cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Association of self-monitoring performance of cognitive performance with personal diurnal preference when sleep-deprived
Creators: name: Nishimura, Yuki
name: Ohashi, Michihiro
name: Eto, Taisuke
name: Hayashi, Sayuri
name: Motomura, Yuki
name: Higuchi, Shigekazu
name: Takahashi, Masaya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: In modern society, many workers struggle with sleep deprivation due to their work schedules and excessive workloads. Accurate self-awareness and self-monitoring abilities are crucial for workers to adopt risk-coping strategies and protective behaviors when fatigued. The current study examined the relationship between chronotypes and self-monitoring performance during 24 h of sleep deprivation. The study involved 26 male adults in a two-night experiment, and participants’ diurnal preferences were evaluated using the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). Self-monitoring performance was calculated by comparing actual task performance with self-rated predicted or post-estimated performance in the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) and Digit Symbol Substitution Task (DSST). The study found that task and self-monitoring performances in the PVT and DSST were maintained until around 4:00 h, after which they began to deteriorate. Individuals with a higher MEQ score, indicating a stronger tendency towards a morning type, showed inaccurate self-monitoring, particularly in the final quarter of the sleep deprivation experiment, due to overly optimistic predictions. However, only prediction accuracy and not post-estimation showed this correlation. This study highlights the importance of considering an individual’s chronotype in workplace management, particularly in workplaces with irregular work timings, rotating shifts, and long working hours, to ensure better occupational safety.
Biodegradable, flexible silicon nanomembrane-based NO x gas sensor system with record-high performance for transient environmental monitors and medical implants
Creators: name: Ko, Gwan-Jin
name: Han, Soo Deok
name: Kim, Jeong-Ki
name: Zhu, Jia
name: Han, Won Bae
name: Chung, Jinmook
name: Yang, Seung Min
name: Cheng, Huanyu
name: Kim, Dong-Hwee
name: Kang, Chong-Yun
name: Hwang, Suk-Won
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/639/301/1005/1009
/639/925/357/995
article

description: Abstract: A novel transient electronics technology that is capable of completely dissolving or decomposing in certain conditions after a period of operation offers unprecedented opportunities for medical implants, environmental sensors, and other applications. Here, we describe a biodegradable, flexible silicon-based electronic system that detects NO species with a record-breaking sensitivity of 136 Rs (5 ppm, NO2) and 100-fold selectivity for NO species over other substances with a fast response (~30 s) and recovery (~60 s). The exceptional features primarily depend on not only materials, dimensions, and design layouts but also temperatures and electrical operations. Large-scale sensor arrays in a mechanically pliable configuration exhibit negligible deterioration in performance under various modes of applied loads, consistent with mechanics modeling. In vitro evaluations demonstrate the capability and stability of integrated NOx devices in severe wet environments for biomedical applications.
Listronotus conabilis O'Brien 1981
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus conabilis

description: Listronotus conabilis O’Brien, 1981
 Listronotus conabilis O’Brien, 1981: 90 (type locality: USA: Florida, Taylor County, 5 mi. S Perry, Hwy. 361; type material: H: CWOB and P: 1 CWOB).
 Distribution. USA: northern Florida and South Carolina (O’Brien, 1981).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 1 of Accelerated aging in normal breast tissue of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Panjarian, Shoghag
name: Madzo, Jozef
name: Keith, Kelsey
name: Slater, Carolyn M.
name: Sapienza, Carmen
name: Jelinek, Jaroslav
name: Issa, Jean-Pierre J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Identification and validation of age-related DNA methylation sites in TCGA breast normal adjacent tissue. a) TCGA 97 normal-adjacent samples were used as validation dataset for the aging sites. One thousand permutations of the data were performed, and empirical p-values were computed. The distribution of the Spearman correlation r values of the actual dataset is shown in pink while the distribution of the correlation values obtained by random permutation analysis of the same data is shown in green. b) The age-dependent methylation changes were selected based on a cutoff of permutation empirical p-value (p < 0.05) and based on Spearman correlation of r ≥ 0.3 (gain of methylation with age) and r ≤ −0.3 (loss of methylation with age). The age-dependent sites from the discovery dataset (DREAM) and the validation dataset (450K array), were aligned and restricted to < 250 bp distance between SmaI sites and the 450K probes.
Brazil’s Changing Macroeconomic Conditions: Impacts on Agriculture
Creators: name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Hjort, Kim
name: Seeley, Ralph
name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Hjort, Kim
name: Seeley, Ralph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Brazil
subject: agriculture
subject: production
subject: trade
subject: exchange rate
subject: devaluation
subject: credit
subject: interest rates
subject: domestic support.

description: Brazil has attained remarkable economic progress over the past decade with parallel modernization and expansion of its agricultural sector. With continuing productivity increases and the availability of additional land suitable for farming, further growth in agricultural production and exports has become the norm. However, current domestic macroeconomic challenges, including slow income growth, a depreciating Real, and administered prices to control inflation, are further challenged by adverse external events, including the substantial depreciation of China’s currency on prospects for soybean and beef exports. This confluence of domestic and foreign economic challenges will negatively impact the agricultural sector’s ability to continue the pace of its projected growth and may significantly slow export expansion. If that should happen, world food prices may rise unless other world market suppliers such as the United States can fill the deficit. We evaluate the impact of these new developments and associated challenges on Brazil’s agricultural sector and examine the response of production, trade, and market prices to changes in Brazil’s macroeconomic situation.
Particle creation in an oscillating spherical cavity
Creators: name: Setare, M. R.
name: Saharian, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the creation of massless scalar particles from the quantum vacuum due to the dynamical Casimir effect by spherical shell with oscillating radius. In the case of a small amplitude of the oscillation, to solve the infinite set of coupled differential equations for the instantaneous basis expansion coefficients we use the method based on the time-dependent perturbation theory of the quantum mechanics. To the first order of the amplitude we derive the expressions for the number of the created particles for both parametric resonance and non-resonance cases.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Listronotus crypticus O'Brien 1981
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus crypticus

description: Listronotus crypticus O’Brien, 1981
 Listronotus crypticus O’Brien, 1981: 91 (type locality: USA: Florida, Gulf County, 1 mi. N White City; type material: H: CWOB and P: 5 CWOB).
 Distribution. USA: northern Florida and coastal Mississippi (O’Brien, 1981).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Localization and test exponents for tight closure
Creators: name: Hochster, Melvin
name: Huneke, Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A35 (13B30 13D40)

description: In this paper we study various equivalent conditions for tight closure to commute with localization. If N is a submodule of a finitely generated module M over a Noetherian commutative ring of characteristic p, then a test exponent for c,N,M is defined to be a power q' of p such that u is in the tight closure of N in M whenever cu^q is in the qth Frobenius power of N for some q \ge q'. We prove that that a test exponent for a locally stable test element c and for N,M as above exists if and only if the tight closure of N in M commutes with localization. Other equivalent conditions are given for tight closure to commute with localization.
On the hard X-ray spectra of radio-loud active galaxies
Creators: name: Ballantyne, D. R.
name: Ross, R. R.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last few years X-ray observations of broad-line radio galaxies (BLRGs) by ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX have shown that these objects seem to exhibit weaker X-ray reflection features (such as the iron Kαline) than radio-quiet Seyferts. This has lead to speculation that the optically-thick accretion disc in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) may be truncated to an optically-thin flow in the inner regions of the source. Here, we propose that the weak reflection features are a result of reprocessing in an ionized accretion disc. This would alleviate the need for a change in accretion geometry in these sources. Calculations of reflection spectra from an ionized disc for situations expected in radio-loud AGN (high accretion rate, moderate-to-high black hole mass) predict weak reprocessing features. This idea was tested by fitting the ASCA spectrum of the bright BLRG 3C 120 with the constant density ionized disc models of Ross & Fabian. A good fit was found with an ionization parameter of ξ~4000 erg cm s^{-1} and the reflection fraction fixed at unity. If observations of BLRGs by XMM-Newton show evidence for ionized reflection then this would support the idea that a high accretion rate is likely required to launch powerful radio jets.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS Letters, minor changes from previous version
Listronotus debilis Blatchley 1916
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus debilis

description: Listronotus debilis Blatchley, 1916
 Listronotus debilis Blatchley, 1916: 164 (type locality: USA: Indiana, Putnam County; type material: L: PURC, PL: MCZ).
 Distribution. USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 3 of Accelerated aging in normal breast tissue of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Panjarian, Shoghag
name: Madzo, Jozef
name: Keith, Kelsey
name: Slater, Carolyn M.
name: Sapienza, Carmen
name: Jelinek, Jaroslav
name: Issa, Jean-Pierre J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. PCA analysis of age-related methylation sites. a) Summary of PCA analysis of the methylation values of 146 age-dependent probes in 6 publicly available datasets. Proportion of variance explained by each of the first 10 principal components (PC). b) Scatter plots of PC components 1 and 2, c) components 2 and 3, and d) components 1 and 3.
Plant traits related to the heavy metal removal capacities of wetland plants
Creators: name: Schück, Maria
name: Greger, Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Plants are the crucial component of floating treatment wetlands (FTWs). However, heavy metal removal capacity varies between plant species, and the relationships between plant traits and differences in removal capacity remain unclear. This study sought to determine: (1) the relationships between plant traits and removal of Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn from water, and (2) the relationships between the removal patterns of these metals. Plants of 34 wetland plant species were exposed to heavy metal concentrations common in stormwater for five days, and 20 traits were measured on each plant. Results indicate that the most important plant traits for heavy metal removal from water are transpiration and high total biomass, especially large amounts of fine roots and leaves. The same traits were generally related to removal both initially and after longer exposure, with stronger correlations found after longer exposure. Plant removal of one metal was likely correlated with removal of the other metals, and the plant removal capacity after 30 min of exposure was correlated with the removal capacity five days later. The present results can be used in selecting plants for enhanced heavy metal removal by FTWs and in identifying additional useful plant species, allowing adaptation to local conditions.
Additional file 2 of Accelerated aging in normal breast tissue of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Panjarian, Shoghag
name: Madzo, Jozef
name: Keith, Kelsey
name: Slater, Carolyn M.
name: Sapienza, Carmen
name: Jelinek, Jaroslav
name: Issa, Jean-Pierre J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Genomic distribution of validated aging sites. a) Distribution of the 146 aging sites within the promoter CpG islands (pCGI), promoter non CpG islands (pnCGI), non-promoter CpG islands (npCGI) and non-promoter non CpG islands (npnCGI). b) Distribution of all sites (45,135) within the same genomic context as in (a) in the discovery dataset. c) Summary of odds ratios of the genomic region specificity of age-related sites (146) compared to all sites (45,135) in the discovery dataset. Dots represent the point estimates of odds ratio with lines representing 95% confidence intervals around the estimates. A chi-square test was used to test for statistical significance for each comparison; p-values for all comparisons were significant. d) Contingency tables of the shared 146 aging sites between the DREAM and array platforms. Each table represents a genomic context, and the numbers indicate the number of CpG for hyper (hypermethylated) or hypo (hypomethylated) sites. All comparisons were significant with p-values < 0.0001.
Circadian rhythm of heart rate and activity: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Natarajan, Aravind
name: Gleichauf, Karla
name: Khalid, Maryam
name: Heneghan, Conor
name: Schneider, Logan Douglas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Circadian rhythms are governed by a biological clock, and are known to occur in a variety of physiological processes. We report results on the circadian rhythm of heart rate observed using a wrist-worn wearable device (Fitbit), consisting of over 17,000 individuals over the course of 30 days. We obtain an underlying heart rate circadian rhythm from the time series heart rate by modeling the circadian rhythm as a sum over the first two Fourier harmonics. The first Fourier harmonic accounts for the approximate 24-hour rhythmicity of the body clock, while the second harmonic accounts for non-sinusoidal perturbations. From the diurnal modulation of heart rate, we obtain the following circadian parameters: (i) amplitude of modulation, (ii) bathyphase, and (iii) acrophase. We also consider the circadian rhythm of activity and show that in most individuals, the circadian rhythm of heart rate lags the circadian rhythm of activity. The widespread availability of smartwatches and trackers may enable individuals who are interested in observing their circadian rhythms of numerous physiological parameters, and to measure longitudinal changes in circadian parameters in response to various changes in health-related variables such as diet, sleep, exercise, or illness.
Additional file 1 of HIV-1 pretreatment drug resistance and genetic transmission network in the southwest border region of China
Creators: name: Li, Difei
name: Chen, Huichao
name: Li, Huilan
name: Ma, Yanling
name: Dong, Lijuan
name: Dai, Jie
name: Jin, Xiaomei
name: Yang, Min
name: Zeng, Zhijun
name: Sun, Pengyan
name: Song, Zhizhong
name: Chen, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers for PCR and sequencing in the study. Fig. S1. Evaluation of the effect of the genetic distance threshold on cluster identification. A, Number of clusters changing with an increasing of genetic distance threshold. B, Number of clustered sequences changing with an increase of genetic distance threshold. Table S2. The constituents of the subjects successfully genotyped. Table S3. The constitutions of transmission routes in the different education levels. Table S4. The constitutions of transmission routes in the different occupations.
Historical and projected future range sizes of the world’s mammals, birds, and amphibians
Creators: name: Beyer, Robert M.
name: Manica, Andrea
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/158/670
/631/158/2165
/631/158/672
/706/1143
/141
/119
article

description: Funder: European Research Council Consolidator Grant
description: Abstract: Species’ vulnerability to extinction is strongly impacted by their geographical range size. Formulating effective conservation strategies therefore requires a better understanding of how the ranges of the world’s species have changed in the past, and how they will change under alternative future scenarios. Here, we use reconstructions of global land use and biomes since 1700, and 16 possible climatic and socio-economic scenarios until the year 2100, to map the habitat ranges of 16,919 mammal, bird, and amphibian species through time. We estimate that species have lost an average of 18% of their natural habitat range sizes thus far, and may lose up to 23% by 2100. Our data reveal that range losses have been increasing disproportionately in relation to the area of destroyed habitat, driven by a long-term increase of land use in tropical biodiversity hotspots. The outcomes of different future climate and land use trajectories for global habitat ranges vary drastically, providing important quantitative evidence for conservation planners and policy makers of the costs and benefits of alternative pathways for the future of global biodiversity.
Pressure enhanced interplay among lattice, spin and charge in La2FeMnO6 mixed perovskite
Creators: name: Li, Nana
name: Fan, Fengren
name: Sun, Fei
name: Wang, Yonggang
name: Zhao, Yongsheng
name: Liu, Fengliang
name: Zhang, Qian
name: Ikuta, Daijo
name: Xiao, Yuming
name: Chow, Paul
name: Heald, Steve M.
name: Sun, Chengjun
name: Brewe, Dale
name: Li, Aiguo
name: Lü, Xujie
name: Mao, Ho-kwang
name: Khomskii, Daniel I.
name: Wu, Hua
name: Yang, Wenge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin crossover plays a central role in the structural instability, net magnetic moment modification, metallization, and even in superconductivity in corresponding materials. Most reports on the pressure-induced spin crossover with a large volume collapse so far focused on compounds with single transition metal. Here we report a comprehensive high-pressure investigation of a mixed Fe-Mn perovskite La2FeMnO6. Under pressure, the strong coupling between Fe and Mn leads to a combined valence/spin transition: Fe3+(S = 5/2) to Fe2+(S = 0) and Mn3+(S = 2) to Mn4+(S = 3/2), with an isostructural phase transition. The spin transitions of both Fe and Mn are offset by ~ 20 GPa of the onset pressure, and the lattice collapse occurs in between. Interestingly, Fe3+ ion shows an abnormal behavior when it reaches a lower valence state (Fe2+) accompanied by a + 0.5 eV energy shift in Fe K-absorption edge at 15 GPa. This process is associated with the charge-spin-orbital state transition from high spin Fe3+ to low spin Fe2+, caused by the significantly enhanced t2g-eg crystal field splitting in the compressed lattice under high pressure. Density Functional Theory calculations confirm the energy preference of the high-pressure state with charge redistribution accompanied by spin state transition of Fe ions. Moreover, La2FeMnO6 maintains semiconductor behaviors even when the pressure reached 144.5 GPa as evidenced by the electrical transport measurements, despite the huge resistivity decreasing 7 orders of magnitude compared with that at ambient pressure. The investigation carried out here demonstrates high flexibility of double perovskites and their good potentials for optimizing the functionality of these materials.
description: Physical Review B in press
In the Technological Age: The Internet and the Performance of Micro-Enterprises in Togo
Creators: name: Gbandi, Tchapo
name: Couchoro, Mawuli K.
name: Afawubo, Komivi
name: Noglo, Yawo Agbenyegan
name: Djibril, Afissou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Micro-enterprises (MEs) are important players in job creation and global economic development. However, in developing countries, most fail to realise their growth potential due to challenges that include informality and a lack of quality human capital. The internet, by increasing information flows and reducing transaction costs, can help MEs to develop. This study assesses the effect of the internet on MEs’ performance in the service sector in Togo, using a large sample of 23,542 observations from the latest General Census of Businesses (RGE, 2017–2018), and exposes related channels and mechanisms. We find that MEs that adopt and use the internet are more productive than those that do not. This result remains robust to different regression methods such as instrumental variables and treatment-effects estimations. Complementary analyses show the positive effect of internet channels through applications such as e-mail, websites and e-business. We also find evidence that MEs with a Fixed internet connection perform better than those with a Mobile internet connection. Our investigations also yield interesting results regarding Togolese regions, service sub-sectors, managers’ characteristics and MEs’ status. This article thus highlights the need to promote digital development to enhance MEs’ performance in Togo.
Preference Elicitation Methods and Valuation Implications: Experimental Evidence from Valuation and Purchase of Water Quality Credits
Creators: name: Liu, Pengfei
name: Swallow, Stephen
name: Liu, Pengfei
name: Swallow, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Stated Preference
subject: Policy Consequences
subject: Incentive Compatibility
subject: Wel- fare
subject: Water Quality Trading

description: This paper compares different preference elicitation methods used in choice ex- periments. We implemented four different methods to elicit individuals’ preference for a non-market good. Our four treatments include (1) a hypothetical referen- dum, (2) a real referendum lacking incentive compatibility, (3) a real choice with incentive compatibility and (4) a hybrid approach that combines (2) and (3). We develop a method to estimate the percentage of strategic choices in each treatment. We find that in the hypothetical referendum, about 75% to 92% individuals truth- fully reveal their preference and choose the option that gives the highest utility in a choice question. Adding policy consequentiality (e.g., the real referendum) and payment consequentiality (e.g., the hybrid approach) could increase the percentage of individuals truthfully reveal their preference.
Multi-particle interferometry in the time-energy domain with localized topological quasiparticles
Creators: name: Zazunov, A.
name: Egger, R.
name: Gefen, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose multi-particle interference protocols in the time-energy domain which are able to probe localized topological quasiparticles. Using a set of quantum dots tunnel-coupled to a topologically nontrivial system, the time dependence of the dot level energies defines a many-body interferometry platform which (to some extent) is similar to the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer. We demonstrate that for a superconducting island harboring at least four Majorana bound states, the probability distribution of the final dot occupation numbers will exhibit a characteristic interferometric pattern with robust and quantized $π$ phase shifts. This pattern is shown to be qualitatively different for topologically trivial variants of our setup. Apart from identifying the presence of topological quasiparticles, the interferometer can be used to manipulate the quantum state in the topologically nontrivial sector by means of post-selection.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, final version (presentation improved)
Listronotus deceptus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus deceptus

description: Listronotus deceptus (Blatchley, 1916)
 Hyperodes deceptus Blatchley, 1916: 167 (type locality: USA: Indiana, Lake County; type material: L: PURC, PL: MCZ); Blatchley, 1930: 40.
 Listronotus deceptus; O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982: 68.
 Distribution. USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 4 of Accelerated aging in normal breast tissue of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Panjarian, Shoghag
name: Madzo, Jozef
name: Keith, Kelsey
name: Slater, Carolyn M.
name: Sapienza, Carmen
name: Jelinek, Jaroslav
name: Issa, Jean-Pierre J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Outlier analysis using Horvath’s multi-tissue estimator clock’s 353 CpG probes. a) Flow chart of the identification of age-related sites in TCGA. Bold numbers in parentheses indicate the number of Horvath clock’s CpGs present based on the cut-off. b) Venn diagram showing no overlap between the clock’s 32 CpG sites and the validated 146 aging sites. c) Venn diagram showing the overlap between outlier samples identified by Horvath clock’s CpG sites and the outliers identified by our 146 aging sites. the significance of overlap was tested by the hypergeometric test and found to be insignificant (p= 0.06). d) Overlap of the accelerated outliers identified by the clock’s CpG sites in the TCGA dataset and the accelerated outliers identified by our aging sites in the same dataset.
Additional file 5 of Accelerated aging in normal breast tissue of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Panjarian, Shoghag
name: Madzo, Jozef
name: Keith, Kelsey
name: Slater, Carolyn M.
name: Sapienza, Carmen
name: Jelinek, Jaroslav
name: Issa, Jean-Pierre J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5. Comparison of TCGA clinical parameters. Comparison of different variables was done between the not-outlier and outlier samples and accelerated outliers. The outlier status in this analysis was based off the aging methylation data of 427 patients. Chron Mean Age and Pred Mean Age are chronological and predicted average ages respectively. Mixed ductal lobular carcinoma (MDLC), Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). TN is triple negative. The significant p-value was generated by ANOVA testing followed by Tukey’s HSD post hoc test.
First order gauge field theories from a superfield formulation
Creators: name: Edgren, Ludde
name: Sandstrom, Niclas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Batalin and Marnelius proposed a superfield algorithm for master actions in the BV-formulation for a class of first order gauge field theories. Possible theories are determined by a ghost number prescription and a simple local master equation. We investigate consistent solutions of these local master equations with emphasis on four and six dimensional theories.
description: 18 pages, Latex, no figures, references and some comments added
Competitive position of some PDO cheeses on their own reference market: identification of the key success factors
Creators: name: Barjolle, Dominique
name: Chappuis, Jean-Marc
name: Dufour, Martine
name: Barjolle, Dominique
name: Chappuis, Jean-Marc
name: Dufour, Martine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: AOC
subject: protected designations of origin
subject: PDO cheeses
subject: petformance
subject: competitive position
subject: specificity
subject: coordination
subject: filière
subject: industrial organisational economy
subject: new industrial organisation theory
subject: market attractiveness
subject: Comté
subject: Cantal
subject: Parmigiano Reggiano
subject: Fontina
subject: Feta
subject: Boeren Leidse met Sleutels
subject: Noord Hollandse Edammer
subject: West Country Farmhouse Cheddar cheese
subject: Gruyère

description: This paper presents a method to assess the success of some PDO cheeses in a comparative way. The first part is a review of different meanings of the concept of performance according to the main theoretical approaches. We give a definition of the filière and select some criteria to assess the competitive position and the attractiveness of the reference markets in order to get an evaluation of the success in terms of prices and market shares. We try then to identify the main factors, which influence the competitive position of the product. Our research highlights that the success of the PDO cheeses is determined mainly by four determinants : • The specificity of the product (its typicality, price, convenience, taste, symbolic component and its representation by the consumers) ; • The effectiveness of the co-ordination (code of practice, governance structure, variety and quality management, promotional and research policies, lobbying ability) ; • The market attractiveness ; • The public supports. In conclusion, the concept of filière has to be studied more in depth at the theoretical level. If it is possible to highlight the role played by these production channels (several small-scaled firms) on the rural employment, it will be necessary to set up a better legal framework to encourage their activities and common strategies.
Motivations Behind Donor Funding Refusal: Towards a Typology of Principled Refusal
Creators: name: Cochrane, Logan
name: Wilson, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: NGOs are perceived as organisations that are always seeking funding. However, there are many instances where donations are refused by NGOs. This counter-intuitive decision, given the often grave humanitarian needs, is not well documented beyond brief references or individual cases. Refusal is an expression of values and principles, important for actors that are often portrayed as having little to no agency or power in relation to donors. We developed a database of 32 examples of funding refusals by NGOs detailing the reasons for refusal. To classify and compare the refusals, we developed a preliminary typology of NGO motivations for donor refusal, which contains four types (independence, impartiality, neutrality, and humanity) that align with humanitarian principles. Each category and type are defined and examples of each are provided. Given the focal nature of NGOs in development activity, the lack of attention to funding refusal is notable. We address this lacuna by creating a database and developing a preliminary typology to provide a foundation for future research. This study contributes a novel typology to an under-studied topic. In so doing, this paper provides a foundation for studies of refusal to follow.
Additional file 7: of A qualitative exploration of Bahrain and Kuwait herbal medicine registration systems: policy implementation and readiness to change
Creators: name: Alostad, Azhar
name: Steinke, Douglas
name: Schafheutle, Ellen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: An analysis of the registration process of HMs at the Herbal Department, Dietary Supplement Department and Unclassified Department in the Kuwaiti drug regulatory authority, including similarities and differences between the three departments (DOCX 19 kb)
Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–2017
Creators: name: Ahmadzai, Hayatullah
name: Morrissey, Oliver
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: We use three waves (2011–2012 to 2016–2017) of nationally representative repeated cross section surveys to study the impact of crop diversification (number of crops grown) on household welfare, measured by real adult equivalent consumption and food expenditure and dietary diversity, in Afghanistan. Diversification is very low (almost half grow only one crop and fewer than a fifth grow three or more crops) but increased during the period. A multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) addressing selection bias and endogeneity is used to estimate average treatment effects of moving from one crop to two crops and then to three or more crops. The analysis shows that crop diversification increases household consumption and food spending, and, to a modest extent, dietary diversity compared to undiversified households. This holds irrespective of conflict although the effect varies; households experiencing violence tend to divert spending to food from other consumption spending and only the most diversified are able to increase spending compared to undiversified households. The evidence implies that supporting crop diversification can improve food security (through combined effects on spending and food diversity) and mitigate the negative impacts of conflict.
Improving the Josephson energy in High-T$_c$ superconducting junctions for ultra-fast electronics
Creators: name: Navarro, H.
name: Sirena, M.
name: Haberkorn, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the electrical transport in vertical Josephson tunnel junctions (area 400 $μm$$^2$) using GdBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$$_{-δ}$ electrodes and SrTiO$_3$ as an insulating barrier (with thicknesses between 1 nm and 4 nm). The results show Josephson coupling for junctions with SrTiO$_3$ barriers of 1 nm and 2 nm. The latter displays a Josephson of 8.9 mV at 12 K. This value is larger than the usually observed in planar arrays of junctions. Our results are promising for the development of superconducting electronic devices in the terahertz regime.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
The influence of binary stars on the kinematics of low-mass galaxies
Creators: name: De Rijcke, Sven
name: Dejonghe, Herwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the influence of binary stars on the measured kinematics of dwarf galaxies is investigated. Using realistic distributions of the orbital parameters (semi-major axis, eccentricity, ...), analytical expressions are derived for the changes induced by the presence of binary stars in the measured velocity moments of low-mass galaxies (such as the projected velocity dispersion and the 4th order Gauss-Hermite coefficient h4). It is shown that there is a noticeable change in the observed velocity dispersion if the intrinsic velocity dispersion of a galaxy is of the same order as the binary velocity dispersion. The kurtosis of the line-of-sight velocity distribution (LOSVD) is affected even at higher values of the intrinsic velocity dispersion.
The activities and experiences of speciality regional food producers in northern England : a qualitative study
Creators: name: Tregear, Angela
name: Tregear, Angela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: speciality regional foods
subject: producer behaviour
subject: market orientation
subject: qualitative study
subject: UK.

description: The production of speciality products attached to particular geographic areas is of growing importance to the agrifood sector in the UK. However, the centralised nature of the industry's infrastructure, together with the special nature of the products themselves, raise issues about innovation, the use of technology and effective marketing of territorial foods. This paper reports the results of a study which investigated the experiences, attitudes and motivations of speciality regional food producers situated in the north of England. The study adopted a qualitative approach, allowing in-depth exploration of the producers' views on their businesses, production processes, consumer relationships and future aspirations. Interviews were conducted with 15 speciality food producers, all of whom were members of local regional food promotion groups. The sample comprised a broad spectrum of different types of producer varying by factors such as size of operation, product sector, personal background and degree of training in production and marketing. Products offered by these producers showed different types and degrees of attachment to the local territory. The producers themselves were found to be highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their product sectors, and were found to hold strong views on issues such as product quality and authenticity, the use of supermarkets for distribution and adaptation of methods to meet customer needs. In both production and marketing, producers showed a combination of resistance to change and modification in some areas, while displaying high levels of innovation and entrepreneurship in others. Overall, the results give an insight into the current state of mind of a set of speciality producers in the UK. It is anticipated that the findings will be of use to policy-makers and advisers in the agrifood and SME sectors.
Inkjet-printed CMOS-integrated graphene–metal oxide sensors for breath analysis
Creators: name: Wu, Tien-Chun
name: De Luca, Andrea
name: Zhong, Qinyu
name: Zhu, Xiaoxi
name: Ogbeide, Osarenkhoe
name: Um, Doo-Seung
name: Hu, Guohua
name: Albrow-Owen, Tom
name: Udrea, Florin
name: Hasan, Tawfique
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/639/925/927/511
/639/925/918/1052
article

description: Abstract: Early diagnosis in exhaled breath is a key technology for next-generation personal healthcare monitoring. Current chemiresistive sensors, primarily based on metal oxide (MOx) thin films, have limited applicability in such portable systems due to their high power consumption, long recovery time, poor device-to-device consistency, and baseline drifts. To address these challenges for ammonia (NH3) detection in exhaled breath, a critical biomarker for a variety of kidney and liver problems, we present a formulation of a graphene–MOx functional ink-based sensing platform. We integrate our sensing layer directly onto miniaturized CMOS microhotplates (μHP) via inkjet printing, potentially enabling scalability and device-to-device performance repeatability. Using stage-by-stage temporal analysis, and a temperature-pulsed modulation (TM) strategy, we achieve ultrahigh responsivity (1500% at 10 ppm pure NH3), fast response and recovery time (28 and 43 s), ultralow power consumption (~6 mW), negligible baseline drift (<0.67%), excellent cross-device and cross-cycle consistency (<0.5% and <0.41% variation in responsivity) and long-term stability (<1% variation) in our graphene–zinc oxide (ZnO) formulation, outperforming conventional MOx chemiresistive sensors. We further mitigate the effect of humidity through our measurement protocols, while interference from acetone is compensated through the parallel deployment of an additional inkjet printed graphene–tungsten oxide (WO3) device as part of the sensor array. Our dual graphene–MOx formulations and their integration with ultralow power CMOS through inkjet printing represent a significant step towards reliable and portable multi-analyte breath diagnostics.
Operator product expansion in SL(2) conformal field theory
Creators: name: Hosomichi, Kazuo
name: Satoh, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the conformal field theories having affine SL(2) symmetry, we study the operator product expansion (OPE) involving primary fields in highest weight representations. For this purpose, we analyze properties of primary fields with definite SL(2) weights, and calculate their two- and three-point functions. Using these correlators, we show that the correct OPE is obtained when one of the primary fields belongs to the degenerate highest weight representation. We briefly comment on the OPE in the SL(2,R) WZNW model.
description: 10 pages, latex, discussion on primaries added, shortened version to appear in MPL A
Additional file 8: of A qualitative exploration of Bahrain and Kuwait herbal medicine registration systems: policy implementation and readiness to change
Creators: name: Alostad, Azhar
name: Steinke, Douglas
name: Schafheutle, Ellen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: An analysis of factors affecting the Kuwaiti drug regulatory authorityâ s readiness to implement the proposed recommendations (DOCX 21 kb)