cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nestle’s war on waste: a journey through the supply chain
Creators: name: Lagger, Daniel
name: Oceania, Nestle
name: Lagger, Daniel
name: Oceania, Nestle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Nestlé celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2016. Behind such a long history, questions of sustainability and protecting the future have always been key. With increasing water scarcity, constrained natural resources and declining biodiversity, we need to protect the future by making the right choices. We focus on continuous improvement in our environmental performance everywhere we operate, to provide products that are not only tastier and healthier but that also are better for the environment along their entire value chain. Our goal is to send zero waste to landfill from our factories globally by 2020. Over the last ten years, our focus on reducing waste for disposal has seen waste reduce by 75%, with one in five factories now generating no waste. However, we also consider waste more holistically, looking at all steps from agriculture and ingredient production, to the factory, in the supply chain and through to the consumer’s home. This approach requires detailed target setting as well as an in-depth understanding of behaviours and systems in different countries, both those that lead to waste, and systems that manage waste. In addition, Nestlé is focusing strongly on reducing food loss and waste, both upstream in agriculture and through to the retailer and consumer. This is a crucial part of the journey to feed a growing global population and contribute to meeting the target of the Sustainable Development Goals to halve per capita global food waste by 2030. With 436 factories in 85 countries making products sold in 189 countries, the company aims to improve resource efficiency, quality and productivity in our operations to do more with fewer resources and less waste. The story of Nestlé’s approach to waste and recovery is one of both high-level commitment and deeply detailed activity, supported by external collaboration. This reflects the breadth and complexity of its operations. This paper presents broader industry trends with respect to waste, and why this fits in with broader corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues for companies in general, while giving specific Nestlé examples.
Anomalous gauge-boson couplings and the Higgs-boson mass
Creators: name: Nachtmann, O.
name: Nagel, F.
name: Pospischil, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study anomalous gauge-boson couplings induced by a locally SU(2) x U(1) invariant effective Lagrangian containing ten operators of dimension six built from the boson fields of the Standard Model (SM) before spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB). After SSB some operators lead to new three- and four-gauge-boson interactions, some contribute to the diagonal and off-diagonal kinetic terms of the gauge bosons and to the mass terms of the W and Z bosons. This requires a renormalisation of the gauge-boson fields, which, in turn, modifies the charged- and neutral-current interactions, although none of the additional operators contain fermion fields. Bounds on the anomalous couplings from electroweak precision measurements at LEP and SLD are correlated with the Higgs-boson mass m_H. Rather moderate values of anomalous couplings allow m_H up to 500 GeV. At a future linear collider the triple-gauge-boson couplings gammaWW and ZWW can be measured in the reaction e+e- --> WW. We compare three approaches to anomalous gauge-boson couplings: the form-factor approach, the addition of anomalous coupling terms to the SM Lagrangian after and, as outlined above, before SSB. The translation of the bounds on the couplings from one approach to another is not straightforward. We show that it can be done for the process e+e- --> WW by defining new effective ZWW couplings.
description: 50 pages, 4 figures; version to appear in EPJC
title: Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
Creators: name: O'Rouke-Scott, Elizabeth Alice
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: Until relatively recently, single motherhood in Ireland, could result in stigmatisation, social exclusion and institutionalisation. This thesis examines the ways in which three generations of women in Irish families talked about single motherhood. Interviews were conducted with seven intergenerational families of women in family groups. Follow up interviews were carried out with each woman individually after the family interviews. At least one of the women in each family of three generations had, at some point in her life, been pregnant and unmarried under the age of 20 and had kept the child. The research was informed by social constructionism and critical discursive psychological methodologies. Despite protestations of change and openness to sexual freedoms in Irish society, the research identified discourses of progress and social change alongside discourses of chastity and sexual morality. Drawing on these discourses, single mothers and their families used complex strategies to construct respectability. Good mothering identities were taken up alongside neoliberal concerns and sexual stigmatisation was avoided by taking up positions of naiveté and sexual innocence. Moreover, family identities were constructed collaboratively in the narratives of the women. These narratives reinforced gender roles, constructed family support during pregnancy and following the birth of a child, but also attributed blame and applied sanctions to single mothers. Fathers of single mothers were argued to be disappointed by their daughters’ unsanctioned pregnancies, whilst fathers of children were argued as necessary, if sometimes unwilling, participants in the lives of children. The thesis contributes an understanding of how Irish women live and how they understand and are allowed to understand themselves as well as the ways in which family respectability is negotiated collaboratively. It also adds to our understanding of the ways in which family identities can be maintained and sustained in family interaction in the context of identity trouble.
The Intention of Intention
Creators: name: Casares, Ramón
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: For Putnam in Representation and Reality, there cannot be any intentional science, thus dooming cognitive science. His argument is that intentional concepts are functional, and that functionalism cannot explain anything because "everything has every functional organization", providing a proof. Analyzing his proof, we find that Putnam is assuming an ideal interpreting subject who can compute effortlessly and who is not intentional. But the subject doing science is a human being, and we are not that way. Therefore, in order to save cognitive science, we propose to replace the ideal subject with a real and intentional human subject, and we propose to model intentionality by using a problem theory which is an intuitionist set theory where the resolving subject is a computing device. We are intentional because we are living beings, where life is the intention of not to die, so we are embodied intentions designed by evolution. We are real and then we have to compute our resolutions to the survival problem, and fortuitously we are computationally Turing complete, so our language is complete and then full and self referable. In summary, evolutionary subjectivism modeled as problem solving by computing should save cognitive science. Or, in other words, we are proposing to update Kant with Darwin and Turing.
Additional file 1 of Expanding the genotype-phenotype spectrum in SCN8A-related disorders
Creators: name: Hebbar, Malavika
name: Al-Taweel, Nawaf
name: Gill, Inderpal
name: Boelman, Cyrus
name: Dean, Richard A.
name: Goodchild, Samuel J.
name: Mezeyova, Janette
name: Shuart, Noah Gregory
name: Johnson, J. P.
name: Lee, James
name: Michoulas, Aspasia
name: Huh, Linda L.
name: Armstrong, Linlea
name: Connolly, Mary B.
name: Demos, Michelle K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: The evolution of the Archaean continental crust of Northern Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Dougherty-Page, Jon Stanley
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1994

description: Granitoid clasts preserved in Late Archaean conglomerates indicate the presence of continental crust in Northern Zimbabwe prior to the"" 2.7 to "" 2.6Ga "event" which terminated with the stabilisation of the Zimbabwe Craton. The "Kober Technique" (Kober, 1986, 1987) of direct thermal ionisation of zircons has been set up in order to investigate the geochronological record preserved in such clasts. Conglomerates were sampled from two localities, Shamva, within the central part of Northern Zimbabwe, and Chinhoyi, at thenorth-western boundary of the craton. The results from both localities demonstrate the presence of continental crust in Northern Zimbabwe with along and complex history prior to the Late Archaean "event". The minimum age of continental crust in the Shamva region is 3.34 Ga (Sm-Nd model age),with further episodes of granitiod intrusion indicated by zircon crystallisation at 3/197 ± 10 Ma, 2,925 ± 10 Ma, and 2,800 ± 20 Ma (Pb-Pb zircon). The Chinhoyi region has a shorter, simpler history, with the earliest recorded continental crust at 2,875 ± 3 Ma and later intrusions of granitoids at 2/800 ± 20 Ma, and2,720 ± 6 Ma (Pb-Pb zircon).

Chemically, the early crust was dominated by sodic, Tonalite Trondhjemite-Granodiorite granitoids, whose formation may be modelled by the partial melting of metabasalts with residual hornblende and/or garnet. By contrast, the granitoids formed during the Late Archaean "event" which culminated in the stabilisation of the craton, dominantly follow calc-alkalinetrends, and their formation may be modelled by the fractionation of basaltic magmas (combined with assimilation- of pre-existing continental material) or intra-crustal remelting. This major switch in the origins (and hence chemistry) of granitoids may be attributed to mantle plume activity, the onset of which is recorded by the presence of greens tone belt volcanics derived from anomalously hot mantle, dated at' 2,713 ± 15 Ma (U-Pb zircon Jelsma, 1993).
Generalized Hodge Metrics and BCOV torsion on Calabi-Yau Moduli
Creators: name: Fang, Hao
name: Lu, Zhiqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C, 58J, 14D

description: We establish an unexpected relation among the Weil-Petersson metric, the generalized Hodge metrics and the BCOV torsion. Using this relation, we prove that certain kind of moduli spaces of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds do not admit complete subvarieties. That is, there is no complete family for certain class of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. We also give an estimate of the complex Hessian of the BCOV torsion using the relation. After establishing a degenerate version of the Schwarz Lemma of Yau, we prove that the complex Hessian of the BCOV torsion is bounded by the Poincaré metric.
description: Latex file; 20 pages, 0 figure
Fractional advection-diffusion-asymmetry equation
Creators: name: Wang, Wanli
name: Barkai, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractional kinetic equations employ non-integer calculus to model anomalous relaxation and diffusion in many systems. While this approach is well explored, it so far failed to describe an important class of transport in disordered systems. Motivated by work on contaminant spreading in geological formations we propose and investigate a fractional advection-diffusion equation describing the biased spreading packet. While usual transport is described by diffusion and drift, we find a third term describing symmetry breaking which is omnipresent for transport in disordered systems. Our work is based on continuous time random walks with a finite mean waiting time and a diverging variance, a case that on the one hand is very common and on the other was missing in the kaleidoscope literature of fractional equations. The fractional space derivatives stem from long trapping times while previously they were interpreted as a consequence of spatial L{é}vy flights.
description: 17 pages
Mapping action and identity in the Kobani crisis response
Creators: name: McGee, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ethnic Studies
subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: This article compares humanitarian operations associated with Turkish state and pro-Kurdish movement actors in response to the large cross-border displacement of Kurdish-Syrians into Turkey from the September 2014 Kobani crisis. Analysis draws on actor mapping methodologies and fieldwork conducted in the Kurdish-majority town of Suruc in southern Turkey. Parallels with the 2011 Van earthquakes highlight the ethno-national complexities and potential controversy encountered when responding to humanitarian needs of predominantly Kurdish populations in Turkey. The alternative territorial identities generated by practices of Kurdish municipal-level "governmentality" (through camp management and humanitarian assistance) trouble the assumed hierarchy between Turkish state authorities and Kurdish challengers.
Profile of a minimally verbal autistic child (Vidal et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Vidal, Verónica
name: McCallister, Anita
name: DeThorne, Laura
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Language
subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose: The present clinical focus draws on an intrinsic case study to provide a thick description of the communication profile of John, a 9-year-old minimally verbal autistic student.Method: Specifically, traditional behavioral assessments, classroom video observations, and semistructured interviews were used to gather information regarding John’s communication profile and potential sensory–motor differences.Results: Convergent evidence indicated that John’s expressive profile was characterized by single words, emergent word combinations, some conventional gestures, and a low frequency of communicative initiations. Concomitant language comprehension challenges and poor intelligibility associated with motor speech impairment were also indicated. His sensory–motor profile was marked by fine motor impairment, relative strengths in gross motor abilities, and sensory differences across visual, hearing, and tactile modalities.Conclusion: Direct implications for supporting minimally verbal autistic students like John include the need to (a) consider sensory–motor influences on social interaction and (b) support flexible use of multimodal communication resources, including augmentative and alternative communication.
Supplemental Material S1. Sample interview transcription, which includes time course of interactions, codes for salient gestures, paralinguistic features, eye gaze, and use of augmentative and alternative communication devices.
Vidal, V., McCallister, A., & DeThorne, L. (2020). Communication profile of a minimal verbal school-age autistic child: A case study. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00021
Ο Δημήτρης Γληνός και τα ιδανικά των νέων. Μια απάντηση στον Ακαδημαϊκό Όμιλο
Creators: name: Γληνός, Δημήτρης
name: Τζήκας, Χρήστος
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 2 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
Solution of the microscopic gap equation for a slab of nuclear matter with the Paris NN-potential
Creators: name: Pankratov, S. S.
name: Baldo, M.
name: Lombardo, U.
name: Saperstein, E. E.
name: Zverev, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gap equation in the $^1S_0$-channel is solved for a nuclear slab with the separable form of the Paris potential. The gap equation is considered in the model space in terms of the effective pairing interaction which is found in the complementary subspace. The absolute value of the gap $Δ$ turned out to be very sensitive to the cutoff $K_{max}$ in the momentum space in the equation for the effective interaction. It is necessary to take $K_{max}=160-180 fm^{-1}$ to guarantee 1% accuracy for $Δ$. The gap equation itself is solved directly, without any additional approximations. The solution reveals the surface enhancement of the gap $Δ$ which was earlier found with an approximate consideration. A strong surface-volume interplay was found also implying a kind of the proximity effect. The diagonal matrix elements of $Δ$ turned out to be rather close to the empirical values for heavy atomic nuclei.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Uninterested and unequal?: examining SES-based gaps in youth political behavior on social media
Creators: name: Lane, Daniel S.
name: Thorson, Kjerstin
name: Xu, Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Despite evidence that social media are transforming American political life, fundamental questions remain about their influence on political inequality among the next generation of citizens. This study examines whether youth political behavior on social media is stratified by socioeconomic status (SES) and if political interest is the primary mechanism. Analyzing two nationally representative surveys of young Americans (18–34), we find youth political behavior on social media is less stratified by SES than voting or offline campaign participation. In one case, social media political expression is counter-stratified. While the relationship between SES and youth political behavior on social media can be partially explained by political interest, general political knowledge and positive perceptions of Facebook for politics also emerged as potential mechanisms. Findings suggest that SES-based youth political inequality persists on social media, but it is less severe than for offline forms of participation, and is likely explained by a range of factors beyond political interest.
Η σύγχρονη εκπαιδευτική πολιτική της Νέας Δημοκρατίας
Creators: name: Γρόλλιος, Γιώργος
name: Λιάμπας, Τάσος
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: Στο παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζονται οι κύριες πλευρές της σύγχρονης εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής της κυβέρνησης της Νέας Δημοκρατίας και αναλύονται ο χαρακτήρας και οι επιπτώσεις της για τους μαθητές, τους φοιτητές και τους εκπαιδευτικούς. Επίσης, προτείνονται αφενός μια ερμηνεία αυτής της εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής και αφετέρου ορισμένες σχετικές κατευθύνσεις έρευνας για την κίνηση της κριτικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα.
description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 2 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
Using Generative AI in Research
Creators: Frail, Kim & Kung, Janice
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

The slides accompany a workshop that is intended for graduate students to learn more about generative AI in the context of the research lifecycle. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license so that others may share and adapt the content for other purposes as long as appropriate credit is provided to the author of the work. To access the Google slides, click here: https://bit.ly/Library_AI_Research

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session participants will be able to:

Demonstrate a basic understanding of how AI tools work

Differentiate between grounded and ungrounded AI tools

Identify key considerations for grad students/researchers

Identify ways AI tools can be used to support the phases of the research lifecycle

Identify main areas of concern with using AI tools

Outline the steps and potential resources for evaluating and citing AI output
Κοινωνικά Κριτική Διαχείριση Τάξης. Μια μελέτη περίπτωσης προς εμπειρική - ερμηνευτική αποσαφήνιση
Creators: name: Μαργαρώνης, Θεοφάνης
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: Με διατυπωμένη την προοπτική της Κοινωνικά Κριτικής Διαχείρισης Τάξης (ΚΚΔΤ) ως επέκταση της Πολιτισμικά Ανταποκρινόμενης Διαχείρισης Τάξης (Culturally Responsive Classroom Management ‒ CRCM), τέθηκε το ερευνητικό ερώτημα κατά πόσο επιβεβαιώνονται οι βασικές αρχές που έχουν διατυπωθεί. Με βάση αυτό, επιλέχθηκε σκόπιμα ένας εκπαιδευτικός της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για τη διαχείριση τάξης του οποίου υπήρχαν ενδείξεις ότι παρουσιάζει υψηλή κοινωνική ανταπόκριση. Καταγράφηκαν και αναλύθηκαν οι πεποιθήσεις, πρακτικές και προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζει, με σκοπό την εμπειρική-ερμηνευτική αποσαφήνιση του όρου της ΚΚΔΤ. Η συλλογή δεδομένων έγινε μέσω ημι-δομημένης συνέντευξης. Στην εργασία αυτή παρουσιάζεται μια γενίκευση των συμπερασμάτων που εξήχθησαν από τη συνέντευξη αυτή και μια εκ νέου κωδικοποίηση αρχών της ΚΚΔΤ.Οι διαστάσεις της ΚΚΔΤ που επιβεβαιώνονται μέσα από τη συνέντευξη είναι: 1. Η επιρροή που δέχεται ο εκπαιδευτικός από το κοινωνικό συγκείμενο. 2. Η αξιοποίηση της κοινωνικής πείρας και καταγωγής των μαθητών. 3. Οι κοινότητες συλλογικής μάθησης, δράσης και διεκδίκησης. 4. Το ενδιαφέρον του εκπαιδευτικού προς τους μαθητές. 5. Η διαχείριση της αποκλίνουσας συμπεριφοράς. 6. Οι μαθητές που εργάζονται ή/και βιώνουν κοινωνικές ανισότητες. 7. Η ανάπτυξη πολιτικών συζητήσεων στην τάξη. 8. Η ΚΚΔΤ ως πολυ-διαχείριση τάξης. 9. Οι ‒μέσω του προσαρμοσμένου λόγου‒- γέφυρες επικοινωνίας. 10. Ο εκπαιδευτικός ως αναμορφωτής διανοούμενος. 11. Η ακαδημαϊκή επίδοση των μαθητών μέσω της ΚΚΔΤ. 12. Η υποστήριξη των εκπαιδευτικών.Στη διάθεσή μας βρίσκεται μικρός όγκος ερευνών σχετικών με τη CRCM. Εκ των πραγμάτων, η παρούσα εργασία, παρά τον πλούσιο όγκο δεδομένων που είχε στη διάθεσή της, δεν μπορεί παρά να αποτελεί μόνο μια κρούση σε σχέση με το ζήτημα της ΚΚΔΤ.
description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 2 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
Is religion the opiate of the digital masses? Religious authority, social media, and protest
Creators: name: Buckley, David T.
name: Gainous, Jason
name: Wagner, Kevin M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: There is a considerable body of research suggesting that social media may be a primary vehicle for both the dissemination of politically dissident information and for organizing protest activity in contexts of weak governance. Researchers are beginning to focus on building a more nuanced understanding of how new media shape these processes. Using original survey data from the Philippines, we offer the first large N individual level study to directly examine the relationship between religion, social media exposure, and political protest. Specifically, we argue that the degree to which citizens support religious leaders’ authority in politics can mitigate the effects dissident flows of information on social media have on their inclination to protest, at least in an environment characterized by hierarchical religious authority structures and limited religious endorsement of widespread protest. The evidence we present supports the theoretical claim that support for religious authority can at times dampen the link between critical social media and public protest. We discuss the implications of these results for the broader study of governance, technology and religious authority.
Relacje rolników z dostawcami środków produkcji – na przykładzie sektora mleczarskiego w Polsce
Farmers Relations with Input Suppliers – Some Evidence from the Dairy Sector in Poland
Creators: name: Malak-Rawlikowska, Agata
name: Milczarek-Andrzejewska, Dominika
name: Malak-Rawlikowska, Agata
name: Milczarek-Andrzejewska, Dominika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: food chain
subject: dairy farmers
subject: feed suppliers
subject: vertical integration
subject: backward vertical spillovers

description: The paper aims at improving our knowledge about farmers’ relations with input suppliers and analyses the backward vertical spillovers between the “boundary” chains. It uses a micro-data on dairy sector in Poland to elicit farmers’ opinions on their cooperation with feed suppliers and confront them with farmers’ actual behaviors. We find that dairy farmers have on average a long and stable cooperation with feed suppliers. A great majority of the respondents perceive their relationship with feed supplier as either good or very good. The relation between farmer and feed supplier is usually not formal (over 90% of farmers do not have any written contract). Price level and the quality of feed is the most important feature of the relation mentioned by farmers. However, we observe significant differences in the farm characteristics, obtained discounts, possibilities of the price negotiations, etc. depending on the channel of the feed supply. Despite no significant difference in farmland size, farmers who purchase feed directly from feed producer have a significantly larger milk production and receive significantly higher discount from the feed supplier than farmers purchasing feed from an intermediary. This group of farmers is also more active in price negotiations and more often considers changing their supplier.
Additional file 1 of Regulation of tissue factor activity by interaction with the first PDZ domain of MAGI1
Creators: name: Mohammad, Mohammad A.
name: Featherby, Sophie
name: Ettelaie, Camille
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Propozycja delimitacji regionów agroturystycznych w Polsce
Proposal of Delimitation of Agritourism Regions in Poland
Creators: name: Przezbórska-Skobiej, Lucyna
name: Sobotka, Sławomir
name: Przezbórska-Skobiej, Lucyna
name: Sobotka, Sławomir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: agritourism
subject: agritourist regions
subject: regionalization
subject: delimitation

description: The Authors suggest marking off Polish agritourism regions (i.e. regions with well- developed agritourism infrastructure), based on the number of agritourism farms operating in rural and urban-rural communes (regionalization and delimitation based on administrative criterion). The analysis is based on the 2011 statistics provided by relevant regional agricultural advisory centres. In the first stage of the analysis, all the rural and urban-rural communes in which there were more than five agritourism farms in 2011 (i.e. 329 communes) were divided into three types based on the level of agritourism development. In the second stage Poland was divided into agritourism regions by delimiting larger territories, i.e. regions and sub-regions, comprising communes featuring a big number of agritourism farms. Within the 12 thus delimited agritourism regions, the larger ones have been divided into sub-regions (the total of sixteen sub-regions).
Άλκη Ζέη: οι ανισότητες στο σχολείο και η παιδαγωγική της αντίστασης
Creators: name: Μητσιάλη, Αλεξάνδρα
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: Το κείμενο εξετάζει όψεις της αναπαραγωγής και της αντίστασης του σχολικού θεσμού στα βιβλία της Άλκης Ζέη Το Καπλάνι της βιτρίνας και Κοντά στις ράγες. Εστιάζεται κυρίως στον κριτικό τρόπο με τον οποίο παρουσιάζονται οι κοινωνικές ανισότητες στα δύο αυτά βιβλία αλλά και σε μια παιδαγωγική αντίληψη που αντιμετωπίζει τα παιδιά ως κοινωνικά και ιστορικά υποκείμενα συνδεδεμένα με τα μεγάλα γεγονότα του καιρού τους. Αναδεικνύει τη παιδαγωγική αξία του τρόπου σκέψης και των αξιών τους σήμερα, στον καιρό του αναγεννημένου κοινωνικού δαρβινισμού και της ταξικής αριστείας.
description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 2 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
Additional file 3 of Clinical evaluation of augmented reality-based 3D navigation system for brachial plexus tumor surgery
Creators: name: Zhao, Xuanyu
name: Zhao, Huali
name: Zheng, Wanling
name: Gohritz, Andreas
name: Shen, Yundong
name: Xu, Wendong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Zbiorniki i cieki wodne w krajobrazie rolniczym
Changes in the Numbers of Ponds and Watercourses in Agricultural Landscape
Creators: name: Dudzińska, Anna
name: Szpakowska, Barbara
name: Szumigała, Paweł
name: Dudzińska, Anna
name: Szpakowska, Barbara
name: Szumigała, Paweł
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Geographic Information System GIS
subject: ponds and watercourses
subject: agricultural landscape

description: The research was carried out in the Greater Poland’s commune of Rokietnica adjacent to the administrative borders of the Poznań city. Most of these areas are part of the Nature 2000 „Dolina Samicy”. The aim of the study was to make an inventory and to assess changes in the number of ponds and watercourses in the 19th and 21st centuries. The researchers used The Geographic Information System. Data analysis was performed using ArcMap 10.2 software. The results are presented in for form of tables and maps which show the changes concerning ponds and watercourses in the 19th and 21st centuries.
title: Choral Authoritativeness in Sophocles
Creators: name: Post, Doris Juliane Elisabeth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: The ‘authority’ of the chorus in Greek tragedy has been a matter of discussion for a very long time. The word authority, however, has two distinct meanings: it can refer to the status of the chorus within the dramatic world and to the truthfulness or reliability of the choral discourse. To avoid this confusion, I use the term authoritativeness in this thesis to indicate the extent to which we can trust what the chorus are saying, chanting, or singing. In chapter 1, I establish a number of textual and linguistic markers which suggest whether a choral discourse can potentially be regarded as authoritative. One important factor is identifying where the chorus operate as a stage figure and where qua chorus. The subsequent chapters are taken up by case studies in which I closely analyse the language and context of the chorus’s utterances in three of Sophocles’ seven extant tragedies. I have chosen the Philoctetes, the Antigone, and the Electra because, in each, the chorus is used in a different way. Altogether, my analysis shows how Sophocles constantly experiments with the use of the choral voice: some markers raise the expectations that choral comments and judgements can be taken as a reliable guide for an interpretation of the action. At the same time, however, different devices undermine this potential authoritativeness, making the precise meaning of the discourse ambiguous or multivalent and contributing to the continuing disagreements on the precise interpretation of the tragedies.
Genetic algorithms and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture
Creators: name: Miasnikov, Alexei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 20E05, 20F05, 68T05 (Primary) 57M05,57M20

description: The Andrews-Curtis conjecture claims that every balanced presentation of the trivial group can be transformed into the trivial presentation by a finite sequence of "elementary transformations" which are Nielsen transformations together with an arbitrary conjugation of a relator. It is believed that the Andrews-Curtis conjecture is false; however, not so many possible counterexamples are known. It is not a trivial matter to verify whether the conjecture holds for a given balanced presentation or not. The purpose of this paper is to describe some non-deterministic methods, called Genetic Algorithms, designed to test the validity of the Andrews-Curtis conjecture. Using such algorithm we have been able to prove that all known (to us) balanced presentations of the trivial group where the total length of the relators is at most 12 satisfy the conjecture. In particular, the Andrews-Curtis conjecture holds for the presentation which was one of the well known potential counterexamples.
description: 19 pages
Modern agri-food systems, horticultural employment and women's empowerment
Creators: name: Krumbiegel, Katharina
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Wollni, Meike
name: Krumbiegel, Katharina
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Wollni, Meike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Women's empowerment
subject: horticultural employment
subject: household decision‐making

description: The transformation of global agri‐food systems has led to the increased establishment of exportoriented horticultural plantations in developing countries. These labor intense production sites are associated with feminized employment patterns for the delicate handling of fruits and vegetables and therefore provide employment opportunities for women in rural areas. However, the social implications of these developments for women workers' roles in their households remain hardly understood. We address this research gap by assessing a wide range of indicators reflecting women’s empowerment. We use primary survey data of 422 married households in Ghana, living in areas of large‐scale pineapple plantations. We apply entropy balancing, a new re‐weighting technique, and combine this with regression analysis. We find that female horticultural wage workers contribute a major share to the household’s income, are more mobile, have better control over assets and reduced responsibilities in household chores. Women workers also report having more input into household decision‐making.
Vocal cord dysfunction/inducible laryngeal obstruction induced by hyperventilation in healthy individuals, people with asthma, and following coronavirus infection
Creators: name: Ruane, Laurence E
name: Koh, Joo
name: Baxter, Malcolm
name: Finlay, Paul
name: Low, Kathy
name: Hillman, Rachael
name: Ruane, Lucy
name: Hamilton, Garun
name: Leong, Paul
name: Bardin, Philip
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Vocal cord dysfunction/inducible laryngeal obstruction (VCD/ILO) commonly co-exists with asthma and can start after viral infections. In this setting evidence suggests that dysfunctional breathing may induce the disorder but this possibility has not been researched. We therefore postulated that dysfunctional breathing can induce VCD/ILO, more so in people with asthma and after viral infections. Eight healthy control subjects, 16 people with asthma and eight people who had recent COVID-19 infection (three with asthma) were recruited. Video-recorded laryngoscopy was performed at tidal breathing and during controlled hyperventilation (used as a proxy for dysfunctional breathing). VCD/ILO was diagnosed by laryngoscopy using accepted criteria and correlated with study cohorts, clinical attributes, asthma severity and spirometry. Overall, 32 subjects were studied. Hyperventilation was verified in all subjects. None of the healthy control group or people with mild asthma developed VCD/ILO during or after hyperventilation but one person with moderate/severe asthma had clear evidence of VCD/ILO. In contrast, in people who had COVID-19 infection, hyperventilation induced VCD/ILO in 3/8 people (38%). These proof-of-concept studies suggest that hyperventilation can provoke VCD/ILO in asthma and after a recent viral infection. How and why VCD/ILO develops is not known and these preliminary findings should prompt further studies of links between dysfunctional breathing, asthma, and viral infections.
Για την Ιστοριογραφία της Νεοελληνικής Εκπαίδευσης (Προσωπική κατάθεση)
Creators: name: Νούτσος, Χαράλαμπος
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: Στο άρθρο ο συγγραφέας παρουσιάζει ορισμένα προβλήματα και ορισμένες τάσεις της ιστοριογραφικής παραγωγής για τη νεοελληνική εκπαίδευση. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, παρουσιάζει εκδοτικά εγχειρήματα, υποβάλλει σε κριτική επισκοπήσεις της βιβλιοπαραγωγής για την ιστορία της νεοελληνικής εκπαίδευσης και πραγματοποιεί έναν πολύ σύντομο απολογισμό της δικής του ερευνητικής εργασίας, αντιλαμβανόμενος την ιστορία της νεοελληνικής εκπαίδευσης ως εξειδικευμένο επιστημονικό πεδίο θεωρητικών και πολιτικών αγώνων και ερχόμενος σε αντιπαράθεση, μεταξύ άλλων, με γεγονοτολογικές και μεταμοντέρνες - πολιτισμοκρατικές ιστοριογραφικές οπτικές.
description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 2 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
On combinatorics of quiver component formulas
Creators: name: Yong, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E15; 14M15; 19E08

description: Buch and Fulton conjectured the nonnegativity of the quiver coefficients appearing in their formula for a quiver variety. Knutson, Miller and Shimozono proved this conjecture as an immediate consequence of their ``component formula''. We present an alternative proof of the component formula by substituting combinatorics for Grobner degeneration. We relate the component formula to the work of Buch, Kresch, Tamvakis and the author where a ``splitting'' formula for Schubert polynomials in terms of quiver coefficients was obtained. We prove analogues of this latter result for the type BCD-Schubert polynomials of Billey and Haiman.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Agricultural Commercialization and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households
Creators: name: Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng
name: Goedecke, Theda
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng
name: Goedecke, Theda
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: commercialization
subject: market access
subject: continuous treatment
subject: nutrition
subject: dietary quality
subject: Africa

description: Commercialization of smallholder agriculture is widely seen as an essential pathway towards rural economic growth. While previous studies have analyzed effects of commercialization on productivity and income, implications for farm household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the impact of commercialization on household food security and dietary quality, with a special focus on calorie and micronutrient consumption. We also examine transmission channels by looking at the role of income, gender, and possible substitution between the consumption of own-produced and purchased foods. The analysis builds on survey data from 805 farm households in Western Kenya. A control function approach is used to address issues of endogeneity. Generalized propensity scores are employed to estimate continuous treatment effects. Commercialization significantly improves food security and dietary quality in terms of calorie, zinc, and iron consumption. For vitamin A, effects are positive but statistically insignificant. Commercialization contributes to higher incomes and added nutrients from purchased foods. It does not reduce the consumption of nutrients from own-produced foods, even after controlling for farm size, which can be explained by higher productivity on more commercialized farms. Enhancing market access is important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive.
Археологічні пам'ятки біля с. Сергіївки на Миколаївщині (за матеріалами А. О. Сікорського)
Creators: name: Тетяна Борисова
name: Borysov, Artem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Борисова Т.А., Борисов А.В. Археологічні пам'ятки біля с. Сергіївки на Миколаївщині (за матеріалами А. О. Сікорського). Магістеріум. 2018. Випуск 70. Археологічні студії. - с.59-66.
The article briefly describes archaeological sites near Serhiivka village of Bereznehuvatskyi region in Mykolaiv oblast. These 14 settlements were discovered by Anatolii Oleksiyovych Sikorsky, a teacher of Serhiivka eight-year school. Most of them are settlements of Sabatinovka culture of the Bronze age period. These sites were being researched for twenty years (the 1960s–980s years). They are described on the basis of the materials from the researcher’s field diaries. These are some of archaeological sites which were discovered by A. O. Sikorsky as a result of primary archaeological investigation of the Vysun river basin (the right tributary of the Ingulets river). In general, the researcher recorded 64 settlements and 137 burial mounds (separate and in burial groups), and plenty of archaeological finds that are not connected to articular sites. These materials are the base of the archaeological map of the region. The largest number of investigated settlements are located in Kazankivskyi and Bereznehuvatskyi regions in Mykolaiv oblast. The current publication contains information about such archaeological sites: Babyna Balka I, Babyna Balka II, Krasnyi Kamin, Poselennya № 33, Serhiivka, Serhiivka I, Serhiivka II, Serhiivka III, Serhiivka IV, Serhiivka V, Serhiivka VI, Serhiivka VII, Schyroka Balka. A part of collected materials by A. O. Sikorsky is saved in funds of Mykolaiv local history museum. All these findings indicate the effectiveness of systematic research works in particular microregions. Archaeological surveys should be the main form of archaeological field work. They facilitate to the scientific research as well as protection of archaeological heritage.
Metal enrichment in near-IR luminous galaxies at z~2: signatures of proto-ellipticals?
Creators: name: de Mello, Duilia
name: Daddi, E.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Alighieri, S. di Serego
name: Pozzetti, L.
name: Zamorani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of the coadded rest-frame UV spectrum (1200
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Accepted ApJ Letters
Análisis del impacto del clima laboral en el desempeño
Creators: name: Ortiz, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management

description: El presente estudio busca determinar como el nivel de clima laboral pueda incidir en el desempeño individual y grupal, así como, determinar que variables del clima son las de mayor incidencia en el mismo. El desempeño laboral se refiere a la ejecución de las tareas y responsabilidades asignadas a un trabajador dentro de su puesto de trabajo, así como la calidad, eficiencia y efectividad con que realiza dichas actividades. El clima laboral se refiere al ambiente o la percepción general que los empleados tienen sobre su lugar de trabajo. Está relacionado con los factores emocionales, sociales y psicológicos que influyen en el bienestar y la satisfacción de los trabajadores. El artículo subraya que la correlación entre ambos factores es significativa, ya que un clima organizacional saludable actúa como un facilitador para un mejor desempeño, mientras que un ambiente de trabajo tóxico puede ser un obstáculo para alcanzar altos niveles de efectividad.
title: Factors affecting the development of mathematical concepts in children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus
Creators: name: Gallagher, Moira
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1985

description: Previous research (Tew and Laurence 1972) suggested that children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus had particular difficulties in the development of mathematical concepts. This research considered factors which may affect such development and consisted of two main sections. Firstly research was carried out in a school for physically handicapped children. This involved the use of the Young Group Mathematics Test with groups within the school, and detailed case studies of nine children with Myelomeningocele and Hydrocephalus, all of whom were in the same year group. Secondly, large scale data on approximately 600 children with Spina Bifida, from Sheffield Children's Hospital, was analysed. The analysis was broken down into groups based on diagnosis, these being; Myelomeningocele with and without shunts and Meningocele. They were also sub-divided into four groups based on ability in arithmetic as measured on the WISC. A large number of variables and their relationship to arithmetic were considered. The main variables were diagnosis, presence of shunt, ventricle-brain ratio, thickness of neonatal cortex, circumference of head at birth, mobility, level and extent of lesion, continence, intelligence and school placement. Frequently the children with the greatest degree of Hydrocephalus are also the most physically handicapped so additional data for children diagnosed as having 'Congenital' Hydrocephalus only was employed to try and separate out the effects of mobility from the other neurological variables. The data led to the conclusion that it is the neurological damage present in children with Hydrocephalus which has the most direct effect on the development of mathematical concepts, although this would be influenced by the degree of physical disability and related environmental factors. Suggestions are made as to how to help these children to develop mathematical concepts. An early start is recommended regarding the training of selective attention to attempt to overcome the distractibility which is a frequent concomitant of neurological damage. After this a carefully structured approach to the teaching of maths is recommended. However, since the most significant correlations with maths ability were with neurological damage, preventative measures must also be concerned with the immediacy and efficacy of shunt surgery.