cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Domestic Support Policies for Agriculture in Ecuador and the U.S.-Andean Countries Free Trade Agreement: An Applied General Equilibrium Assessment
Creators: name: Ludena, Carlos E.
name: Wong, Sara
name: Ludena, Carlos E.
name: Wong, Sara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: For the past two years the United States and Colombia, Peru and Ecuador have being negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). One of the main concerns of Ecuador's farmers is the asymmetry that exists between U.S. and Ecuador agricultural sectors. U.S. agriculture is highly subsidized in products such as rice, corn, and soybeans, products that represent an important export and subsistence products for Ecuadorian farmers. To reduce any negative effect that the FTA may have, Ecuador's government is studying land-based payments for rice, corn, soybeans and livestock producers. This program would offer direct initial support to farmers' income after the FTA enters in full effect. The objectives of this paper were twofold. First, estimate the effects on the Ecuadorian economy, and especially on Ecuador's agriculture of the FTA. And second, study the viability of the domestic support program for agriculture proposed by the Ecuadorian government, as well as some alternative domestic support policies. We use a modified version of the GTAP global general equilibrium model specific for agriculture support, called GTAP-AGR. The results show that trade liberalization will negatively affect all agricultural sectors in Ecuador, except for the exporting sectors (bananas, coffee, cocoa, and flowers). Government subsidies are estimated to disproportionally help rice and soybeans producers, but they will not be enough for corn and livestock producers. We conclude that government subsidies should be extended to other sector such as sugar cane and cotton.
Black holes are almost optimal quantum cloners
Creators: name: Adami, C.
name: Steeg, G. Ver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If black holes were able to clone quantum states, a number of paradoxes in black hole physics would disappear. However, the linearity of quantum mechanics forbids exact cloning of quantum states. Here we show that black holes indeed clone incoming quantum states with a fidelity that depends on the black hole's absorption coefficient, without violating the no-cloning theorem because the clones are only approximate. Perfectly reflecting black holes are optimal universal "quantum cloning machines" and operate on the principle of stimulated emission, exactly as their quantum optical counterparts. In the limit of perfect absorption, the fidelity of clones is equal to what can be obtained via quantum state estimation methods. But for any absorption probability less than one, the cloning fidelity is nearly optimal as long as $ω/T\geq10$, a common parameter for modest-sized black holes.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in J. Phys. A
8686: Pte William Henry Taylor, 1/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Pte William Henry Taylor, 1/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment died aged 24 after receiving a gunshot wound to the head in the Ypres Salient. He was buried at Potijze Château Lawn Cemetery. The contributor has been over to Ypres and spent considerable time researching her great uncle.
8681: Gilbert Cope, Bournville Infant School
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Gilbert Cope was a pupil at Bournville Infant School during the First World War. In 1917, children at the school were asked to donate eggs that would then be packed up and sent to soldiers at the front. The children were given certificates for having brought in the eggs. Gilbert kept a lot of childhood memorabilia. He also kept a certificate for a Christmas pudding fund. He received a letter in return from William Oswell, 1st Grenadier Guard, who was staying at Fircroft Auxiliary Hospital.
Market Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) Hypothesis Revisited using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis
Creators: name: Edwards, Seanicaa
name: Allen, Albert J.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Edwards, Seanicaa
name: Allen, Albert J.
name: Shaik, Saleem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Use of efficiency measures as a proxy for performance to test the market structure-conduct-performance (SCP) hypothesis is explored. Utilizing Battese and Coelli specification, we estimate stochastic frontier production function and SCP equations with output and efficiency measures as endogenous variables. An empirical application to U.S. trucking carries over the period 1994-2003 with emphasis on the agricultural commodity and refrigerated food products carriers is examined. Results reveal that the variables average haul, average load and market concentration significantly affected the efficiency of firms with 2-8 number of years within each firm.
Phi-values in protein folding kinetics have energetic and structural components
Creators: name: Merlo, Claudia
name: Dill, Ken A.
name: Weikl, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phi-values are experimental measures of how the kinetics of protein folding is changed by single-site mutations. Phi-values measure energetic quantities, but are often interpreted in terms of the structures of the transition state ensemble. Here we describe a simple analytical model of the folding kinetics in terms of the formation of protein substructures. The model shows that Phi-values have both structural and energetic components. In addition, it provides a natural and general interpretation of "nonclassical" Phi-values (i.e., less than zero, or greater than one). The model reproduces the Phi-values for 20 single-residue mutations in the alpha-helix of the protein CI2, including several nonclassical Phi-values, in good agreement with experiments.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Observation of the quantized motion of excitons in CdSe nanoplatelets
Creators: name: Failla, Michele
name: Flórez, Francisco García
name: Salzmann, Bastiaan B. V.
name: Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel
name: Stoof, Henk T. C.
name: Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the finite lateral sizes of ultrathin CdSe nanoplatelets strongly affect both their photoluminescence and optical absorption spectra. This is in contrast to the situation in quantum wells, in which the large lateral sizes may be assumed to be infinite. The lateral sizes of the nanoplatelets are varied over a range of a few to tens of nanometers. For these sizes excitons experience in-plane quantum confinement, and their center-of-mass motion becomes quantized. Our direct experimental observation of the discretization of the exciton center-of-mass states can be well understood on the basis of the simple particle-in-a-box model.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Disparities in fertility knowledge among women from low and high resource settings presenting for fertility care in two United States metropolitan centers
Creators: name: Hoffman, Jacquelyn R.
name: Delaney, Meaghan A.
name: Valdes, Cecilia T.
name: Herrera, Diana
name: Washington, Samuel L.
name: Aghajanova, Lusine
name: Smith, James F.
name: Herndon, Christopher N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
The Double Box and Hexagon Conformal Feynman Integrals
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Banik, Sumit
name: Friot, Samuel
name: Ghosh, Shayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The off-shell massless six-point double box and hexagon conformal Feynman integrals with generic propagator powers are expressed in terms of linear combinations of multiple hypergeometric series of the generalized Horn type. These results are derived from 9-fold Mellin-Barnes representations obtained from their dual conformal Feynman parameter representations. The individual terms in the presented expressions satisfy the differential equation that relates the double box in $D$ dimensions to the hexagon in $D+2$ dimensions.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure
Gottlieb Cordes, Johann, Die Verantwortung des Christen für sein Volk
Creators: name: L., W.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 1 Nr. 3 (1952): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 1, Heft 3
Risk Management for Ag Families: An Extension Model for Improving Family Business Success
Creators: name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Nagler, Amy M.
name: Hewlett, John P.
name: Weigel, Randolph R.
name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Nagler, Amy M.
name: Hewlett, John P.
name: Weigel, Randolph R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: A risky business environment for agricultural producers coupled with human risk elements unique to family businesses, points to the need for extension programs that integrate traditional risk management concepts into curriculums focused on the potentially unique educational needs of family farm management teams. Results in this paper indicate that a multi-state, grant funded program entitled "Risk Management for Ag Families" had impact and provides a model that traditional risk management education programs could benefit from.
Farm Employment Transitions: A Markov Chain Analysis with Self-Selectivity
Creators: name: Iwai, Nobuyuki
name: Emerson, Robert D.
name: Walters, Lurleen M.
name: Iwai, Nobuyuki
name: Emerson, Robert D.
name: Walters, Lurleen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: A stationary, first-order Markov chain model with selection bias correction for legal status is estimated by maxixmum likelihood methods using the National Agricultural Worker Survey data for 1989-2004 to evaluate the likelihood of workers staying in U.S. agriculture by legal status. Although the conditional steady state probability in US agriculture is highest for uanauthorized workers, there is little difference between legal statuses. Simulations of the estimated model indicate that a legal status change for unauthorized workers would result in only small changes in the steady state probability of being in US agriculture, particularly after 2001.
8683: John 'Jack', Wilfred 'Freddy' and Benjamin 'Benny' England
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Benjamin England joined the Territorial Force in 1912 when he was 17 and a half near Otley, Yorkshire. He became a joiner and met his wife when he was 18. He married her on 6 August 1914. He decided to join the Home Service and was part of the 2/8 West Yorkshire Regiment. He went to the Western Front in January 1917 with the 62nd Division. He was involved in operations on the anchor in Northern France. He then followed up on the German retreat to the Hindenburg line around April 1917 in the Battles of Bullecourt. He was captured in the second battle on 3 May 1917 and sent to a POW camp in Germany until the end of the war. He returned home following the war and moved to Australia, where he divorced his wife and remarried. He never returned home.
Exact travelling wave solutions in viscoelastic channel flow
Creators: name: Page, Jacob
name: Dubief, Yves
name: Kerswell, Rich R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT) is a new, two-dimensional chaotic flow state observed in polymer solutions with possible connections to inertialess elastic turbulence and drag-reduced Newtonian turbulence. In this Letter, we argue that the origins of EIT are fundamentally different from Newtonian turbulence by finding a dynamical connection between EIT and an elasto-inertial linear instability recently found at high Weissenberg numbers (Garg et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 024502, 2018). This link is established by isolating the first known exact coherent structures in viscoelastic parallel flows - nonlinear elasto-inertial travelling waves (TWs) - borne at the linear instability and tracking them down to substantially lower Weissenberg numbers where EIT exists. These TWs have a distinctive ``arrowhead'' structure in the polymer stretch field and can be clearly recognised, albeit transiently, in EIT, as well as being attractors for EIT dynamics if the Weissenberg number is sufficiently large. Our findings suggest that the dynamical systems picture in which Newtonian turbulence is built around the co-existence of many (unstable) simple invariant solutions populating phase space carries over to EIT, though these solutions rely on elasticity to exist.
What Drives Strategic Behavior? A Framework to Explain and Predict SMEs' Transition to Sustainable Production Systems
Creators: name: Kalogeras, Nikos
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Kalogeras, Nikos
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The strategic choices of Small and Medium Enterprises in the agribusiness sector are fraught with large cost and revenue uncertainties. The transition to a new production system implies that SMEs must re-allocate resources and develop new strategies to achieve market goals. We highlight the agricultural, marketing and management literature on decision-making under risk for strategic decisions. Subsequently we discuss the various elicitation techniques to measure decision-makers' utility functions. That review indicates that one is able to measure the global utility function in a reliable and valid way. Particularly the measures based on experiments and rooted in expected utility framework seem to perform well. Furthermore, we develop various research propositions that deal with the factors that influence SMEs strategic decision whether or not to switch to sustainable production systems. We propose to investigate the global shape of the utility function of SMEs as it drives strategic decisions, and the factors that influence these decisions.
Unsupervised machine learning via transfer learning and k-means clustering to classify materials image data
Creators: name: Cohn, Ryan
name: Holm, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Unsupervised machine learning offers significant opportunities for extracting knowledge from unlabeled data sets and for achieving maximum machine learning performance. This paper demonstrates how to construct, use, and evaluate a high performance unsupervised machine learning system for classifying images in a popular microstructural dataset. The Northeastern University Steel Surface Defects Database includes micrographs of six different defects observed on hot-rolled steel in a format that is convenient for training and evaluating models for image classification. We use the VGG16 convolutional neural network pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset of natural images to extract feature representations for each micrograph. After applying principal component analysis to extract signal from the feature descriptors, we use k-means clustering to classify the images without needing labeled training data. The approach achieves $99.4\% \pm 0.16\%$ accuracy, and the resulting model can be used to classify new images without retraining This approach demonstrates an improvement in both performance and utility compared to a previous study. A sensitivity analysis is conducted to better understand the influence of each step on the classification performance. The results provide insight toward applying unsupervised machine learning techniques to problems of interest in materials science.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, Integr Mater Manuf Innov (2021)
Compton backscattered and primary X-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo
Creators: name: Kontar, Eduard P.
name: MacKinnon, Alec L.
name: Schwartz, Richard A.
name: Brown, John C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed hard X-ray (HXR) flux spectrum $I(ε)$ from solar flares is a combination of primary bremsstrahlung photons $I_P(ε)$ with a spectrally modified component from photospheric Compton backscatter of downward primary emission. The latter can be significant, distorting or hiding the true features of the primary spectrum which are key diagnostics for acceleration and propagation of high energy electrons and of their energy budget. For the first time in solar physics, we use a Green's function approach to the backscatter spectral deconvolution problem, constructing a Green's matrix including photoelectric absorption. This approach allows spectrum-independent extraction of the primary spectrum for several HXR flares observed by the {\it Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager} (RHESSI). We show that the observed and primary spectra differ very substantially for flares with hard spectra close to the disk centre. We show in particular that the energy dependent photon spectral index $γ(ε)=-d \log I/d \log ε$ is very different for $I_P(ε)$ and for $I(ε)$ and that inferred mean source electron spectra ${\bar F}(E)$ differ greatly. Even for a forward fitting of a parametric ${\bar F}(E)$ to the data, a clear low-energy cutoff required to fit $I(ε)$ essentially disappears when the fit is to $I_P(ε)$ - i.e. when albedo correction is included. The self-consistent correction for backscattered photons is thus shown to be crucial in determining the energy spectra of flare accelerated electrons, and hence their total number and energy.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Resolution of the Co-Location Problem in Satellite Quantum Tests of the Universality of Free Fall
Creators: name: Loriani, Sina
name: Schubert, Christian
name: Schlippert, Dennis
name: Ertmer, Wolfgang
name: Santos, Franck Pereira Dos
name: Rasel, Ernst Maria
name: Gaaloul, Naceur
name: Wolf, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major challenge common to all Galilean drop tests of the Universality of Free Fall (UFF) is the required control over the initial kinematics of the two test masses upon release due to coupling to gravity gradients and rotations. In this work, we present a two-fold mitigation strategy to significantly alleviate the source preparation requirements in space-borne quantum tests of the UFF, using a compensation mechanism together with signal demodulation. To this end, we propose a scheme to reduce the gravity-gradient-induced uncertainties in an atom-interferometric experiment in a dedicated satellite mission and assess the experimental feasibility. We find that with moderate parameters, the requirements on the initial kinematics of the two masses can be relaxed by five orders of magnitude. This does not only imply a significantly reduced mission time but also allows to reduce the differential acceleration uncertainty caused by co-location imperfections below the $10^{-18}$ level.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
8684: Margaret 'Daisy' Pratt, Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Daisy was a VAD nurse at Hill House Hospital. Her family owned 'Pratts' the chemist in the market square, Warwick. She lived on Smith Street and died in Bridge End cottages. She did not talk about her wartime experiences. The contributor found the item among Daisy's possessions after her death. The contributor felt honoured to have a book of memories of soldiers and her great aunt. The contributor remembers Daisy as a kind 'lady', and recalls having tea with her when a child.
Additional file 6 of Association of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene practices with children’s nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections and diarrhoea in rural Nepal: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Shrestha, Akina
name: Six, Jeanne
name: Dikshya Dahal
name: Marks, Sara
name: Meierhofer, Regula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table E. Child health, health seeking behaviour and awareness on health protecting behaviours.
A simple algorithm to test for linking to Wilson loops in percolation
Creators: name: Ziff, Robert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple burning or epidemic type of algorithm is developed in order to test whether any loops in percolation clusters link a fixed reference loop, a problem considered recently by Gliozzi, Lottini, Panero, and Rago in the context of gauge theory. We test our algorithm at criticality in both 2d, where the behavior agrees with a theoretical prediction, and in 3d.
description: v1: A third figure added with additional simulation results. Small corrections also
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of single high-molecular-weight versus triple low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid intra-articular injection among knee osteoarthritis patients
Creators: name: Bahrami, Mohammad Hasan
name: Raeissadat, Seyed Ahmad
name: Cheraghi, Mohsen
name: Rahimi-Dehgolan, Shahram
name: Ebrahimpour, Adel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist.
Fundamental bound for time measurements and minimum uncertainty clocks
Creators: name: Gambini, Rodolfo
name: Pullin, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple argument leading to a fundamental minimum uncertainty in the determination of times. It only relies in the uncertainty principle and time dilation in a gravitational field. It implies any attempt to measure times will have a fundamental level of uncertainty. Implications are briefly outlined.
description: 6 pages, RevTex, one figure
8685: Tin and contents passed down from great-great-grandfather
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: See object list
Elanela kerzhneri Grazia & da Silva 2006, sp. n.
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocelia
name: da Silva, A. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Elanela
Elanela kerzhneri

description: Elanela kerzhneri Grazia & Silva sp. n. Figs 1–3 MATERIAL. Holotype ♂: Brazil, Rondônia, Ouro Preto, 22.III.1979 leg. A.C. Mendes (MCNZ). DESCRIPTION. This species is very similar to E. hevera in dorsal aspect and size (Fig. 1); it can be distinguished by the morphology of the pygophore especially by the structure of parameres and segment X. (Figs 2–3). Measurements: total length 6.15, head length 1.06, anteocular length 0.41, pronotal length 1.47, scutellar length 2.29, head width 1.80, interocular width 0.90, interocelar width 0.36, pronotal width 3.93, scutellar width 2.29, abdominal width at third segment 3.93, antennal segments missing. Dorsal surface matte, darker than in E. hevera; disc of scutellum and corium with wider dark brown spots; membrane of hemelytra heavily infuscate. Lateroventral thirds of abdomen with dark brown spots in addition to the oblong spot on median third. Male genitalia. Pygophore subquadrangular, posterolateral angles developed; lateral thirds of dorsal rim heavily depressed, inner wall of genital cup tumescent, posteriorly triangular, surpassing postero-lateral angles of pygophore. Parameres quadrangular in dorsal view, juxtaposed along mid line, and covering the base of the platelike and wide segment X; apical margin of segment X * Contribution No. 484 of the Department of Zoology, UFRGS. with a V-shaped notch, deeper than in E. hevera (Fig. 2). Inferior fold of ventral rim of pygophore with a deep semicircular excavation; superior fold sinuate, median third with a U-shaped notch bearing a denticle at middle (Fig. 3). ETYMOLOGY. This species is named in honor to Dr. Izyaslav Kerzhner for his outstanding contribution to the knowledge of the true bugs.
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocelia & da Silva, A. N., 2006, Elanela kerzhneri sp. n., a new species of Pentatomidae from Brazil (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatominae), pp. 159-160 in Russian Entomological Journal 15 (2) on pages 159-160, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3966383
Additional file 1 of Development of the Signposting Questionnaire for Autism (SQ-A): measurement comparison with the 10-item Autism Spectrum Quotient-Child and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK and Latvia
Creators: name: Jones, Catherine R. G.
name: Barrett, Sarah L.
name: Bite, Ieva
name: Legzdina, Maria
name: Arina, Kristina
name: Higgins, Andrea
name: Honey, Kyla
name: Carrington, Sarah J.
name: Hay, Dale
name: Condon, Johanna
name: Leekam, Susan R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Frequencies of parents reporting diagnoses other than autism spectrum disorder for the whole UK sample, and for the ASD and Other groups. Table S2. Parent report percentage endorsement of each Signposting Questionnaire for Autism (SQ-A) item shown by country and diagnostic group. Table S3. Group differences between ASD-only and ASD-co-occurring subgroups for the three parent-report questionnaires in the UK sample. Table S4. Frequencies of parents reporting diagnoses other than autism spectrum disorder for the whole Latvia sample and for the ASD and Other groups
Farmer Willingness to Grow Switchgrass for Energy Production
Creators: name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Clark, Christopher D.
name: Ellis, Pamela
name: English, Burton C.
name: Menard, R. Jamey
name: Walsh, Marie E.
name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Clark, Christopher D.
name: Ellis, Pamela
name: English, Burton C.
name: Menard, R. Jamey
name: Walsh, Marie E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Increasing demand for the production of energy from renewable sources has fueled a search for alternatives to supplement those currently in production. One such alternative is switchgrass, a perennial grass native to North America that appears to have considerable potential as a biomass feedstock for energy production. While the properties of switchgrass as a biomass feedstock have been intensively studied, the potential market for switchgrass has received much less attention. A survey of Tennessee farmers was conducted to improve our understanding of those who might be willing to supply switchgrass to an emerging energy market. The results of this survey provide information on the willingness of Tennessee's agricultural producers to grow switchgrass as an energy crop and the acreage that these producers would be willing to convert to switchgrass production. The majority of respondents had not heard of growing switchgrass for energy production and roughly half were unsure as to whether they would be willing to grow switchgrass. For those with an opinion about whether they would grow switchgrass, a two limit Tobit model of acreage share was used to ascertain the effects of various farm and producer characteristics on the share of acreage they would be willing to convert to switchgrass.
Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuo
name: Balog, Krisztian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conversational information access is an emerging research area. Currently, human evaluation is used for end-to-end system evaluation, which is both very time and resource intensive at scale, and thus becomes a bottleneck of progress. As an alternative, we propose automated evaluation by means of simulating users. Our user simulator aims to generate responses that a real human would give by considering both individual preferences and the general flow of interaction with the system. We evaluate our simulation approach on an item recommendation task by comparing three existing conversational recommender systems. We show that preference modeling and task-specific interaction models both contribute to more realistic simulations, and can help achieve high correlation between automatic evaluation measures and manual human assessments.
description: Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '20), 2020
Relationship between perceived level of function and measured performance on a standardized lifting assessment in individuals with chronic low back pain receiving workers compensation
Creators: name: Donnelly, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Low back pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint in adults and one of the leading causes for being off work. The complex biopsychosocial nature of low back pain is recognized extensively in the low back pain literature. Studies have suggested that outcomes of low back pain are more likely related to psychosocial factors than any specific physical factor. More recently there has been a move towards a more client-centred approach to low back pain. Many studies have examined the treatment and assessment of low back pain, but none have included an individualized, client-centred approach. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), a client-centred individualized assessment, the Progressive Isoinertial Lifting Evaluation (PILE) and the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (ODQ), two standard low back assessments. In addition, the ability of each assessment to differentiate between individuals who returned to work and those that did not at both discharge and at 3-month follow-up was examined. Subjects consisted of those individuals who had sustained a low back injury while at work and who were currently attending or about to attend a rehabilitation program. Forty six individuals (mean age 40.6 years, range 20 to 61) completed initial and discharge assessments and all were contacted 3 months following discharge to determine work status. A significant correlation was found between the COPM Performance and the ODQ (r=-.434, p<.001). No significant correlation was found between the COPM Satisfaction and the ODQ. A weak to moderate relationship was found between the COPM Performance, ODQ and the PILE (r values from -.250 to -.552). No relationship was found between the COPM Satisfaction and the PILE. Results indicate the COPM measures a different aspect of function than both the ODQ and the PILE. Both the COPM Performance and ODQ were able to differentiate between individuals who returned to work at discharge and those that did not (p<.05). This is a new finding and supports the use of an individualized, client-centred outcome measure in a chronic low back pain population. No other variable, including age and duration of injury were able to differentiate return to work status at either discharge or 3-months follow-up. This study confirms previous research which indicate return to work is a complex, multifaceted issue. This is the first study to examine the use of an individualized, clientcentred approach and provides initial support for the use of such measure in a chronic low back pain population.
Production of WZ Events in p-barp Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV and Limits on Anomalous WWZ Couplings
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a search for WZ production with subsequent decay to l nu l'-bar l' (l and l'=electron or muon) using 0.30 fb^(-1) of data collected by the DO experiment between 2002 and 2004 at the Tevatron. Three events with WZ decay characteristics are observed. With an estimated background of 0.71+-0.08 events, we measure the WZ production cross section to be 4.5 (+3.8 -2.6) pb, with a 95% C.L. upper limit of 13.3 pb. The 95% C.L. limits for anomalous WWZ couplings are found to be -2.0 < Delta kappa_Z < 2.4 for form factor scale Lambda = 1 TeV, and -0.48 < lambda_Z < 0.48 and -0.49 < Delta g_1^Z < 0.66 for Lambda = 1.5 TeV.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Dark Energy and Its Interactions with Neutrinos
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk I will firstly review on the current constraints on the equation of state of the dark energy from observational data, then present a new scenario of dark energy dubbed {\it Quintom}. The recent fits to the type Ia supernova data and the cosmic microwave background and so on in the literature find that the behavior of dark energy is to great extent in consistency with a cosmological constant, however the dynamical dark energy scenarios are generally not ruled out, and one class of models with an equation of state transiting from below -1 to above -1 as the redshift increases is mildly favored. The second part of the talk is on interacting dark energy. I will review briefly on the models of neutrino dark energy.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, plenary talk given at PASCOS 2005, May 30 - June 4, Gyeongju, Korea
Deformation of graphene sheet: Interaction of fermions with phonons
Creators: name: Sedrakyan, Ara
name: Sinner, Andreas
name: Ziegler, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an effective low energy Hamiltonian which describes fermions dwelling on a deformed honeycomb lattice with dislocations and disclinations, and with an arbitrary hopping parameters of the corresponding tight binding model. It describes the interaction of fermions with a 2d gravity and has also a local SU(2) gauge invariance of the group of rotations. We reformulate the model as interaction of fermions with the deformation of the lattice, which forms a phonon field. We calculate the response of fermion currents to the external deformation or phonon field, which is a result of a Z_2 anomaly. This can be detected experimentally.
AN ANALYSIS OF TAX-DEFERRED RETIREMENT SAVINGS OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The retiring farmer generally tries to balance the desire to keep the farm intact as a going concern with the need for a secure assets portfolio to finance retirement. This problem becomes more complex in situations where younger family members choose not to be active in the farm business. Tax-deferred savings are potentially an important component of a retirement plan and could represent a very substantial increase in tax-free assets for many individuals. This study examines the tax deferred retirement savings of farm households. The model is estimated using Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) 1999 farm-level national data and the Double-Hurdle estimation method. Results indicate that farm household's source of income, age of the farm operator, marginal tax rate, regional location, and participation in government programs are factors that significantly affect investment in tax-deferred savings.
Mindestøtte ved Aas høiere landbrugsskile, hvor sorenskrivergaarden i Aker og follo før stod, og hvor Chr. Magnus Falsen skrev sit udkast til grundloven. Bærer følgende indskrift: -
Creators: name: Mathiesen, Henrik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Udefinert

description: Minnestøtte over Christian Magnus Falsen.
description: Tegning.
Additional file 4 of Association of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene practices with children’s nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections and diarrhoea in rural Nepal: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Shrestha, Akina
name: Six, Jeanne
name: Dikshya Dahal
name: Marks, Sara
name: Meierhofer, Regula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table C. Nutrition provided to children between 6 months and 10 years.
INFORMATION AS A DOUBLE-EDGE SWORD: IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD STANDARDS AND LABELS
Creators: name: Deaton, Brady J.
name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Deaton, Brady J.
name: Hoehn, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: An analytical model is developed to examine product quality labeling. Prior to labeling all consumers are willing to pay a premium for the quality characteristic but product quality cannot be observed directly. If production costs are increasing, the total quantity produced may contain a mix of products - with and without the high-valued attribute. In the pooled equilibrium demand is influenced by perceptions of the product mix. After labels are introduced the market is separated into two sectors, conventional and high-valued. The economic implications of labels are examined by contrasting welfare in the separating equilibrium with welfare in the pooled equilibrium. Under the models' maintained assumptions the conventional sector loses welfare, while producers of the high-valued product experience gains. In addition, producers of the high-valued product may have incentives to promote costly labeling despite net-welfare losses.
Classical resolution of singularities in dilaton cosmologies
Creators: name: Bergshoeff, E. A.
name: Collinucci, A.
name: Roest, D.
name: Russo, J. G.
name: Townsend, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For models of dilaton-gravity with a possible exponential potential, such as the tensor-scalar sector of IIA supergravity, we show how cosmological solutions correspond to trajectories in a 2D Milne space (parametrized by the dilaton and the scale factor). Cosmological singularities correspond to points at which a trajectory meets the Milne horizon, but the trajectories can be smoothly continued through the horizon to an instanton solution of the Euclidean theory. We find some exact cosmology/instanton solutions that lift to black holes in one higher dimension. For one such solution, the singularities of a big crunch to big bang transition mediated by an instanton phase lift to the black hole and cosmological horizons of de Sitter Schwarzschild spacetimes.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED WEST AFRICAN MONETARY ZONE ON COWPEA TRADE IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Creators: name: Langyintuo, Augustine S.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, James
name: Arndt, Channing
name: Langyintuo, Augustine S.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, James
name: Arndt, Channing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are expected to form a West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) by 2004 whereby member countries would use a common currency in an attempt to promote regional integration. Evidence suggests that reduction in transaction cost as a result of a decrease or complete elimination of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and a decrease in real interest rates in response to elimination of exchange rate differentials positively influence trade. The objective of this study is to quantify the effects of (a) a 7% real interest rate on capital and (b) zero NTBs within ECOWAS countries on cowpea trade in West and Central Africa in order to provide a measure of the potential impacts of a common monetary policy. The study applied a spatial and temporal price equilibrium (SPE) formulated as a four-period mixed complementary programming (MCP) in GAMS and solved using GAMS/PATH solver focusing on cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) trade in the Nigerian Cowpea Grainshed (NCG) comprising Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo in ECOWAS, and Cameroon, Chad, and Gabon in Central African Economic and Monetary Cooperation (CAEMC) using 1999/2000 as base marketing year. The results showed that if WAMZ results in reduced real interest rates within ECOWAS, the larger of the two monetary unions, consumers in the relatively larger coastal economies and producers in the smaller Sahelian economies would benefit while all others lose. However, net social welfare would increase by 0.19% over the base case of US$6.3 billion. Removing NTBs among countries in the larger trading bloc may alter the pattern of cowpea flows with total trade volume increasing by 3%, but inter-bloc trade decreases by about 8%. The net total regional social welfare would increase by 0.14%, or US$15 million, benefiting only consumers in importing countries and producers in exporting countries. The results emphasize the importance of specialization based on regional comparative advantage, but also draw attention to the need to devise ways to ensure acceptable welfare distribution among producers and consumers in line with policy objectives of the individual countries within the proposed WAMZ. Finally, this paper contributes to the literature on the application of spatial and temporal models incorporating both ad valorem tariffs and differential interest rates in developing economies.
Lepton Flavor Violation in Extra Dimension Models
Creators: name: Chang, We-Fu
name: Ng, John N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models involving large extra spatial dimension(s) have interesting predictions on lepton flavor violating processes. We consider some 5D models which are related to neutrino mass generation or address the fermion masses hierarchy problem. We study the signatures in low energy experiments that can discriminate the different models. The focus is on muon-electron conversion in nuclei, $μ\ra e γ$ and $μ\ra 3e$ processes and their $τ$ counterparts. Their links with the active neutrino mass matrix are investigated. We show that in the models we discussed the branching ratio of $μ\ra e γ$ like rare process is much smaller than the ones of $μ\ra 3e$ like processes. This is in sharp contrast to most of the traditional wisdom based on four dimensional gauge models. Moreover, some rare tau decays are more promising than the rare muon decays.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 5 of Association of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene practices with children’s nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections and diarrhoea in rural Nepal: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Shrestha, Akina
name: Six, Jeanne
name: Dikshya Dahal
name: Marks, Sara
name: Meierhofer, Regula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table D. Water supply, water handling and water quality.