cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
If you want to go far go together - Collaborative research supported by NanoCommons transnational access
Creators: name: Lynch, Iseult
name: Exner, Thomas
name: Svendsen, Claus
name: Furxhi, Irini
name: Maier, Dieter
name: Simeone, Felice
name: Sarimveis, Haralambos
name: Doganis, Philip
name: Afantitis, Antreas
name: Himly, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: On Tuesday, 9th Nov 2021, the NanoCommons team, in a joint initiative with the NanoSafety Cluster, offered an online webinar on the use of their Nanoinformatics data services & tools accessible via the NanoCommons Infrastructure and Knowledge Base (NC KB). Hosts: Christine Balmer, UKCEH, UK, Beatriz Alfaro-Serrano, BNN, AT, Martin Himly, PLUS, AT, Chair of NanoSafety Cluster WG-A on Education, Training, and Communication The H2020 research e-infrastructure project NanoCommons is fostering collaborative research by trying to bring the nanosafety community together to work hands-on on the establishment of ways to make data and software platforms, developed in the different projects, to talk to each other. In order to give this a major push, we organised a workshop where, first, different organisations, that have already applied for Transnational Access (TA) projects with NanoCommons, reported about their experiences. This was followed by presentations on how the learnings from these projects resulted in collaboration and interoperability concepts, which could be extended to span across different tools and platforms, and on the upcoming training activities of NanoCommons and other possible follow-ups to this workshop. This workshop showcased how NanoCommons could support all of you, individually and as a group, as independent data harmoniser, platform harmoniser (e.g. through joint APIs, containerisation solutions, etc.) and overall data/metadata consultant not creating new tools or replacing existing solutions but to bring all these closer together so that they can be combined into integrated workflows. This could be based on common metadata and data standards, linking of data warehouses, workflow tools (KNIME, Jupyter) and deployment options to combine different services with complementary features. This could also be supplemented by ways of collaborative dissemination of the results from the projects and knowledge sharing like common service catalogues, training and knowledge platforms and the shared usage of applications like electronic lab notebooks. These are just some first thought-starters but of course we are open to hearing your needs and even more important things you could / would like to bring in. Attached here you find the pdf of the entire webinar slide set. The webinar recording is amongst others available online at the NanoCommons YouTube channel, for a direct link to the recordings of this event click here. Furthermore, you find additional information on related trainings at the NanoCommons Infrastructure, in the NanoCommons Customer Guidance Handbook, and at the ELIXIR TeSS channel of NanoCommons.
Additional file 1 of Centralisation of acute obstetric care in the Netherlands: a qualitative study to explore the experiences of stakeholders with adaptations in organisation of care
Creators: name: van den Berg, Lauri M.M.
name: Gordon, Bernardus Benjamin Maria
name: Kleefstra, Sophia M.
name: Martijn, Lucie
name: van Dillen, Jeroen
name: Verhoeven, Corine J.
name: de Jonge, Ank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Data Stewardship Wizard: Představení
Creators: name: Suchánek, Marek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data Stewardship Wizard
DSW
data management plan
DMP
research data management
RDM
open science

description: Prezentace přednášky ze školení "Open science: od dat k publikování". Pořadatel: Centrum pro podporu open science, Univerzita Karlova Stránky akce: https://openscience.cuni.cz/OSCI-117.html Záznam přednášky: https://youtu.be/pvN0gPqBMzk
Responsible innovation in layer poultry farming: Are organic consumers sufficiently informed about the current situation of killing day-old male chicks to contribute to the innovation process?
Creators: name: Schröter, Iris
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Currently, there is no societal consensus on the handling of male chicks in layer poultry farming. When searching for responsible innovation in the face of ethical concerns due to the killing of these day-old male chicks, consumers as main stakeholders should be involved in the innovation process. However, participation in the innovation process requires sufficient knowledge of the current situation and its alternatives, since only this knowledge allows informed judgments. In order to gain insight into consumers’ knowledge and their attitudes towards the alternative of rearing the male chicks, we conducted 146 tablet-aided standardised personal interviews with customers of a German organic butcher’s shop, as these customers may be a target group for cockerel products. The results reveal the respondents’ profound disapproval about the current situation of killing day-old male chicks, but also show a considerable lack of knowledge. We conclude that comprehensive educational work is necessary to enable consumers to form a sound opinion and to participate in the innovation process.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
Electromagnetically induced switching of ferroelectric thin films
Creators: name: Caputo, J. -G.
name: Kazantseva, E. V.
name: Maimistov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the interaction of an electromagnetic spike (one cycle) with a thin layer of ferroelectric medium with two equilibrium states. The model is the set of Maxwell equations coupled to the undamped Landau-Khalatnikov equation, where we do not assume slowly varying envelopes. From linear scattering theory, we show that low amplitude pulses can be completely reflected by the medium. Large amplitude pulses can switch the ferroelectric. Using numerical simulations and analysis, we study this switching for long and short pulses, estimate the switching times and provide useful information for experiments.
Mixing internal and spacetime transformations: some examples and counterexamples
Creators: name: Percacci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This note addresses the question whether in a gauge theory coupled to gravity internal and spacetime transformation can be mixed. It is shown that if the VEV of the gauge field is flat, the symmetry group is always a product of internal and spacetime symmetries. On the other hand, if the VEV of the gauge field is not flat it is impossible to properly define the notion of a ``spacetime'' transformation; as a consequence, if the symmetry group is nontrivial, mixing generically occurs.
description: Plain TEX, 6 pages
LDA+Gutzwiller Method for Correlated Electron Systems
Creators: name: Deng, XiaoYu
name: Dai, Xi
name: Fang, Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining the density functional theory (DFT) and the Gutzwiller variational approach, a LDA+Gutzwiller method is developed to treat the correlated electron systems from {\it ab-initio}. All variational parameters are self-consistently determined from total energy minimization. The method is computationally cheaper, yet the quasi-particle spectrum is well described through kinetic energy renormalization. It can be applied equally to the systems from weakly correlated metals to strongly correlated insulators. The calculated results for SrVO$_3$, Fe, Ni and NiO, show dramatic improvement over LDA and LDA+U.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Additional file 1 of High NANOG expression correlates with worse patients’ survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Knipper, Karl
name: Damanakis, Alexander I.
name: Lyu, Su Ir
name: Simon, Adrian Georg
name: Wahler, Isabell
name: Bruns, Christiane J.
name: Schröder, Wolfgang
name: Schmidt, Thomas
name: Quaas, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
title: Adaptive Personalization in Driver Assistance Systems
Creators: name: Dang, Hien
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: Personalization is the task that aims at improving quality of products and services by adapting itself to the current user. In the context of automotive applications, personalization is not only about how drivers sets up the position of their seat or their favorite radio channels. Going beyond that, personalization is also about the preference of driving styles and the individual behaviors in every maneuver executions. One key challenge in personalization is to be able to capture and understand the users from the historical data produced by the users. The data are usually presented in form of time series and in some cases, those time series can be remarkably long. Capturing and learning from such data poses a challenge for machine learning models. To deal with this problem, this thesis presents an approach that makes uses of recurrent neural networks to capture the time series of behavioral data of drivers and predict theirs lane change intentions. In comparison to previous works, our approach is capable of predicting not only driver's intention as predefined discrete classes (i.e. left, right and lane keeping) but also as continuous values of the time left until the drivers cross the lane markings. This provides additional information for advanced driver-assistance systems to decide when to warn drivers and when to intervene. There are two further aspects that need to be considered when developing a personalized assistance system: inter- and intra-personalization. The former refers to the differences between different users whereas the later indicates the changes in preferences in one user over time (i.e. the differences in driving styles when driving to work versus when being on a city sightseeing tour). In the scope of this thesis, both problems of inter- and intra-personalization are addressed and tackled. Our approach exploits the correlation in driving style between consecutively executed maneuvers to quickly derive the driver's current preferences. The introduced networks architecture outperforms non-personalized approaches in predicting the preference of driver when turning left. To tackle inter-personalization problems, this thesis makes use of the Siamese architecture with long short-term memory networks for identifying drivers based on vehicle dynamic information. The evaluation, which is carried out on real-world data set collected from 32 test drivers, shows that the network is able to identify unseen drivers. Further analysis on the trained network indicates that it identifies drivers by comparing their behaviors, especially the approaching and turning behaviors.
Production and Business Results of Wine Producers in Continental and Adriatic Croatia
Creators: name: Čop, Tajana
name: Juračak, Josip
name: Njavro, Mario
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Currently, there is no societal consensus on the handling of male chicks in layer poultry farming. When searching for responsible innovation in the face of ethical concerns due to the killing of these day-old male chicks, consumers as main stakeholders should be involved in the innovation process. However, participation in the innovation process requires sufficient knowledge of the current situation and its alternatives, since only this knowledge allows informed judgments. In order to gain insight into consumers’ knowledge and their attitudes towards the alternative of rearing the male chicks, we conducted 146 tablet-aided standardised personal interviews with customers of a German organic butcher’s shop, as these customers may be a target group for cockerel products. The results reveal the respondents’ profound disapproval about the current situation of killing day-old male chicks, but also show a considerable lack of knowledge. We conclude that comprehensive educational work is necessary to enable consumers to form a sound opinion and to participate in the innovation process.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
X-ray spectra of sources in the 13H XMM-Newton / Chandra deep field
Creators: name: Page, M. J.
name: Loaring, N. S.
name: Dwelly, T.
name: Mason, K. O.
name: McHardy, I.
name: Gunn, K.
name: Moss, D.
name: Sasseen, T.
name: Cordova, F.
name: Kennea, J.
name: Seymour, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the X-ray spectra of 86 optically-identified sources in the 13H XMM-Newton/Chandra deep field which have >70 X-ray counts. The sample consists of 50 broad line AGN, 25 narrow emission line galaxies, 6 absorption line galaxies, and 5 Galactic stars. The majority (42/50) of the broad line AGN have X-ray spectra which are consistent with a power law shape. They have a mean photon index of Gamma = 2.0 +- 0.1 and an intrinsic dispersion sigma = 0.4 +- 0.1. Five BLAGN show a deficit of soft X-rays, indicating absorption. Significant absorption is more common in the narrow emission line galaxies (13/25) and absorption line galaxies (2/6) than in the broad line AGN (5/50), but is not universal in any of these classes of object. The majority of the 20 absorbed sources have X-ray spectra consistent with a simple cold photoelectric absorber, but 6/20 require more complex models with either an additional component of soft X-ray emitting plasma, or an ionised absorber. Of the 16 galaxies which do not show evidence for X-ray absorption, only 2 objects are likely to be powered by star formation, and both have 2-10 keV X-ray luminosities of <= 10^40 cgs. The X-ray emission in the other 14 unabsorbed NELGs and galaxies is most likely powered by AGN, which are not detected in the optical because they are outshone by their luminous host galaxies. The Galactic stars show multi-temperature thermal spectra which peak between 0.5 and 1 keV. Star/AGN discrimination is possible for 4 of the 5 stars solely from their X-ray spectra.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Nutraceutic Food: Testing The Consumer’s WTP for Sunflower PUFA Oil
Creators: name: Rosa, F.
name: Nasssivera, F.
name: Taverna, M.
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Nutraceutical foods are supposed to procure medical or health benefits beyond the effects of nutrients compounds alone. However, few of them are accompanied by convincing health claims, as the response to nutraceutical components varies from subject to subject, depends on the concentration of bioactive components and their efficacy must be tested in repeated clinical trials. Many medical studies have proved the non-substitutable roles of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (PUFA) in many biological and regulatory patterns. The purpose of this research is to test the consumers’ attitude to sunflower PUFA oil and their willingness to pay (WTP) a premium price for the quality of this nutraceutical food. The inference is based on the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) able to capture the complexity of credence quality of this nutraceutical oil to influence the customer decisions. A survey with “ad hoc” questionnaire using CASI technique was submitted to a sample of consumers located in the northeast region FVG in Italy. The results confirmed the two above hypotheses and suggested to frame the communication strategy according with claim regulation to strengthen the customization for PUFA sunflower oil.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
The impact of climate variability and extremes on agriculture and food security - An analysis of the evidence and case studies
Creators: name: Holleman, C.
name: Rembold, F.
name: Crespo, O.
name: Conti, V.
name: Holleman, C.
name: Rembold, F.
name: Crespo, O.
name: Conti, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate change
subject: extreme weather events
subject: food security
subject: agricultural sector
subject: analysis
subject: case studies

description: Global climate studies show that not only temperatures are increasing and precipitation levels are becoming more varied, all projections indicate these trends will continue. It is therefore imperative that we understand changes in climate over agricultural areas and their impacts on agriculture production and food security. This study presents new analysis on the impact of changing climate on agriculture and food security, by examining the evidence on recent climate variability and extremes over agricultural areas and the impact of these on agriculture and food security. It shows that more countries are exposed to increasing climate variability and extremes and the frequency (the number of years exposed in a five-year period) and intensity (the number of types of climate extremes in a five-year period) of exposure over agricultural areas have increased. The findings of this study are compelling and bring urgency to the fact that climate variability and extremes are proliferating and intensifying and are contributing to a rise in global hunger. The world’s 2.5 billion small-scale farmers, herders, fishers, and forest-dependent people, who derive their food and income from renewable natural resources, are most at risk and affected. Actions to strengthen the resilience of livelihoods and food systems to climate variability and extremes urgently need to be scaled up and accelerated. This publication was developed as a background study for "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018" (available at http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/I9553EN).
description: FAO Document Repository: https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2415en
Optimal control of atom transport for quantum gates in optical lattices
Creators: name: De Chiara, G.
name: Calarco, T.
name: Anderlini, M.
name: Montangero, S.
name: Lee, P. J.
name: Brown, B. L.
name: Phillips, W. D.
name: Porto, J. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of optimal control techniques we model and optimize the manipulation of the external quantum state (center-of-mass motion) of atoms trapped in adjustable optical potentials. We consider in detail the cases of both non interacting and interacting atoms moving between neighboring sites in a lattice of a double-well optical potentials. Such a lattice can perform interaction-mediated entanglement of atom pairs and can realize two-qubit quantum gates. The optimized control sequences for the optical potential allow transport faster and with significantly larger fidelity than is possible with processes based on adiabatic transport.
description: revised version: minor changes, 2 references added, published version
Biomechanics of rheotaxis in hill stream fish
Creators: name: Macdonnell, John Andrew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Behaviour to increased water velocity is examined in fast stream fish (Otocinclus, Hypostomus, Pterygoplichthys, Chaetostoma and Gyrinocheilus) and a slow water form (Farlowella). Behaviour can be divided into two stages; resting and adhesion (Chapter I). In Otocinclus a third fin extension stage is apparent. Based on the slipping velocity of live and dead fish it is determined that Gyrinocheilus has the greatest station holding ability on a smooth perspex surface. This is attributed to a complete seal produced by its oral sucker lips (closed sucker). Station-holding ability is also examined on rougher surfaces. Slipping does not occur in any of the genera at water velocities up to 90 cm s⁻¹. Morphological adaptations (eg. oral sucker, pectoral fins, frictional pad and odontodes) that may contribute to increasing slipping velocity are examined. In Otocinclus these structures are analyzed using a Scanning Electron Microscope. Otocinclus is the only genera with the ventral dermal plates between the pelvic and pectoral fins organized laterally into a frictional pad. Drag on fish is directly measured with strain gauges and used to calculate drag coefficients (0.10 - 0.94; Chapter II). Drag coefficients for low fineness ratio (length/height < 10) forms at Reynold's numbers below 10⁴ compare poorly with literature values for technical bodies. Drag coefficients determined for fish are high due to roughness and interference drag produced by the fins. Using morphological measurements, dead slipping velocities, drag coefficients, static frictional coefficients and submerged body weight, lift coefficients (-0.55 - 1.23) calculated. Fast stream fish maximize slipping speed by having high frictional coefficients (0.67 - 0.95, on a smooth perspex surface), density (1.03 -1.10 g cm⁻³), rheotactic suction pressure (13 - 173 N m⁻²) and negative lift Although Farlowella has high density (1.129 g cm⁻³) and a low drag coefficient (0.23), its lift to drag ratio is high (6.71) and rheotactic suction pressures (2 - 27 N m⁻²) are low. In general Farlowella does not exhibit hydrodynamic, behavioural or morphological characteristics that enhance station-holding.
Elastic s-wave B pi, D pi, D K and K pi scattering from lattice calculations of scalar form factors in semileptonic decays
Creators: name: Flynn, Jonathan M
name: Nieves, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how theoretical, principally lattice, calculations of the scalar form factors in semileptonic pseudoscalar-to-pseudoscalar decays can be used to extract information about the corresponding elastic s-wave scattering channels. We find values for the scattering lengths m_pi a = 0.179(17)(14), 0.26(26) and 0.29(4) for elastic s-wave isospin-1/2 K pi, B pi and D pi channels respectively. We also determine phase shifts. For the D K channel we find hints that there is a bound state which can be identified with the recently discovered D_{s0}^+(2317).
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures: version accepted for publication
Perspectives on diversification prospects for the agrifood industry in Guyana
Creators: name: Bubbico, A.
name: Keller, M.
name: Morales Opazo, C.
name: Bubbico, A.
name: Keller, M.
name: Morales Opazo, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agrifood sector
subject: agricultural sector
subject: natural disasters
subject: vulnerability
subject: agricultural production
subject: agricultural development
subject: diversification
subject: investment
subject: agricultural trade
subject: trade policies
subject: Guyana

description: The analysis in this report aims to guide policymaking in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana in support of the agricultural development and diversification strategy and support decision making to foster a rapid, sustainable, and successful agricultural transformation process. The aim is to identify the most critical challenges for Guyana’s agricultural sector, explore the relationships among agricultural diversification and agricultural development, and finally, to determine the agricultural subsectors and products that show export potential for Guyana.
description: FAO Document Repository: https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9754en
MOESM1 of Deletion of either the regulatory gene ara1 or metabolic gene xki1 in Trichoderma reesei leads to increased CAZyme gene expression on crude plant biomass
Creators: name: Benocci, Tiziano
name: Aguilar-Pontes, Maria
name: Kun, Roland
name: Lubbers, Ronnie
name: Lail, Kathleen
name: Wang, Mei
name: Lipzen, Anna
name: Ng, Vivian
name: Grigoriev, Igor
name: Seiboth, Bernhard
name: Daly, Paul
name: Vries, Ronald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table with sugar composition of corn stover (CS) and soybean hulls (SBH). According to literature lignin content (W/W) is around 15â 21% in CS [19] and 1â 4% in SBH [20].
Delphi-Based Foresight of Global Olive Oil Market Trends
Creators: name: Mili, Samir
name: Bouhaddane, Maria
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Forecasting of supply and demand in the olive oil value chain remains a hot topic partly due to the lack of comprehensive and consensual estimates at the international level. The aim of this study is to contribute to overcome this weakness by providing a foresight of global supply and demand for olive oil for the upcoming years, using an iterative consensus-building Delphi approach. Therefore, we estimate the expected annual growth rates in the olive oil production and consumption worldwide as well as their likely impact on Spanish exports. Another key objective of the study is to elicit expert judgements on the factors that are likely to shape the predicted changes as well as the international challenges ahead. Results point to substantial future increases in production in new-producing countries, in parallel with a slower growth in the EU traditional suppliers whose focus will increasingly be placed on the quality and sustainability rather than the quantity of olive oil produced. Likewise, a significant growth in the world demand for olive oil is expected mostly in non-traditional markets, which will be spurred by greater awareness and appreciation of the product’s health benefits, combined with the changes in lifestyles and the increasing purchasing power of several consumer segments. These emerging markets represent valuable opportunities for marketing and promoting olive oil as a highly valued product, and offer promising prospects for the international expansion of olive oil companies. Findings support decision-making and long-term strategic planning along the olive oil value chain. Researchers can use the results as a reference point for further study of the dynamics of world supply and demand for olive oil.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
Cerrado Mineiro Region D.O. Mark: Internationalization Strategy
Creators: name: De Almeida, Luciana Florêncio
name: Tarabal, Juliano
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: The specialty coffee market has been increasing consistently with growth rates above the traditional markets. The number of consumers who are willing to pay higher prices for high quality coffee has increased in recent years. The high-end independent coffee shops, known as HEICS, had spread all over the big cities such as New York, Shanghai, London and Berlin. Also, it’s intense the rivalry between world producers to positioned its product as high quality coffee. Colombia coffee has been a relevant marketing case demonstrating the power of country origin image. Brazil, instead, has a powerful image as world leader coffee producer but not necessarily connected with high quality. Cerrado Mineiro Region (CMR) and its Designation of Origin (D.O.) mark could be a starting point to change this scenario. The article presents the CMR D.O. mark in the perspective of its internationalization process. CMR was the first coffee region in Brazil to obtain the Indication of Origin in 2005 and the first region in the world to issue a D.O. seal for green coffee as well for roasting coffee in 2013. In 2017, there were 57 brands using the D.O. seal in their coffee packages, including one American roaster selling at the retailer Wholefoods.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
Market failures in supplying animal welfare: some conceptual thoughts for future research
Creators: name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
name: Schröter, Iris
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Providing adequate levels of farm animal welfare is a challenge in today’s societies. Economic research shows that neither market valuation for credence attributes in opaque markets, nor transparency improved market valuation with labelling schemes, nor non-market valuation in hypothetical markets to take account of non-use values, nor non-monetary valuation in an ethical context will suffice to provide adequate levels of farm animal welfare. Monetary and non-monetary valuation problems stem from the complex concept of farm animal welfare and ethical challenges in utilitarian and anthropocentric approaches. Animal centred valuation of farm animal welfare is suggested as one future venue of economic research requiring to leave behind speciesism.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
The Interpretation and Implication of the Afterglow of GRB 060218
Creators: name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Piran, Tsvi
name: Xu, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nearby GRB 060216/SN 2006aj was an extremely long, weak and very soft GRB. It was peculiar in many aspects. We show here that the X-ray, ultraviolet/optical and radio afterglow of GRB 060218 have to be attributed to different physical processes arising from different emission regions. From the several components in this burst's afterglow only the radio afterglow can be interpreted in terms of the common external shock model. We infer from the radio that the blast wave's kinetic energy was $\sim 10^{50}$ erg and the circumburst matter had a constant rather than a wind profile. The lack of a "jet break" up to 22 days implies that the outflow was wide $θ_j >1$. Even though the late X-ray afterglow decays normally it cannot result from an external shock because of its very steep spectrum. Furthermore, the implied kinetic energy would have produced far too much radio. We suggest that this X-ray afterglow could be attributed to a continued activity of the central engine that within the collapsar scenario could arise from fall-back accretion. "Central engine afterglow" may be common in under-luminous GRBs where the kinetic energy of the blast wave is small and the external shock does not dominate over this component. Such under-luminous GRBs might be very common but they are rarely recorded because they can be detected only from short distances.
description: 13 pages and 1 figure, submitted to JCAP
Scolopendromorpha Attems 1930
Creators: name: Akkari, Nesrine
name: Stoev, Pavel
name: Lewis, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha

description: Key for identification of the scolopendromorph centipedes of Tunisia 1(2) with 4 ocelli on each side of cephalic plate (Family Scolopendridae)...............3 2(1) Head without ocelli. Ultimate legs with saw teeth on tibia and tarsus 1 (Family Cryptopidae)..................................................................................................9 3(4) Legs without tarsal spurs, pretarsus of ultimate leg longer than tarsus 2, spiracles very small................................................................. Cormocephalus gervaisianus 4(3) Most legs with tarsal spurs, pretarsus of ultimate leg markedly shorter than tarsus.............................................................................................................. 5 5(6) First spiracle (of leg-bearing segment 3) oval (Fig. 21), the rest round..................................................................................................... Otostigmus spinicaudus 6(5) Spiracles triangular (Fig. 4), more or less parallel to body axis.........................7 7(8) Leg 1 with two tarsal spurs (Fig. 3); coxopleural process generally long, with at least six spines sited laterally as well as distally (Fig. 5); prefemur of ultimate leg with two rows of spines ventrolaterally and two ventromedially (Fig. 7)................................................................................................................... S. canidens 8(7) Leg 1 with one tarsal spur (Fig. 10); coxopleural process short, with at most five distal spines, none laterally (Fig. 11); prefemur of ultimate leg with, at most, three rows of three spines ventrally (Fig. 13); femur and sometimes tibia in males flattened with ridged lateral and median edges...................... S. morsitans 9(10) Tergite 1 with anterior transverse suture from which run two diverging sutures to the posterior border of the tergite (Fig. 26)............................... C. trisulcatus 10(9) Tergite 1 with anterior transverse suture only (Fig. 28)...................... C. punicus
description: Published as part of Akkari, Nesrine, Stoev, Pavel & Lewis, John, 2008, The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) of Tunisia: taxonomy, distribution and habitats, pp. 77-102 in ZooKeys 3 (3) on pages 99-100, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.3.51, http://zenodo.org/record/576419
Estimation of the Economic Losses of the Waste from the Most Important Vegetable and Fruit Crops in Egypt
Creators: name: Shehata, Gaber Ahmed Bassyouni
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Increasing the waste of agricultural crops in general and vegetable and fruit crops specially, consider one of the main problems which cause economic losses for Egyptian economy. The main objective of the research is estimating of the economic losses for the waste from the most important vegetable and fruit crops in Egypt. The research depends on two kinds of data, time serious data which collected from different sources local and foreign, and cross section data represent during using a random sample collected from AL- Behaira governorate. The problem of waste considers one of the most important problems that face the agricultural crops, which hinder the performance of the agricultural sector, and the crops of vegetables and fruits of the most important agricultural crops are damaged due to their physical nature and impact of natural factors compared to other crops, causing significant losses of agricultural production and Egyptian food security. The agricultural production waste causing significant losses in national agricultural income and agricultural exports. The losses also cause waste in agricultural resources, specially land, irrigation water and capital and its limited resources in Egyptian agriculture. The results showed that the average annual quantity of Egyptian potatoand orange wastes represented about 135.8% and about 55% of the average quantities of potato exported during the study period, which confirms the importance and necessity of reducing the quantity of waste in the important export potato crop, because if the conservation of this quantity of losses and re-evaluation at the prices of Egyptian exports of the potato and orange exported, the average value of this wastes are about $ 419.4 million and $ 118.75 million, respectively. The study showed that the economic losses represents a loss in the actual cultivated area of potato and orange crops a losses in potato and orange exports, a losses in farmers income, andlosses in irrigation water. In light of the results obtained from the research, it recommends the following: To reduce the production waste in potato and orange crops, attention should be paid to good pruning, pest control and fertilization. Exclude the damaged fruits when sorting so as not to damage others. Use of transport vehicles equipped to maintain goods.The speed of sorting goods by traders as soon as they reach the retail market.To improve the quality of the containers used and to be strong plastic for transporting and displaying the goods.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
A new two-sphere singularity in general relativity
Creators: name: Boehmer, Christian G.
name: Lobo, Francisco S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Florides solution, proposed as an alternative to the interior Schwarzschild solution, represents a static and spherically symmetric geometry with vanishing radial stresses. It is regular at the center, and is matched to an exterior Schwarzschild solution. The specific case of a constant energy density has been interpreted as the field inside an Einstein cluster. In this work, we are interested in analyzing the geometry throughout the permitted range of the radial coordinate without matching it to the Schwarzschild exterior spacetime at some constant radius hypersurface. We find an interesting picture, namely, the solution represents a three-sphere, whose equatorial two-sphere is singular, in the sense that the curvature invariants and the tangential pressure diverge. As far as we know, such singularities have not been discussed before. In the presence of a large negative cosmological constant (anti-de Sitter) the singularity is removed.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Procurement Price Change Outcomes for Producer & Processor along Supply Chain
Creators: name: Bezat-Jarzębowska, Agnieszka
name: Rembisz, Włodzimierz
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: The article focuses on the issue of changes in prices received and paid to an agricultural producer and agri-food processor as a source of changes in the profitability of production. The same purchase price for the first is the price received, for the second price paid. The same movement of the price, i.e. its decrease or increase, is also a source of changes in the profitability of production for both entities. However, its mechanism is different. The description of this mechanism for the agricultural producer and food processor is the subject of the remark in this article. Profitability is, as it is known, the basis of the objective function of both entities. Their own analytical reasoning which captures the essence of this mechanism has been derived. Production profitability ratios for both entities are the basis of the approach. These profitability ratios are determined by the production efficiency indexes and the relations of price received and paid. Understanding of the concept is helpful for explaining the sources of price risk for an agricultural producer and agri-food processor. In addition to derivation of analytical formulas describing the mechanism of changes in profitability, which is the main goal adopted in the article, this was subjected to initial empirical illustration, to confirm the correctness of reasoning, in particular to confirm the relationship between indicators adopted in the paper. An empirical analysis of price risk was not the goal.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
Potential Applications of Food-Scanners in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains and Possible Consequences for the German Market
Creators: name: Goisser, Simon
name: Mempel, Heike
name: Bitsch, Vera
Publisher: name: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019

description: Originally advertised as tools for end-consumers, food-scanners have recently gained publicity and show potential as instruments for quality assessment along the fruit and vegetable supply chain. The current study explores preferences and concerns of chain actors regarding the implementation of this technology through semi-structured interviews. Results indicate that food-scanners could facilitate quality control at different levels of the fresh produce supply chain by providing fast, non-destructive and objective measurements. Concerns about the application of food-scanners could be identified with respect to potential additional requirements of trading companies resulting in more pressure on producers. The use of food-scanners by end-consumers is discussed critically. To further a goal-oriented and user-directed development of this new technology, future research should be directed at its impacts on perception of fruit quality along the chain as well as end-consumers’ readiness to use these devices in everyday life.
description: Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in Systerm Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2019
'Keepers of Morale' : the Vancouver Council of Women, 1939-1945
Creators: name: Rose, Ramona M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Historians differ as to whether World War II brought about major changes in women's public and private roles. Using the Vancouver Council of Women as a case study, this thesis argues that its war-time activities were conducted in terms of a continuing ideology about women's roles, which enabled the VCW to adapt to the war-time situation requiring women to take on duties outside their traditional sphere, while limiting its ability to perceive a wider social role for women. The VCW's response to the war was a concerted effort to promote government policies at home while furthering the tenets of its maternal feminist philosophy. Relying on what it considered to be women's feminine talents the VCW maintained that women's efforts were best put to use in war fund drives and the protection of the home front. [The VCW's assistance in the mobilization of women into paid war work that incorporated their traditional work experiences revealed the narrow perception that it had of women's public sphere.] Its resolutions for post-war planning failed to offer broadening possibilities for women in the post-war world. Patriotism, the preservation of the ideals of home life and the promotion of women's feminine qualities were more important to the VCW than the pursuit of broad feminist goals. The war was not to alter the VCW's views regarding women's proper sphere; its beliefs and activities signified a continuation of prewar views regarding women's public and private status. Women's proper sphere was still domestic.
Event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS
Creators: name: Grebieszkow, K.
name: Alt, C.
name: Anticic, T.
name: Baatar, B.
name: Barna, D.
name: Bartke, J.
name: Betev, L.
name: Białkowska, H.
name: Blume, C.
name: Boimska, B.
name: Botje, M.
name: Bracinik, J.
name: Bramm, R.
name: Bunčić, P.
name: Cerny, V.
name: Christakoglou, P.
name: Chung, P.
name: Chvala, O.
name: Cramer, J. G.
name: Csató, P.
name: Dinkelaker, P.
name: Eckardt, V.
name: Flierl, D.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Foka, P.
name: Friese, V.
name: Gál, J.
name: Gaździcki, M.
name: Genchev, V.
name: Georgopoulos, G.
name: Gładysz, E.
name: Hegyi, S.
name: Höhne, C.
name: Kadija, K.
name: Karev, A.
name: Kikola, D.
name: Kliemant, M.
name: Kniege, S.
name: Kolesnikov, V. I.
name: Kornas, E.
name: Korus, R.
name: Kowalski, M.
name: Kraus, I.
name: Kreps, M.
name: Laszlo, A.
name: Lacey, R.
name: van Leeuwen, M.
name: Lévai, P.
name: Litov, L.
name: Lungwitz, B.
name: Makariev, M.
name: Malakhov, A. I.
name: Mateev, M.
name: Melkumov, G. L.
name: Mischke, A.
name: Mitrovski, M.
name: Molnár, J.
name: Mrówczyński, St.
name: Nicolic, V.
name: Pálla, G.
name: Panagiotou, A. D.
name: Panayotov, D.
name: Petridis, A.
name: Peryt, W.
name: Pikna, M.
name: Pluta, J.
name: Prindle, D.
name: Pühlhofer, F.
name: Renfordt, R.
name: Roland, C.
name: Roland, G.
name: Rybczyński, M.
name: Rybicki, A.
name: Sandoval, A.
name: Schmitz, N.
name: Schuster, T.
name: Seyboth, P.
name: Siklér, F.
name: Sitar, B.
name: Skrzypczak, E.
name: Slodkowski, M.
name: Stefanek, G.
name: Stock, R.
name: Strabel, C.
name: Ströbele, H.
name: Susa, T.
name: Szentpétery, I.
name: Sziklai, J.
name: Szuba, M.
name: Szymanski, P.
name: Trubnikov, V.
name: Varga, D.
name: Vassiliou, M.
name: Veres, G. I.
name: Vesztergombi, G.
name: Vranić, D.
name: Wetzler, A.
name: Włodarczyk, Z.
name: Wojtaszek, A.
name: Yoo, I. K.
name: Zimányi, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest NA49 results on event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations are presented for central Pb+Pb interactions over the whole SPS energy range (20A - 158A GeV). Two different methods are applied: evaluating the $Φ_{p_{T}}$ fluctuation measure and studying two-particle transverse momentum correlations. The obtained results are compared to predictions of the UrQMD model. The results on the energy dependence are compared to the NA49 data on the system size dependence. The NA61 (SHINE, NA49-future) strategy of searching of the QCD critical end-point is also discussed.
description: proceedings article from CPOD07 (figure 7 - updated, reference 2 - modified)
Star formation bursts in isolated spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Clarke, C.
name: Gittins, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the response of the gaseous component of a galactic disc to the time dependent potential generated by N-body simulations of a spiral galaxy. The results show significant variation of the spiral structure of the gas which might be expected to result in significant fluctuations in the Star Formation Rate (SFR). Pronounced local variations of the SFR are anticipated in all cases. Bursty histories for the global SFR, however, require that the mean surface density is much less (around an order of magnitude less) than the putative threshold for star formation. We thus suggest that bursty star formation histories, normally attributed to mergers and/or tidal interactions, may be a normal pattern for gas poor isolated spiral galaxies.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures To be published in Monthly Notices Roy. Astr. Soc
Photometric study of distant open clusters in the second quadrant: NGC 7245, King 9, King 13 and IC 166
Creators: name: Subramaniam, Annapurni
name: Bhatt, Bhuwan Chandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a UBV CCD photometric study of four open clusters, NGC 7245, King 9, IC 166 and King 13, located between $l = 90^o - 135^o$. All are embedded in a rich galactic field. NGC 7245 and King 9 are close together in the sky and have similar reddenings. The distances and ages are: NGC 7245, 3.8$\pm$0.35 kpc and 400 Myr; King 9 (the most distant cluster in this quadrant) 7.9$\pm$1.1 kpc and 3.0 Gyr. King 13 is 3.1$\pm$0.3 kpc distant and 300 Myr old. King 9 and IC 166 (4.8$\pm$0.5 kpc distant & 1 Gyr old) may be metal poor clusters (Z=0.008), as estimated from isochrone fitting. The average value of the distance of young clusters from the galactic plane in the above longitude range and beyond 2 kpc ($-47\pm$16 pc, for 64 clusters), indicates that the young disk bends towards the southern latitudes.
description: To appear in MNRAS