cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Research Note: Impact of Gujarat’s Krishi Mahotsava (Agrarian Festival) Campaigns: Results of a Perception Survey of 1445 Farmers from 25 Districts
Creators: name: Shah, Tushaar
name: Pattnaik, Itishree
name: Bhatt, Sonal
name: Kopa, G.
name: Shah, Amita
name: Shah, Tushaar
name: Pattnaik, Itishree
name: Bhatt, Sonal
name: Kopa, G.
name: Shah, Amita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Krishi Mahotsava
subject: Agrarian festival
subject: Private input suppliers.

description: Since 2005, Government of Gujarat has been organising an annual, month-long, pre-monsoon Krishi Mahotsava (Agrarian Festival) campaign to expose farmers to new farming technologies and market opportunities, enhance their interaction with scientists and input suppliers, and improve their access to various government schemes. Krishi Mahotsava entails mobilisation of government machinery on a massive scale. But does it reach out to the farmer? This paper presents the results of a sample survey of 1445 farmers from across Gujarat to understand their perceptions about the Krishi Mahotsava campaign, its impact on them and their suggestions about how to enhance its usefulness to them.
Dishonouring the Australian Flag
Creators: name: Henckels, Caroline
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Dishonouring a nation’s flag, usually by way of burning, is a form of protest with provocative symbolism. The selective policing of flag use in Australia reveals much about the culture of flag veneration inculcated in Australian society during and since the Howard era. Flag burners have been arrested and prosecuted for the offences of disorderly and offensive behaviour, but those who have employed the flag in support of nationalistic or anti-immigration causes have not attracted such opprobrium. Yet, successive attempts to criminalise flag burning have never resulted in the enactment of flag protection legislation — in part on account of a desire on the part of conservative politicians not to martyrise flag burners, but also due to the vulnerability of such legislation to legal challenge for incompatibility with the implied freedom of political communication protected by the Constitution. High Court authority suggests that it would be difficult for such legislation to survive constitutional scrutiny unless the relevant provisions were narrowly tailored to welfare concerns such as public safety or public order, and that an objective of preventing offence cannot be a legitimate reason to suppress political communication.
Paralastor mackayensis Meade-Waldo
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Paralastor
Paralastor mackayensis

description: mackayensis Meade-Waldo
Elimus mackayensis Meade-Waldo 1910a: 39, female, male—“Mackay, N. Queensland ” (holotype female London, type no. 18.125); 1913: 45.— Bequaert 1928b: 150.— Giordani Soika 1969: 25, 63 (key), 64, figs. 33–34, 37 (Qld.: Brisbane).— Cardale 1985: 174 (cat.).— Borsato 2003: 534 (Qld.: Stradbroke I.).— Selis 2017a: 34 (key), 35 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Collisional Evolution of Galaxy Clusters and the Growth of Common Halos
Creators: name: Takahashi, K.
name: Sensui, T.
name: Funato, Y.
name: Makino, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the dynamical evolution of clusters of galaxies in virial equilibrium using Fokker-Planck models and self-consistent N-body models. In particular, we focused on the growth of a common halo, which is a cluster-wide halo formed by matter stripped from galaxies, and the development of a central density cusp. The Fokker-Planck models include the effects of two-body gravitational encounters both between galaxies and between galaxies and common halo particles. The effects of tidal mass stripping from the galaxies due to close galaxy-galaxy encounters and accompanying dissipation of the orbital kinetic energies of the galaxies were also taken into account in the Fokker-Planck models. We find that the results of the Fokker-Planck models are in excellent agreement with those of the N-body models regarding the growth of the common halo mass and the evolution of the cluster density profiles. In the central region of the cluster, a shallow density cusp, approximated by $ρ(r) \propto r^{-α}$ ($α\sim$ 1), develops. This shallow cusp results from the combined effects of two-body relaxation and tidal stripping. The cusp steepness, $α$, weakly depends on the relative importance of the tidal stripping. When the effect of stripping is important, the central velocity dispersion decreases as the central density increases and, consequently, a shallow ($α<2$) cusp is formed. In the limit of no stripping, usual gravothermal core collapse occurs, i.e. the central velocity dispersion increases as the central density increases with a steep ($α>2$) cusp left. We conclude from our consideration of the origin of the cusp demonstrated here that shallow cusps should develop in real galaxy clusters.
description: revised, 21 pages, 16 figures, to appear in PASJ, 54, No.1 (2002)
Protest Law and the First World War: The Case of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Creators: name: Gray, Stephen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Performance evaluation of a silicon strip detector for positrons/electrons from a pulsed a muon beam
Creators: name: Aoyagi, T.
name: Honda, Y.
name: Ikeda, H.
name: Ikeno, M.
name: Kawagoe, K.
name: Kohriki, T.
name: Kume, T.
name: Mibe, T.
name: Namba, K.
name: Nishimura, S.
name: Saito, N.
name: Sasaki, O.
name: Sato, N.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Sendai, H.
name: Shimomura, K.
name: Shirabe, S.
name: Shoji, M.
name: Suda, T.
name: Suehara, T.
name: Takatomi, T.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tojo, J.
name: Tsukada, K.
name: Uchida, T.
name: Ushizawa, T.
name: Wauke, H.
name: Yamanaka, T.
name: Yoshioka, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-intensity pulsed muon beam is becoming available at the at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Many experiments to study fundamental physics using this high-intensity muon beam are proposed. An experiment to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly ($g-2$) and the muon electric dipole moment (EDM) is one of these experiments and it requires a tracking detector for positrons from muon decay. Fine segmentation is required in a detector to tolerate the high rate of positrons. The time resolution is required to be much better than the muon anomalous spin precession period while a buffer depth of a front-end electronics needs to be much longer than the accelerated muon lifetime. Requirements of this detector also meet requirements of a measurement of the muonium hyperfine structure interval at the J-PARC and another experiment to measure the proton charge radius at Tohoku University. We have developed a single-sided silicon strip sensor with a 190 $μ$m pitch, a front-end electronics with a sampling rate of 200 MHz and a buffer memory depth of 8192, and a data acquisition system based on DAQ-Middleware for the J-PARC muon $g-2$/EDM experiment. We have fabricated detector modules consisting of this sensor and the front-end electronics. Performance of fabricated detector modules was evaluated at a laboratory and a beam test using the positron beam at Tohoku University. The detector is confirmed to satisfy all requirements of the experiments except for the time walk, which will be solved by the next version of a front-end electronics.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures
Ramming Speed': The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Law of Protest
Creators: name: Nagtzaam, Gerry
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper examines the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a radical environmental protest group in its self-appointed role in protecting oceanic life. It first briefly examines the group’s history, its attitude to direct protest, its governing philosophy and its attitudes to violence as a means of achieving its goals. It then provides a history of various direct actions carried out by the group: in particular, it examines the organisation’s ongoing confrontations with the Japanese whaling fleet. The paper goes on to critically evaluate the legal justifications claimed by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for its actions. In particular it assesses the group’s conduct under various international law of the sea conventions and instruments, including the controversy as to whether its activities constitute vigilantism and/or piracy. Lastly, the paper concludes by asking whether Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s methods have become counterproductive to its stated goals.
Research Note: Factors Affecting the Price of Bullocks in the Organised Cattle Fairs of Rajasthan
Creators: name: Das, Goutam
name: Jain, D.K.
name: Das, Goutam
name: Jain, D.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cattle fairs
subject: Livestock marketing
subject: Bullock pricing.

description: Transaction of different kinds of livestock species through the state level organised cattle fairs has been a long tradition in Rajasthan. Cattle bullocks constitute a major portion of animal transaction in the cattle fairs. In the present study an attempt has been made to analyse the different quantitative and qualitative factors affecting the price of bullocks. The study revealed that quantitative factors such as age, general appearance and body capacity and qualitative factors such as breed, inauspicious marks and training had significant impact on the price of bullocks in the cattle fairs. The study further revealed the importance of better health, housing and feeding management practices for obtaining the maximum price for bullocks. Government should take more initiatives for conservation and breeding of the famous Nagori bullock known for its excellent draft capacity.
Ischnocoelia Perkins
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia

description: Genus Ischnocoelia Perkins
Ischnocoelia Perkins 1908: 28, 32, genus.
Type species: Ischnocoelia xanthochroma Perkins 1908, by monotypy.
Taxonomy: Perkins 1912: 118 (distinct from Elimus).— Meade-Waldo 1913: 44; 1914: 459 (syn.: Stenolabus von Schulthess).— Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (key to genera of Discoeliinae).— Giordani Soika 1969: 66 (key to species).— Cardale 1985: 177–179 (cat.).
Stenolabus von Schulthess 1910: 189, genus [“ Stenolabus Saussure in litt. nov. gen.”].
Type species: Stenolabus fulvus von Schulthess 1910, by subsequent designation of Carpenter 1986: 72.
Distribution: Australia.
Ethology: The nest of one species has been reported, I. ferruginea (as Discoelius ecclesiasticus); it consists of a burrow in a vertical bank; the vertical cells are separated by masticated leaf material mixed with soil; prey: caterpillars of the family Geometridae.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Book Reviews
Creators: name: Narayanamoorthy, A.
name: Mujumdar, N.A.
name: Narayanamoorthy, A.
name: Mujumdar, N.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Economic Liberalisation and Indian Agriculture: A District-level Study, G.S. Bhalla and Gurmail Singh, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, Pp.xxx + 360. Rs. 795.00. Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy 2012. Pp.xvi+78. Improving Water Use Efficiency: New Directions for Water Management in India, Richard Ackermann included in the volume Transforming Indian Agriculture – India 2040: Productivity, Markets and Institutions, Edited by Marco Ferroni, 2013, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2013 Pp.xxii + 357. Rs. 995.00. “Application of Frontier Technologies for Agricultural Development”, P.S. Birthal, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 68, No. 1, January-March 2013, pp.20-38.
Interjet Energy Flow/Event Shape Correlations
Creators: name: Berger, Carola F.
name: Kucs, Tibor
name: Sterman, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify a class of perturbatively computable measures of interjet energy flow, which can be associated with well-defined color flow at short distances. As an illustration, we calculate correlations between event shapes and the flow of energy, Q_Omega, into an interjet angular region, Omega, in high-energy two-jet e^+e^- -annihilation events. Laplace transforms with respect to the event shapes suppress states with radiation at intermediate energy scales, so that we may compute systematically logarithms of interjet energy flow. This method provides a set of predictions on energy radiated between jets, as a function of event shape and of the choice of the region Omega in which the energy is measured. Non-global logarithms appear as corrections. We apply our method to a continuous class of event shapes.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Based on talk given by C.F. Berger at TH-2002, International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Theme 2: "QCD, Hadron dynamics, etc.", Paris, France, 2002. Slight changes to text, reference added
Sequence to Sequence Neural Speech Synthesis with Prosody Modification Capabilities
Creators: name: Shechtman, Slava
name: Sorin, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural vocoder. The generated speech prosody (i.e. phoneme durations, pitch and loudness) is implicitly present in the acoustic features, being mixed with spectral information. Although the speech sounds natural, its prosody realization is randomly chosen and cannot be easily altered. The prosody control becomes an even more difficult task if no prosodic labeling is present in the training data. Recently, much progress has been achieved in unsupervised speaking style learning and generation, however human inspection is still required after the training for discovery and interpretation of the speaking styles learned by the system. In this work we introduce a fully automatic method that makes the system aware of the prosody and enables sentence-wise speaking pace and expressiveness control on a continuous scale. While being useful by itself in many applications, the proposed prosody control can also improve the overall quality and expressiveness of the synthesized speech, as demonstrated by subjective listening evaluations. We also propose a novel augmented attention mechanism, that facilitates better pace control sensitivity and faster attention convergence.
description: published at 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW-10, 2019)
Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry
Creators: name: Blau, Matthias
name: Figueroa-O'Farrill, Jose
name: Hull, Christopher
name: Papadopoulos, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the maximally supersymmetric pp-waves of IIB superstring and M-theories can be obtained as a Penrose limit of the supersymmetric AdS x S solutions. In addition we find that in a certain large tension limit, the geometry seen by a brane probe in an AdS x S background is either Minkowski space or a maximally supersymmetric pp-wave.
description: 12 pages, v2: references added
Additional file 3 of New insights into the Manila clam and PAMPs interaction based on RNA-seq analysis of clam through in vitro challenges with LPS, PGN, and poly(I:C)
Creators: name: Jiang, Kunyin
name: Nie, Hongtao
name: Li, Dongdong
name: Yan, Xiwu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) assignment of unigenes in the transcriptome of R. philippinarum after LPS, PGN, poly(I:C) injection.
Podoprionella Sars 1895
Creators: name: Stoddart, H. E.
name: Lowry, J. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Opisidae
Podoprionella

description: Key to species of Podoprionella
1. Gnathopod 1 chelate, propodus subrectangular, palm smooth; uropod 3 inner ramus at least half as long as outer ramus............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
– Gnathopod 1 subchelate, palm almost transverse, propodus subquadrate, palm serrate; uropod 3 inner ramus vestigial................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
 2. Mandibular palp articles 2 and 3 subequal; telson distally incised......................................................... P. fissicaudata
 – Mandibular palp article 2 much longer than article 3; telson entire.......................................................... P. norvegica
 3. Maxilla 1 outer plate setal teeth of outer row with 2 rows of cusps; gnathopod 1 propodus posterodistal corner produced into an acute spine.................................................................................................................... P. dagadugaban
 – Maxilla 1 outer plate setal teeth of outer row with 1 row of cusps; gnathopod 1 propodus posterodistal corner produced into a blunt, distally expanded knob-like spine...................................................................................... P. bulla
description: Published as part of Stoddart, H. E. & Lowry, J. K., 2010, The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australasian waters, pp. 22-38 in Zootaxa 2479 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2634.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10094183
Let the Asylum Seekers Stay: Strengths and Weaknesses of Church Sanctuary as a Strategy for Law Reform
Creators: name: Azadeh Dastyari
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In response to the decision of the High Court of Australia in Plaintiff M68/2015 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2016) 257 CLR 42, over 120 churches from nine denominations around Australia began offering refugees and asylum seekers, at risk of being transferred to Nauru, physical protection from removal by Australian authorities and sanctuary in church buildings. This paper provides an analysis of the offer of church sanctuary in 2016 by Australian churches as a strategy for law reform. The offer of church sanctuary in 2016 should be seen as a partial success because it contributed to a number of asylum seekers and refugees being spared return to extraterritorial processing facilities. The success enjoyed by churches was due to the legitimacy derived from the theological and historical roots of the concept of sanctuary and the standing of churches in Australian society. Although churches were not successful in ending Australia’s extraterritorial processing regime, they continue to be engaged in resistance to Australian refugee law and policy. It is thus too early to determine if they can contribute to more substantive law reform in the long term.
Anti-Abortion Protest and the Effectiveness of Victoria's Safe Access Zones: An Analysis
Creators: name: Ronli Sifris;Tania Penovic
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Demand for food away from home in Slovakia
Creators: name: Pokrivcak, Jan
name: Cupak, Andrej
name: Rizov, Marian
name: Pokrivcak, Jan
name: Cupak, Andrej
name: Rizov, Marian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Double-hurdle model
subject: elasticity
subject: food away from home
subject: Slovakia

description: We analyse demand for food away from home (FAFH) in Slovakia by double-hurdle model from the Household Budget Survey data covering period 2004-2010. Results reveal an increasing trend in food away from home expenditure between the two periods with a considerable heterogeneity among different household types. The estimated income elasticities of FAFH in Slovakia also differ among different household groups. For example, single person households perceive out of home eating as a necessity. On the other hand, households consisting of multiple adults without children, single parent with children, and traditional families with parents and children perceive eating out of home as a luxury. FAFH in Slovakia differs substantially between regions as well as between the annual seasons. Slovak households appear to have higher demand for FAFH in western regions and during the winter season. An important feature of the applied household model is to measure the effect of wife’s opportunity costs regarding the food preparation at home. Results reveal the fact that households with employed wife have significantly higher expenditure on FAFH than unemployed (housekeeping) wife.
Lorentz-Invariant Non-Commutative QED
Creators: name: Morita, Katsusada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lorentz-invariant non-commutative QED (NCQED) is constructed such that it should be a part of Lorentz-invariant non-commutative standard model (NCSM), a subject to be treated in later publications. Our NCSM is based on Connes' observation that the total fermion field in the standard model may be regarded as a bi-module over a flavor-color algebra. In this paper, it is shown that there exist two massless gauge fields in NCQED which are interchanged by $C'$ transformation. Since $C'$ is reduced to the conventional charge conjugation $C$ in the commutative limit, the two gauge fields become identical to the photon field in the same limit, which couples to only four spinors with charges $\pm 2,\pm 1.$ Following Carlson-Carone-Zobin, our NCQED respects Lorentz invariance employing Doplicher-Fredenhagen-Roberts' algebra instead of the usual algebra with constant $θ^{μν}$. In the new version $θ^{μν}$ becomes an integration variable. We show using a simple NC scalar model that the $θ$ integration gives an {\it invariant} damping factor instead of the oscillating one to the nonplanar self-energy diagram in the one-loop approximation. Seiberg-Witten map shows that the $θ$ expansion of NCQED generates exotic but well-motivated derivative interactions beyond QED with allowed charges being only $0, \pm 1, \pm 2$.
description: LaTeX file, 27 pages
A Hybrid Approach and Unified Framework for Bibliographic Reference Extraction
Creators: name: Rizvi, Syed Tahseen Raza
name: Dengel, Andreas
name: Ahmed, Sheraz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Publications are an integral part in a scientific community. Bibliographic reference extraction from scientific publication is a challenging task due to diversity in referencing styles and document layout. Existing methods perform sufficiently on one dataset however, applying these solutions to a different dataset proves to be challenging. Therefore, a generic solution was anticipated which could overcome the limitations of the previous approaches. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, it presents a novel approach called DeepBiRD which is inspired by human visual perception and exploits layout features to identify individual references in a scientific publication. Second, we release a large dataset for image-based reference detection with 2401 scans containing 38863 references, all manually annotated for individual reference. Third, we present a unified and highly configurable end-to-end automatic bibliographic reference extraction framework called BRExSys which employs DeepBiRD along with state-of-the-art text-based models to detect and visualize references from a bibliographic document. Our proposed approach pre-processes the images in which a hybrid representation is obtained by processing the given image using different computer vision techniques. Then, it performs layout driven reference detection using Mask R-CNN on a given scientific publication. DeepBiRD was evaluated on two different datasets to demonstrate the generalization of this approach. The proposed system achieved an AP50 of 98.56% on our dataset. DeepBiRD significantly outperformed the current state-of-the-art approach on their dataset. Therefore, suggesting that DeepBiRD is significantly superior in performance, generalized, and independent of any domain or referencing style.
Environmental effects in galaxies: Molecular Gas, Star Formation, and Activity
Creators: name: de Mello, Duilia F.
name: Wiklind, Tommy
name: Maia, Marcio A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to study whether there is any correlation between nuclear activities, gas content, and the environment where galaxies reside, we have obtained optical and millimetric spectra for a well-defined sample of intermediate Hubble type spirals in dense environments and in the field. We found that these spirals in dense environments have on average: less molecular gas per blue luminosity, higher atomic gas fraction, lower current star formation rate, and the same star formation efficiency as field galaxies. Although none of these results stand out as a single strong diagnostic, given their statistical significance, taken together they indicate a trend for diminished gas content and star formation activity in galaxies in high density environments. Our results suggest that galaxies in dense environments have either (i) consumed their molecular gas via star formation in the past or (ii) that dense environments leads to an inhibition of molecular gas from atomic phase. The similarities in star formation efficiency of the dense environments and field galaxies suggest that the physical processes controling the formation of stars from the molecular gas are local rather than global. We also found that star formation rate per blue luminosity increases linearly as the total amount of gas increases in LINERs. This result, based on a small sample, suggests that LINERs are powered by star formation rather than an AGN.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, A&A accepted
An examination of demographic differences in obtaining investment and financial planning information
Creators: name: Bechly, Paul L
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Financial literacy and financial education are important components of modern life. The importance of financial literacy is increasing for financial consumers because of the weakening of both government and employer-based retirement systems. Unfortunately, empirical research shows that financial consumers are not fully informed and are not able to make proper choices even when appropriate information is available. More research is needed as to how financial consumers obtain investment and financial planning information. A primary data study was conducted to understand the differences between the demographic categories of gender, age, education-level, and income-level with the means of obtaining investment and financial planning information. In this research study, which selected a population from the LinkedIn platform, statistical differences between gender, age, education-level, and income-level were confirmed. These differences helped to confirm prior research in this field of study. Practical opportunities for commercial outreach to specific populations became evident through this type of research. Providers of investment and financial planning information can access their targeted audience more effectively by understanding the demographic profile of the audience, as well as the propensity of the demographic profile of the audience to respond. As this type of research is relatively easy to construct and administer, commercial outreach for providers of investment and financial planning information can be conducted in a cost-efficient and effective manner.
description: Paul L Bechly - DBA Dissertation Defense Presentation - Wilmington University - February 26, 2018
Household food security and consumption patterns in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of Slovakia
Creators: name: Pokrivcak, Jan
name: Cupak, Andrej
name: Rizov, Marian
name: Pokrivcak, Jan
name: Cupak, Andrej
name: Rizov, Marian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food security
subject: demand
subject: QUAIDS
subject: elasticity
subject: diet diversity
subject: Slovakia

description: We investigate the food security situation of Slovak households in terms of both access to food and quality of the diet consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data over the period 2004-2010. In most samples demand for meat and fish and fruits and vegetables is expenditure and own-price elastic. On average all five food groups investigated are found to be normal goods. Rural and low-income households appear more expenditure and price sensitive compared to the urban and high-income ones. Results from quantile regressions indicate that income has a positive while uncertainty has a negatively effect on the diversity of the diet as the effects are stronger in more vulnerable, low income and rural consumer subsamples. Overall the food security situation in Slovakia appears to have improved over time, since the country’s EU accession.
Ischnocoelia chlorotica Giordani Soika 1993
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia chlorotica

description: chlorotica Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia chlorotica Giordani Soika 1993b: 125, male, female—“ Northern Territory: 54 Km E Yulara” (holotype male stated to be in Los Angeles [recte Canberra]).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 71 (list).— Borsato 2003: 514, fig. 1 (W. A.: “(18.53S.— 123.43E.) 186 km SE by E Broome,” “(l 8.55S.— 123.14E) 150 km SE by E Broome,” “ 16 km W of Lyons River HS (24.38S.— 115.20E),” “ 10 km ESE Meedo HS (25.40S.— 114.37E),” “ 36 km NNE of Neale Junction (28.03S.— 126.02E)”).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Untying knots in 4D and Wedderburn's Theorem
Creators: name: Nikolaev, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16P10, 57Q45

description: It is proved that the Wedderburn Theorem on finite division rings implies that all knots and links in the smooth 4-dimensional manifolds are trivial.
description: 4 pages; to appear Communications in Algebra
Podoprionides Walker 1906
Creators: name: Stoddart, H. E.
name: Lowry, J. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Opisidae
Podoprionides

description: Key to species of Podoprionides
 1. Gnathopod 1 carpus posterior margin produced into a broad triangular lobe; epimeron 3 posteroventral corner quadrate; uropod 3 peduncle subequal to rami........................................................................................... P. moonamoona
– Gnathopod 1 carpus posterior margin curved, not produced into a lobe; epimeron 3 posteroventral corner rounded; uropod 3 peduncle shorter than rami............................................................................................................................ 2
 2. Maxilla 1 palp apically serrate, without robust setae; telson deeply cleft (about 80%)................................. P. incerta
 – Maxilla 1 palp not apically serrate, with small robust setae; telson moderately cleft (about 62%)............. P. akantha
description: Published as part of Stoddart, H. E. & Lowry, J. K., 2010, The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australasian waters, pp. 22-38 in Zootaxa 2479 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2634.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10094183
Holography and Quaternionic Taub-NUT
Creators: name: Zoubos, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a concrete application of the holographic correspondence to manifolds which are only asymptotically Anti-de Sitter, we take a closer look at the quaternionic Taub-NUT space. This is a four dimensional, non-compact, inhomogeneous, riemannian manifold with the interesting property of smoothly interpolating between two symmetric spaces, AdS_4 itself and the coset SU(2,1)/U(2). Even more interesting is the fact that the scalar curvature of the induced conformal structure at the boundary (corresponding to a squashed three-sphere) changes sign as we interpolate between these two limiting cases. Using twistor methods, we construct the bulk-to-bulk and bulk-to-boundary propagators for conformally coupled scalars on quaternionic Taub-NUT. This may eventually enable us to calculate correlation functions in the dual strongly coupled CFT on a squashed S^3 using the standard AdS/CFT prescription.
description: 1+36 pages, no figures. Some minor typos corrected
Mind the Gap: Is the Regulation of Work-Integrated Learning in Higher Education Working?
Creators: name: Hewitt, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Many students feel that they are caught in a catch-22: they cannot gain work experience because they cannot find a job, but they cannot secure a job without having work experience. Consequently, opportunities to gain experience while studying, including work-integrated learning (‘WIL’) associated with university study, are becoming increasingly important, and the position of students undertaking work experience increasingly vulnerable. Students who wish to engage in WIL face a range of challenges, including accessing quality opportunities, maximising the learning benefits they can obtain from the experience, and ensuring they are treated appropriately within the workplace. Consideration of these issues indicates that the regulation of WIL is both complicated and fractured, not least because WIL may be envisaged as either ‘work’ or ‘learning’ — each of which is regulated by different actors through different regulatory schemes and with different objectives. This article introduces the concept of WIL, identifies some of the reasons for its rapid growth in the tertiary sector in recent years, and considers the ways it is regulated in Australia. It argues that, as a consequence of the gaps and lack of transparency in the current regulatory approach, the law is complicit in maintaining the precarious position of students trying to enter the workforce. Failing to extend protections against discrimination and harassment to those engaged in WIL, and failing to provide a sufficiently consistent or transparent regime to ensure educational quality, compound students’ existing vulnerability. This is contrasted with the regulatory systems in other countries, notably France, which offer protections to workplace learners against exploitation and seek to ensure educational outcomes.
Estimating the economic value of the national cultivar trials in South Africa: A case for sorghum, sunflower, soybeans and dry beans
Creators: name: Dlamini, Thula Sizwe
name: Magingxa, Litha
name: Liebenberg, Frikkie
name: Dlamini, Thula Sizwe
name: Magingxa, Litha
name: Liebenberg, Frikkie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: cultivars
subject: evaluation
subject: benefits
subject: costs
subject: MIRR

description: This study assesses the economic impacts of the national cultivar trials in South Africa over the period 1978 - 2012. The study uses experimental yield data to estimate the yield losses that have been prevented by providing farmers with information that has facilitated the selection of adapted cultivars on their localities. Using attribution methods, the study estimates the contribution of the programme to yield growth, along a range of assumed plausible yield gain estimates attributable to the trials. It finds that the yield benefits are equivalent to 13.10kg and 7.67kg for sunflower and sorghum output per hectare per year, respectively, whilst the soybean and dry bean trials contributed yields equivalent to 16.42 kg and 17.13 kg per hectare per year, respectively, at the assumed plausible yield gain estimate attributable to the trials of 5 percent. In present value terms, the estimated total economic benefits that have accrued to South Africa over the period 1978 – 2012 amounted to R200 million in 2012 prices, which is equivalent to 4 percent of the total gross value of production for these crops in 2012. Of these benefits, about R23.2 million came from the evaluation of sunflower cultivars, R84.7 million from dry beans, R85. 7 million from soybeans and R6.6 million from the evaluation of sorghum cultivars. Overall, the results imply a benefit-cost ratio of 1.90, using a real discount rate of 7.8% per annum and a modified internal rate of return of 16% per annum. These results confirm that investment in the national cultivar trials at the ARC has been a profitable undertaking for South Africa and that continuing with the trials would be justified.
Dynamics of many-body photon bound states in chiral waveguide QED
Creators: name: Mahmoodian, Sahand
name: Calajó, Giuseppe
name: Chang, Darrick E.
name: Hammerer, Klemens
name: Sørensen, Anders S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the few- and many-body dynamics of photons in chiral waveguides. In particular, we examine pulse propagation through a system of $N$ two-level systems chirally coupled to a waveguide. We show that the system supports correlated multi-photon bound states, which have a well-defined photon number $n$ and propagate through the system with a group delay scaling as $1/n^2$. This has the interesting consequence that, during propagation, an incident coherent state pulse breaks up into different bound state components that can become spatially separated at the output in a sufficiently long system. For sufficiently many photons and sufficiently short systems, we show that linear combinations of $n$-body bound states recover the well-known phenomenon of mean-field solitons in self-induced transparency. For longer systems, however, the solitons break apart through quantum correlated dynamics. Our work thus covers the entire spectrum from few-photon quantum propagation, to genuine quantum many-body (atom and photon) phenomena, and ultimately the quantum-to-classical transition. Finally, we demonstrate that the bound states can undergo elastic scattering with additional photons. Together, our results demonstrate that photon bound states are truly distinct physical objects emerging from the most elementary light-matter interaction between photons and two-level emitters. Our work opens the door to studying quantum many-body physics and soliton physics with photons in chiral waveguide QED.
description: Updated with new results. 14 pages plus supplementary material
Alternative food networks and local markets: determinants of consumers’ choices between conventional and farmers’ stands
Creators: name: Novelli, Silvia
name: Corsi, Alessandro
name: Novelli, Silvia
name: Corsi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Alternative Food Networks
subject: direct purchase
subject: consumers’ choices

description: Direct purchases are a widespread and important typology of the so-called Alternative Food Networks. Within this channel, farmers’ markets represent a popular and deeply investigated farmer-to-consumer market segment. While farmers’ markets are a quite recent initiatives, it is traditional to find in many towns in Italy both conventional stands and farmers’ stands selling fruit and vegetables in the same district market. We therefore analyse the behavioural characteristics of local market consumers choosing to purchase from farmers in order to point out the determinants of their choice. The consumers’ preferences were assessed through an in-person survey. Data were collected interviewing consumers in open-air markets in Torino, Cuneo, Alessandria and Asti, four cities in Piedmont Region (Italy) where farmers sell their products. The determinants of the choice to buy from farm stands were analysed with a probit model using a final sample of 1,138 respondents. Explanatory variables comprise the consumers’ general attitudes towards the purchase of food (importance given to convenience, price, quality and trust) and their personal characteristics. Also, other variables were added in order to highlight the possible role of markets and areas with distinctive characteristics. The most important factor affecting consumers’ choice for farm stand is the quest for quality. Consumers with a strong interest in quality are significantly more likely to buy from farmers. Among the personal characteristics, being the household member in charge of buying fruits and vegetables, and education, are the main determinants of the choice of farmers’ stands. On the contrary, the effects of variables such as income and job skill level are not clear enough,and seem to be open to different interpretations.
Additional file 1 of Diagnostic value of circulating genetically abnormal cells to support computed tomography for benign and malignant pulmonary nodules
Creators: name: Yang, Han
name: Chen, Hongjie
name: Zhang, Guorui
name: Li, Hongyi
name: Ni, Ran
name: Yu, Yali
name: Zhang, Yepeng
name: Wu, Yongjun
name: Liu, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
INTELLEKTUAL MULK HUQUQI SOHASIDA SUN'IY INTELLEKTNING O'RNI
Creators: name: Mahmudova, Muxlisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu tezisda intellektual mulk huquqi sohasida sun'iy intellektning o'rni tahlil qilinadi. Sun'iy intellekt texnologiyalarining intellektual mulk yaratish, boshqarish va himoya qilish jarayonlaridagi roli oʻrganiladi. Tezisda sun’iy intellekt texnologiyalarining intellektual mulk obyektlariga ta'siri, huquqiy muammolar va xalqaro tajriba asosida masalalar koʻrib chiqiladi. Shuningdek, O'zbekistonda sun’iy intellekt bilan bog'liq huquqiy mexanizmlar va takliflar taqdim etiladi va sun'iy intellektni intellektual mulk huquqiga moslashtirish uchun zarur chora-tadbirlar keltiriladi.
Green payment and agroforestry landscape: cost-benefit analysis in the territory of Teverina
Creators: name: Cortigiani, Raffaele
name: Tantari, Antonella
name: Cortigiani, Raffaele
name: Tantari, Antonella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: greening payments
subject: sustainability
subject: cost/benefit analysis
subject: contingent valuation

description: Green payment (or greening) is one of the main aspect of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020. With this instrument continues the process started especially with the Fischler reform in order to justify public spending, ensuring the first pillar payments to farmers producing public goods. Regarding the agroforestry landscape, the greening in several territories, especially those in inner and hilly areas, will maintain the current characteristics such as the simultaneous presence of different crops, including pasture, forest and landscape features. The effectiveness of greening in terms of benefits and costs is one of the most interesting aspects to be analyzed, considering the application rules and the financial budget of this environmental instrument. In this study has been carried out a cost-benefit analysis in an territory called Teverina. The benefits of agroforestry landscape were evaluated using the Contingent Valuation Method. The main results show a ratio of benefits-costs that seems to justify public spending to maintain the current landscape. In conclusion, the analysis shows that the greening is in accordance to the new objectives of the CAP and in general to those of Europe 2020 strategy, with several negative aspects that are discussed.
The Potential Economic Gains from Increasing Public Law Enforcement against Illegal Phoenix Activity
Creators: name: Hedges, Jasper
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Illegal phoenix activity — the practice of liquidating or abandoning acompany with the intention of avoiding its obligations and then continuing the same or a similar business via a new or related company — is estimated to cost the Australian economy up to $3.5 billion per year and appears tobe increasingly prevalent. Yet public law enforcement agencies rarely take enforcement action against illegal phoenix activity. This article argues that, based on an analysis of the potential costs and benefits of increasing public law enforcement against illegal phoenix activity, enforcement should be increased, subject to periodic review. Empirical studies suggest that the aspects of enforcement that are most likely to produce general deterrence of wrongdoing are the perceived probability of apprehension (ie detection and commencement of enforcement action) and, to a lesser extent, the perceived probability of punishment (ie a sanction being imposed at the conclusion of enforcement action). As such, it is argued that enforcement agencies should increase the probability of apprehensionand punishment and use the media more innovatively to heighten potential perpetrators’ perceptions of such probability. Given the reportedly substantial and escalating costs of illegal phoenix activity, this increase in enforcement has the potential to be a high-return investment for the Australian economy.