cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
D3.1.8 Report on identified training needs of non-EuroFIR compilers from Europe and beyond activities
Creators: name: FRI-SK
name: IMR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: 1. Introduction

This report is produced within the WP3.1, Task 6: Inventory of specific training requirements of compilers in non-EuroFIR countries in Europe and specific INCO countries. This task seeks to establish contacts with national compilers in non-EuroFIR countries in the Balkans, C/E countries, Middle & North Africa, Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union using the existing ones with a particular emphasis on INCO countries and new contacts (e.g. CEECFOODS, FAO INFOODS & WHO) in order to identify their specific training needs and opportunities for collaborationwith EuroFIR. These training needs and ideas will be developed into specific training courses, workshops, training exchange visits, in collaboration with EuroFIR. Proposals will be submitted to theCO/SMB for consideration.

Since there is a lack of knowledge on training needs in non-EuroFIR countries, two actions were carried out in 2006 under the umbrella of WP3.1 in order to investigate the situation. The first action was accomplished by partner IMR 44 who prepared and disseminated questionnaire about training needs over the target countries (IMR questionnaire) and results were processed and recorded in the Report about the IMR 44 Serbia activities in WP 3.1 and task 6 on inventory about training needs in CEE countries (IMR report).

A workshop with similar intention was organised by VUP Food Research Institute Bratislava (FRI) with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic and in co-operation with WP3.1 of EuroFIR project as the second action. This questionnaire focusing on progress of national food composition activities and information on food consumption survey was prepared by FRI (FRI questionnaire), also had a question on training needs. Detailed information on this activity is processed in the Report on the Workshop on Strengthening Capacity in Central and Eastern European Countries, October 2006 Bratislava, Slovakia (FRI report).

Both questionnaires are attached in Annex I.

The obtained results and conclusions regarding training needs and information on database infrastructure are combined here to present the overall situation. Only information about non-EuroFIR countries is summarized in this report.
Self Control and Food Consumption at Home and in the Wild - Empirical Evidence of the Age Cohorts in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chang, Hung-Hao
name: Just, David R.
name: Chang, Ta-Chuan
name: Chang, Hung-Hao
name: Just, David R.
name: Chang, Ta-Chuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: cohort analysis
subject: food expenses
subject: self-control
subject: behavior economics.

description: As the increasing prevalence of obesity in the world, how to prevent increasing body weight has became important policy issue. This paper addresses this issue using the behavioral economic models to empirically test food consumption behaviors and self-control problem. In contrast to replying on experimental evidence of the behavioral economic studies, age cohort data are constructed for households in Taiwan and food away from home and several categories of food consumption at home are recognized. Results show that self-control problem are evident for food away from home, and the effects are more pronounced for younger age cohorts. In contrast, staple and secondary food consumption at home are more stable across life-time periods and no self-control problem is evident.
Traps and Thresholds in Pastoralist Mobility
Creators: name: Toth, Russell
name: Toth, Russell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Asset poverty traps
subject: Pastoralism
subject: Semiparametric estimation

description: Thresholds in asset accumulation dynamics can drive a wedge between households able to pursue relatively high-return, asset-based economic activities and those forced into lower return alternatives. While some evidence has been found for such thresholds amongst pastoralist communities in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of northern Kenya, relatively less is known about the mechanisms behind such poverty trap phenomena. The setting is particularly suitable for such a study because there is one primary high-return livelihood, mobile pastoralism, based on a scalar primary asset stock, livestock. Sustainable pastoralism involves livestock movements in response to the bimodal rainfall distribution. I develop and provide empirical tests for the implications of a simple model capturing the idea that the bifurcation in asset dynamics is driven by a threshold in the incentive to engage in mobile pastoralism. Additional evidence is presented regarding pastoralist movement patterns. Data collected on pastoralist concerns allows us to look at the effect of subjective beliefs on subsequent mobility and movement behavior.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/22/10.
Additional file 1 of Including non-concurrent control patients in the analysis of platform trials: is it worth it?
Creators: name: Lee, Kim May
name: Wason, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Figures 1 and 2 show the rMSE when there is a linear and a step trend respectively in the simulation.
Additional file 4 of Patient involvement in preparing health research peer-reviewed publications or results summaries: a systematic review and evidence-based recommendations
Creators: name: Arnstein, Lauri
name: Wadsworth, Anne Clare
name: Yamamoto, Beverley Anne
name: Stephens, Richard
name: Kawaldip Sehmi
name: Jones, Rachel
name: Sargent, Arabella
name: Gegeny, Thomas
name: Woolley, Karen L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. PAE tool – patient author version.
Formal and Informal Credit Markets and Rural Credit Demand in China
Creators: name: Tang, Sai
name: Guan, Zhengfei
name: Jin, Songqing
name: Tang, Sai
name: Guan, Zhengfei
name: Jin, Songqing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Formal Credit
subject: Informal Credit
subject: Credit Markets
subject: Rural Credit
subject: China

description: Credit markets are an essential economic institution. In developing countries, particularly in countries undergoing rapid social and economic transition, it is important to identify emerging credit demand and institute credit supply in a timely manner to facilitate economic transformation. This research focuses on the evolving rural credit market in China, where borrowing from the social network has been common but the recent economic transition has made this informal credit market inadequate in addressing rural credit needs. This research is aimed at identifying the social and economic factors that explain the farmers’ credit constraint and influence farmers’ decisions to switch from informal to formal credit markets. Using data from a household survey, we estimated both binary choice probit models and a multinomial probit model to explore the determinants of credit market choice and credit constraints. We found that the credit demand is significantly affected by household’s production capacity as supported by the fact that household size, land size, head’s education all significantly increase household’s probability to borrow, but the impact of these factors varies considerably by credit market. Transaction costs have a significant, negative effect on formal credit demand. The credit constraints analysis suggest that off-farm employment, land size and the cost of the credit are the three most important factors that increase the probability of being constrained.
An Empirical Investigation of the Impacts of Government Program Payments on Farmland Rental Rates
Creators: name: Qiu, Feng
name: Gervais, Jean-Philippe
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Qiu, Feng
name: Gervais, Jean-Philippe
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Land Economics/Use
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The paper investigates the capitalizations of aggregate and disaggregate government subsidies into farmland rental rates using selection bias correction models. It investigates cash as well as share rental rates, which are largely used in US agriculture. The empirical results suggest that government subsidies have large significant effects on rental rates. More specifically, we find that landlords capture 37%-38% of the aggregate subsidies under cash leases, and 86%-88% under share contracts. Disaggregate farm programs are also found to have different impacts on rental rates according to the types of programs and leasing arrangements.
Adult Obesity and Food Stores’ Density – Evidence from State-Level Panel Data
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Adult Obesity
subject: Food Access
subject: Eating Habits

description: The association between types of food access and rising adult obesity rates is increasingly recognized, as a complement to the effects of declining physical activity. Previous studies have examined the effects on obesity of only a limited set of store types, such as grocery stores, fast food restaurants and big-box retailers, and they have ignored that certain behavioral factors, such as could play a role in the relationship between food access and obesity. This analysis includes a comprehensive array of food-providing establishments, including limited- and full-service restaurants controlling for fruit-and-vegetables (F&V) consumption (lagged temporally) using a panel data set for the continental U.S. states covering the period 1997-2005. The results show clearly that the density of food stores across the states matters. In addition, important and subtle nuances emerge in the relationships among obesity, F&V consumption and the different types of stores when we allow for interaction effects.
Jacobi structures on real two- and three-dimensional Lie groups and their Jacobi-Lie systems
Creators: name: Amirzadeh-Fard, H.
name: Haghighatdoost, Gh.
name: Kheradmandynia, P.
name: Rezaei-Aghdam, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the adjoint representations of Lie algebras, we classify all Jacobi structures on real two- and three-dimensional Lie groups. Also, we study Jacobi-Lie systems on these real low-dimensional Lie groups. Our results are illustrated through examples of Jacobi-Lie Hamiltonian systems on some real two- and three-dimensional Lie groups.
description: 17pages
Did Agricultural Technological Changes Affect China’s Regional Disparity?
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaoyun
name: Wang, Xiuqing
name: Mao, Xuefeng
name: Luo, Wanchun
name: Xin, Xian
name: Liu, Xiaoyun
name: Wang, Xiuqing
name: Mao, Xuefeng
name: Luo, Wanchun
name: Xin, Xian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural technological change
subject: Regional disparity
subject: General equilibrium model

description: China’s agricultural sector has developed very rapidly in the past 30 years and agricultural technological progress is deemed one of the most substantial factors leading to its rapid agricultural GDP growth. In this paper, we assess the impacts of agricultural technological changes on regional disparity using a general equilibrium model of multiple regions and multiple sectors. Our results suggest that agricultural technological changes significantly reduced China’s agricultural regional disparity and accounted for 40% reduction in agricultural regional disparity in terms of agricultural GDP per capita. Agricultural technological changes, however, led to an increase in China’s overall regional disparity and accounted for 6% increase in its overall regional disparity in terms of per capita GDP.
The IMF in Starbursts
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The history of the IMF in starburst regions is reviewed. The IMFs are no longer believed to be top-heavy, although some superstar clusters, whether in starburst regions or not, could be. General observations of the IMF are discussed to put the starburst results in perspective. Observed IMF variations seem to suggest that the IMF varies a little with environment in the sense that denser and more massive clusters produce more massive stars, and perhaps more brown dwarfs too, compared to intermediate mass stars.
description: 8 pages, to be published in ``Starbursts: from 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies,'' held at Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, UK, September 6-10, 2004. Kluwer Academic Publishers, edited by Richard de Grijs and Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado
Low Dimensional State Representation Learning with Reward-shaped Priors
Creators: name: Botteghi, Nicolò
name: Obbink, Ruben
name: Geijs, Daan
name: Poel, Mannes
name: Sirmacek, Beril
name: Brune, Christoph
name: Mersha, Abeje
name: Stramigioli, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement Learning has been able to solve many complicated robotics tasks without any need for feature engineering in an end-to-end fashion. However, learning the optimal policy directly from the sensory inputs, i.e the observations, often requires processing and storage of a huge amount of data. In the context of robotics, the cost of data from real robotics hardware is usually very high, thus solutions that achieve high sample-efficiency are needed. We propose a method that aims at learning a mapping from the observations into a lower-dimensional state space. This mapping is learned with unsupervised learning using loss functions shaped to incorporate prior knowledge of the environment and the task. Using the samples from the state space, the optimal policy is quickly and efficiently learned. We test the method on several mobile robot navigation tasks in a simulation environment and also on a real robot.
description: Paper Accepted at ICPR2020
Adoption and impact of an award winning post-harvest technology: The ASI rice thresher in the Senegal River Valley
Creators: name: Diagne, Mandiaye
name: Demont, Matty
name: Diagne, Aliou
name: Diagne, Mandiaye
name: Demont, Matty
name: Diagne, Aliou
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Adoption
subject: impact
subject: ATE
subject: LATE
subject: Senegal River Valley
subject: ASI thresher

description: In Senegal, one of the highest rice import-dependent countries in Sub-Saharian Africa, double cropping is recommended in the new national program for the Great Offensive for Food and Abundance (GOANA) to boost rice production. This target impels the respect of cropping calendar by using improved technologies like the ASI thresher-cleaner. The causal or treatment effect framework (ATE and LATE) is used to estimate the ASI adoption rate and impact. The results show that the true ASI adoption rate would be 86 % if all the population of irrigated rice farmers were exposed to it. The socioeconomic characteristics that increase the probability to adopt the ASI thresher are farmer experience, farm size, and participation to ASI field experiments and/or contact with service providers, and lag between ASI invention (1997) and first awareness. Indeed, irrigated rice farmers who recently become aware of the ASI thresher represent a highly potential group of adopters. The results show, as well, that the ASI thresher adoption could help irrigated rice farmers to cope with labour scarcity by decreasing significantly the number of workers needed. The labour-gain would be 22 man-days per hectare in the subpopulation of potential adopters.
A Note on Membrane Interactions and the Scalar potential
Creators: name: Herraez, Alvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the tree-level potential between two parallel $p$-branes due to the exchange of scalars, gravitons and $(p+1)$-forms. In the case of BPS membranes in 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity, this provides an interesting reinterpretation of the classical Cremmer et al. formula for the F-term scalar potential in terms of scalar, graviton and 3-form exchange. In this way, we present a correspondence between the scalar potential at every point in scalar field space and a system of two interacting BPS membranes. This could potentially lead to interesting implications for the swampland program by providing a concrete way to relate conjectures about the form of scalar potentials with conjectures regarding the spectrum of charged objects.
description: 13 pages. Some typos corrected and references added, published version
Nonclassicality of noisy quantum states
Creators: name: Semenov, A. A.
name: Vasylyev, D. Yu.
name: Lev, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonclassicality conditions for an oscillator-like system interacting with a hot thermal bath are considered. Nonclassical properties of quantum states can be conserved up to a certain temperature threshold only. In this case, affection of the thermal noise can be compensated via transformation of an observable, which tests the nonclassicality (witness function). Possibilities for experimental implementations based on unbalanced homodyning are discussed. At the same time, we demonstrate that the scheme based on balanced homodyning cannot be improved for noisy states with proposed technique and should be applied directly.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Creators: name: Irz, Xavier T.
name: Irz, Xavier T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Demand analysis
subject: aggregation theory
subject: physical consumption
subject: nutrition
subject: nutrient elasticity
subject: Finland
subject: fat tax
subject: nutritional policy.

description: Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in demand models; and 2- not measured at final/retail level in national statistics. The paper develops a solution by establishing explicitly the theoretical link between composite demand and physical quantities, from which a novel empirical approach to the estimation of nutrient elasticities is derived. It is applied to Finnish aggregate data from the National Accounts and Food Balance Sheets over the 1975-2006 period, and the results are used to assess the potential effectiveness of several incentive-based nutritional policy instruments.
Macroeconomic Implications of Demography for the Environment: A Life-Cycle Perspective
Creators: name: Pautrel, Xavier
name: Pautrel, Xavier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environment

description: This article studies how demography affects the outcome of the environmental policy in a macro-economic perspective, incorporating age-earning profiles in an OLG model à la Blanchard (1985) to capture the age structure effect of the demographic shocks. It first demonstrates, conversely to previous works of the related literature that a decrease in the birth rate may lower the steady-state per capita stock of physical capital even if the aggregate labor supply is exogenous. It also demonstrates that the ageing of population influences the macro-economic impact of the environmental policy according to the cause of the ageing and the life-cycle earnings assumption. Thus, with decreasing age-earning profiles, a lower birth rate reduces the detrimental impact of the environmental policy on the steady-state per capita stock of physical capital for low values of this birth rate, while a reduction of the mortality rate reinforces the negative outcome of the environmental policy. When earnings profiles are independent of age, ageing always strengthens the negative impact of the environmental policy.
Additional file 2 of Patient involvement in preparing health research peer-reviewed publications or results summaries: a systematic review and evidence-based recommendations
Creators: name: Arnstein, Lauri
name: Wadsworth, Anne Clare
name: Yamamoto, Beverley Anne
name: Stephens, Richard
name: Kawaldip Sehmi
name: Jones, Rachel
name: Sargent, Arabella
name: Gegeny, Thomas
name: Woolley, Karen L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Summary of search strategies.
Research on “Growth Drag” of Water Resource on Agricultural Development in China
Creators: name: Wang, Xueyuan
name: Wang, Xueyuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: water resource
subject: agricultural production
subject: growth drag

description: Based on the “growth drag” conceptual model of Romer, this paper computes the growth drag of water resource on agricultural development through using panel data(1997～2006) of China’s all provinces. The result shows the growth rate of agricultural production value fell 0.1121% per year on average because of the shortage of water resource. The number is seemingly small, but according to calculation, under the drag of water resource, the ratio will be reduced by 2.66% in 2030. Furthermore, it will be 3.74% in 2040 and 4.82% in 2050.
A META-ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Ogundari, Kolawole
name: Ogundari, Kolawole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Meta-regression
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Truncated Regression
subject: Agriculture
subject: Nigeria

description: This study sheds light on how study specific-characteristics impact mean technical efficiency (MTE) in Nigerian agriculture. Also the paper extracts consensus message about MTE and its drivers in Nigerian agriculture based on studies covering the period 1999-2008. A meta-analysis using truncated regression was employed on a total of sixty four studies which yield eighty six observations for the econometric analysis. The regression results show that MTE in Nigerian agriculture increased significantly over the years. Study specific-characteristics such as sample size, number of inputs used as well as studies with focus on crop and livestock production were found to significantly impact MTE. Further analyses show that studies in the Northcentral, Southwest, and Southsouth regions of the country produced higher MTE. Within the sample, seventy one observations contain quantitative results on sources of technical efficiency differences usually incorporating socio-economic variables. Based on this, fifty three percent identified educations as a significant determinant of technical efficiency while thirty eight percent showed that experience is important. Extension is shown to be an important determinant by twenty three percent of the observations while nineteen percent identified age as significant determinant of technical efficiency in Nigerian agriculture over the years.
Additional file 1 of The clinical relevance of early identification and treatment of sleep disorders in mental health care: protocol of a randomized control trial
Creators: name: Heege, Fiona M. Ter
name: Mijnster, Teus
name: Veen, Maaike M. Van
name: Pijnenborg, Gerdina H. M.
name: Jong, Peter J. De
name: Boersma, Gretha J.
name: Lancel, Marike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Description of questionnaires used in the sleep disorder diagnosis.
Properties of detached shells around carbon stars: Evidence of interacting winds
Creators: name: Schoeier, F. L.
name: Lindqvist, M.
name: Olofsson, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the mechanism responsible for producing the spectacular, geometrically thin, spherical shells found around some carbon stars has been an enigma for some time. Based on extensive radiative transfer modelling of both CO line emission and dust continuum radiation for all objects with known detached molecular shells, we present compelling evidence that these shells show clear signs of interaction with a surrounding medium. The derived masses of the shells increase with radial distance from the central star while their velocities decrease. A simple model for interacting winds indicate that the mass-loss rate producing the faster moving wind has to be almost two orders of magnitudes higher (~10^-5 solar masses per year) than the slower AGB wind (a few 10^-7 solar masses per year) preceding this violent event. At the same time, the present-day mass-loss rates are very low indicating that the epoch of high mass-loss rate was relatively short, on the order of a few hundred years. This, together with the number of sources exhibiting this phenomenon, suggests a connection with He-shell flashes (thermal pulses). We report the detection of a detached molecular shell around the carbon star DR Ser, as revealed from new single-dish CO (sub-)millimetre line observations. The properties of the shell are similar to those characterising the young shell around U Cam.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A (15 pages, 10 figures)
MODELING FARMERS PREFENCES FOR AGRIENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME DESIGN: A SPANISH CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Espinosa-Goded, Maria
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
name: Ruto, Eric
name: Espinosa-Goded, Maria
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
name: Ruto, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: choice experiment
subject: agri-environmental schemes
subject: farmers

description: Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect on European agriculture due to farmer’s reluctance to participate in them. Information on the role that AES design can have on encouraging farmers to participate can be an important input into the design of such policies. This paper investigates farmers’ preferences for different design options related to a specific AES in Spain using a mixed logit error component choice experiment approach allowing for preference heterogeneity and correlation amongst the non status quo alternatives. In particular, findings show farmers preference for greater flexibility in scheme implementation, presence of a fixed-rate payment per contract and additional advisory services. However, heterogeneity in the value of the AES attributes across regions and farmers is significant. The results show that there is room for improvement in current AES design that will lead to higher adoption rates however, farmer reluctance to AES sign-up is still substantial.
Ovarian follicular dynamics, LH profiles, corpus luteum function and pregnancy following two ovulation synchronization/timed artificial insemination protocols in cattle
Creators: name: Aali, Muhammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The reduced fertility following earlier estrus synchronization protocols made it necessary to develop new protocols based on our understanding of ovarian follicular dynamics and corpus luteum (CL) function in cattle. "Ovsynch" and "CIDR" are emerging protocols for ovulation synchronization that would facilitate artificial insemination at a fixed time (TAI) without estrus detection. Unfortunately, the limited and available literature on Ovsynch and CIDR treatment protocols focuses mainly on ovarian follicular dynamics during treatment and ovulation synchronization success. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to compare L H profiles, follicular dynamics, CL function and pregnancy rates (PR), following treatment with Ovsynch and CIDR ovulation synchronization/TAI protocols. In the first experiment, ultrasonography was performed throughout the treatment protocols and following ovulation for one complete cycle to monitor ovarian follicular and CL dynamics. Serial blood samples were taken to determine the L H profile and progesterone (P₄) concentrations throughout the treatment protocols and for one complete cycle following ovulation. Prolonged duration and larger diameter of the ovulatory follicle in the Ovsynch compared to CIDR protocol did not affect post synchronization LH profiles, follicular dynamics and P₄ concentrations, which were similar between Ovsynch and CIDR ovulation synchronization protocols. In experiment 2, CL's formed after Ovsynch and CIDR ovulation synchronization protocols were incubated with four different hormone treatments; LH, PGF[sub 2α] LH + PGF[sub 2α], and control (no treatment) to determine in vitro P₄ secretion. Corpora lutea formed after Ovsynch and CIDR ovulation synchronization protocols yielded similar in vitro P₄ concentrations at different stages of the synchronized cycle. The response to LH, PGF[sub 2α], and LH + PGF[sub 2α] was also not different between the two ovulation synchronization protocols. In experiment 3, the focus was to compare in vivo P₄ profiles and PR in lactating dairy cows following treatment with the Ovsynch and CLDR ovulation synchronization/TAI protocols. In vivo P₄ production and PR were similar between the Ovsynch and CIDR treatment protocols. Similar post synchronization LH profiles, follicular dynamics, P₄ profiles and PR following Ovsynch and CIDR ovulation synchronization protocols suggest that both protocols can be equally effective in synchronization of ovulation, elimination of estrus detection and enhancement of pregnancy in heifers as well as in cows. However, based on frequency of handling, cost, and industry approval, this study favors the use of the Ovsynch over the CIDR for ovulation synchronization in cows and heifers.
Reference study of CityGML software support: the GeoBIM benchmark 2019 -- Part II
Creators: name: Noardo, Francesca
name: Ohori, Ken Arroyo
name: Biljecki, Filip
name: Ellul, Claire
name: Harrie, Lars
name: Krijnen, Thomas
name: Eriksson, Helen
name: van Liempt, Jordi
name: Pla, Maria
name: Ruiz, Antonio
name: Hintz, Dean
name: Krueger, Nina
name: Leoni, Cristina
name: Leoz, Leire
name: Moraru, Diana
name: Vitalis, Stelios
name: Willkomm, Philipp
name: Stoter, Jantien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: OGC CityGML is an open standard for 3D city models intended to foster interoperability and support various applications. However, through our practical experience and discussions with practitioners, we have noticed several problems related to the implementation of the standard and the use of standardized data. Nevertheless, a systematic investigation of these issues has never been performed, and there is thus insufficient evidence that can be used for tackling the problems. The GeoBIM benchmark project is aimed at finding such evidence by involving external volunteers, reporting on tools behaviour about relevant aspects (geometry, semantics, georeferencing, functionalities), analysed and described in this paper. This study explicitly pointed out the critical points embedded in the format as an evidence base for future development. This paper is in tandem with Part I, describing the results of the benchmark related to IFC, counterpart of CityGML within building information modelling.
description: preprint of the paper
Quasinormal modes for single horizon black holes in generic 2-d dilaton gravity
Creators: name: Kettner, Joanne
name: Kunstatter, Gabor
name: Medved, A. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been some recent speculation that a connection may exist between the quasinormal-mode spectra of highly damped black holes and the fundamental theory of quantum gravity. This notion follows from a conjecture by Hod that the real part of the highly damped mode frequencies can be used to calibrate the semi-classical level spacing in the black hole quantum area spectrum. However, even if the level spacing can be fixed in this manner, it still remains unclear whether this implies a physically significant "duality" or merely a numerical coincidence. This tapestry of ideas serves as the motivation for the current paper. We utilize the "monodromy approach" to calculate the quasinormal-mode spectra for a generic class of black holes in two-dimensional dilatonic gravity. Our results agree with the prior literature whenever a direct comparison is possible and provide the analysis of a much more diverse class of black hole models than previously considered.
description: 20 pages, in Revtex; (v2) some new references and minor changes to the text; (v3) some clarity added to Introduction and new reference
A model for redistributing heat over the surface of irradiated spider companions
Creators: name: Voisin, G.
name: Kennedy, M. R.
name: Breton, R. P.
name: Clark, C. J.
name: Mata-Sánchez, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spider pulsars are binary systems containing an energetic millisecond pulsar that intensely irradiates a closely orbiting low-mass companion. Modelling their companion's optical light curves is essential to the study of the orbital properties of the binary, including the determination of the pulsar mass, characterising the pulsar wind and the star itself. We aim to generalise the traditional direct heating model of irradiation, whereby energy deposited by the pulsar wind into the stellar envelope is locally re-emitted, by introducing heat redistribution via diffusion and convection within the outer stellar envelope. We approximate the irradiated stellar envelope as a two-dimensional shell. This allows us to propose an effective equation of energy conservation that can be solved at a reduced computational cost. We then implement this model in the \texttt{Icarus} software and use evidence sampling to determine the most likely convection and diffusion laws for the light curve of the redback companion of PSR J2215+5135. Redistribution effects concentrate near the terminator line of pulsar irradiation, and can create apparent hot and cold spots. Among the models tested for PSR J2215+5135, we find that all models with heat redistribution are more likely than symmetric direct heating. The best-fitting redistribution model involves diffusion together with a uniformly rotating envelope. However, we caution that all models still present serious systematic effects, and that prior knowledge from pulsar timing, spectroscopy and distance are key to determine with certainty the most accurate redistribution law. We propose an extension of the direct heating framework that allows for exploring a variety of heat redistribution effects. Future work is necessary to determine the relevant laws from first principles and empirically using complementary observations.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, published in MNRAS
The classical dynamics of two-electron atoms near the triple collision
Creators: name: Lee, Min-Ho
name: Tanner, Gregor
name: Choi, Nark Nyul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical dynamics of two electrons in the Coulomb potential of an attractive nucleus is chaotic in large parts of the high-dimensional phase space. Quantum spectra of two-electron atoms, however, exhibit structures which clearly hint at the existence of approximate symmetries in this system. In a recent paper,(Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 054302 (2004)), we presented a study of the dynamics near the triple collision as a first step towards uncovering the hidden regularity in the classical dynamics of two electron atoms. The non-regularisable triple collision singularity is a main source of chaos in three body Coulomb problems. Here, we will give a more detailed account of our findings based on a study of the global structure of the stable and unstable manifolds of the triple collision.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
Final-sate radiation in electron-positron annihilation into a pion pair
Creators: name: Dubinsky, S.
name: Korchin, A.
name: Merenkov, N.
name: Pancheri, G.
name: Shekhovtsova, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of $e^+e^-$ annihilation into a $π^+π^-$ pair with radiation of a photon is considered. The amplitude of the reaction $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-γ$ consists of the model independent initial-state radiation (ISR) and model-dependent final-state radiation (FSR). The general structure of the FSR tensor is constructed from Lorentz covariance, gauge invariance and discrete symmetries in terms of the three invariant functions. To calculate these functions we apply Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) with vector and axial-vector mesons. The contribution of $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-γ$ process to the muon anomalous magnetic moment is evaluated, and results are compared with the dominant contribution in the framework of a hybrid model, consisting of VMD and point-like scalar eletrodynamics. The developed approach allows us also to calculate the $π^+π^-$ charge asymmetry.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Understanding Market potential for biodiesel in Spain: A Pilot study based on consumer preferences
Creators: name: Gracia, Azucena
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
name: Perez Y Perez, Luis
name: Gracia, Azucena
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
name: Perez Y Perez, Luis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biodiesel
subject: consumer
subject: preferences
subject: Spain
subject: choice experiments

description: The production and use of biodiesel is an important alternative in Europe to diminish the emission of gases in order to fulfill the Kyoto protocol goals. Supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the production of biodiesel has increased in Europe but the consumption is only of considerable importance in some countries. In Spain, the consumption of biodiesel is still low compared to other EU countries. The aim of the paper is to analyze consumers’ preferences for biodiesel in Spain. To do that a choice experimental approach has been used to assess consumers’ valuation of different diesel options and calculate the willingness to pay for biodiesel. The data come from a recent survey conducted in Spain (Region of Aragón). Results indicate that diesel users would pay an extra price of 0.05 € to fill biodiesel up instead of fill conventional diesel, which is the highest premium consumers are willing to pay for any diesel attribute considered. The paper also explores factors affecting the premium consumers are willing to pay for this fuel.
Additional file 1 of Patient involvement in preparing health research peer-reviewed publications or results summaries: a systematic review and evidence-based recommendations
Creators: name: Arnstein, Lauri
name: Wadsworth, Anne Clare
name: Yamamoto, Beverley Anne
name: Stephens, Richard
name: Kawaldip Sehmi
name: Jones, Rachel
name: Sargent, Arabella
name: Gegeny, Thomas
name: Woolley, Karen L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Infographic plain language summary.
Rediscovering Korea's Ancient Skies: An Immersive, Interactive 3D Map of Traditional Korean Constellations in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Jang, Sung-A
name: L'Huillier, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we visualized Korea's traditional constellations within an interactive 3D star map we created of the Milky Way. Unlike virtual planetariums based on celestial star coordinates from Earth's viewpoint, our visualization enables people to experience and interact with Korean constellation forms and its constituent stars in 3D space, and appreciate their historical, cultural significance from a contemporary perspective. Our interactive constellation map is based on the most detailed and accurate information on the stars in our Galaxy to date, and combines our expanding scientific understanding of the stars with contextual information reflecting Korea's unique astronomical culture and heritage.
description: 4 pages, in proceedings of International Symposium on Electronic Art 2019 (ISEA)
Towards a Geometric Approach to the Formulation of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Kadyshevsky, V. G.
name: Mateev, M. D.
name: Rodionov, V. N.
name: Sorin, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A geometric interpretation of the spontaneous symmetry breaking effect, which plays a key role in the Standard Model, is developed. The advocated approach is related to the effective use of the momentum 4-spaces of the constant curvature, de Sitter and anti de Sitter, in the apparatus of quantum field theory.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX
Low-Temperature Decoherence of Qubit Coupled to Background Charges
Creators: name: Grishin, Alex
name: Yurkevich, Igor V.
name: Lerner, Igor V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have found an exact expression for the decoherence rate of a Josephson charge qubit coupled to fluctuating background charges. At low temperatures $T$ the decoherence rate $Γ$ is linear in $T$ while at high temperatures it saturates in agreement with a known classical solution which, however, reached at surprisingly high $T$. In contrast to the classical picture, impurity states spread in a wide interval of energies ($\gg T$) may essentially contribute to $Γ$.
description: Both figures are changed to illustrate a more generic case of impurity states spread in wide interval of energies. Some changes have been made to the abstract and the introduction
D.3.1.6 Report on Plant Food Analysis and Data Quality course
Creators: name: WU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Course report

A. Aim

The course aims to provide participants with up-to-date knowledge, practical experience and insights in instrumental analysis, inorganic plant food analysis, laboratory management and data handling.

B. Programme

A detailed programme of this course can be found in Annex PFA 2006 programme. Although the programme also includes topics related to soil analysis, the EuroFIR sponsored participants focused on plant analysis as much as possible within the framework of this course.
Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms
Creators: name: Panunzi, Fausto
name: Ellul, Andrew
name: Pagano, Marco
name: Panunzi, Fausto
name: Ellul, Andrew
name: Pagano, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Succession
subject: Family Firms
subject: Inheritance Law
subject: Growth
subject: Investment

description: Entrepreneurs may be constrained by the law to bequeath a minimal stake to non-controlling heirs. The size of this stake can reduce investment in family firms, by reducing the future income they can pledge to external financiers. Using a purpose-built indicator of the permissiveness of inheritance law and data for 10,245 firms from 32 countries over the 1990-2006 interval, we find that stricter inheritance law is associated with lower investment in family firms, while it leaves investment unaffected in non-family firms. Moreover, as predicted by the model, inheritance law affects investment only in family firms that experience a succession.
The Cauchy problem of scalar-tensor theories of gravity
Creators: name: Salgado, Marcelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3+1 formulation of scalar-tensor theories of gravity (STT) is obtained in the physical (Jordan) frame departing from the 4+0 covariant field equations. Contrary to the common belief (folklore), the new system of ADM-like equations shows that the Cauchy problem of STT is well formulated (in the sense that the whole system of evolution equations is of first order in the time-derivative). This is the first step towards a full first order (in time and space) formulation from which a subsequent hyperbolicity analysis (a well-posedness determination) can be performed. Several gauge (lapse and shift) conditions are considered and implemented for STT. In particular, a generalization of the harmonic gauge for STT allows us to prove the well posedness of the STT using a second order analysis which is very similar to the one used in general relativity. Some spacetimes of astrophysical and cosmological interest are considered as specific applications. Several appendices complement the ideas of the main part of the paper.
description: 29 pages Revtex; typos corrected; references added and updated; a shorter version of this paper was published in Classical and Quantum Gravity