cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Avoiding abelian powers cyclically
Creators: name: Peltomäki, Jarkko
name: Whiteland, Markus A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68R15

description: We study a new notion of cyclic avoidance of abelian powers. A finite word $w$ avoids abelian $N$-powers cyclically if for each abelian $N$-power of period $m$ occurring in the infinite word $w^ω$, we have $m \geq |w|$. Let $\mathcal{A}(k)$ be the least integer $N$ such that for all $n$ there exists a word of length $n$ over a $k$-letter alphabet that avoids abelian $N$-powers cyclically. Let $\mathcal{A}_\infty(k)$ be the least integer $N$ such that there exist arbitrarily long words over a $k$-letter alphabet that avoid abelian $N$-powers cyclically. We prove that $5 \leq \mathcal{A}(2) \leq 8$, $3 \leq \mathcal{A}(3) \leq 4$, $2 \leq \mathcal{A}(4) \leq 3$, and $\mathcal{A}(k) = 2$ for $k \geq 5$. Moreover, we show that $\mathcal{A}_\infty(2) = 4$, $\mathcal{A}_\infty(3) = 3$, and $\mathcal{A}_\infty(4) = 2$.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
Mexico Grapefruit Production, Utilization, and Trade
Creators: name: Guci, Ledia
name: Guci, Ledia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Mexico
subject: grapefruit
subject: production
subject: trade

description: This report provides production, utilization and trade data regarding Mexico’s grapefruit industry and an in-depth look into the Mexico’s share growth for both fresh and processed products.
Market Development and Food Demand in Rural China
Creators: name: Huang, Jikun
name: Rozelle, Scott
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Rozelle, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Productivity Analysis

description: This paper seeks to understand how market imperfections affect the behavior of consumers in China's rural economy. A theoretical and empirical model is developed and estimated using a household-level data from six counties in Hebei Province. The results show that market development plays an important role in explaining food consumption behavior in China. As the market develops, farmers demand less grain and vegetables and consume more meat, fruit, and other food products after control for income and price effects. Moreover, the elasticities of demand also change as farm households begin to rely more on rural markets. The results of this paper suggest that a government concerned about the welfare of its rural population may want to be paying a more active role in fostering rural markets. Understanding the forces behind these consumption pattern shifts also will aid academics and policymakers in making better projections about future consumer needs and price levels.
Plasmon damping in electronically open systems
Creators: name: Kapralov, Kirill
name: Svintsov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapid progress in electrically-controlled plasmonics in solids poses a question about effects of electronic reservoirs on the properties of plasmons. We find that plasmons in electronically open systems [i.e. in (semi)conductors connected to leads] are prone to an additional damping due to charge carrier penetration into contacts and subsequent thermalization. We develop a theory of such lead-induced damping based on kinetic equation with self-consistent electric field, supplemented by microscopic carrier transport at the interfaces. The lifetime of plasmon in electronically open ballistic system appears to be finite, order of conductor length divided by carrier Fermi (thermal) velocity. The reflection loss of plasmon incident on the contact of semi-conductor and perfectly conducting metal also appears to be finite, order of Fermi velocity divided by wave phase velocity. Recent experiments on plasmon-assisted photodetection are discussed in light of the proposed lead-induced damping phenomenon.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Outlook for Texas Representative Cotton Farms
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 are projected for representative Texas cotton farms. The analysis was conducted over the 2001-2008 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming operations in Texas’ major cotton production regions came from two sources: - Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative cotton farms. - Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) August 2004 Baseline. The primary objective of the analysis is to determine cotton farms’ economic viability by region through 2008, assuming provisions of the 2002 Farm Bill. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical price and production risk faced by cotton farmers. This report presents the results of the August 2004 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing annual cash flow deficits and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2008. This report is organized into six sections. The first section summarizes the process used to develop the representative farms and the key assumptions utilized for the farm level analysis. The second section summarizes the FAPRI August 2004 Baseline and the policy and price assumptions used for the representative farm analyses. The third section presents the results of the simulation analyses for cotton farms. The fourth section summarizes and compares cost of production information for the nine cotton farms. Two appendices constitute the final sections of the report. Appendix A provides tables to summarize the physical and financial characteristics for each of the representative cotton farms. Appendix B provides the names of producers, land grant faculty, and industry leaders who cooperated in the panel interview process to develop the representative farms.
Numerical precision radiative corrections to the Dalitz plot of light and heavy quark unpolarized baryon semileptonic decays. The cases Xi^0 \to Sigma^+ e \barν and Λ_c^+ \to Λe^+ ν
Creators: name: Flores-Mendieta, Ruben
name: Torres, J. J.
name: Neri, M.
name: Martinez, A.
name: Garcia, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and discuss a numerical use of our previous precision results for the radiative corrections to unpolarized spin one-half baryon semileptonic decays, which is not compromised to fixing the form factors at prescribed values. We present various crosschecks and comparisons with other results available in the literature of such analytical radiative corrections. Our analysis, however, is general and applies to all charge assignments to the baryons allowed by heavy quarks. The procedure is exemplified with the processes Ξ^0 \to Σ^+ e\barν and Λ_c^+ \to Λe^+ ν.
description: 15 pages, 5 tables, no figures
Classification-Aided Multitarget Tracking Using the Sum-Product Algorithm
Creators: name: Gaglione, Domenico
name: Soldi, Giovanni
name: Braca, Paolo
name: De Magistris, Giovanni
name: Meyer, Florian
name: Hlawatsch, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Multitarget tracking (MTT) is a challenging task that aims at estimating the number of targets and their states from measurements of the target states provided by one or multiple sensors. Additional information, such as imperfect estimates of target classes provided by a classifier, can facilitate the target-measurement association and thus improve MTT performance. In this letter, we describe how a recently proposed MTT framework based on the sum-product algorithm can be extended to efficiently exploit class information. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated by simulation results.
description: Accepted to be published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters. The document includes a supplementary material
Gender Differences In Agricultural Productivity: A Survey of Empirical Evidence
Creators: name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Productivity Analysis

description: This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity. It provides a methodological overview and a critique of (1) production function-based estimates of technical and labor productivity differences by gender, (2) individual (gender-disaggregated) labor supply and earnings functions and (3) studies of the determinants of technological adoption. The review finds that (1) in general, male and female farmers are equally efficient as farm managers. Women farmers' lower yields are attributable to lower levels of inputs and human capital than men. However, the use of coefficients estimated from these studies for simulation exercises may not be valid if endogenous input choice is not considered; (2) returns to schooling for both men and women are significant in dynamic agricultural settings where modern technologies have been introduced. Returns to an additional year of women's education range from 2 to 15 percent, which compares favorably with those of men; and (3) farmers with more education are more likely to adopt new technologies. Providing universal primary education also stimulates early adoption by female farmers, whom other women are more likely to imitate. Farmers with more land and farm tools are also more likely to adopt new technologies. To the extent that women farmers may have less education, less access to land, and own fewer tools, they may be less likely to adopt new technologies.
Economic Outlook for Representative Cotton Farms Given the August 2004 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Zimmel, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 on representative cotton farms are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2001-2008 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate cotton operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: - Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative cotton farms. - Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) August 2004 Baseline. The primary objective of the analysis is to determine cotton farms’ economic viability by region through the life of the 2002 Farm Bill. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical price and production risk faced by cotton farmers. This report presents the results of the August 2004 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing annual cash flow deficits and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2008. This report is organized into five sections. The first section summarizes the process used to develop the representative farms and the key assumptions utilized for the farm level analysis. The second section summarizes the FAPRI August 2004 Baseline and the policy and price assumptions used for the representative farm analyses. The third section presents the results of the simulation analyses for cotton farms. Two appendices constitute the final sections of the report. Appendix A provides tables to summarize the physical and financial characteristics for each of the representative cotton farms. Appendix B provides the names of producers, land grant faculty, and industry leaders who cooperated in the panel interview process to develop the representative farms.
Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Alderman, Harold
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Udry, Christopher R.
name: Alderman, Harold
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Udry, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Productivity Analysis

description: Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of inefficiencies in the allocation of factors of production across the plots controlled by different members of the household. Production function estimates imply that the value of household output could be increased by 10 to 20 percent by reallocating currently-used factors of production across plots. This finding contradicts standard models of agricultural households. A richer model of behavior, which recognizes that the individuals who comprise a household compete as well as cooperate, has important implications for the structure of agricultural production and for the design of agricultural policy.
Macroeconomic Crises And Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study for India
Creators: name: Datt, Gaurav
name: Ravallion, Martin
name: Datt, Gaurav
name: Ravallion, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Assessment of the welfare impacts of low-frequency events, such as macroeconomic crises and stabilizations, are often confounded by sampling and nonsampling errors that generate fluctuations in household survey-based welfare indicators; they are also limited by our ability to explain fluctuations in terms of other available data. Basing policy on short-term movements in welfare indicators can thus be hazardous. There was a sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the mid-1991 crisis and the ensuing stabilization reforms. However, only one-tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock. Poverty measures soon returned to their pre-reform levels, belying the notion of a reforms-induced structural break.
Shining dark matter in Xenon1T
Creators: name: Paz, Gil
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
name: Tammaro, Michele
name: Zupan, Jure
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that a non-relativistic $\sim 2 $ GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with visible matter through higher dimensional Rayleigh operators could explain the excess of "electron recoil" events recently observed by the Xenon1T collaboration. A DM scattering event results in a few keV photon that on average carries most of the deposited energy, while the nuclear recoil energy is only a subleading correction. Since the Xenon1T detector does not discriminate between electrons and photons, such events would be interpreted as excess of the keV electrons. Indirect constraints from dark matter annihilation are avoided for light mediators of ${\mathcal O}(10~{\rm MeV})$ that have sizable couplings to neutrinos. One loop induced spin-independent scattering in dark matter may soon lead to a confirmation signal or already excludes regions of viable parameter space for the Rayleigh DM model, depending on what the exact values of the unknown nonperturbative nuclear matrix elements are.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, discussion shortened, typos corrected
METHODS, WAYS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF ORGANIZING MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Creators: name: Yaqubova Gullola Sharobiddinovna Andijan Machine Building Institute akademik lyceum english teacher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The field of modern foreign language learning has seen significant advancements in methods, ways, and technologies that have transformed the way languages are taught and learned. In this article, we will explore some of the key approaches and tools that are shaping language education today.Organizing modern foreign language learning involves a diverse set of methods, approaches, and technologies aimed at creating engaging, effective, and inclusive learning experiences. Let's delve into a variety of these techniques.

Keywords; Task-Based Language Learning (TBLL), Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Blended Learning, Mobile Learning, Augmented Reality (AR)
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the August 2004 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Zimmel, Peter
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Zimmel, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2001-2008 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming and ranching operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: - Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms. - Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) August 2004 Baseline. The primary objective of the analysis is to determine the farms’ economic viability by region and commodity through the life of the 2002 Farm Bill. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers and ranchers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the August 2004 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing annual cash flow deficits and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2008. This report is organized into ten sections. The first section summarizes the process used to develop the representative farms and the key assumptions utilized for the farm level analysis. The second section summarizes the FAPRI August 2004 Baseline and the policy and price assumptions used for the representative farm analyses. The third through sixth sections present the results of the simulation analyses for feed grain, wheat, cotton, and rice farms. The seventh through ninth sections summarize simulation results for dairy, cattle and hog farms. Two appendices constitute the final section of the report. Appendix A provides tables to summarize the physical and financial characteristics for each of the representative farms. Appendix B provides the names of producers, land grant faculty, and industry leaders who cooperated in the panel interview process to develop the representative farms.
Women's Economic Advancement Through Agricultural Change: A Review of Donor Experience
Creators: name: Pena, Christine
name: Webb, Patrick
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Pena, Christine
name: Webb, Patrick
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: This paper reviews donor experience with the design of development projects that are sensitive to gender-specific constraints. The review finds that the gap between intentions and implementation as regards gender-sensitivity is larger in agriculture than in health and nutrition. One of the reasons forwarded for this gap is the dearth of quantitative studies documenting the foregone benefits in terms of agricultural productivity of not promoting the economic advancement of women in agriculture.
Livestock Income, Male/Female Animals, and Inequality in Rural Pakistan
Creators: name: Adams, Richard H.
name: Adams, Richard H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper uses income decomposition techniques to demonstrate the importance of livestock income in improving rural income distribution. It is based on three-year household panel data (1986 to 1989) from rural Pakistan. The paper first decomposes total income among five sources: agricultural, nonfarm, livestock, rental and transfer. This shows that livestock income is inequality-decreasing and that it makes the smallest contribution to overall inequality. The study then decomposes the sources of livestock inequality by type of animal. While livestock income from male animals has a negative impact on equity, livestock income from one female animal (local cow) has a positive effect.
Additional file 1 of Treatment of ErbB2 breast cancer by mitochondrial targeting
Creators: name: Eldad, Sophia
name: Hertz, Rachel
name: Vainer, Gilad
name: Saada, Ann
name: Bar-Tana, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1:. Supplemental figures
Additional file 1 of The possibilities and challenges of integrative medicine implementation in clinical psychology: a qualitative study in Indonesia
Creators: name: Liem, Andrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Measuring factor substitution and technological change in the Tunisian agricultural sector, 1971 - 2000
Creators: name: Lachaal, Lassaad
name: Chebil, Ali
name: Dhehibi, Boubaker
name: Lachaal, Lassaad
name: Chebil, Ali
name: Dhehibi, Boubaker
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Factor substitution
subject: technological change
subject: Tunisian agriculture

description: The production structure of Tunisian agriculture over the last three decades is investigated using a translog variable cost function. Standard results of neoclassical duality theory are used to obtain measures of elasticities of substitution between inputs, price elasticities of factor demands and the rate of growth and bias of technological progress. Empirical results obtained from the joint estimation of parameters of the cost and share equations indicate an increasing trend in the degree of substitutability between labour and intermediate inputs. The own-price elasticities of labour and intermediate inputs are inelastic. While the labour price elasticity of demand has increased over time, the intermediate input price elasticity of demand has declined. Finally, technological progress occurred at an impressive and sustained annual growth rate of 3.8 percent.
Gauge invariance of elementary particle processes taking place in presence of a background magnetic field
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elementary particle scatterings and decays in presence of a background magnetic field are very common in physics, specially after the observation that the core of the neutron stars can sustain a magnetic field of the order of $10^{13} {\rm G}$. The important point about these calculations is that they are done in a background of a gauge field and as a result the calculations are prone to gauge arbitrariness. In this work we will investigate how this gauge arbitrariness is eradicated in processes where the initial and final particles taking part in the interactions are electrically neutral. Some comments on those processes where the initial or final state consists of electrically charged particles is presented at the end of the article.
description: Latex file, 16 pages
Artificial intelligence, work, power imbalance and democracy – why co-determination is essential
Creators: name: Klengel, Ernesto
name: Wenckebach, Johanna
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) has growing impact on working life. Risks of job losses, discrimination, data protection violations, surveillance pressure and health hazards require legal regulation. But which legal framework is necessary to effectively protect the rights and interests of workers? Workplace co-determination can help to minimize risks and reap the benefits of AI systems. It is therefore a problem that collective, co-determinated solutions do not seem to be considered in the drafting of the AI Act at EU level. This does not live up to the aspirations currently expressed in the European Pillar of Social Rights, and some member states go decidedly further, too. Fair AI requires involvement and empowerment of the workforce. Otherwise, the intended "human-centered" approach to AI in the world of work remains just a phrase.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Distribution Dynamics of Dietary Energy Supply in the World
Creators: name: Fousekis, Panos
name: Lazaridis, Panagiotis
name: Fousekis, Panos
name: Lazaridis, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: caloric intakes
subject: mobility
subject: World

description: This paper investigates the law of motion for the cross-section distribution of dietary energy supply (DES) in the world. This has been pursued using the distribution approach and a panel of 152 countries for the period 1961-2001. According to the empirical results, persistence in caloric intakes dominates in the short-run. With time, however, upwards mobility gains momentum and the world is moving towards a long-run distribution, which is strongly skewed to the left. The estimated expected first passage times from extreme under-supply to higher intake levels are consistent with speculations that most of the developing countries will attain the 3000 kcal per person per day level by the year 2030.
Who is afraid of unions representation? Some considerations on the SAP SE case in the light of EU Labour Law.
Creators: name: Ales, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The contribution focuses on the Bundesarbeitsgericht’s question to the Court of Justice whether a provision according to which, in the case where an SE with its registered office in Germany is established by means of transformation, a separate selection procedure for persons nominated by trade unions for a certain number of supervisory board members representing the employees must be guaranteed (§ 21(6) SEBG), is compatible with Article 4(4) of Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 supplementing the Statute for a European company with regard to the involvement of employees. In the view of the Author the answer should be in the sense of compatibility.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
The Impacts of U.S. Cotton Programs on the West and Central African Countries Cotton Export Earnings
Creators: name: Fadiga, Mohamadou L.
name: Mohanty, Samarendu
name: Pan, Suwen
name: Fadiga, Mohamadou L.
name: Mohanty, Samarendu
name: Pan, Suwen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Stochastic simulation
subject: partial equilibrium model
subject: United States
subject: Africa
subject: cotton subsidies
subject: export earnings

description: This study uses a stochastic simulation approach based on a partial equilibrium structural econometric model of the world fiber market to examine the effects of a removal of U.S. cotton programs on the world market. The effects on world cotton prices and African export earnings were analyzed. The results suggest that on average an elimination of U.S. cotton programs would lead to a marginal increase in the world cotton prices thus resulting in minimal gain for cotton exporting countries in Africa.
Index funds and employee welfare: some exploratory insights
Creators: name: Gilotta, Sergio
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: This brief Article offers some reflections on the relation between the increasing prominence of large institutional investors, such as index funds, in the corporate governance of public firms, and employee welfare. The Article addresses two intertwined issues: how the growing concentration of public equity ownership in the hands of such institutional investors may have contributed to wage stagnation and the degradation of labor conditions more generally, and how the established presence of such institutional investors as stable, long-term shareholders in today’s public firms might help improving those conditions in the future.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Multiplier impact of wine activity on inter-industry interactions
Creators: name: Ciaschini, Maurizio
name: Socci, Claudio
name: Ciaschini, Maurizio
name: Socci, Claudio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Wine
subject: Input-Output
subject: Macro Multiplier
subject: Singular Values Decompositions
subject: Economic Impact and Correlation

description: Wine is usually studied as a separate activity. Our attempt is to introduce it within the industries composing output that react to disposable income changes. We first harmonize the available data in a Social Accounting framework. From this data base we get the parameters of a multi-industry multi-sectoral model. We apply on the model a type of dispersion analysis based on singular value decompositions. The results show the position held by wine with respect to the other activities in relation to changes in the composition of disposable incomes. They confirm that wine, in a mediterranean country as Italy, is linked to lower disposable incomes.
Economically Dependent Workers: main aspects of their protection in the Spanish Labour Law and Social Security System
Creators: name: Salas Porras, María
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The contribution aims at presenting the Spanish legal frame of the so called “Trabajadores Económicamente Dependientes”, putting special stress on those aspects related to both the protection given in the productive relationship by Labour Law and the one foreseen by the Social Security System.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
The Radio and X-ray Luminous SN 2003bg and the Circumstellar Density Variations Around Radio Supernovae
Creators: name: Soderberg, A. M.
name: Chevalier, R. A.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Frail, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report extensive radio and X-ray observations of SN 2003bg whose spectroscopic evolution shows a transition from a broad-lined Type Ic to a hydrogen-rich Type II and later to a typical hydrogen-poor Type Ibc. We show that the extraordinarily luminous radio emission is well described by a self-absorption dominated synchrotron spectrum while the observed X-ray emission at t~30 days is adequately fit by Inverse Compton scattering of the optical photons off of the synchrotron emitting electrons. Our radio model implies a sub-relativistic ejecta velocity, v ~ 0.24c, at t_0 ~ 10 days after the explosion which emphasizes that broad optical absorption lines do not imply relativistic ejecta. We find that the total energy of the radio emitting region evolves as E ~ 7.3 x 10^{48} (t/t_0)^{0.4} erg assuming equipartition of energy between relativistic electrons and magnetic fields (e_e=e_B=0.1). The circumstellar density is well described by a stellar wind profile with modest (factor of ~2) episodic density enhancements which produce abrupt achromatic flux variations. We estimate an average progenitor mass loss rate of M_dot ~ 3 x 10^{-4} solar masses per year (assuming a wind velocity of 1000 km/s), consistent with the observed values for Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars. Comparison with other events reveals that ~50% of radio supernovae show similar short timescale flux variations attributable to circumstellar density irregularities. Specifically, the radio light-curves of SN 2003bg are strikingly similar to those of the Type IIb SN 2001ig, suggestive of a common progenitor evolution. We conclude that their progenitors experienced quasi-periodic mass loss episodes just prior to the SN explosion. [ABRIDGED]
description: Accepted to ApJ, revised version (41 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables)
Department Publications 1996
Creators: name: Letnes, Louise
name: Letnes, Louise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997

description: This publication is a list of staff papers, extension publications, Economic Development Center bulletins, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy papers, The Retail Food Industry Center working papers, journal articles, books, chapters, monographs, speeches, and theses published by the University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics in 1996.
"I write what I hear" : subtitle genre in selected songs by Jane Siberry
Creators: name: Fledderus, France
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation explores the use of genre in various songs by Toronto singer-songwriter Jane Siberry. Siberry (b. 1955) is an innovative rock musician whose oeuvre draws on a variety of popular music genres. Selected songs are analyzed in light of their relationship to the genres of folk revival, electro pop, country-pop, cool jazz, and funk. The analysis focuses on the consonances and dissonances a song has with a particular genre. The social meanings evoked by genre adherence and subversion are also addressed. It is argued that while Siberry works within contrasting genres, her approach toward those genres is more or less consistent. In particular, Siberry treats various musical parameters (form, metre, and instrumentation) in more complex ways than found in conventional approaches to these genres. As such, Siberry subverts the expectations associated with a genre in a manner that can be conceived of as that of the rock auteur. The rock auteur is a singer-songwriter or producer (in Siberry's case both) who, like the director in film theory, uses continuous themes or technical approaches to create a recognizable personal style that can be found throughout his or her oeuvre. Such a distinct personal style appears in both Siberry's music and lyrics. The analytical methodology employed in this study consists of three parts. First, an analysis of a genre prototype will reveal both the parameters most characteristic of that genre and the social meanings commonly associated with it. Next, a Siberry song (both the lyrics and the music) will be analyzed from a transcription of the recording in terms of both its consonances and dissonances with the conventions of the relevant genre. Special attention will be paid to the additional levels of complexity Siberry consistently employs in her approach to genre. Finally, conclusions will be drawn as to how Siberry's departure from certain generic conventions affects the social meanings associated with a given genre.
The Ages of Elliptical Galaxies from Mid-Infrared Emission
Creators: name: Temi, Pasquale
name: Mathews, William G.
name: Brighenti, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mid-infrared (10-20 um) luminosity of elliptical galaxies is dominated by the integrated emission from circumstellar dust in red giant stars. As a single stellar population evolves, the rate of dusty mass loss from red giant stars decreases with time, so the mid-infrared luminosity should also decline with stellar age. To seek such a correlation, we have used archival ISO observations to determine surface brightness profiles and central fluxes at 15 um in 17 early-type galaxies for which stellar ages have been determined from optical spectral indices. The radial surface brightness distributions at 15 um generally follow the stellar de Vaucouleurs profile as expected. We find that the surface brightness ratio mu_{15um}/mu_{I-band} is systematically higher in elliptical galaxies with ages < 5 Gyrs and in galaxies that exhibit evidence of recent mergers. Within the accuracy of our observations, mu_{15um}/mu_{I-band} shows no age dependence for ages > 5 Gyrs. The corresponding flux ratios F_{15um}/F_{I-band} within apertures scaled to the effective radius (R_e/8) are proportional to the mu_{15um}/mu_{I-band} ratios at larger galactic radii, indicating that no 15 um emission is detected from central dust clouds visible in optical images in some of our sample galaxies. Emission at 15 um is observed in non-central massive clouds of dust and cold gas in NGC1316, an elliptical galaxy that is thought to have had a recent merger. Recent {\it Spitzer Space Telescope} data also indicate the presence of PAH emission at 8 um. Several ellipticals have extended regions of 15 um emission that have no obvious counterparts at other frequencies.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Congregations and rural development The case of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Creators: name: Pesonen, Heikki
name: Vesala, Kari
name: Pesonen, Heikki
name: Vesala, Kari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: religion
subject: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
subject: congregations
subject: rural
subject: development
subject: community attachment
subject: social sustainability

description: Approximately 84 percent of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Most of the Church’s 562 congregations are located in rural areas. In local communities Church congregations typically play a significant role, providing job opportunities, offering various services and promoting social and mental welfare. This paper examines the role that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and its congregations have in rural development. The activities of the rural congregations are examined, firstly, from the point of view of rural development on the whole. What is the potential of the congregations in rural development? Secondly, the role of congregations in rural development is examined by taking into consideration the religious motivations and justifications that the Church and congregations give for their social action.
Additional file 1 of What motivates people to commence a graduate entry nursing programme: a mixed method scoping review
Creators: name: Macdiarmid, Rachel
name: Turner, Rosemary
name: Winnington, Rhona
name: McClunie-Trust, Patricia
name: Donaldson, Andrea
name: Shannon, Kay
name: Merrick, Eamon
name: Jones, Virginia
name: Jarden, Rebecca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. Search used in SCOPUS. Supplementary file 2. Table 1. Critical appraisal judgements for the cross-sectional survey. Questions from JBI critical appraisal tool: Q1) Were the criteria for inclusion in the sample clearly defined?; Q2) Were the study subjects and the setting described in detail?; Q3) Was the exposure measured in a valid and reliable way?; Q4) Were objective, standard criteria used for measurement of the condition?; Q5) Were confounding factors identified?; Q6) Were strategies to deal with confounding factors stated?; Q7) Were the outcomes measured in a valid and reliable way?; Q8) Was appropriate statistical analysis used?. Table 2 Critical appraisal judgements for the longitudinal study. Questions from JBI critical appraisal tool: Q1) Was the sample frame appropriate to address the target population?; Q2) Were study participants sampled in an appropriate way?; Q3) Was the sample size adequate?; Q4) Were the study subjects and the setting described in detail?; Q5) Was the data analysis conducted with sufficient coverage of the identified sample?; Q6) Were valid methods used for the identification of the condition?; Q7) Was the condition measured in a standard, reliable way for all participants?; Q8) Was there appropriate statistical analysis?; Q9) Was the response rate adequate, and if not, was the low response rate managed appropriately?. Table 3 Critical appraisal judgements for the qualitative studies. Questions from JBI critical appraisal tool: Q1) Is there congruity between the stated philosophical perspective and the research methodology? Q2) Is there congruity between the research methodology and the research question or objectives?; Q3) Is there congruity between the research methodology and the methods used to collect data?; Q4) Is there congruity between the research methodology and the representation and analysis of data?; Q5) Is there congruity between the research methodology and the interpretation of results?; Q6) Is there a statement locating the researcher culturally or theoretically?; Q7) Is the influence of the researcher on the research, and vice- versa, addressed?; Q8) Are participants, and their voices, adequately represented?; Q9) Is the research ethical according to current criteria or, for recent studies, and is there evidence of ethical approval by an appropriate body?; Q10) Do the conclusions drawn in the research report flow from the analysis, or interpretation, of the data?. Supplementary file 3. Table of themes (R1).
The New Working (Poor) Class. Self-Employment and In-Work Poverty in the EU: a Supranational Regulatory Strategy
Creators: name: Papa, Veronica
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The paper aims to discuss the intersections between self-employment and in-work poverty in the EU. In the first part of the article, after an analysis of the polysemic concept of self-employment, the Author examines the self-employment/poor work dyad in the European Union. The second part of the paper deals with the possible answers to in work-poverty in terms of policies and regulatory options at EU level, considered in the framework of the overall aim of fighting poverty and social exclusion in the European Union.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Mobilising rural communities to achieve environmental sustainability using the arts
Creators: name: Curtis, David
name: Curtis, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Rural sociology
subject: visual and performing arts
subject: environmental behaviour
subject: environmental sustainability
subject: art and the environment
subject: capacity building

description: Australia’s environment continues to worsen in several key areas. This paper suggests that the visual and performing arts may be valuable in influencing environmental behaviour positively, at the individual and community level. The arts can aid engagement and participation by a broad cross section of the community, and can provide powerful vehicles for community mobilisation, empowerment, and information transfer.
Influence of subunit structure on the oligomerization state of light harvesting complexes: a free energy calculation study
Creators: name: Janosi, Lorant
name: Keer, Harindar
name: Kosztin, Ioan
name: Ritz, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Light harvesting complexes 2 (LH2) from Rhodospirillum (Rs.) molischianum and Rhodopseudomonas (Rps.) acidophila form ring complexes out of eight or nine identical subunits, respectively. Here, we investigate computationally what factors govern the different ring sizes. Starting from the crystal structure geometries, we embed two subunits of each species into their native lipid-bilayer/water environment. Using molecular dynamics simulations with umbrella sampling and steered molecular dynamics, we probe the free energy profiles along two reaction coordinates, the angle and the distance between two subunits. We find that two subunits prefer to arrange at distinctly different angles, depending on the species, at about 42.5 deg for Rs. molischianum and at about 38.5 deg for Rps. acidophila, which is likely to be an important factor contributing to the assembly into different ring sizes. Our calculations suggest a key role of surface contacts within the transmembrane domain in constraining these angles, whereas the strongest interactions stabilizing the subunit dimers are found in the C-, and to a lesser extent, N-terminal domains. The presented computational approach provides a promising starting point to investigate the factors contributing to the assembly of protein complexes, in particular if combined with modeling of genetic variants.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX2e - requires elsart.cls (included), submitted to Chemical Physics