name: Bo, Xin
name: Tan, Jie
name: Hu, Zhi-Dan
name: Wang, Kui-Wu
name: Bo, Xin
name: Tan, Jie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Small-scale production mode
subject: Citrus industry
subject: Geographical trademark
subject: Land circulation
subject: China

description: Small-scale farmer is defined by the domestic and foreign experts and scholars. They point out that since the fragmentation of production and the diseconomy of scale in small-scale farmer is inconsistent with the characteristics of scale and technology of modern agricultural production, it is necessary to eliminate the adverse effects of existing mode in order to provide theoretical references. Citrus industry in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China is introduced from the aspects of natural geographical condition and socio-economic benefit. Impact of small-scale production mode on citrus production in Shimen Country is discussed. Firstly, blindness of small-scale production is the main reason leading to overproduction of citrus. Secondly, small-scale production mode has limitation on the acceptance of new technologies, restricts the operation of geographical trademark, and constraints the enthusiasm of enterprises in entering the agricultural filed. Finally, suggestions are put forward, such as encouraging the circulation of rural land, improving the organization degree of farmers, changing the work function of grass-roots government and perfecting the agricultural financial credit system.