cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Empirical estimation of producer and trader level stocks of rice in Bangladesh: A methodological review
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: producer stocks
subject: trader stocks
subject: marketed surplus
subject: rice
subject: estimation methodology
subject: Bangladesh

description: A reasonably good estimate of the private stocks of food grain over time at producer and trader levels is necessary for proper formulation and implementation of public policies on domestic food grain procurement, import and disposal.Literature on food grain marketing in Bangladesh is very thin compared to those on food grain production. Few studies that were conducted on food grain marketing addressed questions of the extent of marketed surplus, extent of competition and efficiency in the market, the degree of market integration and informational inefficiency, and the role of pre-harvest credit on marketing behaviour of producers. The aspect that has been scantily covered in marketing studies is the estimation of private grain storage or stock at a point in time at producer and trader levels, and how private and public stocks interacted to influence food grain market. In this paper, available literature is reviewed with a focus on the methodologies used to estimate private stock in order to identify gaps, and make recommendations to overcome them.
Resonant-line radiative transfer within power-law density profiles
Creators: name: Lao, Bing-Xin
name: Smith, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star-forming regions in galaxies are surrounded by vast reservoirs of gas capable of both emitting and absorbing Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiation. Observations of Lya emitters and spatially extended Lya haloes indeed provide insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, due to the complexity of resonant scattering, only a few analytic solutions are known in the literature. We discuss several idealized but physically motivated scenarios to extend the existing formalism to new analytic solutions, enabling quantitative predictions about the transport and diffusion of Lya photons. This includes a closed form solution for the radiation field and derived quantities including the emergent flux, peak locations, energy density, average internal spectrum, number of scatters, outward force multiplier, trapping time, and characteristic radius. To verify our predictions, we employ a robust gridless Monte Carlo radiative transfer (GMCRT) method, which is straightforward to incorporate into existing ray-tracing codes but requires modifications to opacity-based calculations, including dynamical core-skipping acceleration schemes. We primarily focus on power-law density and emissivity profiles, however both the analytic and numerical methods can be generalized to other cases. Such studies provide additional intuition and understanding regarding the connection between the physical environments and observational signatures of galaxies throughout the Universe.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS, in press
Leitlinien Rueckverfolgbarkeit Primaerproduktion
Creators: name: Bundesministerium Für Arbeit, Soziales
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004

description: Empfehlung: Leitlinien zur Umsetzung der Rückverfolgbarkeit bei Lebensmitteln gemäß Art. 18 und 19 der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 178/2002 zur Festlegung der allgemeinen Grundsätze und Anforderungen des Lebensmittelrechts, zur Errichtung der Europäischen Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit und zur Festlegung von Verfahren zur Lebensmittelsicherheit vom 28. Jänner 2002 (V 178/2002
10322: Unknown Soldiers
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: Group of ten regimental badges including a Wounded Stripe. No relation to contributor but connected to the same regiments as relatives. Royal Scots, Army Service Corps and Northumbrian.
Nonperturbative quark-antiquark interactions in mesonic form factors
Creators: name: Shuryak, Edward
name: Zahed, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing theory of hard exclusive QCD processes is based on two assumptions: (i) $factorization$ into a $hard\,block$ times light front distribution amplitudes (DA's); (ii) use of perturbative gluon exchanges within the hard block. However, unlike DIS and jet physics, the characteristic momentum transfer $Q$ involved in the factorized block is not large enough for this theory to be phenomenologically successful. In this work, we revisit the latter assumption (ii), by explicitly calculating the $instanton-induced$ contributions to the hard block, and show that they contribute substantially to the vector, scalar and gravitational form factors of the pseudoscalar, scalar and vector mesons, over a wide range of momentum transfer.
description: 82 pages, 17 figures
Real or Not Real that is the question
Creators: name: Bertlmann, Reinhold A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: My discussions with John Bell about reality in quantum mechanics are recollected. I would like to introduce the reader to Bell's vision of reality which was for him a natural position for a scientist. Bell had a strong aversion against "quantum jumps" and insisted to be clear in phrasing quantum mechanics, his "words to be forbidden" proclaimed with seriousness and wit -- both typical Bell characteristics -- became legendary. I will summarize the Bell-type experiments and what Nature responded, and discuss the implications for the physical quantities considered, the real entities and the nonlocality concept due to Bell's work. Subsequently, I also explain a quite different view of the meaning of a quantum state, this is the information theoretic approach, focussing on the work of Brukner and Zeilinger. Finally, I would like to broaden and contrast the reality discussion with the concept of "virtuality", with the meaning of virtual particle occurring in quantum field theory. With some of my own thoughts I will conclude the paper which is composed more as a historical article than as a philosophical one.
description: 25 pages, 25 figures, 2 references added with text accordingly in Section VI
Additional file 1 of Identifying novel associations in GWAS by hierarchical Bayesian latent variable detection of differentially misclassified phenotypes
Creators: name: Afrah Shafquat
name: Crystal, Ronald G.
name: Mezey, Jason G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental figures, analyses, and algorithm details. We provide details on (i) identifying misclassified samples in datasets simulated without genetic relatedness/population structure, (ii) comparison between PheLEx and other misclassification methods, (iii) effect of differential thresholding on PheLEx’s performance in identifying misclassified samples and GWAS performance, (iv) algorithm details for Rekaya and additional methods, and (v) additional details on UK Biobank phenotypes analyses using PheLEx. We also include supplemental figures referred in the main manuscript.
An economic analysis of organic farming in Namil Nadu, India
Creators: name: Amarnath, J S
name: Sridhar, V
name: Amarnath, J S
name: Sridhar, V
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: economic analysis
subject: organic farming
subject: Tamil Nadu
subject: India

description: In view of the economic importance of organic farming, the present study was taken up in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, India. The total cost of cultivation of organic and conventional turmeric per hectare was worked out to US$ 2641.43 and US$ 3529.13 respectively. The net income per hectare was US$ 2727.19 and US$ 1876.13 respectively. The cost of cultivation of organic and conventional cotton per hectare was worked out to US$ 1306.79 and US$ 1725.19 respectively. The net income per hectare was US$ 1332.13 and US$ 1032.68 respectively. The results of logit model for turmeric growers showed that chemical fertilizers cost had highly significant influence on adoption of organic farming whereas in case of cotton growers, chemical fertilizers cost and information received from NGO’s highly influenced on adoption of organic farming. The results of Cobb-Douglas production function for organic turmeric revealed that farm yard manure, neem cake, jeevamirtham, vermicompost, panchakaviya and human labour contributed significantly on yield of organic turmeric. The Cobb-Douglas production function for organic cotton revealed that seeds, farm yard manure, neem cake, jeeva amirtham, vermicompost, panchakaviya, human labour and irrigation contributed had significantly influenced the yield of organic cotton. The most important constraints identified by the organic growers in productivity of organic turmeric and cotton were non availability of labour and organic certification whereas conventional growers’ constraints were non availability of labour and high wage rate.
Mechanisms and dynamics of the NH$_2^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ and NH$^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ + H fragmentation channels upon single-photon double ionization of NH$_3$
Creators: name: Larsen, Kirk A.
name: Rescigno, Thomas N.
name: Streeter, Zachary L.
name: Iskandar, Wael
name: Heck, Saijoscha
name: Gatton, Averell
name: Champenois, Elio G.
name: Severt, Travis
name: Strom, Richard
name: Jochim, Bethany
name: Reedy, Dylan
name: Call, Demitri
name: Moshammer, Robert
name: Dörner, Reinhard
name: Landers, Allen L.
name: Williams, Joshua B.
name: McCurdy, C. William
name: Lucchese, Robert R.
name: Ben-Itzhak, Itzik
name: Slaughter, Daniel S.
name: Weber, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present state-selective measurements on the NH$_2^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ and NH$^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ + H dissociation channels following single-photon double ionization at 61.5 eV of neutral NH$_{3}$, where the two photoelectrons and two cations are measured in coincidence using 3-D momentum imaging. Three dication electronic states are identified to contribute to the NH$_2^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ dissociation channel, where the excitation in one of the three states undergoes intersystem crossing prior to dissociation, producing a cold NH$_2^+$ fragment. In contrast, the other two states directly dissociate, producing a ro-vibrationally excited NH$_2^+$ fragment with roughly 1 eV of internal energy. The NH$^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ + H channel is fed by direct dissociation from three intermediate dication states, one of which is shared with the NH$_2^{+}$ + H$^{+}$ channel. We find evidence of autoionization contributing to each of the double ionization channels. The distributions of the relative emission angle between the two photoelectrons, as well as the relative angle between the recoil axis of the molecular breakup and the polarization vector of the ionizing field, are also presented to provide insight on both the photoionization and photodissociation mechanisms for the different dication states.
description: 18 pages, 21 figures, 3 tables
Agricultural productivity and food security in the developing world
Creators: name: Mozumdar, Lavlu
name: Mozumdar, Lavlu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agriculture
subject: productivity
subject: food security
subject: developing world

description: The study reveals the contribution of increased agricultural productivity in food security in the developing countries. An intensive literature review is conducted in writing the article. It has depicted the different productivity measures in agriculture and their relative uses. It explains several non-conventional production factors influencing agricultural productivity growth along with conventional production factors. It also explains how increased agricultural productivity is linked with food security, rural livelihood as well as rural poverty reduction. Finally it demonstrates why increased agricultural productivity is necessary for developing countries including Sub-Saharan Africa and it also provides a few policy options to increase agricultural productivity in developing countries.
Appraisal of domestic biogas plants in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Kabir, H
name: Palash, M S
name: Bauer, S
name: Kabir, H
name: Palash, M S
name: Bauer, S
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: economic analysis
subject: biogas plants
subject: Bangladesh

description: Bangladesh. Biogas activities in Bangladesh have been expanding to meet the needs of alternative energy sources and reduce of the country dependence on biomass energy. Biogas is viewed an innovative and most promising option toward a partial mitigation of the existing energy problems in Bangladesh. This study examined the cost-capacity relationships of biogas plant use while considering the financial and economic feasibility with several decision making tools. Data were collected from 150 small scale biogas plants from four districts of Bangladesh. Often three sizes of biogas plants- small (2.4 m3), medium (3.2 m3) and large (4.8 m3) were found in the sample areas. Financial and economic analyses were done based on the decision making tools of Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period (PBP), and Net Benefit Increase (NBI). Four scenarios (with subsidy, without subsidy, health benefit, and income generate from time savings) and one scenario (carbon trading) were accounted under financial and economic evaluations, respectively and stated that biogas plants can be installed as profitable business in the potential areas of Bangladesh. The results highlighted that the investment cost would have a burden of biogas users while subsidy and credit were played a vital role to adopt the decision on biogas plant adoption. Considering five sensitive cases the investment cost also acutely inspired to implement the biogas project across the country. Finally, it may conclude that Bangladesh having a great potentiality to adopt more biogas plants, especially in the livestock prone areas for mitigating the existing environmental degradation, biomass difficulties and generating the income with good health.
10302: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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: James was born in 1899 at Seton Lodge, Touch where his Father John James Benton was the Butler for Sir Alan Henry Seton-Steuart. Over the next few years James travelled with his family all around North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders as John's father, originally from Whaplode in Lincolnshire, worked as a butcher, a fishmonger and Inn keeper at various towns and villages before resuming his career as a Gentleman's Footman.

James would have met his Uncle George Benton, who had served with the 12th (Prince of Wales) Royal Lancers during the 2nd Anglo Boer War and after 12 years' service became an Inn Keeper at Kelso. At the time James was living at Seahouses in Northumberland as his Father was the Inn Keeper at the Ship Inn.
Due to the strong Scottish connection, James joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, whose Regimental home is Stirling where James was born. He enlisted on the 20th Jun 1918 when 18 years old and after training was posted to the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He served abroad and was transferred to Army Reserve on the 20th Feb 1919.

 Known as "Granda Joe" to my family who knew him, he kept his medals, cap badge, Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilization and an ID bracelet/tag which without, would have given no clue to his service. His ID tag is not Army issue and would have been a private purchase, It shows his name, religion, service no and regiment. Thankfully all of these items remain in the family and they were kindly loaned to me by my Uncle Alan and Auntie Michelle.

 Along with the rest of my family who served during the First World War, they had all passed before I was born, or when I was only a few years old. Thankfully the items relating to my Great Grandad "Joe" were kept in the family and now I am able to share them for future generations as part of the work done by the organisers and volunteers of the Lest we Forget Project.
Foster parents’ experiences of long-term placements versus placement breakdowns for foster children
Creators: name: Melville-Gaumont, Michele
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Studies show that when children come into foster care, they experience loss of attachment with their families. When foster children are moved from one foster placement to another, there is further loss of attachment with their foster families. This loss of attachment can lead to health and behaviour problems. A qualitative study was conducted of foster parent’s experiences with long-term placements of foster children in their home in comparison to placement breakdowns. Semi-structured interviews of up to 1.5 hours were conducted with 13 foster parents from eleven foster families. An approach drawing on qualitative description was used to find common themes in long-term placements and placement breakdowns, from the foster parents’ perspectives. Foster parents identified compatibility of placements, on-going support from the child protection agency, teamwork with the professionals connected with the children, and the building of trust with children in their care and the rest of the care team as important factors in maintaining long term placements. From foster parents’ perspectives, placement breakdown was influenced by communication failures with the care team surrounding the children, inadequate planning by the care team, and the limited support to address the challenging behaviours of the children placed in the foster parents’ homes. These findings highlight the complexity of fostering in terms of the challenges, contradictions and ambiguities of the foster parents’ role within the child protection system.
Additional file 1 of Improving the efficiency of reactive case detection for malaria elimination in southern Zambia: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Bhondoekhan, Fiona R. P.
name: Searle, Kelly M.
name: Hamapumbu, Harry
name: Mukuma Lubinda
name: Japhet Matoba
name: Musonda, Michael
name: Katowa, Ben
name: Shields, Timothy M.
name: Kobayashi, Tamaki
name: Norris, Douglas E.
name: Curriero, Frank C.
name: Stevenson, Jennifer C.
name: Thuma, Philip E.
name: Moss, William J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. QIC goodness-of-fit statistics for the GEE models.
Additional file 2 of Gut eukaryotic communities in pigs: diversity, composition and host genetics contribution
Creators: name: Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis
name: Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc
name: Zingaretti, Laura M.
name: Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Olga
name: Dalmau, Antoni
name: Quintanilla, Raquel
name: Ballester, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 2 Figure S1. Sample distribution of fungi (A) and protist (B) communities. Diversity indexes of fungi (C) and protist (D) communities. Blue color represents the finishing pigs (experimental farm at 190 days) and red the weaned piglets (commercial farm at 60 days).
Films of Mn12-acetate deposited by low-energy laser ablation
Creators: name: Means, J.
name: Meenakshi, V.
name: Srivastava, R. V. A.
name: Teizer, W.
name: Kolomenskii, Al. A.
name: Schuessler, H. A.
name: Zhao, H.
name: Dunbar, K. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films of the molecular magnet Mn12-acetate, [Mn12 O12(CH3COO)16 (H2O)4] 2CH3COOH 4H2O, have been prepared using a laser ablation technique with a nitrogen laser at low laser energies of 0.8 and 2 mJ. Chemical and magnetic characterizations show that the Mn12-acetate cores remain intact and the films show similar magnetic properties to those of the parent molecular starting material. In addition, the magnetic data exhibit a peak in the magnetization at 27 K indicating the creation of an additional magnetic phase not noted in previous studies of crystalline phases.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, In Press - J. Mag. Mag. Mat
Taxation, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Gersbach, Hans
name: Schetter, Ulrich
name: Schneider, Maik T.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2014
Subjects: Basic research
Economic growth
Entrepreneurship
Income taxation
Political economy
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 14/206
Spin Chain for Quantum Strings
Creators: name: Beisert, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review and compare the integrable structures in N=4 gauge theory and string theory on AdS5xS5. Recently, Bethe ansaetze for gauge theory/weak coupling and string theory/strong coupling were proposed to describe scaling dimensions in the su(2) subsector. Here we investigate the Bethe equations for quantum string theory, naively extrapolated to weak coupling. Excitingly, we find a spin chain Hamiltonian similar, but not equal, to the gauge theory dilatation operator.
description: 10 pages, Contribution to RTN and EXT Workshop, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 5-10 September 2004, v2: numerical comparision with spinning strings added, coefficient of H4 in Tab. 3 corrected
Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles
Creators: name: Gersbach, Hans
name: Müller, Philippe
name: Tejada, Oriol
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Elections
subject: Democracy
subject: Political polarization
subject: Cost of change
subject: Re-election hurdles
subject: Political contracts
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Economics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 15/222
Full counting statistics for electron transport in periodically driven quantum dots
Creators: name: Honeychurch, Thomas D.
name: Kosov, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-dependent driving influences the quantum and thermodynamic fluctuations of a system, changing the familiar physical picture of electronic noise which is an important source of information the about microscopic mechanism of quantum transport. Giving access to all cumulants of the current, the full counting statistics (FCS) is the powerful theoretical method to study fluctuations in nonequilibrium quantum systems. In this paper, we propose the application of FCS to consider periodic driven junctions. The combination of Floquet theory for time dynamics and nonequilibrium counting-field Green's functions enables the practical formulation of FCS for the system. The counting-field Green's functions are used to compute the moment generating function, allowing for the calculation of the time-averaged cumulants of the electronic current. The theory is illustrated using different transport scenarios in model systems.
description: Typos were fixed within the paper
10296: Queen Victoria Rifles, Hill 60 and POW
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: Michael Tulley's father, Alfred Alexandra (Alex) Tulley, was in the Battle at Hill 60. Queen Victoria Rifles (he was injured by shrapnel in the buttocks).
Was one of 14 out of 140 who survived.
The image from the Illustrated London News shows the event of battle.
The objects all belonged to his father, medals and ribbons.
He loved the horses and wept when they died.
The frame was made by a German POW when Alex was stationed there in France after the war (Toulouse). The Trench art was also made in the POW camp.
Multiple modes of a single spin torque oscillator under the non-linear region
Creators: name: Sugimoto, Satoshi
name: Iwakiri, Shuichi
name: Kozuka, Yusuke
name: Takahashi, Yukiko
name: Niimi, Yasuhiro
name: Kobayashi, Kensuke
name: Kasai, Shinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical investigation is conducted for a single spin-torque oscillator under the non-linear region. A large angle precession triggers the generation of multiple modes without any feedbacked circuits and/or magnetic couplings with neighboring oscillators. Our simulations show that a single eigenmode of a given spin-torque oscillator can trigger up to six discrete modes as the sideband modes. These findings will offer the new functionality to the STO for developing the spintronic logic circuits.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Photoluminescence and Terahertz Emission from Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasma Channels
Creators: name: Hoyer, W.
name: Moloney, J. V.
name: Wright, E. M.
name: Knorr, A.
name: Kira, M.
name: Koch, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luminescence as a mechanism for terahertz emission from femtosecond laser-induced plasmas is studied. By using a fully microscopic theory, Coulomb scattering between electrons and ions is shown to lead to luminescence even for a spatially homogeneous plasma. The spectral features introduced by the rod geometry of laser-induced plasma channels in air are discussed on the basis of a generalized mode-function analysis.
description: 4 pages with 2 figuress
10297: Boer War Magic Lantern Slides
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: A box of lantern slides, some mass produced (coloured), the majority black and white negative style in glass slides. The pictures include naval ships, German dugout and African Natives.

Engineer Lt. William Edwin Hill Turner born 1870, and was a Torpoint Councillor.

William served in the Royal Navy in South Africa in The Boer War. People ask "what was the Navy doing in Africa?"

The slides would have been shown using a lantern slide projector; some of the slides have captions.

The slides have not been viewed for 60 years but they did used to be shown by Frank Edwin Reburn in the Y.M.C.A in Devonport, to 100+ deprived boys, to help keep them entertained.
Performance of small-scale participatory water projects - An econometric analysis of impact on income and assets
Creators: name: Islam, K M Nabiul
name: Islam, Md Nazrul
name: Islam, K M Nabiul
name: Islam, Md Nazrul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: water project
subject: small-scale
subject: impact
subject: income
subject: asset
subject: Bangladesh

description: The small-scale water resources development projects, constructed by Local Government Engineering Department in Bangladesh are designed as participatory at all stages of planning, designing, implementation and maintenance. An econometric modeling exercise is carried out to assess the economic effects of such interventions, to ascertain how far the beneficiaries were able to reap benefits. The results show that such interventions had substantial positive impacts on income and asset for the beneficiary households, although the nonpoor households have benefited more. However, some autonomous growth resulting from factors such as switch to HYV varieties and increased use of inputs due to lower perceived risk of crop failure or reduced losses due to flooding may also have some contribution to these incremental benefits. One is also tempted to suggest that beneficiary participation in all project cycles might have positively contributed to performance of the projects. The performances of the ten subprojects and the ten water management cooperative associations (WMCAs) under study were evaluated through multi-criteria analysis. The significant positive rank correlation of the performance between the subprojects and the WMCAs leads to the conclusion that the performance of the SPs is highly dependent on the performance of the WMCAs. Hence, efforts should be made to improve the performance of the WMCAs through improved operation and maintenance in order to ensure the sustainability of the projects and also avoid their costly rehabilitation in the future.
Robust, Occlusion-aware Pose Estimation for Objects Grasped by Adaptive Hands
Creators: name: Wen, Bowen
name: Mitash, Chaitanya
name: Soorian, Sruthi
name: Kimmel, Andrew
name: Sintov, Avishai
name: Bekris, Kostas E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many manipulation tasks, such as placement or within-hand manipulation, require the object's pose relative to a robot hand. The task is difficult when the hand significantly occludes the object. It is especially hard for adaptive hands, for which it is not easy to detect the finger's configuration. In addition, RGB-only approaches face issues with texture-less objects or when the hand and the object look similar. This paper presents a depth-based framework, which aims for robust pose estimation and short response times. The approach detects the adaptive hand's state via efficient parallel search given the highest overlap between the hand's model and the point cloud. The hand's point cloud is pruned and robust global registration is performed to generate object pose hypotheses, which are clustered. False hypotheses are pruned via physical reasoning. The remaining poses' quality is evaluated given agreement with observed data. Extensive evaluation on synthetic and real data demonstrates the accuracy and computational efficiency of the framework when applied on challenging, highly-occluded scenarios for different object types. An ablation study identifies how the framework's components help in performance. This work also provides a dataset for in-hand 6D object pose estimation. Code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/wenbowen123/icra20-hand-object-pose
The inviscid limit for two-dimensional incompressible fluids with unbounded vorticity
Creators: name: Kelliher, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76D09

description: Chemin has shown that solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in the plane for an incompressible fluid whose initial vorticity is bounded and lies in L^2 converge in the zero-viscosity limit in the L^2-norm to a solution of the Euler equations, convergence being uniform over any finite time interval. Yudovich, assuming an initial vorticity lying in L^p for all p >= q for some q, established the uniqueness of solutions to the Euler equations for an incompressible fluid in a bounded domain of n-space assuming a particular bound on the growth of the L^p-norm of the initial vorticity as p grows large. We combine these two approaches to establish, in the plane, the uniqueness of solutions to the Euler equations and the same zero-viscosity convergence as Chemin, but under Yudovich's assumptions on the vorticity with q = 2. The resulting bounded rate of convergence can be arbitrarily slow as a function of the viscosity.
description: Will appear in Mathematical Research Letters volume 11 number 4
10301: Thomas Hall - Royal Observer Corps
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: Thomas was born in 1891 at Mardon, Branxton in Northumberland. He later moved to Preston West Lodge prior to 1901 where his father Thomas was a gardener and groom. He had 1 brother Charles and 1 sister Margaret and in 1911 were living at Mitford, near Morpeth, as a Railway Surface Man. He married Isabella Foster Davidson in Sept 1914 at Chester-le-Street listing his occupation as a gardener, before joining the Royal Engineers as a Driver sometime in early 1915.

He went overseas as part of the 81st Field Company Royal Engineers, 19th Division, and saw service for the remainder of the war and was part of the British Army of Occupation having transferred from the 19th to the 41st Division in March 1919 having a photo postcard with the handwritten note "Your loving husband Tom, Taken at Hoffnungsthal, Coln" made for Isabella.

After the war he moved around the Scottish Borders and became a gardener and groom for Capt. Alan Goodson, who had served with the London Rifle Brigade and who had received the Military Cross during the War. Capt. Goodson had lived in Mardon and the areas around before settling at Marlefield near Kelso and would possibly have already known my Great Grandad and his family before employing him.

During the Second World War he enlisted in the Home Guard and his Defence Medal is now proudly displayed with his First World War medals and certificate from the 19th Division thanking him for his service. These were framed by my Auntie Pam as a gift for my Uncle Iain and they recently kindly gifted the frame to me.

Along with the rest of my family who served during the First World War, they had all passed before I was born, or when I was only a few years old. Thankfully the items relating to my Great Grandad Thomas were kept in the family and now I am able to share them for future generations as part of the work done by the organisers and volunteers of the Lest we Forget Project.

An update:
I have just returned from visiting family in the North East and found a group photo which includes my Great Grandad Thomas Hall during WW2 and it turns out he was actually in the Royal Observer Corps and not the Home Guard as I stated in my original email. There are several people in the photo who have FWW medal ribbons.

His Defence Medal is mounted with his FWW medals and I now know this to be the Royal Observer Corps. He is front row, third from the left. I've attached a quick photo of the picture in question and the frame (lying to table to the left) with his FWW and WW2 medals.
10293: Hull Pals
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: Charles Henry Richardson (b. 1985) Service No 9807 was Jane Dawson's Great Uncle. He joined the army in 1912 and served in the Transport division. He went to France on 8th Sept 1914 (in the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment) and went on to serve in the 18th Brigade, 6th Division, 11 Corps, which was the British Expeditionary force. He was killed in action, possibly during the Battle of Armentières, on the 20th October 1914. His body was never recovered or identified.His service was commemorated on panel 4 of Ploegsteert Memorial Memorial to the missing, on the Belgian border next to Ploegsteert Wood. He was awarded 1914 Star and British Victory War Medal. We also know that he was in Hull (the Hull PALS) when approximately 37 people were killed in the same street.
Formation of dust filaments in the diffuse envelopes of molecular clouds
Creators: name: Beitia-Antero, L.
name: de Castro, A. I. Gómez
name: Vallejo, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The path to understanding star formation processes begins with the study of the formation of molecular clouds. The outskirts of these clouds are characterized by low column densities that allow the penetration of ultraviolet radiation, resulting in a non-negligible ionization fraction and the charging of the small dust grains that are mixed with the gas; this diffuse phase is then coupled to the ambient magnetic field. Despite the general assumption that dust and gas are tightly correlated, several observational and theoretical studies have reported variations in the dust-to-gas ratio toward diffuse and cold clouds. In this work, we present the implementation of a new charged particles module for analyzing the dust dynamics in molecular cloud envelopes. We study the evolution of a single population of small charged grains (0.05 $μ$m) in the turbulent, magnetized molecular cloud envelope using this module. We show that variations in the dust-to-gas ratio arise due to the coupling of the grains with the magnetic field, forming elongated dust structures decoupled from the gas. This emphasizes the importance of considering the dynamics of charged dust when simulating the different phases of the interstellar medium, especially for star formation studies.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Little or No Higgs
Creators: name: Rizzo, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both Little Higgs and Higgsless Models provide new windows into the mysteries of electroweak symmetry breaking and lead to testable predictions at present and future colliders. Here we give a quick overview of three papers submitted to the ICHEP2004 meeting on these subjects.
description: 4pages, 2 figs. Talk given at the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, Beijing, China, 16-22 August 2004
Complex X-ray Absorption and the Fe Kalpha Profile in NGC 3516
Creators: name: Turner, T. J.
name: Kraemer, S. B.
name: George, I. M.
name: Reeves, J. N.
name: Bottorff, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data from simultaneous Chandra, XMM-Newton and BeppoSAX observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3516, taken during 2001 April and Nov. We have investigated the nature of the very flat observed X-ray spectrum. Chandra grating data show the presence of X-ray absorption lines, revealing two distinct components of the absorbing gas, one which is consistent with our previous model of the UV/X-ray absorber while the other, which is outflowing at a velocity of ~1100 km/s has a larger column density and is much more highly ionized. The broad-band spectral characteristics of the X-ray continuum observed with XMM during 2001 April, reveal the presence of a third layer of absorption consisting of a very large column (~2.5 x 10E23 cm^-2) of highly ionized gas with a covering fraction ~50%. This low covering fraction suggests that the absorber lies within a few lt-days of the X-ray source and/or is filamentary in structure. Interestingly, these absorbers are not in thermal equilibrium with one another. The two new components are too highly ionized to be radiatively accelerated, which we suggest is evidence for a hydromagnetic origin for the outflow. Applying our model to the Nov dataset, we can account for the spectral variability primarily by a drop in the ionization states of the absorbers, as expected by the change in the continuum flux. When this complex absorption is accounted for we find the underlying continuum to be typical of Seyfert 1 galaxies. The spectral curvature attributed to the high column absorber, in turn, reduces estimates of the flux and extent of any broad Fe emission line from the accretion disk.
description: 33 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 9 of Genetic diversity and population structure of Tenacibaculum maritimum, a serious bacterial pathogen of marine fish: from genome comparisons to high throughput MALDI-TOF typing
Creators: name: Bridel, Sébastien
name: Bourgeon, Frédéric
name: Marie, Arnaud
name: Saulnier, Denis
name: Pasek, Sophie
name: Nicolas, Pierre
name: Jean-François Bernardet
name: Duchaud, Eric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. Amino-acid polymorphism of the 9 retained biomarkers. Protein sequence alignments of the 9 ribosomal proteins selected as polymorphic biomarkers and their corresponding isoform (IF).
Additional file 3 of Engaging patients in de-implementation interventions to reduce low-value clinical care: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sypes, Emma E.
name: Grood, Chloe De
name: Whalen-Browne, Liam
name: Clement, Fiona M.
name: Leigh, Jeanna Parsons
name: Niven, Daniel J.
name: Stelfox, Henry T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Results from meta-regression analysis.
Breached Superfluidity via P-Wave Coupling
Creators: name: Gubankova, E.
name: Mishchenko, E. G.
name: Wilczek, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic pairing between fermion species with different fermi momenta opens two-dimensional areas of gapless excitations, thus producing a spatially homogeneous state with coexisting superfluid and normal fluids. This breached pairing state is stable and robust for arbitrarily small mismatch and weak p-wave coupling.
description: 4 pages, latex, 1 figure; improved according to referee's comments
Impact of micro-credit programmes on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Khatun, Mst Asma
name: Islam, Mohammad Amirul
name: Majumder, Shankar
name: Khatun, Mst Asma
name: Islam, Mohammad Amirul
name: Majumder, Shankar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: micro-credit
subject: impact
subject: poverty alleviation
subject: Bangladesh

description: This present study examines the impact of micro-credit programmes of six government organisations (GO), non-government organisations (NGO) and micro-finance institutes (MFI) on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh using a purposive sample of 406 credit receivers. Alongside respondent’s perceived change in poverty situation this study devised an alternative measure of poverty change based on the change in household wealth and education of a household. Two-level binary logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression analyses suggest that amount of loan, different GO /NGOs/MFIs, satisfaction level, taken loan before and micro-credit as main means of asset change were the determinants of change in poverty situation. Significant community level variation was found in this analysis which indicates that the respondents from different communities with same set of characteristics will exhibit different influences on the change in poverty situation. Further research should be carried out to identify the sources of such variation to optimise the effect of micro-credit.
Distilling portable Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Translation
Creators: name: Chen, Hanting
name: Wang, Yunhe
name: Shu, Han
name: Wen, Changyuan
name: Xu, Chunjing
name: Shi, Boxin
name: Xu, Chao
name: Xu, Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Despite Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used in various image-to-image translation tasks, they can be hardly applied on mobile devices due to their heavy computation and storage cost. Traditional network compression methods focus on visually recognition tasks, but never deal with generation tasks. Inspired by knowledge distillation, a student generator of fewer parameters is trained by inheriting the low-level and high-level information from the original heavy teacher generator. To promote the capability of student generator, we include a student discriminator to measure the distances between real images, and images generated by student and teacher generators. An adversarial learning process is therefore established to optimize student generator and student discriminator. Qualitative and quantitative analysis by conducting experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can learn portable generative models with strong performance.
8383: William Wills - Battle of the Somme
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: William was born in Malta. At age 22, he was in the Royal Engineers, Pioneer Corps. He went ahead to build the trenches and fought in the Somme in 1916.