cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of agricultural and household technologies on women: a conceptual and quantitative analysis in Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Lawrence, Pareena G.
name: Sanders, John H.
name: Ramaswamy, Sunder
name: Lawrence, Pareena G.
name: Sanders, John H.
name: Ramaswamy, Sunder
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural and household technologies
subject: Bargaining
subject: Household decision-making

description: Agricultural technologies (new cultivars, inorganic fertilizers, soil- and water-conservation techniques) in Sub-Saharan Africa have been primarily introduced to male farmers by male-dominated extension services on the family plots. These yieldincreasing, input-intensive technologies increase the demand for farm labor. So, not only do men obtain most of the direct benefits from the introduction of technology but this labor-intensive technology also increases the demands on women's time for additional labor. This raises the question: Are the combined effects of agricultural technologies beneficial or detrimental to women? We first develop a labor-market model that examines the impact of agricultural and household technologies on labor allocation and income determination within the household. We then discuss the important issue of how household laborallocation decisions and division of income are made within the family in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a programming model to estimate the effects of these technologies on household incomes and the income of women. The results indicate that the impact of agricultural technologies depends on the type of decision-making prevailing in the household. In contrast, household technologies increase the welfare of women regardless of the type of decision-making. However, with bargaining behavior, agricultural technologies do benefit women and there is some empirical support for this type of household behavior in SubSaharan African households. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Monopoles and hybrids in Abelian projection of lattice QCD
Creators: name: Boyko, P. Yu.
name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Kovalenko, A. V.
name: Morozov, S. M.
name: Polikarpov, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study topological defects constructed from diagonal and non-diagonal gluons in Abelian projection of zero temperature lattice QCD. We compare results obtained in the quenched and non-quenched vacuum field configurations and show that the density of hybrids is higher than the density of monopoles. The density of some hybrids is sensitive to the presence of the virtual fermions.
description: Lattice2001(confinement), 3 pages, 1 eps figure
Generalized parton distributions at large momentum transfer
Creators: name: Kroll, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of generalized parton distributions in wide-angle exclusive reactions will be discussed. In contrast to deep virtual exclusive reactions the wide angle processes offer the possibility of investigating the generalized parton distributions at large momentum transfer.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures (using LATEX with sprocl.sty and epsfig), talk presented at the 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2001), Bologna, April 2001
Colpocephalum leptopygos Nitzsch 1874
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Colpocephalum
Colpocephalum leptopygos

description: Colpocephalum leptopygos Nitzsch [In Giebel], 1874
 Report: [1] Touleshkov (1958).
 Host: Plegadis falcinellus (L.) [1].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Chepinci (Sofia Region) [1].
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
Additional file 1 of Suramin, an antiparasitic drug, stimulates adipocyte differentiation and promotes adipogenesis
Creators: name: Li, Hanxiao
name: Dong, Yingyue
name: Han, Chunmiao
name: Xia, Lisha
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Chen, Tongsheng
name: Wang, Huamin
name: Xu, Guoheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Ductile and brittle yielding in thermal and athermal amorphous materials
Creators: name: Barlow, Hugh J.
name: Cochran, James O.
name: Fielding, Suzanne M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the yielding of sheared amorphous materials as a function of increasing levels of initial sample annealing prior to shear, in three widely used constitutive models and three widely studied annealing protocols. In thermal systems we find a gradual progression, with increasing annealing, from smoothly "ductile" yielding, in which the sample remains homogeneous, to abruptly "brittle" yielding, in which it becomes strongly shear banded. This progression arises from an increase with annealing in the size of an overshoot in the underlying stress-strain curve for homogeneous shear, which causes a shear banding instability that becomes more severe with increasing annealing. "Ductile" and "brittle" yielding thereby emerge as two limiting cases of a continuum of yielding transitions, from gradual to catastrophic. In contrast, athermal systems with a stress overshoot always show brittle yielding at low shear rates, however small the overshoot.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures + Supplemental Material
The effects of real exchange rate depreciation on stochastic producer prices in low-income agriculture
Creators: name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: Depreciation
subject: Production under risk
subject: GARCH estimation
subject: Madagascar

description: This paper considers the effects of real exchange rate depreciation on stochastic agricultural producer prices in low-income agriculture. Conventional wisdom, that real depreciation achieved through nominal currency devaluation stimulates tradables production, does not universally hold in the presence of stochastic prices. In fact, real depreciation is only stimulative in two cases - importables that remain importable and nontradables that become exportable. GARCH estimation of time-series price data on several commodities from Madagascar support the hypotheses generated by the analytical model. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister 1838
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Colpocephalum
Colpocephalum zebra

description: Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister, 1838
 Reports: [1] Touleshkov (1958); [2] Touleshkov (1964a); [3] Touleshkov (1974).
 Host: Ciconia ciconia (L.) [1, 2, 3].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Sofia [1]; Elhovo [2]; Barzia (Montana Region) [3].
 Lice of Colpocephalum identified to the generic level only were reported from Acrocephalus palustris (Bechstein), Falco naumanni Fleischer, Gallinula chloropus (L.), Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechstein), P. trochilus (L.), Pyrrhocorax graculus (L.) and Sylvia communis Latham (see Touleshkov, 1960b, 1961a, 1964a).
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
An in-plane hexagonal antiferromagnet in the Cu-Mn-As system, Cu$_{0.82}$Mn$_{1.18}$As
Creators: name: Karigerasi, Manohar H.
name: Kang, Kisung
name: Ramanathan, Arun
name: Gray, Danielle L.
name: Frontzek, Matthias D.
name: Cao, Huibo
name: Schleife, André
name: Shoemaker, Daniel P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the single-crystal growth and characterization of a new hexagonal phase, Cu$_{0.82}$Mn$_{1.18}$As, in the Cu-Mn-As system. This compound contains the same square-pyramidal MnAs$_5$ units as the tetragonal and orthorhombic polymorphs of CuMnAs. Calorimetry, magnetometry, and neutron diffraction measurements reveal antiferromagnetic ordering at 270 K. The magnetic structure consists of a triangular arrangement of spins in the $ab$ plane. Hexagonal Cu$_{0.82}$Mn$_{1.18}$As shows resistivity that varies only weakly from 5 K to 300 K, and is many times higher than tetragonal CuMnAs, indicative of a strongly-scattering metal. First-principles calculations confirm the metallic band structure with a small density of states at the Fermi energy. The neutron-refined magnetic ground state is close to the computationally-determined minimum energy configuration. This compound should serve as a clear control when disentangling the effects of current-driven Néel switching of metallic antiferromagnets since it exhibits in-plane spins but the magnetic ordering does not break degeneracy along the $a$ and $b$ directions, unlike tetragonal CuMnAs.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures; Added Cu-Mn-As phase diagram, updated 1 figure and added some more text
Factors influencing adoption of land-enhancing technology in the Sahel: lessons from a case study in Niger
Creators: name: Baidu-Forson, Jojo
name: Baidu-Forson, Jojo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Tobit analysis
subject: Soil and water conservation
subject: Sahel

description: Technical change, through the introduction of land-enhancing conservation technologies, is essential to economic growth in the Sahel. Tobit analysis was used to identify factors that motivate level and intensity of adoption of specific soil and water management technologies. The results show that higher percentage of degraded farmland, extension education, lower risk aversion, and the availability of short-term profits are important for increasing the adoption and intensity of use of improved 'tassa' and half-crescent shaped earthen mounds. Age and attitudes to differential gains between farm and non-farm income showed no influence on adoption. Three main policy implications emerge from these findings. First, technologies should be targeted to locations that have large percentages of degraded farmlands. The probability of adoption and intensity of use are likely to be high at such locations. Second, there is the need to provide extension education that demonstrates risk reduction capacities of conservation techniques. This will make available information capable of stimulating adoption of land-enhancing technologies. Finally, policy-makers should not seek to target innovations to younger farmers because age has no relationship to adoption of the improved 'tassa' and half-crescent shaped earthen mounds. Lessons from the case study have broad relevance to cropped areas in the Sahel. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Monopoles in NBI-Higgs theory and Born-Infeld collapse
Creators: name: Dyadichev, V. V.
name: Gal'tsov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Regular magnetic monopoles in the non-Abelian Born-Infeld-Higgs theory are known to exist in the region of the field strength parameter $β>β_{\rm cr}$, bounded from below. Beyond this region, only pointlike (embedded abelian) monopoles exist, and we show that the transition from the regular to singular structure is reminiscent of gravitational collapse. Near the threshold behavior is characterized by the rapidly increasing negative pressure, which typically arises in the high density NBI matter. Another feature, shared both the NBI and gravitating monopoles, is the existence of excited states, which can be thought of as bound states of monopoles and sphalerons. These are labeled by the number $N$ of nodes of the Yang-Mills function. Their masses are greater than the mass of the ground state monopole, and they are expected to be unstable. The sequence of masses $M_N$ rapidly converges to the mass of the embedded Abelian solution with constant Higgs. The ratio of the sphaleron size to that of the monopole grows with decreasing $β$, and, at the same time, both fall down until the solutions cease to exist, again exhibiting collapse to the pointlike monopole. The results are presented and compared both for the ordinary and the symmetrized trace NBI actions.
description: latex, 15 pages, 6 figures
Colpocephalum nanum Piaget 1890
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Colpocephalum
Colpocephalum nanum

description: Colpocephalum nanum Piaget, 1890
 Reports: [1] Touleshkov (1957); [2] Touleshkov (1960a).
 Synonym: Colpocephalum buteonis Eichler [1].
 Hosts: Buteo buteo (L.) [1]; Larus canus L. [2].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Sofia Zoo, Pancharevo (Sofia Region) [1]; Evksinovgrad, Varna Region, Sofia Region [2].
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
Agriculture and economic growth in Ethiopia: growth multipliers from a four-sector simulation model
Creators: name: Block, Steven A.
name: Block, Steven A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Agriculture accounts for over half of Ethiopian GDP, yet the case for agriculture as a focus of economic growth strategies must rely on identifying a set of intersectoral linkages through which agricultural growth contributes to the growth of nonagriculture in the Ethiopian economy. This article develops a four-sector numerical simulation model of economic growth in Ethiopia which permits the calculation of macroeconomic growth multipliers resulting from income shocks to agriculture, services, modern industry, and traditional industry. The resulting growth multipliers are 1.54 for agriculture, 1.80 for services, 1.34 for modern industry, and 1.22 for traditional industry. These results depict an economy in which intersectoral linkages operate on a highly uneven basis. These limits are reflected in the wide disparity between sectoral growth multipliers and by substantial differences in the patterns of their decomposition. The policy relevance of these findings relate, in part, to the distributional implications of growth in particular sectors. Poverty in Ethiopia is disproportionately rural. An income shock to agriculture is clearly the most progressive choice, indicating the need to highlight agricultural development in growth strategies for Ethiopia. Yet, the simulation results further indicate that doing so imposes relatively little trade off against total benefit. While a $1 service sector income shock generates $0.80 in indirect benefits, a $1 agricultural income shock still generates $0.54 in indirect gains - a somewhat smaller benefit, bnt one likely to make the greatest possible impact on poverty reduction. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Dirac's Magnetic Monopoles (Again)
Creators: name: Jackiw, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dirac's quantization of magnetic monopole strength is derived without reference to a (singular, patched) vector potential.
description: 7 pages; 2 figures; talk prepared for Dirac Memorial, Tallahassee, Florida, December 2002; email correspondence to jackiw@lns.mit.edu
Generalized parton distributions in the deuteron
Creators: name: Berger, E. R.
name: Cano, F.
name: Diehl, M.
name: Pire, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce generalized quark and gluon distributions in the deuteron, which can be measured in exclusive processes like deeply virtual Compton scattering and meson electroproduction. We discuss the basic properties of these distributions, and point out how they probe the interplay of nucleon and parton degrees of freedom in the deuteron wave function.
Seasonality and spatial integration in agricultural (product) markets
Creators: name: Zanias, George P.
name: Zanias, George P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Seasonal co-integration
subject: Market integration
subject: Wheat
subject: European Union

description: The recent testing approaches of the 'Law of One Price' which are based on co-integration analysis are modified by incorporating the seasonal components of the agricultural price series into the testing procedure. Application of the modified testing approach to the soft wheat market of five European Union member states produces mixed results as some of the markets turn out to be integrated while in some cases a unified market cannot be assumed. These results differ in some cases from those obtained by co-integration tests which ignore seasonal unit roots. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Realizations of Conformal and Heisenberg Algebras in PP-wave-CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Das, Sumit R.
name: Gomez, Cesar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate on the symmetry breaking pattern involved in the Penrose limit of $AdS_{d+1} \times S^{d+1}$ spacetimes and the corresponding limit of the CFT dual. For d=2 we examine in detail how the symmetries contract to products of rotation and Heisenberg algebras, both from the bulk and CFT points of view. Using a free field realization of these algebras acting on products of elementary fields of the CFT with SO(2) R charge +1, we show that this process of contraction restricts all the fields to a few low angular momentum modes and ensures that the field with R charge -1 does not appear. This provides an understanding of several important aspects of the proposal of Berenstein, Maldacena and Nastase. We also indicate how the contraction can be performed on correlation functions.
description: 24 pages, LaTeX
MOESM4 of Anxiety at age 15 predicts psychiatric diagnoses and suicidal ideation in late adolescence and young adulthood: results from two longitudinal studies
Creators: name: Doering, Sabrina
name: Lichtenstein, Paul
name: Gillberg, Christopher
name: Middeldorp, Christel
name: Bartels, Meike
name: Kuja-Halkola, Ralf
name: LundstrÃ¶M, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Cumulative incidence of bipolar/psychotic disorders in individuals within 'normal', 'borderline', and 'abnormal' anxiety categories at age 15 in self-report and parental report. Note. For representational purposes, figures were cut at age 21.
Colpocephalum turbinatum Denny 1842
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Colpocephalum
Colpocephalum turbinatum

description: Colpocephalum turbinatum Denny, 1842
 Reports: [1] Touleshkov (1957); [2] Touleshkov (1961b).
 Synonyms: Colpocephalum bicinctum Nitzsch [1]; Colpocephalum tricinctum Nitzsch [1]; Colpocephalum wetzeli Eichler [1].
 Hosts: Circus aeruginosus (L.) [1]; Columba livia var. domestica Gmelin [2]; Milvus migrans (Boddaert) [1]; M. milvus (L.) [1].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Chelopechene (Sofia Region), Pirdop, Ezerovo (Burgas Region) [1]; Sofia [2].
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
Export taxes and sectoral economic growth: evidence from cotton and yarn markets in Pakistan
Creators: name: Hudson, Darren
name: Ethridge, Don
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Ethridge, Don
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Economic growth
subject: Export taxes
subject: Pakistan
subject: Simulation

description: Pakistan used an export tax on raw cotton from 1988-1995 in order to suppress the internal price of cotton to benefit the domestic yarn industry. An analysis was conducted to estimate the impact of this policy on both the cotton and yarn sectors. These effects were simulated using the results of a structural econometric model of these sectors of Pakistan's economy. Results indicated that the export tax had a negative impact on the growth rate in the cotton sector, while having little or no impact on the yarn sector. Thus, the export tax did not achieve its objective of increasing the growth rate of value-added (yarn) production above what would have occurred naturally. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Additional file 1 of High-quality reference genome sequences of two coconut cultivars provide insights into evolution of monocot chromosomes and differentiation of fiber content and plant height
Creators: name: Wang, Shouchuang
name: Xiao, Yong
name: Zhou, Zhi-Wei
name: Yuan, Jiaqing
name: Guo, Hao
name: Yang, Zhuang
name: Yang, Jun
name: Sun, Pengchuan
name: Sun, Lisong
name: Deng, Yuan
name: Xie, Wen-Zhao
name: Song, Jia-Ming
name: Qamar, Muhammad Tahir ul
name: Xia, Wei
name: Liu, Rui
name: Gong, Shufang
name: Wang, Yong
name: Wang, Fuyou
name: Liu, Xianqing
name: Fernie, Alisdair R.
name: Wang, Xiyin
name: Fan, Haikuo
name: Chen, Ling-Ling
name: Luo, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figs. S1-S20. Fig. S1. Images and genome size of coconut. Fig. S2. Heatmaps for Hi-C assembly in Cn. tall. Fig. S3. Heatmaps for Hi-C assembly in Cn. dwarf. Fig. S4. Cn. tall and Cn. dwarf Hi-C. Fig. S5. Distribution and divergence of TEs and associated PAVs. Fig. S6. Genome duplication, Ks distribution, and evolutionary dating. Fig. S7. Homologous dotplots within each Arecaceae genome. Fig. S8. Homologous gene dotploting between coconut and the other Arecaceae genomes. Fig. S9. Ks of collinear genes within each Arecaceae genome. Fig. S10. GO enrichment analysis of expansive and contracted gene families. Fig. S11. Analysis of coconut and other species gene family. Fig. S12. Homologous genes plot of coconut. Fig. S13. Homologous gene plots. Fig. S14. The inferred evolutionary trajectories to form extant Spirodela polyrhiza chromosomes. Fig. S15. The inferred evolutionary trajectories to form extant Ananas comosus chromosomes. Fig. S16. Genome variation between Cn. tall and Cn. dwarf. Fig. S17. Enrichment analysis of specific genes. Fig. S18. The expression pattern of CESA gene in different tissues of coconut. Fig. S19. Quantile-quantile plot for height phenotype. Fig. S20. Statistics on change fold of GA20ox expression on Chr. 12 with Cn.tall compare Cn.dwarf.
Effective action and interaction energy of coupled quantum dots
Creators: name: Das, Sourin
name: Rao, Sumathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the effective action of tunnel-coupled quantum dots, by modeling the system as a Luttinger liquid with multiple barriers. For a double dot system, we find that the resonance conditions for perfect conductance form a hexagon in the plane of the two gate voltages controlling the density of electrons in each dot. We also explicitly obtain the functional dependence of the interaction energy and peak-splitting on the gate voltage controlling tunneling between the dots and their charging energies. Our results are in good agreement with recent experimental results, from which we obtain the Luttinger interaction parameter $K=0.74$.
description: 5 pgs,latex,3 figs,revised version to be publshed in Phys.Rev.B
Agricultural research priority setting under multiple objectives: an example from Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Mutangadura, Gladys
name: Norton, George W.
name: Mutangadura, Gladys
name: Norton, George W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural research priority setting
subject: Economic surplus and mathematical programming analysis

description: Strategic priorities are assessed for the agricultural research system in Zimbabwe in a situation characterized by multiple objectives, farm-types, and agro-ecological zones. Economic surplus analysis is used to rank research programs by commodity and research program areas in total and disaggregated by large and small farms in high and low potential regions. No funding, current funding, and 50% more funding are allowed for each program in the analysis. An optimal research portfolio is developed, first with all weight placed on efficiency, and second with increasing weights placed on benefits going to smallholder farmers. Even with no additional weight placed on small-holders, research programs for both small farms and low potential areas enter into the optimal research portfolio. As more emphasis is given to small-holders, the reduction in overall efficiency gained due to research is relatively modest. Maize and cotton were the highest ranked commodity research programs of the 36 commodities considered for both large and small farms. Agronomy and soils research are relatively more important for small-holders, while plant breeding and crop protection are relatively more important for large-scale farmers. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
MOESM1 of Identifying climate-sensitive infectious diseases in animals and humans in Northern regions
Creators: name: Omazic, Anna
name: Bylund, Helena
name: Boqvist, Sofia
name: Högberg, Ann
name: Björkman, Christer
name: Tryland, Morten
name: Evengård, Birgitta
name: Koch, Anders
name: Berggren, Camilla
name: Malogolovkin, Alexander
name: Kolbasov, Denis
name: Pavelko, Nataly
name: Thierfelder, Tomas
name: Albihn, Ann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Terms used to form search strings. Terms used to form search strings in the literature search for studies on potential climate-sensitive infections (CSIs), listed in alphabetical groups.
Pseudonymised transcripts of interviews for PhD thesis "Fit for purpose? A new approach to evaluating the suitability of textbooks for the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language in the UK".
Creators: name: Chengqian Guo
Publisher: name: The University of Sheffield
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200311 Chinese Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: These data were collected for a PhD thesis Guo, Chengqian (2017) Fit for purpose? A new approach to evaluating the suitability of textbooks for the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language in the UK. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/19279
Data collection and analysis methods are detailed in the thesis.
Please send the author an email to request the use of the transcriptions. In the email, please provide personal informaion including full name, affiliation, email address and contact address.
Contact email: guoguo-mi@hotmail.com
On reconstruction algorithms for signals sparse in Hermite and Fourier domains
Creators: name: Brajovic, Milos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This thesis consists of original contributions in the area of digital signal processing. The reconstruction of signals sparse (highly concentrated) in various transform domains is the primary problem analyzed in the thesis. The considered domains include Fourier, discrete Hermite, one-dimensional and two-dimensional discrete cosine transform, as well as various time-frequency representations. Sparse signals are reconstructed using sparsity measures, being, in fact, the measures of signal concentration in the considered domains. The thesis analyzes the compressive sensing reconstruction algorithms and introduces new approaches to the problem at hand. The missing samples influence on analyzed transform domains is studied in detail, establishing the relations with the general compressive sensing theory. This study provides new insights on phenomena arising due to the reduced number of signal samples. The theoretical contributions involve new exact mathematical expressions which describe performance and outcomes of reconstruction algorithms, also including the study of the influence of additive noise, sparsity level and the number of available measurements on the reconstruction performance, exact expressions for reconstruction errors and error probabilities. Parameter optimization of the discrete Hermite transform is also studied, as well as the additive noise influence on Hermite coefficients, resulting in new parameter optimization and denoising algorithms. Additionally, an algorithm for the decomposition of multivariate multicomponent signals is introduced, as well as an instantaneous frequency estimation algorithm based on the Wigner distribution. Extensive numerical examples and experiments with real and synthetic data validate the presented theory and shed a new light on practical applications of the results.
description: Ph.D. thesis, 241 pages, in Montenegrin/Serbian
LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY TEAK CONSERVATION OF SRIBAUBAN SUB-DISTRICT, LAMPHUN PROVINCE, THAILAND
Creators: name: Revista de Literatura
Publisher: name: Revista de Literatura
Year: 2025

description: Purpose: This research aims to study teak resource management through community participation under the relationship between local people and forest communities to enhance teak resource conservation awareness in the target area.

 Research Method: Data collection methods included in-depth interviews, focus groups, observation, and training.

Findings: The results reveal that the first community forest occurred, Ban Thung Yao, is a forest revered for its traditional and belief that where there is water emerging from the underground there will be a sacred thing to take care and strictly forbidden to cut trees in the area. This belief system led to an agreement to conserve the forest together, with Ban Thung Yao community forest has become a leaning site about community forests, preserving community forests in terms of cultural beliefs, community involvement, community rules and is managed by the community itself. However, the teak wood outside this community forest has significantly decreased due to the worried about breaking the law, and the villagers shifted to planting other crops in their area such as longan.

Originality/value: To address these issues, the research proposed a framework for increasing the awareness and understanding for trek conservation among people in the community through training activities, with the goal of establishing a body of knowledge in preserving natural resources of teak forests. This involves developing a manual titled “Conservation of Teak Forest Resources” with the aims of enlightening the community about the long-term benefits of sustainable teak wood practices.
Book Reviews
Creators: name: Huang, Jikun
name: Alliston, John C.
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Alliston, John C.
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Books Reviewed include: Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989: The Collected Papers of Kenneth R. Walker (1931-1989) by Robert F. Ash; Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective by Brian Ilbury, Quentin Chiotti, and Timothy Rickard; A New Era for Irrigation
Earth effects on supernova neutrinos and their implications for neutrino parameters
Creators: name: Takahashi, K.
name: Sato, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a detailed study of the Earth matter effects on supernova neutrinos with neutrino oscillation parameter LMA and small $θ_{13}$. The Earth effects show significant dependences on the neutrino path length inside the Earth and the value of $Δm^{2}_{12}$. We investigate rather optimistically a possibility that we can probe the value of $Δm^{2}_{12}$ by the Earth effects. We assume that $θ_{12}$ and the direction of the supernova are known with enough accuracy and that the resonance that occurs at higher density in supernova envelope is completely nonadiabatic. Further the neutrino spectra before neutrinos go through the Earth are assumed to be known. Then we show that making use of these dependences, we can obtain implication for the value of $Δm^{2}_{12}$ by comparing the observed energy spectrum to the predicted one. When SK detects neutrinos from supernova at 10kpc which traveled through the Earth (nadir angle $
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, added some discussions
Mixing--Demixing Transition in Polymer-Grafted Spherical Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Yatsyshin, Peter
name: Fytas, Nikolaos G.
name: Theodorakis, Panagiotis E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) can provide property profiles than cannot be obtained individually by polymers or nanoparticles (NPs). Here, we have studied the mixing--demixing transition of symmetric copolymer melts of polymer-grafted spherical nanoparticles by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation and a theoretical mean-field model. We find that a larger size of NPs leads to higher stability for given number of grafted chains and chain length reaching a point where demixing is not possible. Most importantly, the increase in the number of grafted chains, $N_g$, can initially favour the phase separation of PGNPs, but further increase can lead to more difficult demixing. The reason is the increasing impact of an effective core that forms as the grafting density of the tethered polymer chains around the NPs increases. The range and exact values of $N_g$ where this change in behaviour takes place depends on the NP size and the chain length of the grafted polymer chains. Our study elucidates the phase behaviour of PGNPs and in particular the influence of the grafting density on the phase behaviour of the systems anticipating that it will open new doors in the understanding of these systems with implications in materials science and medicine.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, final version to be published in Soft Matter
Cuculiphilus (Cuculiphilus) fasciatus
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Cuculiphilus
Cuculiphilus fasciatus

description: Cuculiphilus (Cuculiphilus) fasciatus (Scopoli, 1763)
 Reports: [1] Touleshkov (1963); [2] Touleshkov (1964a); [3] Touleshkov (1974).
 Host: Cuculus canorus L. [1, 2, 3].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Bistritsa (Sofia Region), Kurilo (Sofia Region), Petrich [1]; Stara Zagora [2]; Ropot (Sofia Region) [3].
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
The r-Hunter-Saxton equation, smooth and singular solutions and their approximation
Creators: name: Cotter, Colin
name: Deasy, Jacob
name: Pryer, Tristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we introduce the r-Hunter-Saxton equation, a generalisation of the Hunter-Saxton equation arising as extremals of an action principle posed in L_r. We characterise solutions to the Cauchy problem, quantifying the blow-up time and studying various symmetry reductions. We construct piecewise linear functions and show that they are weak solutions to the r-Hunter-Saxton equation.
description: Revised after referee comments
The organization of agricultural research in western developed countries
Creators: name: Huffman, Wallace E.
name: Just, Richard E.
name: Huffman, Wallace E.
name: Just, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Agricultural science policy
subject: Research funding
subject: Agricultural research
subject: Developed countries
subject: Impure public goods
subject: Optimal decentralization
subject: Alliances
subject: Intellectual property rights
subject: New developments

description: This paper reviews agricultural research structural and organizational changes in western developed countries, examines new financing prospects for agricultural research, and provides some tentative conclusions about which organizations are best positioned to provide services for the twenty-first century. Given that these countries face many similar economic, political, scientific, and agroclimatic factors and fiscal issues, we can expect a set of similar new developments that have potentially important and widespread long-run implications. After three common developments are outlined, principles of impure public good financing are applied leading to the following agricultural science policy recommendations: (i) new political jurisdictions should be formed to finance research, e.g. new alliances across countries and subregions within large countries; (ii) intellectual property rights should be strengthened to increase the total amount and share of total (public and private) agricultural research that is privately financed and conducted, i.e. the private sector should find it profitable to undertake a large share of applied research but not be expected to finance public-sector agricultural research; and (iii) the public sector should redirect its research efforts increasingly to areas that are socially worthwhile, but not privately undertaken, e.g. in the basic and pretechnology areas, on environmental, resources, food safety and human nutrition, and policy. Finally, large countries that have developed a system of shared public and private financing and performance and decentralized public support of agricultural research seem best positioned for meeting the needs of the twenty-first century.© 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
On the continuity of the solution operator to the wave map system
Creators: name: D'Ancona, Piero
name: Georgiev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L70, 58J45

description: We investigate the continuity properties of the solution operator to the wave map system from the flat Minkowski space to a general nonflat target of arbitrary dimension, and we prove by an explicit class of counterexamples that this map is not uniformly continuous in the critical norms on any neighbourhood of zero.
Reflection on the Construction of Tropical and South Subtropical Agricultural Experimental Station CATAS(Jiangmen)
Creators: name: WEI, Shouxing
name: CHEN, Xiulong
name: QIN, Xindao
name: WEI, Shouxing
name: CHEN, Xiulong
name: QIN, Xindao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Tropical and South Subtropical Agricultural Comprehensive Experimental Station CATAS
subject: Construction thought
subject: Restrictive factors
subject: Countermeasures

description: This paper introduces the origin and progress of Tropical and South Subtropical Agricultural Comprehensive Experimental Station (hereinafter referred to as experimental station) CATAS (Jiangmen), formulates the thought for construction of experimental station, analyzes the restrictive factors and puts forward corresponding countermeasures in order to provide reference for the decision-making and implementation of constructing the experimental station.
QCD-Like Behaviour of High-Temperature Confining Strings
Creators: name: Diamantini, M. C.
name: Trugenberger, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, contrary to previous string models, the high-temperature behaviour of the recently proposed confining strings reproduces exactly the correct large-N QCD result, a {\it necessary} condition for any string model of confinement.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Extreme Poverty and Marginality in Bangladesh: Review of Extreme Poverty Focused Innovative Programmes
Creators: name: Zulfiqar, Ali
name: Mujeri, Mustafa
name: Badrun Nessa, Ahmed
name: Zulfiqar, Ali
name: Mujeri, Mustafa
name: Badrun Nessa, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Extreme Poverty
subject: Marginality and Innovative Program

description: Bangladesh has achieved notable progress in poverty reduction including reduction in extreme poverty since 1990. Still a good proportion of the people in the country are living in extreme poverty and suffering from various kinds of deprivation and marginalization. It is therefore important to look into the factors that are responsible for deprivation and marginalization and address them appropriately in order to help the extreme poor and the marginalized communities to overcome poverty. The majority of the anti-poverty programmes being implemented in the country suffer from a number of limitations, especially, with respect to addressing the needs and demands of the extreme poor groups and the marginalized communities. Given this context, it is critically important to have dedicated and innovative programmes to cater the needs of the extreme and marginalized people living in different areas in the country. Some innovations have already begun in respect of addressing extreme poverty and marginality in the country. This review of some of these programmes reveals that they have been successful in reaching and meeting the needs of the extreme poor households. However, given the fact that there are still a large number of extreme poor households who need support of this kind, efforts should be intensified to reach them and to bring them out of extreme poverty within the shortest possible time.
Cuculiphilus (Aegypiphilus) gypsis
Creators: name: Ilieva, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Cuculiphilus
Cuculiphilus gypsis

description: Cuculiphilus (Aegypiphilus) gypsis (Eichler, 1944)
 Report: [1] Touleshkov (1957).
 Host: Gyps fulvus (Hablizl) [1].
 Distribution in Bulgaria: Sofia Zoo, Varna [1].
description: Published as part of Ilieva, Mihaela, 2009, Checklist of the chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Bulgaria, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 2138 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2138.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5314302
Modified initial power spectrum and too big to fail problem
Creators: name: Kameli, Hamed
name: Baghram, Shant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The galactic scale challenges of dark matter such as "missing satellite" problem and "too big to fail" problem are the main caveats of standard model of cosmology. These challenges could be solved either by implementing the complicated baryonic physics or it could be considered as an indication to a new physics beyond the standard model of cosmology. The modification of collisionless dark matter models or the standard initial conditions are two promising venues for study. In this work, we investigate the effects of the deviations from scale invariant initial curvature power spectrum on number density of dark matter halos. We develop the non-Markov extension of the excursion set theory to calculate the number density of dark matter substructures and dark matter halo progenitor mass distribution. We show that the plausible solution to "too big to fail" problem could be obtained by a Gaussian excess in initial power in the scales of $k_* \sim 3 \text{h/Mpc}$ that is related to the mass scale of $M_* \sim 10^{11} M_{\odot}$. We show that this deviation leads to the decrement of dark matter sub-halos in galactic scale, which is consistent with the current status of the non-linear power spectrum. Our proposal also has a prediction that the number density of Milky way type galaxies must be higher than the standard case.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Final published version