cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sneutrino Production at e+e- Linear Colliders: Addendum to Slepton Production
Creators: name: Freitas, A.
name: von Manteuffel, A.
name: Zerwas, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complementing the preceding study of charged scalar leptons, the sector of the neutral scalar leptons, sneutrinos, is investigated in a high-precision analysis for future e+e- linear colliders. The theoretical predictions for the cross-sections are calculated at the thresholds for non-zero widths and in the continuum including higher-order corrections at the one-loop level. Methods for measuring the sneutrino masses and the electron-sneutrino-gaugino Yukawa couplings are presented, addressing theoretical problems specific for the sneutrino channels.
description: 21 pp, Addendum to Eur.Phys.J. C34 (2004) 487-512 [hep-ph/0310182], Version to appear in Eur.Phys.J. C
Additional file 2 of Pro-inflammatory cytokine ratios determine the clinical course of febrile neutropenia in children receiving chemotherapy
Creators: name: Siegmund, Mira
name: Pagel, Julia
name: Scholz, Tasja
name: Rupp, Jan
name: Härtel, Christoph
name: Lauten, Melchior
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2:. Supplemental Table 1.
Noise thresholds for optical quantum computers
Creators: name: Dawson, Christopher M.
name: Haselgrove, Henry L.
name: Nielsen, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we numerically investigate the fault-tolerant threshold for optical cluster-state quantum computing. We allow both photon loss noise and depolarizing noise (as a general proxy for all local noise), and obtain a threshold region of allowed pairs of values for the two types of noise. Roughly speaking, our results show that scalable optical quantum computing is possible for photon loss probabilities less than 0.003, and for depolarization probabilities less than 0.0001.
description: 4 pages
The Price of Disclosure in the Thoroughbred Yearling Market
Creators: name: Plant, Emily J.
name: Stowe, C. Jill
name: Plant, Emily J.
name: Stowe, C. Jill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: asymmetric information
subject: mandatory disclosure
subject: voluntary disclosure
subject: Thoroughbred industry
subject: auction

description: In this paper, we examine the effects of disclosure of information on market price using Thoroughbred yearling auction data. We find that disclosures do not influence price in a segment of the auction in which quality certification is available, and consequently, the data suggest that sellers “over-disclose” in this segment of the market. However, among non-certified yearlings, we find evidence that some types of disclosures provide valuable information to buyers. Moreover, when estimating the average market value of disclosures, results suggest that some types of information are highly costly to sellers in terms of discounted prices.
description: Cover page and poster
Energy and development in developing countries
Creators: name: Curd, Natalie
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This research aimed to look at the relationship between energy use and development in developing countries, to establish thresholds of energy provision for policy makers. An extensive literature review provided the basis of knowledge for the analysis in this study. Pearson correlations coefficients in this study were used to find the strength of the relationship between energy use per capita, and various indicators of development, including education, population (including urbanisation), infrastructure, health and gross domestic product, in a sample of 12 representative countries (7 developing, 5 developed). The strongest relationships between energy and the indicators were found in developing countries, and in particular between both urban population and energy use per capita, and under 5 mortality rates and energy use per capita. Indicating that energy use per capita is most strongly influenced by urbanisation, and increased in energy use per capita is related strongly to decreased under 5 mortality rates. The threshold analysis in this report found a general trend in data, which showed that countries with energy use per capita of 600kg of oil equivalent or more were able to meet the majority of basic human needs. Therefore this is seen as the target amount of energy per capita, which should be achieved in order to create an enabling environment for development......
Multiple chiral bands in $^{137}$Nd
Creators: name: Petrache, C. M.
name: Lv, B. F.
name: Chen, Q. B.
name: Meng, J.
name: Astier, A.
name: Dupont, E.
name: Zheng, K. K.
name: Greenlees, P. T.
name: Badran, H.
name: Calverley, T.
name: Cox, D. M.
name: Grahn, T.
name: Hilton, J.
name: Julin, R.
name: Juutinen, S.
name: Konki, J.
name: Pakarinen, J.
name: Papadakis, P.
name: Partanen, J.
name: Rahkila, P.
name: Ruotsalainen, P.
name: Sandzelius, M.
name: Saren, J.
name: Scholey, C.
name: Sorri, J.
name: Stolze, S.
name: Uusitalo, J.
name: Cederwall, B.
name: Ertoprak, A.
name: Liu, H.
name: Guo, S.
name: Wang, J. G.
name: Zhou, X. H.
name: Kuti, I.
name: Timar, J.
name: Tucholski, A.
name: Srebrny, J.
name: Andreoiu, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two new bands have been identified in $^{137}$Nd from a high-statistics JUROGAM II gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment. Constrained density functional theory and particle rotor model calculations are used to assign configurations and investigate the band properties, which are well described and understood. It is demonstrated that these two new bands can be interpreted as chiral partners of previously known three-quasiparticle positive- and negative-parity bands. The newly observed chiral doublet bands in $^{137}$Nd represent an important support to the existence of multiple chiral bands in nuclei. The present results constitute the missing stone in the series of Nd nuclei showing multiple chiral bands, which becomes the most extended sequence of nuclei presenting multiple chiral bands in the Segré chart.
Calvia quindecimguttata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Calvia
Calvia quindecimguttata

description: Calvia quindecimguttata (Fabricius)
(Fig. 40f, g)
Coccinella quindecimguttata Fabricius, 1777: 217 (?ZMUC; Type locality: Germany).
Anisocalvia quindecimguttata: Sasaji 1971: 269.
Eocaria quindecimguttata: Miyatake 1965: 71.
Calvia (Anisocalvia) quindecimguttata: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 193; Kuznetsov 1997: 199.
Calvia quindecimguttata: Poorani 2002a: 323; Ren et al. 2009: 184.
Diagnosis. Form (Fig. 40f, g) broad oval, dorsum convex and glabrous. Dorsal side straw yellow to ochreous or orange yellow, pronotum with a large M-shaped ochreous median marking occupying most of the disc leaving only the antero- and posterolateral corners creamy white to yellowish, elytra with 14 white spots arranged in a 2-2-2-1 pattern on each elytron. Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. India (Kuznetsov 1997). It is primarily a Palaearctic species (Japan; China; Mongolia; Europe).
Note. The material examined at BMNH is illustrated and specimens from India were not seen.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 62-64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Cyclodextrin-Based Supramolecules As Potential Molecular Devices
Creators: name: Randone, Lisa
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The work presented in this Thesis focuses on the synthesis of cyclodextrin-based supramolecules and the investigation of their potential as molecular devices. Daisy chains were initially targeted as a promising platform to build extended molecular muscles. Chapter 2 presents the synthesis of an oligomeric series of interlocked, cyclodextrin-based [c2]daisy chains through an innovative approach based on the direct self-assembly of cyclic dimeric complexes. The isolation and characterization of eight oligomeric species from this one pot reaction, as well as the photo-switching behaviour of some of these compounds, are discussed in this Chapter. The next phase of this research was focused on rotaxanes because of their crucial role in the development of molecular devices. In particular, isomeric rotaxanes, generally resulting from the capping of an inclusion complex between an asymmetric macrocycle and a mono-capped guest, can exhibit different properties depending on the orientation of the host. Chapter 3 describes a complementary synthetic approach based on the desymmetrization of a pre-formed rotaxane. This work includes the synthesis of an alpha-CD [2]rotaxane and the subsequent preparation, separation and characterization of bromine-functionalised orientational isomers. Finally, the behaviour of cyclodextrin-based rotaxanes as insulated molecular wires is investigated in Chapter 4. This work involved the discovery of the conductivity behaviour of crystals of two different alpha-CD rotaxanes showing pi-pi stacking aggregation in solution and in solid phase. The comparison with a blank experiment consisting of an alpha-CD crystal, the investigation of insulating properties of one of the rotaxanes, and some preliminary co-crystallisation experiments are also discussed as part of this study. This work identified the ability of self-assembled arrays of cyclodextrin-based rotaxanes to act as insulated molecular wires resembling coaxial cables. Overall, this Thesis describes new synthetic approaches to prepare daisy chain oligomers and [2]rotaxanes and develops their respective abilities to act as molecular muscles and microelectronic devices.
Changing the center of settlement in the Slocan Valley : an exploration of one opportunity towards a new configuration
Creators: name: Anderson, April Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis looks at the settlement configuration in the rural landscape of the Slocan Valley and sees that it negatively impacts both the ecology and the "sense of place" there. It then explores how an unexpected and unique opportunity that suddenly materialized - a new public space - could be taken advantage of to change the settlement configuration in the future, to ameliorate these impacts. The new public space is substantial and powerfully positioned: fifty kilometers long and thirty meters wide, it is a continuous corridor running the entire length of the valley - the former Canadian Pacific Railway, deactivated as a rail line, and designated "rails to trails" status. This new public corridor - "The New Commons Corridor" - dedicated to non-motorized movement, could change the settlement configuration in the Slocan Valley from one focused on motorized vehicles, centered on the highway to one focused on human-measured movement, centered on the commons, by becoming the new center of settlement. The premise of this thesis is that such a configuration would be beneficial in two strongly connected ways. Firstly, that it would be a more ecologically sound settlement configuration, protecting the integrity of the Valley's myriad ecological systems. Secondly, that it would be a more socially sound settlement configuration, one where a much greater "sense of place" could begin to build. Far from being anachronistic, the ideas put forward by this thesis reflect current sensibilities that stand in stark contrast to the sterility and waning relevance of car-centered development. This thesis is a spatial exploration of the feasibility of the New Commons Corridor being a catalyst for such change in the rural landscape of the Slocan Valley. Landscape ecology methodology was used for this spatial exploration, which is carried out both "by hand", and using Geographic Information Science. The concepts central to this thesis, "Sense of Place", and "Human-Measured Means of Movement" are explored chiefly through the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as interpreted by Christian Norberg-Schultz and applied by Christopher Alexander, and "Ecology-Based Settlement Configuration", "Ecology-Based Planning" and "Landscape Ecology", are explored chiefly through the work of Richard T.T. Forman. Key Words: "Sense of Place"; "Ecology-Based Settlement Configuration"; "Corridor"; "Slocan Valley"; "Slocan Valley Heritage Trail".
Local Food Impacts on Health and Nutrition
Creators: name: Ferrer, Myra Clarisse R.
name: Fonsah, Esendugue Greg
name: Ramirez, Octavio A.
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
name: Ferrer, Myra Clarisse R.
name: Fonsah, Esendugue Greg
name: Ramirez, Octavio A.
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: local foods
subject: diabetes
subject: obesity
subject: food environment
subject: farmers' market

description: Prevalence of local foods is believed to answer several food issues one of which is health and nutrition. This study focused on the on the availability of local foods to consumers and see its relationship with two specific diet-related diseases namely, obesity and diabetes. Other variables were included in the analysis to provide additional evidence to previous findings. Factors considered are divided into 5 groups namely diet-, local food-, environment-, education- and gender-related factors. Diet- and environment-related variables provide the most perceptive findings while local food variables provided significant however weak evidence of positive impacts to health and nutrition.
Quasi-graphs, zero entropy and measures with discrete spectrum
Creators: name: Li, Jian
name: Oprocha, Piotr
name: Zhang, Guohua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E25, 37B40, 37B05

description: In this paper, we study dynamics of maps on quasi-graphs characterizing their invariant measures. In particular, we prove that every invariant measure of quasi-graph map with zero topological entropy has discrete spectrum. Additionally, we obtain an analog of Llibre-Misiurewicz's result relating positive topological entropy with existence of topological horseshoes. We also study dynamics on dendrites and show that if a continuous map on a dendrite, whose set of all endpoints is closed and has only finitely many accumulation points, has zero topological entropy, then every invariant measure supported on an orbit closure has discrete spectrum.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; substantial revision; previous title "On dynamics of quasi-graph maps"
Three-dimensional trapping and assembly of small particles with synchronized spherical acoustical vortices
Creators: name: Gong, Zhixiong
name: Baudoin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional harmless contactless manipulation and assembly of micro-objects and micro-organisms would open new horizons in microrobotics and microbiology, e.g. for microsystems assembly or tissue engineering. In our previous work [Gong and Baudoin, Phys. Rev. Appl., 12: 024045 (2019)], we investigated theoretically the possibility to trap and assemble in two dimensions small particles compared to the wavelength with synchronized acoustical tweezers based on cylindrical acoustical vortices. However, since these wavefields are progressive along their central axis, they can only push or pull (not trap) particles in this direction and hence are mainly limited to 2D operations. In this paper, we extend our previous analysis and show theoretically that particles can be trapped and assembled in three-dimensions with synchronized spherical vortices. We show that the particles can be approached both laterally and axially and we determine the maximum assembly speed by balancing the Stokes' drag force and the critical radiation force. These theoretical results provide guidelines to design selective acoustical tweezers able to trap and assemble particles in three dimensions.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Evaluation of historic, current and future water demand in the Olifants River Catchment, South Africa
Creators: name: McCartney, Matthew P.
name: Arranz, Roberto
name: McCartney, Matthew P.
name: Arranz, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: River basins
subject: Catchment areas
subject: Water resources development
subject: Water demand
subject: Water allocation
subject: Simulation models
subject: Calibrations
subject: Water use
subject: Irrigation water
subject: Domestic water
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: South Africa
subject: Olifants River Catchment

description: Water resource development has played a significant role in the expansion of agriculture and industry in the Olifants River Catchment. However, currently water deficit is one of the major constraints hampering development in the catchment; both the mining and agricultural sectors are producing below optimal levels because of their reliance on insufficient supplies. In this study, the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model was used to evaluate scenarios of historic, current and future water demand in the catchment. For each scenario, the WEAP model was used to simulate demand in five different sectors (rural, urban, mining, commercial forestry and irrigation) over a 70-year period of varying rainfall and hydrology. Levels of assured supply were estimated for each sector and the economic cost of failing to provide water was predicted. For the future scenarios, the impact of infrastructure development and water conservation measures were assessed. The study illustrates how a relatively simple model can provide useful insight for resource planning and management.
Real-Time Instantons and Suppression of Collision-Induced Tunneling
Creators: name: Levkov, D.
name: Sibiryakov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider tunneling processes in QFT induced by collisions of elementary particles. We propose a semiclassical method for estimating the probability of these processes in the limit of very high collision energy. As an illustration, we evaluate the maximum probability of induced tunneling between different vacua in a (1+1)-dimensional scalar model with boundary interaction.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, JETP Letters style
Assessing agricultural policy incentives for Greek organic agriculture: A Real options approach
Creators: name: Tzouramani, Irene
name: Sintori, Alexandra
name: Liontakis, Angelos E.
name: Alexopoulos, George
name: Tzouramani, Irene
name: Sintori, Alexandra
name: Liontakis, Angelos E.
name: Alexopoulos, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: organic agriculture
subject: dairy sheep farming
subject: real options
subject: agriculture policy

description: The adoption of organic agriculture or livestock involves risk and uncertainty, and to overcome this, well designed schemes are required. Are the current support measures attractive for farmers who wish to convert to organic? At first, this study tries to assess the optimal investment trigger for a new comer into organic dairy sheep farming system and secondly, to evaluate the investment profitability of an existing organic farmer in his attempt to improve his farm. Results indicate that the framework of real options analysis is an appropriate form of analysis if the question of investment profitability is examined under risk and uncertainty and the role of economic subsidies offered to organic farmers is assessed.
Chern insulator transitions with Wilson fermions on a hyperrectangular lattice
Creators: name: Sen, Srimoyee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to a Wilson fermion on a $2+1$ dimensional cubic lattice is known to exhibit Chern insulator like topological transitions as a function of the the ratio $M/R$ where $M$ is the fermion mass and $R$ is the Wilson parameter. I show that, with $M$ and $R$ held fixed, a rectangular lattice with anisotropic lattice spacing can exhibit distinct topological phases as a function of the lattice anisotropy. As a consequence, a $2+1$ dimensional lattice theory without any domain wall in the fermion mass can still exhibit chiral edge modes on a $1+1$ dimensional defect across which lattice spacing changes abruptly. Likewise, a domain wall in the fermion mass on a uniform rectangular lattice can exhibit discrete changes in the number and chirality of zero modes as a function of lattice anisotropy. The construction presented in this paper can be generalized to higher dimensional space-time lattices.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures, references updated
Analysis of evolution through competitive selection
Creators: name: Kloster, Morten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies of in vitro evolution of DNA via protein binding indicate that the evolution behavior is qualitatively different in different parameter regimes. I here present a general theory that is valid for a wide range of parameters, and which reproduces and extends previous results. Specifically, the mean-field theory of a general translation-invariant model can be reduced to the basic diffusion equation with a dynamic boundary condition. The simple analytical form yields both quantitatively accurate predictions and valuable insight into the principles involved. In particular, I introduce a cutoff criterion for finite populations that illustrates both of these qualities.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
MPEC 2024-A166 : 2013 AK20
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Water productivity in the Syr-Darya River Basin
Creators: name: Murray-Rust, Hammond
name: Abdullaev, Iskandar
name: Ul Hassan, Mehmood
name: Horinkova, Vilma
name: Murray-Rust, Hammond
name: Abdullaev, Iskandar
name: Ul Hassan, Mehmood
name: Horinkova, Vilma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water resource management
subject: Productivity
subject: Irrigation effects
subject: Institutional development
subject: Water allocation
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Irrigation canals
subject: Water demand
subject: Irrigation requirements
subject: Water distribution
subject: Water delivery
subject: Crop yield
subject: River basins
subject: Water conservation
subject: Central Asia
subject: Aral Sea
subject: Syr-Darya

description: This report analyses water productivity and water-saving initiatives in the Syr-Darya river basin in Central Asia and presents institutional and political aspects of water management in the basin.
XMM-Newton observation of the drifting pulsar B0943+10
Creators: name: Zhang, Bing
name: Sanwal, Divas
name: Pavlov, George G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio pulsar subpulse drifting has been interpreted as rotation of sub-beams (sparks) of pair plasma produced by intermittent breakdowns of an inner vacuum gap above the pulsar polar cap. This model also predicts strong thermal X-ray emission from the polar cap caused by inflowing particles created in spark discharges. We have observed the best-studied drifting pulsar B0943+10 with XMM-Newton and detected a point source coincident with the radio pulsar position. Its spectrum could be fitted with a thermal blackbody model, although a power-law model is also acceptable. The thermal fit gives a bolometric luminosity L_bol ~ 5 x 10^{28} erg/s and a surface area A ~ 10^3 (T/3MK)^{-4} m^2, much smaller than the conventional polar cap area, 6 x 10^4 m^2. Such thermal radiation can be interpreted as emitted from footprints of sparks drifting in an inner gap of a height h ~ 0.1 - 0.2 r_pc, where r_pc is the polar cap radius. However, the original vacuum gap model by Ruderman and Sutherland requires some modification to reconcile the X-ray and radio data.
description: submitted to ApJL
Promoting global agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Creators: name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Martin, William J.
name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Martin, William J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: poverty
subject: growth
subject: projections

description: Constraints on resources, growth in demand, and a slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially over the next decades. The impacts of such higher prices on the poor and the required mitigating policy responses to this problem remain unclear. This paper uses a global general equilibrium model, projections of global growth and microeconomic household models, to project potential implications for incomes, food production and poverty. We find that higher agricultural productivity would generally lower poverty, with different impacts depending where the productivity growth occurs, while protection policies that reduce imports would generally raise poverty.
Basin-level use and productivity of water: examples from South Asia
Creators: name: Molden, David J.
name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Habib, Zaigham
name: Molden, David J.
name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Habib, Zaigham
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water management
subject: Water conservation
subject: River basins
subject: Water use
subject: Productivity
subject: Case studies
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Indicators
subject: Water scarcity
subject: South Asia
subject: India
subject: Pakistan
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: Bhakra
subject: Chishtian
subject: Kirindi Oya

description: Discusses and illustrates concepts for identifying ways of improving productivity of water within basins. The results of applying a water accounting procedure to four sub-basins in South Asia (Bhakra in India; Chishtian in Pakistan; Huruluwewa in northern Sri Lanka; and Kirindi Oya in southern Sri Lanka) are presented. The methodology used identifies the quantities and productivity of various uses of water within a basin. This information is then used to identify the water-saving potential, and the means of improving the productivity of the managed supplies.
Modulation of Dirac electrons in epitaxial Bi2Se3 ultrathin films on van-der-Waals ferromagnet Cr2Si2Te6
Creators: name: Kato, Takemi
name: Sugawara, Katsuaki
name: Ito, Naohiro
name: Yamauchi, Kunihiko
name: Sato, Takumi
name: Oguchi, Tamio
name: Takahashi, Takashi
name: Shiomi, Yuki
name: Saitoh, Eiji
name: Sato, Takafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the Dirac-cone state and its modulation when an ultrathin film of topological insulator Bi2Se3 was epitaxially grown on a van-der-Waals ferromagnet Cr2Si2Te6 (CST) by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We observed a gapless Dirac-cone surface state in 6 quintuple-layer (QL) Bi2Se3 on CST, whereas the Dirac cone exhibits a gap of 0.37 eV in 2QL counterpart. Intriguingly, this gap is much larger than those for Bi2Se3 films on Si(111). We also revealed no discernible change in the gap magnitude across the ferromagnetic transition of CST, suggesting the very small characteristic length and energy scale of the magnetic proximity effect. The present results suggest a crucial role of interfacial coupling for modulating Dirac electrons in topological-insulator hybrids.
Additional file 1 of LIVE@Home.Path—innovating the clinical pathway for home-dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers: study protocol for a mixed-method, stepped-wedge, randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Husebo, Bettina Sandgathe
name: Allore, Heather
name: Achterberg, Wilco
name: Renira Corinne Angeles
name: Ballard, Clive
name: Bruvik, Frøydis Kristine
name: Fæø, Stein Erik
name: Gedde, Marie Hidle
name: Hillestad, Eirin
name: Jacobsen, Frode Fadnes
name: Kirkevold, Øyvind
name: Kjerstad, Egil
name: Kjome, Reidun Lisbeth Skeide
name: Mannseth, Janne
name: Naik, Mala
name: Nouchi, Rui
name: Puaschitz, Nathalie
name: Samdal, Rune
name: Tranvåg, Oscar
name: Tzoulis, Charalampos
name: Ipsit Vihang Vahia
name: Vislapuu, Maarja
name: Berge, Line Iden
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Implementation seminar for the LIVE@Home.Path trial.
Imposing Regulation on Advanced Algorithms
Creators: name: Fitsilis, Fotios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.5.0; K.5.2; K.5.m
subject: 68T01, 68T99

description: This book discusses the necessity and perhaps urgency for the regulation of algorithms on which new technologies rely; technologies that have the potential to re-shape human societies. From commerce and farming to medical care and education, it is difficult to find any aspect of our lives that will not be affected by these emerging technologies. At the same time, artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, cognitive computing, blockchain, virtual reality and augmented reality, belong to the fields most likely to affect law and, in particular, administrative law. The book examines universally applicable patterns in administrative decisions and judicial rulings. First, similarities and divergence in behavior among the different cases are identified by analyzing parameters ranging from geographical location and administrative decisions to judicial reasoning and legal basis. As it turns out, in several of the cases presented, sources of general law, such as competition or labor law, are invoked as a legal basis, due to the lack of current specialized legislation. This book also investigates the role and significance of national and indeed supranational regulatory bodies for advanced algorithms and considers ENISA, an EU agency that focuses on network and information security, as an interesting candidate for a European regulator of advanced algorithms. Lastly, it discusses the involvement of representative institutions in algorithmic regulation.
description: XXI, 82 pages, 5 figures. Cham: Springer
Development of hoof pathologies in dairy cattle with and without access to pasture
Creators: name: Baird, Lorna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Hoof pathologies are a major concern in dairy production and lameness is considered to be one of the top three reasons for involuntary culling of lactating dairy cattle. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a period of access to pasture before calving, versus continuous freestall housing, on the incidence of hoof lesions, dermatitis and heel erosion in dairy cattle during the months that follow calving. The hind hooves of all animals were scored for severe sole lesions, dermatitis and heel erosion pre-calving (200 to 0 days prior to calving), in early-lactation (0 to 100 DIM), and in mid-lactation (100 to 200 DIM). Over the course of the study, 42 out of 58 animals were diagnosed with severe lesions, 40 out of 58 animals were diagnosed with dermatitis, and 51 out of 58 animals were diagnosed with severe heel erosion. Multiparous cows were more affected by severe sole lesions than were primiparous animals during both the pre-calving (32 and 0 %, respectively) and mid-lactation periods (37 and 63 %, respectively). Cows housed continuously in freestalls tended to be more affected by dermatitis than were pasture animals in both early-lactation (55 vs. 32 %) and mid-lactation periods (41 vs. 24 %). There were no other effects of the pasture treatment. These results indicate that a period of access to pasture before calving has little positive effect on hoof health, and suggests that other approaches will be necessary to address these common pathologies in dairy cattle.
Importance of irrigated agriculture to the Ethiopian economy: Capturing the direct net benefits of irrigation
Creators: name: Hagos, Fitsum
name: Makombe, Godswill
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
name: Hagos, Fitsum
name: Makombe, Godswill
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: National income
subject: Economic growth
subject: Crops
subject: Prices
subject: Sensitivity analysis
subject: Crop management
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Ethiopia

description: Irrigation development has been identified as a means to stimulate economic growth and rural development in Ethiopia. However, little attempt has been made to quantify the contribution of irrigation to national income. Using data from selected irrigation schemes, representing small, medium and large-scale schemes of modern or traditional typologies; the present coverage and planned growth of irrigation, actual and expected contributions of irrigation to the national economy were quantified following the approach of adjusted gross margin analysis. Our results show that irrigation yields 219.7% higher income compared to the rainfed system while its current and future contribution to agricultural GDP is estimated to be about 5.7 and 12% although irrigation covers about 5 and 9% of the total cultivated land area, respectively.
Resolving the Effects of Rotation in Altair with Long-Baseline Interferometry
Creators: name: Peterson, D. M.
name: Hummel, C. A.
name: Pauls, T. A.
name: Armstrong, J. T.
name: Benson, J. A.
name: Gilbreath, C. G.
name: Hindsley, R. B.
name: Hutter, D. J.
name: Johnston, K. J.
name: Mozurkewich, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report successful fitting of a Roche model, with a surface temperature gradient following the von Zeipel gravity darkening law, to observations of Altair made with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer. We confirm the claim by Ohishi, Nordgren, & Hutter that Altair displays an asymmetric intensity distribution due to rotation, the first such detection in an isolated star. Instrumental effects due to the high visible flux of this first magnitude star appear to be the limiting factor in the accuracy of this fit, which nevertheless indicates that Altair is rotating at 0.90+/-0.02 of its breakup (angular) velocity. Our results are consistent with the apparent oblateness found by van Belle et al. and show that the true oblateness is significantly larger owing to an inclination of the rotational axis of ~64 degrees to the line of sight. Of particular interest, we conclude that instead of being substantially evolved as indicated by its classification, A7 VI-V, Altair is only barely off the ZAMS and represents a good example of the difficulties rotation can introduce in the interpretation of this part of the HR diagram.
description: Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
A Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere Model for Circumstellar Emission from Magnetic OB Stars
Creators: name: Townsend, R. H. D.
name: Owocki, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a semi-analytical approach for modeling circumstellar emission from rotating hot stars with a strong dipole magnetic field tilted at an arbitrary angle to the rotation axis. By assuming the rigid-field limit in which material driven (e.g., in a wind outflow) from the star is forced to remain in strict rigid-body co-rotation, we are able to solve for the effective centrifugal-plus-gravitational potential along each field line, and thereby identify the location of potential minima where material is prone to accumulate. Applying basic scalings for the surface mass flux of a radiatively driven stellar wind, we calculate the circumstellar density distribution that obtains once ejected plasma settles into hydrostatic stratification along field lines. The resulting accumulation surface resembles a rigidly rotating, warped disk, tilted such that its average surface normal lies between the rotation and magnetic axes. Using a simple model of the plasma emissivity, we calculate time-resolved synthetic line spectra for the disk. Initial comparisons show an encouraging level of correspondence with the observed rotational phase variations of Balmer-line emission profiles from magnetic Bp stars like sigma Ori E.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS, revised version based on referee's remarks
Additional file 4 of Distinctions between sex and time in patterns of DNA methylation across puberty
Creators: name: Moore, Sarah Rose
name: Humphreys, Kathryn Leigh
name: Colich, Natalie Lisanne
name: Davis, Elena Goetz
name: Lin, David Tse Shen
name: MacIsaac, Julia Lynn
name: Kobor, Michael Steffen
name: Gotlib, Ian Henry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Visualization of correlations between 1) biological variables, technical batch variables, and covariates and 2) DNAm principal components summarizing the variability of all autosomal beta values after preprocessing. The lack of correlations with Sentrix ID (chip) and Sentrix Position (row) confirms effective technical batch correction. ‘Epi’ = epithelial cells and ‘Fib’ = fibroblasts estimated by HepiDISH.
Calvia shiva Kapur
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Calvia
Calvia shiva

description: Calvia shiva Kapur
(Fig. 41)
Calvia shiva Kapur, 1963a: 40 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Singhik, Sikkim).—Booth 1997: 926; Poorani 2002a: 323.
Calvia durgae Kapur, 1963a: 42 (Holotype female, BMNH; Type locality: Singhik, Sikkim).— Synonymized by Booth 1997: 926.
Calvia trilochana Kapur, 1963a: 42 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Singhik, Sikkim).— Synonymized by Booth 1997: 926.
Calvia pinaki Kapur, 1963a: 43 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Singhik, Sikkim).— Synonymized by Booth 1997: 926.
Calvia pasupati Kapur, 1963a: 45 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Singhik, Sikkim).— Synonymized by Booth 1997: 926.
Calvia connexa Miyatake, 1985: 17 (Type locality: Godavari, Nepal).— Synonymized by Booth 1997: 926.
Calvia schiva (sic): Kovář 2007: 608.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.40 mm; width: 3.60 mm. Form (Fig. 41a–c) short oval, moderately convex. Ground colour straw yellow. Pronotum with ill-defined pale brown markings. Elytra yellowish brown, with three pale brown longitudinal stripes of progressively reducing width on each elytron, two dorsal and not reaching apex and one on outer margin reaching apex; one stripe along sutural line reaching apex. This is a highly polymorphic species (Fig. 41a–c) and can be differentiated from the other species of this region by the single spur on mesotibiae and lack of spurs on metatibiae. Male genitalia (Fig. 41d–f) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Manipur, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, northeastern region); Nepal; Bhutan.
Prey/associated habitat: Aphidophagous, known hosts include Cervaphis quercus Takahashi, Mollitrichosiphum alni Ghosh et al., and Tuberculatus indicus Ghosh. Very commonly collected on Juglans regia.
Notes. A highly variable species that can be positively identified only by the male genitalia. Its generic placement is somewhat uncertain and the presence of a single mesotibial spur in C. shiva is most unusual in Coccinellidae / Coccinellini and it differs from other Indian Calvia spp. in lacking the metatibial spurs (Booth 1996).
See Kapur (1963a), Miyatake (1985) and Booth (1997) for detailed description / illustrations of the variants and / or genitalia.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Distribution of beef cattle in Scotland: How important is agricultural policy?
Creators: name: Renwick, Alan W.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Thomson, Steven
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Ringrose, Sian
name: Renwick, Alan W.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Thomson, Steven
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Ringrose, Sian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: beef cattle economics
subject: Scottish agriculture

description: If one observe aggregated cattle figures for Scotland for more than a century it is possible to perceive that that cattle numbers seem to react strongly to agricultural policy (e.g., livestock subsidies before 1973, UK becoming part to the European Community). The purpose the paper is to provide a regional view of this result, namely whether the same trend can be observed if the analysis is done by Scottish regions. For this purpose, we assembled a panel dataset for 11 Scottish regions for the period 1959 until 2008. We specialised the analysis on beef cattle. We use simple regression techniques to verify whether there have been changes in the regional shares of beef cattle and whether beef cattle numbers in the different regions tend to converge to a steady state value. The results indicate that the data can be broken down into two major periods: before and after the accession to the European Community (EC). Furthermore, in most of the regions, accession implied changes in the regional shares (although shares are very stable over time). In terms of the convergence analysis, it is clear that accession to the EC affected the regional beef cattle steady state values.
Evaluation of approaches to control of Maedi-Visna disease of sheep using a Markov chain simulation model for a range of typical British Flocks
Creators: name: Stott, Alistair W.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
name: Gunn, George J.
name: Stott, Alistair W.
name: Milne, Catherine E.
name: Gunn, George J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: An epidemiological model is described that closely mimicked results of a published serological study of natural transmission of Maedi-Visna virus in a low ground flock of sheep. We adjusted parameters in the model from this baseline to explore the possible implications for the control of Maedi-Visna virus in typical British flocks. On closed hill farms, low probability of effective contact was most critical for control. In open low ground flocks, purchasing accredited replacements eliminated disease spread, otherwise flock size was the most important factor governing flock prevalence. Results highlighted the need for more epidemiological information about Maedi-Visna, particularly whether hill farms act as a hidden reservoir of virus or reduce the impact of this disease on the industry by providing a source of clean replacements