cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnetic Cellular Nonlinear Network with Spin Wave Bus for Image Processing
Creators: name: Khitun, Alexander
name: Bao, Mingqiang
name: Wang, Kang L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe and analyze a cellular nonlinear network based on magnetic nanostructures for image processing. The network consists of magneto-electric cells integrated onto a common ferromagnetic film - spin wave bus. The magneto-electric cell is an artificial two-phase multiferroic structure comprising piezoelectric and ferromagnetic materials. A bit of information is assigned to the cell's magnetic polarization, which can be controlled by the applied voltage. The information exchange among the cells is via the spin waves propagating in the spin wave bus. Each cell changes its state as a combined effect of two: the magneto-electric coupling and the interaction with the spin waves. The distinct feature of the network with spin wave bus is the ability to control the inter-cell communication by an external global parameter - magnetic field. The latter makes possible to realize different image processing functions on the same template without rewiring or reconfiguration. We present the results of numerical simulations illustrating image filtering, erosion, dilation, horizontal and vertical line detection, inversion and edge detection accomplished on one template by the proper choice of the strength and direction of the external magnetic field. We also present numerical assets on the major network parameters such as cell density, power dissipation and functional throughput, and compare them with the parameters projected for other nano-architectures such as CMOL-CrossNet, Quantum Dot Cellular Automata, and Quantum Dot Image Processor. Potentially, the utilization of spin waves phenomena at the nanometer scale may provide a route to low-power consuming and functional logic circuits for special task data processing.
THE ROLE OF INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT @myquranbest IN MOTIVATING FOLLOWERS' WORSHIP ACTIVITIES
Creators: name: ANDY MAKHRIAN
name: Madya Dr.  CHE HASNIZA BINTI CHE NOH
name: Dr. NURUL HIDAYAH BINTI MAT
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Instagram, @myquranbest Accounts, Worship Activities, Followers.

description: Abstract

Social media is one of the new types of media. One of the most widely used types of social media today is Instagram, in Indonesia according to a survey conducted by Hotsuite (we are social), Instagram is the second most used social media by people after WhatsApp. In this day and age, many things have changed, one of which is the way people get information, Instagram itself is a place that is widely used by a person or group to spread information, one of which is religious information. @myquranbest Instagram account is an Instagram account belonging to a group that consistently spreads Islamic da'wah through Instagram, one of which is about worship. This study aims to find out whether Instagram accounts @myquranbest affect followers' worship activities. This survey-based quantitative study uses a quantitative methodology. In this study, the questionnaire and literature review methods were used to collect data in the form of additional books, journals, and previous related research. The population of this study consisted of followers of @myquranbest Instagram accounts, and the sample consisted of 91 respondents. The data analysis method used in this study is linear regression using SPSS 26 software. The results of this study show that there is an influence of @myquranbest Instagram Accounts on Worship Activities on Followers. In this study, it was found that arithmetic t is greater than t table so that there is an influence of Variable X (Instagram account @myquranbest) on Variable Y (worship activities).
title: Rural Tourism in Northern Portugal – Motivations and Barriers
Creators: name: Castro, Conceição
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2018

description: Tourism in rural areas boosts economic dynamism, turning them more attractive, diversifying economic activities, creating jobs and wealth. With the importance that micro and small companies play on economic growth, particularly in rural areas, the objective of this article is to analyze the main motivations to start a business in rural tourism and the problems and barriers faced by these entrepreneurs in Northern Portugal. With the results of a questionnaire an exploratory factor analysis was conducted and the results show that the main motivations to create the business were related to family and success. Using a cluster analyses owners were grouped in three segments. They encountered some restrictions in the start-up process as bureaucracy, lack of financial support and information.
description: tourismos, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2018)
Ghost anomalous dimension in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Astrid
name: Gies, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the ghost anomalous dimension within the asymptotic-safety scenario for quantum gravity. For a class of covariant gauge fixings and using a functional RG scheme, the anomalous dimension $η_c$ is negative, implying an improved UV behavior of ghost fluctuations. At the non-Gaussian UV fixed point, we observe a maximum value of $η_c\simeq -0.78$ for the Landau-deWitt gauge within the given scheme and truncation. Most importantly, the backreaction of the ghost flow onto the Einstein-Hilbert sector preserves the non-Gaussian fixed point with only mild modifications of the fixed-point values for the gravitational coupling and cosmological constant and the associated critical exponents; also their gauge dependence is slightly reduced. Our results provide further evidence for the asymptotic-safety scenario of quantum gravity.
description: 12 pages
title: Five decades of world green coffee economics
Creators: name: Chalumeau, Alice
name: Roda, Jean-Marc
name: CIRAD-DGDRS-FRA
Publisher: name: CIRAD; SALSA
Year: 2024

description: This serie of maps show that over decades, Southeast Asia increased its production and transformation capacities and demand for Cocoa and Coffee. On the particular case of green coffee, the maps allow to question if the global demographics are rebalancing the world agroindustry, or if they illustrate some de-industrialisation of Europe. This serie of maps gives also some insights for geopolitics, investment strategy, and research purposes.From a very minor-producing region in the seventies, Southeast Asia has become the second producing region in the world after Latin America. Vietnam and Indonesia are the main engines of the production that grew by 132% from 1991 to 2001, by 26% from 2001 to 2011, and by 35% from 2011 to 2021. There too, climate change, agronomic factors, and cocoa borer hamper the productivity. Southeast Asia has also emerged as the second region consuming green coffee after North America and before Western Europe. The share of exports to Europe is decreasing. Local transformation into roast beans absorbs most of the production. Southeast Asia has become the second region in the world to consume green coffee, which could also be the premises of an industrial reorganisation at the world scale, or, could just be the signature of a region that is growing fast and which middle classes adopt new patterns of consumption.
description: Affichage des coordonnées en degrés décimaux : Coordonnées latitude - limite nord : 83.00000 ; Coordonnées longitude - limite ouest : 180.0000 ; Coordonnées latitude - limite sud: -55.97668 : Coordonnées longitude - limite est : -180.0000
E-BUSINESS ADOPTION IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED TOURISM FIRMS IN IRAN: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Creators: name: Shafiei, Zahed
name: Karoubi, Manizheh
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Information technologies play a vital part in managing a tourism firm efficiently. As SMEs form the major share of tourism industry, they are increasingly adopting e-business to benefit from its numerous advantages. However, to adopt e-business, SMEs may encounter a plenty of challenges and find it not a trouble-free path. In Iran, by growing the number of internet users, more and more tourism SMEs are adopting e-business, to enhance their competitive advantage in the market. The paper is aimed to explore the challenges and prospects of e-business adoption by travel and tourism SMEs in Iran, and role of government in facilitating the process. To serve the purpose, mixed method is adopted to identify these barriers and benefits. The results of an in-depth interview with e-tourism experts and tourism SMEs' managers, and a questionnaire containing close-ended questions showed that macro-level challenges are of the major importance, and the benefits fell into to marking strategies and e-CRM categories.
description: tourismos, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2018)
Il corpo della cittadina. La costruzione del discorso pubblico sulla legge n. 194/1978 in Italia negli anni Settanta.
Creators: name: Perini, Lorenza <1967>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: M-STO/04 Storia contemporanea

description: In un arco temporale che copre il decennio settanta, ma che si spinge fino ad analizzare anche il dibattito italiano odierno, la presente ricerca ricostruisce i passaggi attraverso i quali l’aborto, da pratica clandestina, è diventato un “fatto” che ha creato e cambiato l’opinione pubblica italiana. Non si tratta di una ricostruzione cronologica pura e semplice, ma quello che si propone è un percorso che procede per temi, utilizzando una particolare chiave di lettura delle fonti giornalistiche e degli atti parlamentari che documentano la costruzione complessiva del discorso. In tale prospettiva, un particolare rilievo assumono alcuni momenti della storia italiana che, nell’arco del decennio, hanno favorito l’immissione di un argomento così complesso, delicato e inusuale come il corpo riproduttivo delle donne sulla scena pubblica, facendone un tema da agenda politica dei partiti. Tra gli eventi più significativi che la ricerca individua certamente il processo a Gigliola Pierobon, avvenuto a Padova nel 1973, di cui si propone una lettura attraverso la chiave interpretativa dell’affaire. Si tratta di una forma di costruzione discorsiva di un “fatto di legge” codificata da Voltaire nel XVIII secolo e ripresa attraverso gli studi dell’antropologa Elisabeth Claverie e del sociologo Luc Boltanski , che applicano in maniera diacronica il concetto di “affaire”  a diverse “situazioni di conflitto”, strutturando in tal modo il concetto di “verità contro la legge” . La ricerca è stata condotta utilizzando sia fonti giornalistiche  che da diversi punti di vista, hanno fotografato e “tradotto” per l’opinione pubblica il dibattito culturale e politico sul tema dei diritti riproduttivi, sia utilizzando gli atti parlamentari ufficiali , cioè le trascrizioni delle sedute del dibattito alla Camera e al Senato che tra il 1976 e il 1978 hanno creato i presupposti per la nascita della legge 194.
OBLIQUITY IN TOURISM ECONOMICS: SMART AND SUSTAINABLE TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Creators: name: Perles-Ribes, José Francisco
name: Ramón-Rodríguez, Ana Belén
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Obliquity describes the process of achieving complex objectives indirectly. The recent emergence of the concept and paradigm of intelligent or smart tourist destinations has given rise to a proliferation, often driven by publicly and privately financed technologically-based companies, of initiatives to convert many tourism destinations into smart tourism destinations (STDs). In theory, the concept of the smart tourist destination includes different levels of action in the environmental, social and technological fields, directed at enhancing the satisfaction and experience of tourists. However, in many practical applications of the concept only the latter level is addressed and the other dimensions are neglected. This article argues that the STDs represent the first real opportunity to make the concept of sustainable tourism operational. This argument is based on the fact that for the first time, the intensive use of technology involved in implementing an STD will enable the continuous measurement of aspects related to sustainability which, until now, in the absence of this technology, were difficult or impossible to measure, and therefore, manage.
description: tourismos, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2018)
Fast and non–derivative method based on high–performance liquid chromatography–charged aerosol detection for the determination of fatty acids from Agastache rugosa (Fisch. et Mey.) O. Ktze. seeds
Creators: name: Yang, Rong
name: Wu, Zhuona
name: Pu, Yiqiong
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Wang, Bing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study utilised response surface methodology to optimise the conditions for the extraction of A. rugosa seeds oil (ARO). Single–factor experiment and response surface methodology (RSM) were performed to identify the extraction time, liquid–solid ratio and extraction temperature that provided the highest yield of ARO. The optimal extraction time, liquid–solid ratio and extraction temperature were 8 h, 4:1 mL/g and 55 °C. The fatty acids (FAs) content and oil yield obtained through the optimised impregnation–extraction process were 19.67 mg/g and 32.1%. These values matched well with the predicted values. Linolenic acid was identified to be the main active ingredient of ARO. The high–performance liquid chromatography–charged aerosol detection method presented here is fast and does not require derivatisation. Therefore, it could be used to quantitatively analyse the FAs present in ARO and applied to detect compounds with low or no ultraviolet response.
THE STUDY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARENTS' MINDSETS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LOMBOK SASAK TRIBE'S MERARIK KODEQ MARRIAGE PRACTICE
Creators: name: WIRASANDI
name: ALIFIULAHTIN UTAMININGSIH
name: SAHIRUDDIN
name: ANIF FATMA CHAWA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Construction, Parent Mindset, Merarik Kodeq, Performance.

description: Abstract

This research aims to examine the mindset of parents and perpetrators in the Sasak Lombok community regarding the practice of "merarik kodeq". The study uses a phenomenological approach to understand the reasons and motivations behind this practice. The findings reveal two factors as critical model of mindset construction: (1) for parents, such as fear, economic considerations, religious beliefs, the desire for grandchildren, parental supervision, and submission to customs and norms; and (2) for children, such as love/mutual consent, economic circumstances, and resignation to their living conditions. The research highlights that the mindset of parents and perpetrators in child marriage practices is shaped by various factors. For parents, fear of tarnishing the family's reputation or concern for the child's future are influential. This research contributes to the limited literature on child marriage by shedding light on the perspectives of both parents and children involved in this practice.
Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission
Creators: name: Słowikowska, Agnieszka
name: Kanbach, Gottfried
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Stefanescu, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time resolution as short as 11 microseconds, which corresponds to a phase interval of 1/3000 of the pulsar rotation, and high statistics allow the derivation of polarisation details never achieved before. The degree of optical polarisation and the position angle correlate in surprising details with the light curves at optical wavelengths and at radio frequencies of 610 and 1400 MHz. Our observations show that there exists a subtle connection between presumed non-coherent (optical) and coherent (radio) emissions. This finding supports previously detected correlations between the optical intensity of the Crab and the occurrence of giant radio pulses. Interpretation of our observations require more elaborate theoretical models than those currently available in the literature.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures, uses AMS.sty, mn2e.cls, mn2e.bst and natbib.sty, submitted to MNRAS
title: Tourism Destination-Competency as an Antecedent to Tourism Stakeholders’ Engagement at the Destination
Creators: name: Nalakath, Sabira
name: Koshy, Moli
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2018

description: Stakeholders in tourism are broadly classified as players of supply-side and demand-side. The comparative and competitive advantage that a destination possesses over similar other destinations heighten the engagement and commitment of supply-side stakeholders for further investment in the tourism sector and thereby business enlargement at the destination. Thus, framing proper stakeholder management policies and strategies are important for any tourist destination to enhance and sustain its competitiveness in both domestic and international markets. This article presents an analytical framework to explore whether tourism destination competitiveness with a mediating effect of destination-supplier fit lead to supply-side stakeholders’ engagement at the destination which could facilitate a clearer understanding of the nature of tourism stakeholders’ reactions to tourism, so that the results could help tourism planners and policy-makers to develop more appropriate destination products as well as to enhance competitiveness in tourism markets in turn.
description: tourismos, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2018)
Noether-Lefschetz Theory and Néron-Severi Group
Creators: name: Di Gennaro, Vincenzo
name: Franco, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C25, 14D05, 32S55, 14C20, 14C30, 14M10

description: Let $Z$ be a closed subscheme of a smooth complex projective complete intersection variety $Y\subseteq \Ps^N$, with $dim Y=2r+1\geq 3$. We describe the Néron-Severi group $NS_r(X)$ of a general smooth hypersurface $X\subset Y$ of sufficiently large degree containing $Z$.
description: 8 pages
Synthetic electric fields and phonon damping in carbon nanotubes and graphene
Creators: name: von Oppen, F.
name: Guinea, F.
name: Mariani, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Smoothly varying lattice strain in graphene affects the Dirac carriers through a synthetic gauge field. When the lattice strain is time dependent, as in connection with phononic excitations, the gauge field becomes time dependent and the synthetic vector potential is also associated with an electric field. We show that this synthetic electric field has observable consequences. Joule heating associated with the currents driven by the synthetic electric field dominates the intrinsic damping, caused by the electron-phonon interaction, of many acoustic phonon modes of graphene and metallic carbon nanotubes when including the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions. Several important consequences follow from the observation that by time-reversal symmetry, the synthetic electric field associated with the vector potential has opposite signs for the two valleys. First, this implies that the synthetic electric field drives charge-neutral valley currents and is therefore unaffected by screening. This frequently makes the effects of the synthetic vector potential more relevant than a competing effect of the scalar deformation potential which has a much larger bare coupling constant. Second, valley currents decay by electron-electron scattering (valley Coulomb drag) which causes interesting temperature dependence of the damping rates. While our theory pertains first and foremost to metallic systems such as doped graphene and metallic carbon nanotubes, the underlying mechanisms should also be relevant for semiconducting carbon nanotubes when they are doped.
description: 12 pages
title: One decade of world roasted coffee economics
Creators: name: Chalumeau, Alice
name: Roda, Jean-Marc
name: CIRAD-DGDRS-FRA
Publisher: name: CIRAD; SALSA
Year: 2024

description: This serie of maps show that over decades, Southeast Asia increased its production and transformation capacities and demand for Cocoa and Coffee. On the particular case of roasted coffee, the maps allow to question if the global demographics are rebalancing the world agroindustry, or if they illustrate some de-industrialisation of Europe. This serie of maps gives also some insights for geopolitics, investment strategy, and research purposes. The growth of the Southeast Asia market for roasted coffee is quite recent but spectacular. In the last decade, it became the first Asian region for consumption, and the first tropical region both for production and consumption. The 3 first countries to consume and export roasted coffee do not grow coffee, and are also the main importers of green coffee: the United States, Germany, and Italy. The Southeast Asia dynamic for roasted coffee is a new pattern, being a region that is simultaneously a coffee grower and a big and leading market for the finished product in Asia and in the tropics, reaching the order of size of the western regions.
description: Affichage des coordonnées en degrés décimaux : Coordonnées latitude - limite nord : 83.00000 ; Coordonnées longitude - limite ouest : 180.0000 ; Coordonnées latitude - limite sud: -55.97668 : Coordonnées longitude - limite est : -180.0000
An external potential dynamic study on the formation of interface in polydisperse polymer blends
Creators: name: Qi, Shuanhu
name: Zhang, Xinghu
name: Yan, Dadong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of interface from an initial sharp interface in polydisperse A/B blends is studied using the external potential dynamic method. The present model is a nonlocal coupling model as we take into account the correlation between segments in a single chain. The correlation is approximately expressed by Debye function and the diffusion dynamics are based on the Rouse chain model. The chain length distribution is described by the continuous Schulz distribution. Our numerical calculation indicates that the broadening of interface with respect to time obeys a power law at early times, and the power law indexes are the same for both monodisperse and polydisperse blend. The power law index is larger than that in the local coupling model. However there is not a unified scaling form of the broadening of the interface width if only the interfacial width at equilibrium is taken into account as the characteristic length of the system, because the correlation makes an extra characteristic length in the system, and the polydispersity is related to this length.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Social aspects of organic agriculture and other multifunctional benefits - Successful EU models compared with possibilities for organic developments in Croatia
Creators: name: Lucic, Irena <1973>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: AGR/01 Economia ed estimo rurale

description: Main objective of the dissertation is to illustrate how social and educational aspects (in close interaction with other multifunctional aspects in organic agriculture) which are developed on different multifunctional organic farms in Italy and Netherlands, as well as established agricultural policy frameworks in these countries, can be compared with the situation in Croatian organics and can contribute to further developent of organic issues in the Repubic of Croatia.
So, through different chapters, the dissertation describes the performance of organic agriculture sectors in Italy, Netherlands and Croatia within the national agricultural policy frameworks, it analyzes the role of national institutions and policy in Croatia in connection with Croatia's status of candidate country for enterance into EU and harmonization of legislation with the CAP, as well as analyzes what is the role of national authorities, universities, research centres, but also of private initiatives, NGOs and cooperatives in organic agriculture in Netherlands, Italy and Croatia.
Its main part describes how social and educational aspects are interacting with other multifunctional aspects in organic agriculture and analyzes the benefits and contribution of multifunctional activites performed on organic farms to education, healthy nourishment, environment protection and health care. It also assess the strengths and weaknesses of organic agriculture in all researched countries.
The dissertation concludes with development opportunities for multifunctional organic agriculture in Croatia, as well as giving perspectives and recommendations for different approaches on the basis of experiences learned from successful EU models accompanied with some personal ideas and proposals.
Densified pupil spectrograph as high-precision radial velocimetry: From direct measurement of the Universe's expansion history to characterization of nearby habitable planet candidates
Creators: name: Matsuo, Taro
name: Greene, Thomas P.
name: Qezlou, Mahdi
name: Bird, Simeon
name: Ichiki, Kiyotomo
name: Fujii, Yuka
name: Yamamuro, Tomoyasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The direct measurement of the Universe's expansion history and the search for terrestrial planets in habitable zones around solar-type stars require extremely high-precision radial velocity measures over a decade. This study proposes an approach for enabling high-precision radial velocity measurements from space. The concept presents a combination of a high-dispersion densified pupil spectrograph and a novel telescope line-of-sight monitor. The precision of the radial velocity measurements is determined by combining the spectrophotometric accuracy and the quality of the absorption lines in the recorded spectrum. Therefore, a highly dispersive densified pupil spectrograph proposed to perform stable spectroscopy can be utilized for high-precision radial velocity measures. A concept involving the telescope line-of-sight monitor is developed to minimize the change of the telescope line-of-sight over a decade. This monitor allows the precise measurement of a long-term telescope drift without any significant impact on the Airy disk when the densified pupil spectra are recorded. We analytically derive the uncertainty of the radial velocity measurements, which is caused by the residual offset of the line-of-sights at two epochs. We find that the error could be reduced down to approximately 1 $cm/s$, and the precision will be limited by another factor (e.g., wavelength calibration uncertainty). A combination of the high precision spectrophotometry and the high spectral resolving power could open a new path toward the characterization of nearby non-transiting habitable planet candidates orbiting late-type stars. We present two simple and compact high-dispersed densified pupil spectrograph designs for the cosmology and exoplanet sciences.
description: 37 pages, 18 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
title: Five decades of world cocoa beans economics
Creators: name: Chalumeau, Alice
name: Roda, Jean-Marc
name: CIRAD-DGDRS-FRA
Publisher: name: CIRAD; SALSA
Year: 2024

description: This serie of maps show that over decades, Southeast Asia increased its production and transformation capacities and demand for Cocoa and Coffee. On the particular case of cocoa beans, the maps allow to question if the global demographics are rebalancing the world agroindustry, or if they illustrate some de-industrialisation of Europe. This serie of maps gives also some insights for geopolitics, investment strategy, and research purposes. Within the last 5 decades, Southeast Asia that was once a very minor actor of cocoa economics, has become a contender for the rank of 2nd region of production of cocoa beans. Its production grew by 268% from 1991 to 2001, by 90% from 2001 to 2011, and by only 2-3% from 2011 to 2021. The apparent ceiling is not due to a lack of demand (see post on cocoa world growth), but to agronomic factors, with climate change and cocoa borer as a main culprit plus many other production issues. The imports from Western Africa to Southeast Asia grow steadily. This questions the future impacts of EUDR policy for deforestation, as possibly many growers from Africa could become interested to export to SEA instead of meeting the stringent EU standards. But the growth of Southeast Asia largely predates the EUDR policy. It raises questions about the possible ongoing relocation of parts of the cocoa transformation from the EU to Southeast Asia, at least semi-finished industrial products such as cocoa powder. It also could be a sign of a rebalance of demographic and economic growth with Southeast Asia spearheading South-South dynamics.
description: Affichage des coordonnées en degrés décimaux : Coordonnées latitude - limite nord : 83.00000 ; Coordonnées longitude - limite ouest : 180.0000 ; Coordonnées latitude - limite sud: -55.97668 : Coordonnées longitude - limite est : -180.0000
MOLECULAR PROFILING OF SOYBEAN LINES USING SSR GENE-SPECIFIC MARKERS
Creators: name: SUMMRA SIDDIQUE
name: ZAHEER AHMED
name: RIZWANA MAQBOOL
name: FAISAL SAEED AWAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: DNA, Gel Electrophoresis, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Primer Designing, Polymorphic Information Content, Soybean, SSR Markers.

description: Abstract

Soybean is a high-nutritional crop that provides a sustainable source of dietary protein and edible oil for human consumption and animal diet. In this investigation, 9 potential soybean genotypes and four commercial checks on the basis of yield and quality characters were evaluated for molecular diversity through simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Out of 13 gene specific SSR-loci, all markers showed association with respective trait. The heterozygosity ranged from 0.41 to 0.83, lowest to highest was observed at locus Gm012 and Gm004 respectively. Maximum gene diversity was found at locus Gm011 (0.66), while minimal was observed for locus Gm012 (0.57) with the mean value of 0.64 per marker. The polymorphic information content (PIC) was recorded highest for Gm011 (0.59) followed by Gm003, Gm006, Gm009, Satt001, while the lowest value for Gm012 (0.51).  Among the 13 SSR markers, Gm011 was found to be the most informative, while Gm012 was the least insightful for the genetic diversity of studied germplasm. The polymorphic information contents (PIC) indicating a moderate level of genetic diversity exhibited by the assessed germplasm. In addition, principal coordinate analysis delineated two groups, representing two diverse gene pools in soybean collection. The UPGMA inferred three clusters based on their genetic resemblance and maturity groups. Thus, the use of substantial genetic diversity confirmed in the present study will enable soybean breeders to select diverse parents to develop high-yielding varieties with improved quality traits.
Excitation and damping of p-mode oscillations of alpha Cen B
Creators: name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Houdek, G.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: New, R.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents an analysis of observational data on the p-mode spectrum of the star alpha Cen B and a comparison with theoretical computations of the stochastic excitation and damping of the modes. We find that at frequencies > 4500 micro-Hz, the model damping rates appear to be too weak to explain the observed shape of the power spectral density of alpha Cen B. The conclusion rests on the assumption that most of the disagreement is due to problems modelling the damping rates, not the excitation rates, of the modes. This assumption is supported by a parallel analysis of BiSON Sun-as-a-star data, for which it is possible to use analysis of very long timeseries to place tight constraints on the assumption. The BiSON analysis shows that there is a similar high-frequency disagreement between theory and observation in the Sun. We demonstrate that by using suitable comparisons of theory and observation it is possible to make inference on the dependence of the p-mode linewidths on frequency, without directly measuring those linewidths, even though the alpha Cen B dataset is only a few nights long. Use of independent measures from a previous study of the alpha Cen B linewidths in two parts of its spectrum also allows us to calibrate our linewidth estimates for the star. The resulting calibrated linewidth curve looks similar to a frequency-scaled version of its solar cousin, with the scaling factor equal to the ratio of the respective acoustic cut-off frequencies of the two stars. The ratio of the frequencies at which the onset of high-frequency problems is seen in both stars is also given approximately by the same scaling factor.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 19 pages, 6 figures
title: One decade of world cocoa powder economics
Creators: name: Chalumeau, Alice
name: Roda, Jean-Marc
name: CIRAD-DGDRS-FRA
Publisher: name: CIRAD; SALSA
Year: 2024

description: This serie of maps show that over decades, Southeast Asia increased its production and transformation capacities and demand for Cocoa and Coffee. On the particular case of cocoa powder, the maps allow to question if the global demographics are rebalancing the world agroindustry, or if they illustrate some de-industrialisation of Europe. This serie of maps gives also some insights for geopolitics, investment strategy, and research purposes. Southeast Asia produces and imports a growing share of world cocoa beans, and it has become the 2nd region of production of cocoa powder for the agrifood business. In the last decade, the region increased by 49% its production of cocoa powder, with Indonesia and Malaysia accounting for a 1/4 of the world exports, while EU27 still accounts for 50% of the exports. Southeast Asia exports this industrial semi-finished product mainly to Asia, but is also starting to export to Europe, which was once the centre of the world cocoa industry. Furthermore, southeast Asia, and not China or East Asia, has also become the biggest Asian region, and the biggest tropical region to consume cocoa industrial products. Is it the result of the demographic dynamics in the region, or is it because Southeast Asia is also the siege of an industrial reorganisation?
description: Affichage des coordonnées en degrés décimaux : Coordonnées latitude - limite nord : 83.00000 ; Coordonnées longitude - limite ouest : 180.0000 ; Coordonnées latitude - limite sud: -55.97668 : Coordonnées longitude - limite est : -180.0000
Additional file 1 of A novel G6PD deleterious variant identified in three families with severe glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
Creators: name: Tong, Yongqing
name: Liu, Bei
name: Zheng, Hongyun
name: Bao, Anyu
name: Wu, Zegang
name: Gu, Jian
name: Tan, Bi-Hua
name: McGrath, Mary
name: Kane, Shriya
name: Song, Chunhua
name: Li, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. The primers for amplification and sequencing the exons of G6PD gene.
title: Estudio de arterias y venas coronarias mediante TCMD con sincronización cardíaca. Anatomia normal y variantes.
Creators: name: García Ortega, Ana Azahara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Cardiac

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir la anatomía normal de sistema arterial y sistema venoso coronario. Clasificar las variantes anatómicas vasculares coronarias según su repercusión hemodinámica realizando una descripción de cada una de ellas e ilustrándolas con casos...
THE EFFECT OF MARKETING MIX 4A ON BEHAVIORAL INTENTION THROUGH PATIENT SATISFACTION IN THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF UNHAS HOSPITAL
Creators: name: Nurunnisa Yustikarini
name: Noer Bahry Noor
name: Syahrir Andi Pasinringi
name: Herlina A. Hamzah
name: Rini Anggraeni
name: Abdul Rahman Kadir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Marketing Mix 4A, UNHAS Hospital, Outpatients. Patient Satisfaction.

description: Abstract

Background: One of the challenges of hospitals today is the increasingly competitive competition among hospitals. Especially in Makassar City, there are 90 general hospitals and 30 special hospitals, one of which is UNHAS Hospital. In the UNHAS Hospital Strategy and Business Plan, it targets the amount of hospital revenue, namely 25% sourced from general / insurance financing and 75% from BPJS. However, the phenomenon that occurs is that a decreasing number of visits can occur. This shows that hospitals need to design effective strategies and create competitive advantages in order to attract and retain patients. Currently, the marketing approach has shifted towards the 4A concept (Awareness, Acceptability, Affordability, Accessibility) which emphasizes customer orientation. Objective To determine the effect of the 4A marketing mix on behavioral intention through patient satisfaction. The research method used quantitative research using analytical- descriptive observational studies with a cross sectional study design with a sample of 100 using purposive sampling method and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS- SEM). Results. Direct effect analysis that there is a significant effect of the 4A dimension (Awareness, Acceptability, Affordability, Accessibility) on behavioral intention with Awareness on behavioral intention through satisfaction (t = 3.642, p = 0.000), Acceptability on behavioral intention (t = 3.542, p = 0.000), Affordability on behavioral intention (t = 3.232, p = 0.000), Accessibility on behavioral intention (t = 4.642, p = 0.000) Conclusion. Approaching the marketing mix with the patient's perspective can increase patient satisfaction so that patients can have behavioral intention to increase patient visits.
title: Experiencia en el diagnóstico de Hemorragia Digestiva Baja (HDB) Aguda en el Servicio de Urgencias con AngioTCMD.
Creators: name: Garcia Blazquez, Vega
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
A pesar de los importantes avances en su diagnóstico y tratamiento,
la hemorragia digestiva aguda (HDA),
continúa siendo una emergencia médica y una causa importante de morbi-mortalidad.
Las cifras de mortalidad están entre el 8-16%,
pudiendo...
The Cauchy Problem of the Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries System
Creators: name: Wu, Yifei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q53, 35Q55

description: We study the Cauchy problem of the Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries system. First, we establish the local well-posedness results, which improve the results of Corcho, Linares (2007). Moreover, we obtain some ill-posedness results, which show that they are sharp in some well-posedness thresholds. Particularly, we obtain the local well-posedness for the initial data in $H^{-{3/16}+}(\R)\times H^{-{3/4}+}(\R)$ in the resonant case, it is almost the optimal except the endpoint. At last we establish the global well-posedness results in $H^s(\R)\times H^s(\R)$ when $s>\dfrac{1}{2}$ no matter in the resonant case or in the non-resonant case, which improve the results of Pecher (2005).
description: 38 pages,1 figure
title: Anomalías vasculares en pacientes pediátricos: clasificación y uso de las técnicas de . imagen para su diágnostico, evolución y tratamiento.
Creators: name: Fernández Hernández, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemangioma
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Vascular
subject: Paediatric

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Realizar una revisión de la clasificación de la ISSVA,
describiendo los hallazgos de imagen característicos de cada una de las categorías,
las pruebas de imagen adecuadas para su estudio,
así como la utilidad de estas para su tratamiento....
title: Riding to Learn: Informal Science in Adult Cycling Communities
Creators: name: Drake, Joel R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Our understanding of how the world works is shaped through countless interactions with things in it. These interactions are our first exposure to science. Through them, we learn that heavy things are hard to push and books do not fall through tables. Our interactions are also shaped by the rules of the groups to which we belong (e.g., families, religious organizations, athletic teams). These rules lead us to accept that some things cannot or should not be done, limiting our interactions with the world. At the same time, these rules change our appreciation for what we do experience.
Prior research has focused largely on the separate influences of either physical interactions or social interactions, leaving (relatively) unexplored their combined effects. In this dissertation, I describe how adults understand science related to their long-term participation in a recreational road bicycling group. The cyclists demonstrated a rich understanding of gearing and air resistance that paralleled, on a practical level, the explanations taught in school. This understanding was shaped by the cyclists’ years of physical experience interpreted in light of their individual goals for participating. For the cyclists in this study, knowing the science helped them be more efficient and faster riders. In the end, this study supports the idea that productive and valuable learning takes place in many settings and that it is important to account for the relationship between the social and physical aspects of learning when designing instructional experiences.
ISM Dust Grains and N-band Spectral Variability in the Spatially Resolved Subarcsecond Binary UY Aur
Creators: name: Skemer, Andrew
name: Close, Laird
name: Hinz, Philip
name: Hoffmann, William
name: Greene, Thomas
name: Males, Jared
name: Beck, Tracy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 10 micron silicate feature is an essential diagnostic of dust-grain growth and planet formation in young circumstellar disks. The Spitzer Space Telescope has revolutionized the study of this feature, but due to its small (85cm) aperture, it cannot spatially resolve small/medium separation binaries (<3"; <420 AU) at the distances of the nearest star-forming regions (~140 pc). Large, 6-10m ground-based telescopes with mid-infrared instruments can resolve these systems. In this paper, we spatially resolve the 0.88" binary, UY Aur, with MMTAO/BLINC-MIRAC4 mid-infrared spectroscopy. We then compare our spectra to Spitzer/IRS (unresolved) spectroscopy, and resolved images from IRTF/MIRAC2, Keck/OSCIR and Gemini/Michelle, which were taken over the past decade. We find that UY Aur A has extremely pristine, ISM-like grains and that UY Aur B has an unusually shaped silicate feature, which is probably the result of blended emission and absorption from foreground extinction in its disk. We also find evidence for variability in both UY Aur A and UY Aur B by comparing synthetic photometry from our spectra with resolved imaging from previous epochs. The photometric variability of UY Aur A could be an indication that the silicate emission itself is variable, as was recently found in EX Lupi. Otherwise, the thermal continuum is variable, and either the ISM-like dust has never evolved, or it is being replenished, perhaps by UY Aur's circumbinary disk.
description: 34 pages, 12 figures, accepted to ApJ
Operators in ultraviolet completions for collective symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Uekusa, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Lagrangian terms of scalar-gauge interactions in a weakly-coupled gauge theory beyond the ultraviolet momentum cutoff of models where the collective symmetry breaking mechanism protects the Higgs mass squared against having quadratic divergence. We also propose a five-dimensional model in which the gauge symmetry breaking is achieved by boundary conditions consistent with local gauge transformations. It is shown that the scalar-gauge operators in the two models differ in the absence of quadratic divergence.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, a new section added
title: Identifying Criticality in Market Sentiment: A Data Mining Approach
Creators: name: Sahu, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The aim of this thesis is to study and identify time periods of high activity in commodity and stock market sentiment based on a data mining approach. The method is to develop tools to extract relevant information from web searches and Twitter feeds based on the tally of certain keywords and their combinations at regular intervals. Periods of high activity are identified by a measure of complexity developed for analysis of living systems. Experiments were conducted to see if the measure of activity could be applied as a predictor of changes in stock market and commodity prices.
title: Colesteatoma, ser o no ser: ahi está la difusión.
Creators: name: Moreno Ramos, Mª Dolores
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Comparative studies
subject: MR
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
El colesteatoma es una lesión pseudotumoral benigna,
formada por la acumulación de epitelio escamoso queratinizado dentro de las cavidades del oído medio,
que puede presentar un comportamiento agresivo por su capacidad para destruir hueso y...