cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the Distribution of Net Benefits from Sustainability Initiatives in Agri-Food Supply Chains
Creators: name: Ross, Brent
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Ross, Kara L.
name: Ross, Brent
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Ross, Kara L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: sustainability
subject: strategy
subject: food

description: Sustainability initiatives are frequently imposed on upstream supply chain members by their more powerful downstream partners. This paper assesses the challenges of estimating costs and benefits for participants and the difficulties associated with identifying their locations and effects in the supply chain. The paper argues that the success and endurance of agri-food supply chains that purport to pursue sustainability objectives depend critically on the distribution of the associated costs and benefits. It calls on supply chain leaders to give careful consideration to the distribution of net benefits across the chain to ensure that opportunism and moral hazard are minimized.
Energy-based Modelling of the Feedback Control of Biomolecular Systems with Cyclic Flow Modulation
Creators: name: Gawthrop, Peter J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Energy-based modelling brings engineering insight to the understanding of biomolecular systems. It is shown how well-established control engineering concepts, such as loop-gain, arise from energy feedback loops and are therefore amenable to control engineering insight. In particular, a novel method is introduced to allow the transfer function based approach of classical linear control to be utilised in the analysis of feedback systems modelled by network thermodynamics and thus amalgamate energy-based modelling with control systems analysis. The approach is illustrated using a class of metabolic cycles with activation and inhibition leading the concept of Cyclic Flow Modulation.
VLBA Polarization Observations of Markarian 421 After a Gamma-Ray High State
Creators: name: Piner, B. Glenn
name: Edwards, Philip G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present four high dynamic range, dual-circular polarization, Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 22 GHz of Markarian 421, taken throughout the year following the source's unprecedented gamma-ray high state in early 2001. These four new VLBA observations are combined with data from our earlier 1999 paper and archival VLBA data-sets that have become available since 1999 to produce a combined 28 epoch VLBA data-set on Mrk 421 spanning the years 1994 to 2002. No new component associated with the 2001 flares was seen on the total intensity images, but the combined data-set allowed precise measurements of the apparent speeds of the existing components. The peak measured apparent speed was for component C5, which has an apparent speed of 0.1 +/- 0.02 c (H_0=71 km s^{-1} Mpc^{-1}, Omega_m=0.27, and Omega_Lambda=0.73). No counterjet is seen with a limit on the jet to counterjet brightness ratio J >~ 100. These observed VLBI properties of Markarian 421 are consistent with a jet with a bulk Lorentz factor of about 2 and an angle to the line-of-sight of about 1 degree, suggesting a jet that decelerates between the gamma-ray producing region and the parsec scale. The VLBI core and inner jet (component C7) have fractional polarizations of about 5%, and an electric vector position angle (EVPA) aligned with the jet axis. Component C5 (at 1.5 mas from the core) has a higher fractional polarization of about 15%, and an EVPA nearly orthogonal to the jet axis. Significant variability is detected in the EVPA of component C6, which at two of the four epochs shows an EVPA aligned with the jet axis, possibly a sign of propagating disturbances that are only visible on the polarization images. If these propagating disturbances are linked to the 2001 gamma-ray high state, then their inferred apparent speed is between 1 and 3 c.
description: 11 pages, accepted to ApJ
Models and phenomenology
Creators: name: Erlykin, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is evident that models of the knee should match the observational phenomenology. In this talk I discuss a few aspects of phenomenology, which are important not only for the understanding of the knee origin, but also for the general problem of the origin of cosmic rays. Among them are the shape of the energy spectrum, its irregularity, the sharpness of the knee and its fine structure. The classification of models is given and some examples of the most recent models are discussed. The most probable conclusion deduced from this examination is that the knee has an astrophysical origin and the so called 'source' models of the knee are most likely among them.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, overview talk at 19th European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Firenze, Italy, 30.08-4.09.2004 (to be published in the Int.J.Mod.Phys.A)
Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Eleven Southern States: Results from the 2005 Southern Precision Farming Survey
Creators: name: Cochran, Rebecca L.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Larson, James A.
name: Goodman, W. Robert
name: Larkin, Sherry L.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Martin, Steven W.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Shurley, W. Donald
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
name: Cochran, Rebecca L.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Larson, James A.
name: Goodman, W. Robert
name: Larkin, Sherry L.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Martin, Steven W.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Shurley, W. Donald
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: cotton
subject: precision farming
subject: survey

description: Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Eleven Southern States: Results from the 2005 Southern Precision Farming Survey
Generalized Sturmian Functions in prolate spheroidal coordinates
Creators: name: Mitnik, D. M.
name: Lopez, F. A.
name: Ancarani, L. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the aim of describing bound and continuum states for diatomic molecules, we develop and implement a spectral method that makes use of Generalized Sturmian Functions (GSF) in prolate spheroidal coordinates. In order to master all computational issues, we apply here the method to one--electron molecular ions and compare it with benchmark data for both ground and excited states. We actually propose two different computational schemes to solve the two coupled differential equations. The first one is an iterative 1d procedure in which one solves alternately the angular and the radial equations, the latter yielding the state energy. The second, named direct $2d$ method, consists in representing the Hamiltonian matrix in a two--dimensional GSF basis set, and its further diagonalization. Both spectral schemes are timewise computationally efficient since the basis elements are such that no derivatives have to be calculated numerically. Moreover, very accurate results are obtained with minimal basis sets. This is related on one side to the use of the natural coordinate system and, on the other, to the intrinsic good property of all GSF basis elements that are constructed as to obey appropriate physical boundary conditions. The present implementation for bound states paves the way for the study of continuum states involved in ionization of one or two--electron diatomic targets.
Rohling et al PandP second revision_R-codes with input files; and core-top delta18O delta13C data file
Creators: name: Rohling, Eelco J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370504
subject: Marine geoscience
classificationCode: 370904
subject: Palaeoclimatology

description: There is one R-code file (each uses the same six input .txt files that are given also).The model has 0,1 choice settings in lines 35 and 40 to choose the clumped isotope calibration (line 35) and the ice-sheet aspect ratio (line 40).Other than that, the working directory has to be set in line 24, and the output file name has to be set in line 1789.Graphs are plotted as png files in the working directory.Also included is a 4-sheet excel file with key model outputs, named "Rohling et al -REVISED_Outputs.xlsx". The sheet-names on the tabs indicate for which experiments these selected output values are given. Values are changes relative to present. Note that sea level change relative to the present is given by -1 x (Volume_all).Finally, file "2024-Oct-4 benthic d18O-CO3-pH for Rohling et al P&P.xlsx" contains the core-top benthic stable oxygen isotope data with respect to carbonate ion concentration and pH.
Additional file 4 of Whole genome characterization of autochthonous Bos taurus brachyceros and introduced Bos indicus indicus cattle breeds in Cameroon regarding their adaptive phenotypic traits and pathogen resistance
Creators: name: Paguem, Archile
name: Abanda, Babette
name: Mbunkah Daniel Achukwi
name: Baskaran, Praveen
name: Czemmel, Stefan
name: Renz, Alfons
name: Eisenbarth, Albert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S11. Distribution of SNPs per cattle breed of chromosome 23 between location 25,350,340 and 25,593,072 containing the BoLA gene. The X axis represents genomic location and y-axis represents ratio of non-reference base. Value 1 indicates that all reads carry the non-reference base at a given location whereas a value of 0.5 and 0 indicates half and none of the reads carry the non-reference base, respectively.
Cooperative Dynamics in a Network of Stochastic Elements with Delayed Feedback
Creators: name: Huber, Daniel
name: Tsimring, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Networks of globally coupled, noise activated, bistable elements with connection time delays are considered. The dynamics of these systems is studied numerically using a Langevin description and analytically using (1) a Gaussian approximation as well as (2) a dichotomous model. The system demonstrates ordering phase transitions and multi-stability. That is, for a strong enough feedback it exhibits nontrivial stationary states and oscillatory states whose frequencies depend only on the mean of the time delay distribution function. Other observed dynamical phenomena include coherence resonance and, in the case of non-uniform coupling strengths, amplitude death and chaos. Furthermore, an increase of the stability of the trivial equilibrium with increasing non-uniformity of the time delays is observed.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Additional file 1 of Attitudes and educational needs of emergency doctors providing palliative and end-of-life care in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional analysis based on a self-report study
Creators: name: Kwun Hang Wong
name: Yang, Li Chuan Marc
name: Woo, Kam Wing Raymond
name: Oi Fung Wong
name: Kwong, Wing Yan
name: Tse, Choi Fung
name: Shing Kit Tommy Lam
name: Hing Man Ma
name: Lit, Chau Hung Albert
name: Hiu Fai Ho
name: Yau Ngai Shih
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Twelve Southern States: Results from the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey
Creators: name: Mooney, Daniel F.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Larson, James A.
name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Larkin, Sherry L.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Martin, Steven W.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Segarra, Eduardo
name: Wang, Chenggang
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
name: Mooney, Daniel F.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Larson, James A.
name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Larkin, Sherry L.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Martin, Steven W.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Segarra, Eduardo
name: Wang, Chenggang
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: cotton
subject: precision farming
subject: survey

description: Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Twelve Southern States: Results from the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey
Plasmonic modes in cylindrical nanoparticles and dimers
Creators: name: Downing, Charles A.
name: Weick, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytical expressions for the resonance frequencies of the plasmonic modes hosted in a cylindrical nanoparticle within the quasistatic approximation. Our theoretical model gives us access to both the longitudinally and transversally polarized dipolar modes for a metallic cylinder with an arbitrary aspect ratio, which allows us to capture the physics of both plasmonic nanodisks and nanowires. We also calculate quantum mechanical corrections to these resonance frequencies due to the spill-out effect, which is of relevance for cylinders with nanometric dimensions. We go on to consider the coupling of localized surface plasmons in a dimer of cylindrical nanoparticles, which leads to collective plasmonic excitations. We extend our theoretical formalism to construct an analytical model of the dimer, describing the evolution with the inter-nanoparticle separation of the resultant bright and dark collective modes. We comment on the renormalization of the coupled mode frequencies due to the spill-out effect, and discuss some methods of experimental detection.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures; typo in eq. (3.1) corrected
The Impact of Digitalization on Sustainability in the Banking Sector: Case Study from the GCC Countries
Creators: name: Farooq Taher, Zainab
name: Naser, Hanan
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment

description: Abstract Digitalization in the banking sector is a revolutionary change that all banks must embrace or face a loss of power and position within the industry (Deshpande in Digitalization in banking sector, 2018 [15]). To be precise, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization in the banking sector since the launch of cashless trans- actions. This study explores the impact of digitalization on the banking sector in the selected GCC countries: the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Different independent variables are studied using pooled panel data of the countries’ banking sectors chosen to achieve this objective. This includes payment systems, real-time gross settlement systems, cheque clearings, and the number of ATMs. Return on equity (ROE) approximates the sector’s performance. Using different models and tests, the results show that the aggregated digital trans- actions are significant at 95%, and payment systems (PAY) are significant at 99%, indicating that it is the most digitalized and has a positive and significant impact on the banking sector’s performance. This research contributes to developing the theory of modern banking, where the obtained results are useful for researchers, banks, and public authorities. To increase the e-benefits of digitalization in the banking sector, governments should encourage different banks to enhance their social and financial supply capabilities with differentiated products, services, and refined management.
Additional file 2 of Attitudes and educational needs of emergency doctors providing palliative and end-of-life care in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional analysis based on a self-report study
Creators: name: Kwun Hang Wong
name: Yang, Li Chuan Marc
name: Woo, Kam Wing Raymond
name: Oi Fung Wong
name: Kwong, Wing Yan
name: Tse, Choi Fung
name: Shing Kit Tommy Lam
name: Hing Man Ma
name: Lit, Chau Hung Albert
name: Hiu Fai Ho
name: Yau Ngai Shih
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
HEDEF BASKISININ İŞ STRESİ ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: BANKA ÇALIŞANLARI ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA
Creators: name: ACER, Erdem
name: IRK, Ersin
Publisher: name: Journal of Organizational Behavior Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hedef Baskısı
Nicel Araştırma
Work Stress
Work Pressure
Quantitative Research
Banking
İş Stresi
Bankacılık

description: Stres, çalışanların üzerinde oluşturduğu fiziksel ve zihinsel etkiler bakımından önem arz etmektedir. Stresi etkileyen faktörlerden biri de hedef baskısıdır. Stresin ve hedef baskısının en çok yaşandığı sektörlerden birisi banka sektörüdür. Bu çalışma Tokat ili ve ilçelerinde faaliyet gösteren bankaların personellerine yönelik üst yönetim tarafından verilen satış ve pazarlama hedeflemeleri çerçevesinde kendilerini hedef baskısı altında hissedip hissetmediklerini belirlemek, iş stresi yönünden etkilerini analiz edilip ölçülmesi amacı taşıdığından önem arz etmektedir. Araştırmada Soygür (2018) tarafından geliştirilen ve 8 maddeden oluşan “Hedef Baskısı Ölçeği” ve House ve Rizzo (1972) tarafından geliştirilen ve 7 maddeden oluşan “İş Stresi Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır.Araştırma nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden anket yöntemi ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmada Tokat ilinde aktif çalışma hayatına devam eden 360 banka personeline online anket uygulaması yapılmıştır. Ankete gönüllü katılan 352 banka personelinin de yapılan analizler neticesinde hedef baskınısın iş stresi üzerinde pozitif ve anlamlı etkisinin olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Araştırmada ileri sürülen hipotezler elde edilen bulgu ve sonuçlarla desteklenmiş, hedef baskısının iş stresini pozitif ve anlamlı düzeyde etkilediği görülmüştür.
Contract-based Hierarchical Resilience Management for Cyber-Physical Systems
Creators: name: Haque, Mohammad Shihabul
name: Ng, Daniel Jun Xian
name: Easwaran, Arvind
name: Thangamariappan, Karthik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4.g; D.2.15; D.2.4.f

description: Orchestrated collaborative effort of physical and cyber components to satisfy given requirements is the central concept behind Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). To duly ensure the performance of components, a software-based resilience manager is a flexible choice to detect and recover from faults quickly. However, a single resilience manager, placed at the centre of the system to deal with every fault, suffers from decision-making overburden; and therefore, is out of the question for distributed large-scale CPS. On the other hand, prompt detection of failures and efficient recovery from them are challenging for decentralised resilience managers. In this regard, we present a novel resilience management framework that utilises the concept of management hierarchy. System design contracts play a key role in this framework for prompt fault-detection and recovery. Besides the details of the framework, an Industry 4.0 related test case is presented in this article to provide further insights.
description: \copyright 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
A che titolo titoliamo immagini?
Creators: name: Voltolini, Alberto
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Normally, when we visit an art exibition, we use to read the titles of the exposed artworks in order to grasp their “content”. But: how does a title entitle us to such an operation? This paper explores the conditions under which the intentional content of a picture can overlap with its figurative content.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011): Etichettare / Descrivere / Mostrare
Principle of minimum complexity as a new principle in hadronic scattering
Creators: name: Ion, D. B.
name: Ion, M. L. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a measure of complexity of the system of angle-angular momentum quantum states produced in hadronic scattering is introduced in terms of the scattering entropies. We presented strong experimental evidence for the saturation of the entropic optimal limits in the pion-nucleon and kaon-nucleon scatterings. The validity of a principle of minimum complexity in hadronic interaction is supported with high accuracy (CL>99%) by the experimental data on pion-nucleon especially at energies higher than 2 GeV.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures; corrected typos
Skeleton-Aware Networks for Deep Motion Retargeting
Creators: name: Aberman, Kfir
name: Li, Peizhuo
name: Lischinski, Dani
name: Sorkine-Hornung, Olga
name: Cohen-Or, Daniel
name: Chen, Baoquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel deep learning framework for data-driven motion retargeting between skeletons, which may have different structure, yet corresponding to homeomorphic graphs. Importantly, our approach learns how to retarget without requiring any explicit pairing between the motions in the training set. We leverage the fact that different homeomorphic skeletons may be reduced to a common primal skeleton by a sequence of edge merging operations, which we refer to as skeletal pooling. Thus, our main technical contribution is the introduction of novel differentiable convolution, pooling, and unpooling operators. These operators are skeleton-aware, meaning that they explicitly account for the skeleton's hierarchical structure and joint adjacency, and together they serve to transform the original motion into a collection of deep temporal features associated with the joints of the primal skeleton. In other words, our operators form the building blocks of a new deep motion processing framework that embeds the motion into a common latent space, shared by a collection of homeomorphic skeletons. Thus, retargeting can be achieved simply by encoding to, and decoding from this latent space. Our experiments show the effectiveness of our framework for motion retargeting, as well as motion processing in general, compared to existing approaches. Our approach is also quantitatively evaluated on a synthetic dataset that contains pairs of motions applied to different skeletons. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first to perform retargeting between skeletons with differently sampled kinematic chains, without any paired examples.
description: SIGGRAPH 2020. Project page: https://deepmotionediting.github.io/retargeting , Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8Tnmiz5N8
Additional file 1 of Visual assessment of commercial drivers in the South West Region of Cameroon
Creators: name: Vofo, Brice Nguedia
name: Ayuk, Doris Ako
name: Pe’er, Jacob
name: Chichom-Mefire, Alain
name: Tendongfor, Nicholas
name: Nche, Eleanor Ngwe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Study Questionnaire.
Additional file 2 of Whole genome characterization of autochthonous Bos taurus brachyceros and introduced Bos indicus indicus cattle breeds in Cameroon regarding their adaptive phenotypic traits and pathogen resistance
Creators: name: Paguem, Archile
name: Abanda, Babette
name: Mbunkah Daniel Achukwi
name: Baskaran, Praveen
name: Czemmel, Stefan
name: Renz, Alfons
name: Eisenbarth, Albert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Distribution of SNPs, InDels and breed-specific SNPs per chromosome and breed. Bar plot illustrates the number of SNPs found in at least two breeds (green), breed-specific SNPs (blue) and InDels (orange) across all the breeds for each chromosome.
A Corn Stover Supply Logistics System
Creators: name: Morey, R. Vance
name: Kaliyan, Nalladurai
name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
name: Schmidt, David R.
name: Morey, R. Vance
name: Kaliyan, Nalladurai
name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
name: Schmidt, David R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Corn stover
subject: Economics
subject: GHG emission
subject: Logistics
subject: Roll press compaction
subject: Tub grinding

description: We evaluated the economics, energy inputs, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a proposed “field to facility” corn stover logistics system. The system included collection and transport by round bales to local storages within 3.2 km (2 mile) of the field during the fall harvest period followed by processing at the local storage sites throughout the year using mobile units which converted the bales to bulk material by tub‐grinding and roll‐press compacting to 240 kg/m3 (15 lb/ft3) to achieve 22.7‐t (25‐ton) loads for truck delivery to an end user within a 48‐km (30‐mile) radius. The total cost and fossil energy consumption for delivering the bulk corn stover (15% moisture) to end users were $81/t ($74/ton) and 936 MJ/t, respectively. The total fossil energy consumption was equivalent to approximately 7% of the energy content of corn stover. The life‐cycle GHG emission for heat and power applications was approximately 114 kg CO2e/t at 15% moisture or 8 g CO2e/MJ of dry matter including emissions for logistics and combustion, but excluding those associated with soil organic carbon (SOC) loss. Our estimates show that as a fuel for heat and power applications, corn stover reduced life‐cycle GHG emissions by factors of approximately 8 and 14 compared to natural gas and coal, respectively.
description: Published in Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Vol. 26(3): 455‐461, 2010. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Additional file 10 of A critical evaluation of systematic reviews assessing the effect of chronic physical activity on academic achievement, cognition and the brain in children and adolescents: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wassenaar, Thomas M.
name: Wilby Williamson
name: Johansen-Berg, Heidi
name: Dawes, Helen
name: Roberts, Nia
name: Foster, Charlie
name: Sexton, Claire E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 10. Limitations and recommendations of included reviews.
Ragioni e vantaggi del classificare la musica
Creators: name: Focosi, Filippo
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: The contemporary music scene, imbued with stylistic contaminations, is dominated by the idea that the differentiation between musical genres no longer makes sense: the only legitimate distinction should be between good and bad music. Yet, the so mistreated labels that separate classical music from jazz and pop are still in use, both in critical discourse and in the organization of musical life, individual and collective. In the attempt to solve this apparent paradox, which closely resembles the paradox of taste that animated the philosophical debate in Britain in the eighteenth century, the essay points out the advantages (as well as the limitations) inherent to the genre conventions, also relating them to postmodern musical culture.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011): Etichettare / Descrivere / Mostrare
title: Portfolio structure, real estate investment and the performance of defined contribution pension funds
Creators: name: Ametefe, Frank Kwakutse
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: With the growing importance of defined contribution (DC) pension funds around the world, concerns have arisen over their ability to provide adequate income replacement for members and the liquidity of their invesments. The first part of this thesis focuses on the illiquidity associated with real estate investments. The first chapter provides a discussion of liquidity within the context of DC pension funds. The second empirical chapter employs the tracking error optimisation procedure in the construction of portfolios that include direct real estate and selected liquid, publicly traded assets. We find that this helps to improve the performance of these blended portfolios. In the second part of this thesis, we look at various ways in which the real value of DC pension contributions can be preserved. The third empirical uses contemporary econometric approaches in the analysis of the dynamic relationship between asset returns and inflation/interest rate changes. Real estate and bonds were found to be a hedge against all the inflation/interest rates measures analysed. Some non-UK assets were also found to be a good hedge against selected benchmarks. The fourth empirical chapter of this PhD thesis examines the optimal allocation within portfolios designed to hedge against the various inflation and interest rate benchmarks. When the investment objective is to strictly track these benchmarks, bonds and real estate dominate the portfolios. Real estate, stocks and alternative assets receive significant allocations within the portfolios constructed to provide maximum risk adjusted returns relative to the minimum return benchmarks. We observe that the allocation to real estate reduced significantly following the global financial crisis period with bonds appearing to take its place. On the whole, this thesis contributes to the discussion on how best DC pension portfolios could be designed to comply with current investment regulations regarding liquidity and minimum returns requirements.
Cognitive Representation Learning of Self-Media Online Article Quality
Creators: name: Wang, Yiru
name: Huang, Shen
name: Li, Gongfu
name: Deng, Qiang
name: Liao, Dongliang
name: Si, Pengda
name: Yang, Yujiu
name: Xu, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The automatic quality assessment of self-media online articles is an urgent and new issue, which is of great value to the online recommendation and search. Different from traditional and well-formed articles, self-media online articles are mainly created by users, which have the appearance characteristics of different text levels and multi-modal hybrid editing, along with the potential characteristics of diverse content, different styles, large semantic spans and good interactive experience requirements. To solve these challenges, we establish a joint model CoQAN in combination with the layout organization, writing characteristics and text semantics, designing different representation learning subnetworks, especially for the feature learning process and interactive reading habits on mobile terminals. It is more consistent with the cognitive style of expressing an expert's evaluation of articles. We have also constructed a large scale real-world assessment dataset. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, and effectively learns and integrates different factors of the online article quality assessment.
description: Accepted at the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Moving fast and slow: Analysis of representations and post-processing in speech-driven automatic gesture generation
Creators: name: Kucherenko, Taras
name: Hasegawa, Dai
name: Kaneko, Naoshi
name: Henter, Gustav Eje
name: Kjellström, Hedvig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; I.2.6; I.3.7

description: This paper presents a novel framework for speech-driven gesture production, applicable to virtual agents to enhance human-computer interaction. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven gesture generation by incorporating representation learning. Our model takes speech as input and produces gestures as output, in the form of a sequence of 3D coordinates. We provide an analysis of different representations for the input (speech) and the output (motion) of the network by both objective and subjective evaluations. We also analyse the importance of smoothing of the produced motion. Our results indicated that the proposed method improved on our baseline in terms of objective measures. For example, it better captured the motion dynamics and better matched the motion-speed distribution. Moreover, we performed user studies on two different datasets. The studies confirmed that our proposed method is perceived as more natural than the baseline, although the difference in the studies was eliminated by appropriate post-processing: hip-centering and smoothing. We conclude that it is important to take both motion representation and post-processing into account when designing an automatic gesture-production method.
description: Extension of our IVA'19 paper. Accepted at the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. See more at https://svito-zar.github.io/audio2gestures/. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1903.03369
An Experimental Review of the $Θ^+$ Pentaquark
Creators: name: Hicks, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence for the $Θ^+$ pentaquark is still sketchy at the present time. This state, if it exists, has a small width and consequently a small production cross section. No single experiment has overwhelming evidence for the $Θ^+$ and some non-observations of the $Θ^+$ are difficult to understand unless this exotic baryon also has an exotic production mechanism. However, new data from the LEPS and CLAS collaborations with higher statistics are on the way, which will likely resolve the question of whether the $Θ^+$ exists.
description: 9 pages and 5 figures. Plenary talk given at the Topical Group on Hadron Physics (Fermilab, Oct. 24-26, 2004)
Bords de l’œuvre musicale
Creators: name: Sève, Bernard
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Paintings are surrounded by frames, whose function is to separate canvases from worldly objects and to present them to aesthetic attention. Musical works as well as their public performances include “borders” analogous to frames. Some of these borders are anterior to the performance of a musical work (the musicians’ arrival or the silence preceding the first notes), whereas others are posterior to it (the silence following the last notes or applause). These temporal borders can be distinguished from properly musical borders (the beginning and the end) of a work; borders are either external to the work (an opera’s overture) or internal (the first two chords of Beethoven’s Third Symphony); they have to be clearly distinguished from the incipit and the explicit of a given work. Both musical and extra-musical borders aim to delimit a work, but above all to present it through a reflexive gesture, which is not always devoid of emphasis.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011): Etichettare / Descrivere / Mostrare
Static potential and local color fields in unquenched lattice QCD$_3$
Creators: name: Trottier, Howard D.
name: Wong, Kit Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: String breaking by dynamical quarks in three-dimensional lattice QCD is analyzed through measurements of the potential and the local color-electric field strength generated by a static quark-antiquark pair. Simulations were done for unquenched SU(2) color with two flavors of staggered light quarks. An improved gluon action was used, which allows simulations to be done on coarse lattices, providing an extremely efficient means to access the large quark separations and long propagation times at which string breaking occurs. The static sources were generated using Wilson loop operators, hence no light valence quarks are present in the resulting trial states. Results give unambiguous evidence of string breaking. First the static potential is shown to saturate at twice the heavy-light meson mass at large separations. Then it is demonstrated that the local color-electric field strength in the region between the heavy quarks tends towards vacuum values at large separations, the first time that this most graphic effect of quark vacuum polarization on the confining flux-tube has been realized in lattice QCD. Implications of these results for unquenched simulations of four-dimensional QCD are drawn.
description: 7 pages, 8 figure files
Demo Abstract: Contract-based Hierarchical Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems
Creators: name: Ng, Daniel Jun Xian
name: Easwaran, Arvind
name: Andalam, Sidharta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This demonstration presents a framework for building a resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) cyber-infrastructure through the use of hierarchical parametric assume-guarantee contracts. A Fischertechnik Sorting Line with Color Detection training model is used to showcase our framework.
description: 2 pages, 5 figures, published in the Demo Session of IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems 2019. Publication rights licensed to ACM
Jet formation from bubbles near a solid boundary in a compressible liquid. Numerical study of distance dependence
Creators: name: Lechner, Christiane
name: Lauterborn, Werner
name: Koch, Max
name: Mettin, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A small, spherical bubble of high internal pressure is inserted into water at constant ambient pressure as a model of a laser-induced bubble. Its subsequent dynamics near a flat solid boundary is studied in dependence on the distance of the bubble to the boundary by numerically solving the Navier-Stokes equations with the help of the open source software environment OpenFOAM. Implemented is the finite volume method for discretization of the equations of motion and the volume of fluid method for capturing the interface between the bubble interior and exterior. The bubble contains a small amount of non-condensable gas that is treated as an ideal gas. The liquid is water obeying the Tait-equation. Surface tension is included where necessary. The evolution of the bubble shape and a selection of pressure and velocity fields are given for normalized distances $D^* = D/R_{\rm max}$ between 0 and 3 ($D$ = initial distance of the bubble centre to the boundary, $R_{\rm max}$ = maximum radius the bubble would attain without any boundary). $R_{\rm max} = 500 μ$m is chosen for the study. Normal axial jet formation ($\sim 100$ m s$^{-1}$) by axial flow focusing is found for $0.24 \le D^* \le 3$ and the change to a different type of axial jet formation ($\sim 1000$ m s$^{-1}$) by annular-liquid-flow collision for bubbles very near to the solid boundary ($0 \le D^* \le 0.2$). The transition region ($0.2 < D^* < 0.24$) is characterized by additional inbound and outbound annular jets. Remarkably, the inclusion of the viscosity of the water is decisive to get the fast jets.
description: 32 pages, 26 figures
title: Культурологические проблемы развития естественнонаучного мышления
Creators: name: Козлова, Ольга
name: Христенко, Дмитрий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Рассматриваются интеграционные тенденции естественнонаучного и гуманитарного знания. Обращено внимание на значимость культурологических проблем в рамках определения системы ценностей и социальных ориентаций науки. Определенное место отведено рассмотрению мнений современных исследователей относительно таких понятий как «техницизм», «фетишизация техники», «принцип инвариантности». Отмечается негативное влияние на интеграцию естественнонаучного и гуманитарного знания таких процессов как «философский оппортунизм» и «философский скептицизм». Указано на необходимость признания ценностных оснований научного познания, неотвратимость тенденции саморазвития, саморегуляции и самообновления науки как показателей ее интегрирования в социум. Обращено внимание на проблему гуманизации техносферы и гуманитаризации высшего образования.
Global responsibility of food, energy and environmental security
Creators: name: Popp, Jozsef
name: Popp, Jozsef
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: food security
subject: energy security
subject: environmental sustainability
subject: public goods

description: This paper focuses on global responsibility of food, energy and environmental security. World population growth will lead to increasing demand for food and feed with increasing meat consumption. With globalization and urbanization production is moving to the most competitive countries and regions, and food trade is becoming more liberalized but also more concentrated. Growing energy demand and climate change will also influence food production. Additional challenges are increasing market volatility resulting from yield and climate change. We need greater responsibility in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in showing greater respect for the environment. More responsibility is needed regarding food and energy security, and environmental sustainability. The reform process of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must be adapted to changing realities.
Radiatively driven rotating pair-plasma jets from two component accretion flows
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Indranil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Centrifugal pressure of matter spiralling onto black holes, have long been known to produce standing or oscillating shocks. The post-shock disc puffs up in the form of a torus, which intercepts soft photons from the outer Keplerian disc and inverse Comptonizes them to produce hard photons. The post-shock region also produces jets. We study the interaction of both hard photons and soft photons, with rotating electron-positron jets. We show that hard photons from the post-shock torus are instrumental in acceleration of jets, while soft photons from the Keplerian disc is a better collimating agent. We also show that if the jets are launched closer to the black hole, relativistic and collimated jets are produced; if they are launched at larger distances both collimation and acceleration are less. We also show that if the shock location is relatively at larger distances from the black hole, collimation is better.
description: Accepted in MNRAS; 39 pages, 13 figures
title: The molecular dynamics and rheology of polymer melts near the flat surface
Creators: name: Kirk, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is concerned with the molecular dynamics and rheology of polymer melts in the vicinity of a hard flat surface. One initial motivation is the desire to better understand the phenomenon of slip between flowing molten polymer and a bounding solid wall. Alternation between sticking and slipping boundary conditions is suspected to be the cause of 'spurt flow', widely observed in polymer extrusion. A related aim is to investigate the nature of chain entanglements at surfaces, which also has important consequences for the material properties of nano-composites and thin films. In addition more general effects of confinement are considered. The primary method of investigation is observation, using Molecular Dynamics (MD) computer simulations of relevant systems. Single-chain models are fitted to the 'fundamental' multi-chain MD simulations, and the simplifying assumptions of this coarse-graining are then examined.
A vision of the future of the Common Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Elkes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
name: Papp, Gergely
name: Udovecz, Gabor
name: Vasary, Viktoria
name: Elkes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
name: Papp, Gergely
name: Udovecz, Gabor
name: Vasary, Viktoria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP
subject: reform
subject: public goods
subject: Common Agricultural and Rural Policy
subject: vision.

description: The reforms proposed by the authors intend to ensure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of rural regions and place agricultural policy on a fundamentally different basis. The scope of community and state intervention will change. Payments linked to production will be cancelled and the provision of public goods will be rewarded instead. At the same time, measures aimed at enhancing the viability of the rural economy and society will become more significant. The depth of the changes calls for a new name expressing better the new approach, so instead of CAP the use of a more justified name is suggested: Common Agricultural and Rural Policy (CARP). This paper outlines the vision and the major proposals we suggest to meet the above mentioned goals.
Titoli
Creators: name: Levinson, Jerrold
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: This paper deals with two questions. The first: are titles of artworks constitutive of what such works are? The second: are titles essential properties of artworks? The answer is given by the central thesis: the title slot for a work of art is never devoid of aesthetic potential; how it is filled, or that it is not filled, is always aesthetically relevant.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011): Etichettare / Descrivere / Mostrare