cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Boat-based and other recreational fishing in Western Australia: Analysis of site choice, access values and bag limit effects
Creators: name: Jegnie, Alemken
name: Hailu, Atakelty
name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Jegnie, Alemken
name: Hailu, Atakelty
name: Burton, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Boat-based recreational fishing
subject: bag limits
subject: fishing site choice access values
subject: fishing site
subject: random utility models

description: This study investigates the drivers of recreational fishing site choice and the effects of bag limits among boat-based and other fishers in Western Australia. A site choice model incorporating expected catch and other variables is estimated and used to assess the implications for angler welfare and fish harvest of different management strategies. The study reveals that site choice is determined by distance to fishing site, expected catch rate and coastal length. Fishing efforts (time spent and size of the party), fishing methods used (boat, target and bait), abundance of fish (stocks) and types of the fishing site are the most important factors determining catch rates. Site access values vary widely and for boat users the top four valuable fishing destinations are found to be Broom, Albany, West Kimberly and East Kimberly. The spill-over effects of bag limits on high value fish are found to be small while welfare losses associated with bag limits are highly skewed. The differences in site access values and the range of angler welfare loss estimates highlight the importance of empirical modelling to generate information valuable to policy-making.
Ensino, pesquisa, inovação e saúde: Desafios jurídicos da Ebserh
Creators: name: Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Publicado em dezembro de 2024, o segundo número da Revisa Jurídica da Ebserh consolida-se como um importante veículo de disseminação do conhecimento jurídico no âmbito da saúde pública brasileira. A publicação reflete a maturidade e a excelência técnica da Consultoria Jurídica da Ebserh, evidenciando seu papel como referência na interface entre Direito e Saúde.

Este número traz uma rica coletânea de trabalhos que aprofundam o debate jurídico em temas essenciais para a saúde pública, reunindo artigos de autores convidados e do Grupo de Estudos da Consultoria Jurídica, além de pareceres e peças processuais elaborados pela equipe jurídica da Ebserh.

Entre os assuntos abordados estão processos estruturais no STF, macrojustiça na efetivação do direito à saúde, consentimento informado em procedimentos médicos, judicialização da saúde pública, questões bioéticas, saúde digital e inteligência artificial, remanejamento de Ata de Registro de Preços, videomonitoramento, questões tributárias e gestão hospitalar, evidenciando a amplitude e relevância das discussões jurídicas no contexto da saúde pública brasileira.
Curriea (Curriea) inareata GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Curriea
Curriea inareata

description: Curriea (Curriea) inareata GRANGER 1949
 Curriea inareata n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 24 (key, figs 21, 22), 25 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Aphrastobracon inareata (GRANGER 1949): SHENEFELT 1978: 1428 (tax., cat.).
 Curriea inareata GRANGER 1949: QUICKE, BRANDT & FALCO 2000: 111 (key), 124 (fig. 17), 137 (tax., Madagascar).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Ranomafana (leg. Seyrig).
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
COMPARING OLS AND RANK-BASED ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES FOR PRODUCTION ANALYSIS: AN APPLICATION TO GHANAIAN MAIZE FARMS
Creators: name: Acquah, Henry De-Graft
name: Acquah, Henry De-Graft
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Production function
subject: parametric and non-parametric regression
subject: rank-based estimation
subject: ordinary least squares estimation

description: This paper introduces the rank-based estimation method to modelling the Cobb-Douglas production function as an alternative to the least squares approach. The intent is to demonstrate how a nonparametric regression based on a rank-based estimator can be used to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function using data on maize production from Ghana. The nonparametric results are compared to common parametric specification using the ordinary least squares regression. Results of the study indicate that the estimated coefficients of the Cobb- Douglas Model using the Least squares method and the rank-based regression analysis are similar. Findings indicated that in both estimation techniques, land and Equipment had a significant and positive influence on output whilst agrochemicals had a significantly negative effect on output. Additionally, seeds which also had a negative influence on output was found to be significant in the robust rank-based estimation, but insignificant in the ordinary least square estimation. Both the least squares and rank-based regression suggest that the farmers were operating at an increasing returns to scale. In effect this paper demonstrate the usefulness of the rank-based estimation in production analysis.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/16
title: Using and abusing children in Greek tragedy
Creators: name: Rochelle, Pauline
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Vulnerable children are crucial in Greek tragedy and to the philosophy of suffering that it explores. They attract high levels of emotional concern that spill over from the human arena into the divine. As a means of exposing the presence or absence of the power and influence of the gods, children in tragedy are pivotal voices in the integrity and survival of the tragic family. The literary, social and historical contexts within which this importance falls are set out in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 investigates how tragedy features important roles for vulnerable children and how ritual human sacrifice and murder highlight the importance of divine intervention in family life. Chapter 3 looks at the underlying reasons for parents killing their children and examines how this can destroy the family unit by eradicating the family line and preventing the continuance of name and inheritance. The chapter also analyses how divine interference can override a parent's will and sense of right. Chapter 4 considers how the killing of parents by children destroys the vertical family structure and so threatens a crucial aspect of social order. It analyses how the plays test allegiances, power relations and filial obligations to the limit and, within this context, the involvement of the gods creates different levels of liability and degrees of authority. Chapter 5 shows how when planning to murder the most vulnerable children, or in circumstances of abandonment or illegitimacy, the relative power and influence of the divine and human is brought under conclusive and central scrutiny. From this the Conclusion pinpoints the importance of children in Greek tragedy in (i) showing the family capable of repairing itself and establishing values sufficient for it to recover from the worst events, and (ii) suggesting that this can be done without the involvement, interference, or influence of the gods. This realisation offers a fresh aspect to further analyses of Greek tragedy, its form and implications.
FACTORS INFLUENCING ALBANIAN CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR STANDARDIZED OLIVE OIL
Creators: name: Muça, Etleva
name: Kapaj, Ana
name: Sulo, Remzi
name: Hodaj, Natasha
name: Muça, Etleva
name: Kapaj, Ana
name: Sulo, Remzi
name: Hodaj, Natasha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: consumer preferences
subject: olive oil
subject: standardization
subject: Albanian consumer
subject: quality

description: Albania is considered one of the most important countries where olives are cultivated due to its geographical position and climate conditions. The country is facing many problems with the quality of olive oil which is related to cultivation methods and agronomic techniques. The economic value of the sector is calculated almost €20 million per year. For years the cultivation of olives and associated products have been considered an important sector within agriculture and are an integral part of the Albanian diet. The current study aims to analyze the factors influencing consumer preferences for a standardized olive oil. The data collection was conducted through a socio-economic survey. The survey was an important element which provided general and specific information linked to the study area. The interviewees were selected randomly. Descriptive and multinomial logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate the survey data. As a result, we conclude that Albanian consumers prefer domestic olive oil because they are familiar with the taste and believe in its qualities. Usually, Albanian consumers choose the quality of olive oil at the purchase moment, due to their close relationship with the seller.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/17
Curriea (Curriea) seyrigi GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Curriea
Curriea seyrigi

description: Curriea (Curriea) seyrigi GRANGER 1949
 Curriea seyrigi n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 24 (key, fig. 24), 26 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Aphrastobracon seyrigi (GRANGER 1949): SHENEFELT 1978: 1429 (tax., cat.).
 Curriea seyrigi GRANGER 1949: QUICKE, BRANDT & FALCO 2000: 110 (tax.), 112 (key), 121 (fig. 9), 122 (fig. 15), 128 (fig. 30), 137 (tax., Madagascar)
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
The techniques of monetary control: a review article
Creators: name: ROWAN, D.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Aschheim, monetary control, instruments, policy, theory
subject: E40, E51, E52

description: The present article provides a critical review of J. Aschheim’s Techniques of Monetary Control (Baltimore, 1961). This work is primarily concerned with the problem of monetary “technique”, defined as that of making the best use of “proximate” instrument variables given some more or less definite set of objectives in terms of the “ultimate” instrument variables. According to the author, discussions of technique frequently imply acceptance of a particular monetary theory that is an implicit assumption that “technical” efficiency in monetary control is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for overall “economic” efficiency. However, it is argued that this is correct only if the implied monetary theory is quantitatively and qualitatively adequate. The author concludes that, although Aschheim’s study is clear, informative and thoughtfully stimulating, it does not constitute a convincing defence of monetary “orthodoxy”. JEL: E40, E51, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 65 (1963)
The role of commercial banks in foreign exchange speculation
Creators: name: CUTILLI, B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Banks, foreign exchange speculation, monetary authorities, exchange rate
subject: F31, G21, E58

description: The article suggests that, contrary to popular belief, banks can play a useful role in foreign exchange speculation if they are given a chance to draw a permanent profit from it and are convinced of the ability of the monetary authorities to maintain the exchange rate within certain pre-established boundaries. The author proposes a model to argue that banks’ speculative activity is beneficial both in stabilizing the exchange rate in the face of non-speculators’ operation and in repelling a sudden attack by occasional speculators. JEL: F31, G21, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 65 (1963)
HUNGARIAN SPIRITS PALINKA AS A “HUNGARICUM” II. THE EFFECT OF TAX-FREE PRODUCTION IN HUNGARY AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Creators: name: Harcsa, Imre Milan
name: Harcsa, Imre Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: subcontract-distillation
subject: excise duties
subject: Excise Act
subject: infringement procedure
subject: home-distillation
subject: palinka
subject: distillate

description: Palinka is a traditional Hungarian fruit spirit prepared exclusively by the distillation of fruit mash or fruit pulp. As an alcohol product, it is subject to the Act CXXVII of 2003 on Excise Duties and Special Regulations on the Distribution of Excise Goods amended several times. The present government of Hungary pledged to grant the right of free palinka distillation again in the previous election campaign. As of 27 September 2010, the excise duty of subcontract-distillation was repealed, and the previously non-existent “official” home distillation was introduced, which resulted in explicit revenue losses for the state budget. The modification of the law mentions distillate instead of the word palinka. The difference between the two notions will be discussed in the present study. Presumably, lawmakers did not consider the fact that at the time of Hungary’s EU accession we entered into an agreement stipulating that the tax on subcontract-distillation should not be lower than 50% of the tax on alcohol products. Having been unable to agree on a solution to the problems in question, Brussels launched an infringement procedure against Hungary. Finally, Hungary was convicted; therefore, tax exemption or palinka distillation shall be ceased. This regulation came into force on 01 January 2015. The reactions of those who used the services of subcontract distillation were negative; turnover plunged by approximately 85% compared to the year of 2014. The present research will present the amendments concerning home distillers due from 2016 and the elements of the bill intended to amend the Act LXXIII. of 2008.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/18
Integrated Model-Driven Engineering of Blockchain Applications for Business Processes and Asset Management
Creators: name: Lu, Qinghua
name: Tran, An Binh
name: Weber, Ingo
name: O'Connor, Hugo
name: Rimba, Paul
name: Xu, Xiwei
name: Staples, Mark
name: Zhu, Liming
name: Jeffery, Ross
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. However, developing such applications without introducing vulnerabilities is hard for developers, not the least because the deployed code is immutable and can be called by anyone with access to the network. Model-driven engineering (MDE) helps to reduce those risks, by combining proven code snippets as per the model specification, which is easier to understand than source code. Therefore, in this paper, we present an approach for integrated MDE across business processes and asset management (e.g. for settlement). Our approach includes methods for fungible/non-fungible asset registration, escrow for conditional payment, and asset swap. The proposed MDE approach is implemented in a smart contract generation tool called Lorikeet, and evaluated in terms of feasibility, functional correctness, and cost effectiveness.
description: to appear in Software: Practice and Experience (2020)
Iphiaulax gaullei GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax gaullei

description: Iphiaulax gaullei GRANGER 1949
 Iphiaulax gaullei n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 50 (key), 52 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Iphiaulax gaullei GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1978: 1766 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antsiranana: Antsiranana.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
The international monetary system
Creators: name: POSTHUMA, S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community, technical banking risks, international foreign reserves, international monetary system, framework
subject: E42, F15, F33, F36

description: The paper is an adapted and revised version of a memorandum that has served as a basis for discussion in several meeting of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community. It deals with the interplay of technical banking risks and general economic considerations concerning international foreign reserves. After having considered the temporary character of the recent US agreement proposals, it considers the composition of reserves as a long-term problem. The international monetary system is not the traditional one and although it might look formally unchanged, it is vastly changing everyday. According to the authors, pragmatic decisions on a consistent framework should not be based on security considerations from a banker’s point of view, but rather on considerations of a general economic character. JEL: E42, F15, F33, F36
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 66 (1963)
title: Στρατηγικός Σχεδιασμός ενός νέου αθλητικού event (Oceanman Openwater swimming) κολύμβησης ανοιχτής θαλάσσης στη Κύπρο
title: Strategy plan of a new Open water swimming event in Cyprus(Oceanman Openwater swimming)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Χατζηδαμιανού, Γαβριέλα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Αθλητισμός - Διοίκηση και οργάνωση
subject: Κολύμβηση - Στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός
subject: Ειδικά γεγονότα - Διοίκηση και οργάνωση
subject: Αγώνες κολύμβησης
subject: Κολύμβηση - Διαγωνισμοί - Σχεδιασμός
subject: Ειδικά γεγονότα - Μάρκετινγκ
subject: Sports - Management
subject: Swimming - Strategic planning
subject: Special events - Management
subject: Swimming - Competitions
subject: Swimming - Competitions - Planning
subject: Special events - Marketing
subject: Στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός
subject: Διοίκηση αθλητικών διοργανώσεων
subject: Αποδοτικότητα διαδικασιών
subject: Strategic plan
subject: Event managment
subject: Process efficiency

description: Το Ocean man είναι μια διοργάνωση κολύμβησης ανοιχτής θαλάσσης. Ξεκίνησε το 2015 και όπως αναφέρει χαρακτηριστικά και ο CEO αγώνα, σχεδιάστηκε από κολυμβητές για κολυμβητές. Διοργανώνεται ήδη σε 16 χώρες, με πάνω από 11.000 κολυμβητές από 56 διαφορετικά κράτη σε όλο τον κόσμο. Η διοργάνωση αφορά όλες τις ηλικιακές ομάδες ακόμα και παιδιά από 7-15 χρονών, με αποστάσεις 10χ λμ,5χλμ,500 μ για παιδιά και σκυταλοδρομία 3x500. Με γνώμονα τις ιδιαιτερότητες πραγματοποίησης του αγώνα, οι καιρικές συνθήκες στην Κύπρο, η φύση και το κλίμα, την καθιστούν ένα ιδανικό μέρος για να φιλοξενήσει ένα τέτοιο κολυμβητικό event. Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι ο στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός μιας νέας καινοτόμα διοργάνωσης η οποία διοργανώνει αποκλειστικά αγώνες κολύμβησης ανοικτής θαλάσσης. Η στρατηγική διαμόρφωση του αγώνα έχει σαν στόχο να προσελκύσει μεγάλο αριθμό από κολυμβητές, θεατές και επισκέπτες σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο. Σε επιμέρους κομμάτια θα αναλυθούν όσον αφορά το προφίλ της διοργάνωσης, ο στόχος-αποστολή της, το όραμα της σε αθλητικό αλλά και κοινωνικό επίπεδο, οι αρχές και οι αξίες της εταιρίας Ocean man σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, οι πολιτικές και τέλος οι στρατηγικοί στόχοι της. Σε μια εκ βαθέων ανάλυση θα εξετάσουμε το εξωτερικό περιβάλλον σε επίπεδο πολιτικής, νομικών πλαισίων που διέπουν τέτοιας φύσης διοργάνωση, σε κοινωνικό επίπεδο η κουλτούρα και η προσφορά της σε αυτήν, τα τεχνολογικά μέσα όπου στρατολογήθηκαν και τέλος ο ανταγωνισμός από παρόμοιες αθλητικές διοργανώσεις και πώς αναδιαμόρφωσε το ευρύτερο πλαίσιο του ερασιτεχνικού αθλητισμού στην Κύπρου. Αντίστοιχα αναλύοντας το εσωτερικό περιβάλλον θα εξετάσουμε την διοργάνωση σε επίπεδα ηγεσίας, διαμόρφωσης ρόλων και κατανομής διαδικασιών εντός της εταιρίας. Τοπογραφικά θα παρουσιάσουμε το πλάνο στο οποίο στηρίχτηκε η απόφαση για την διεξαγωγή το Oceanman Cyprus 2019, να γίνει στην παραλία της Λεμεσού. Θα παρουσιάσουμε αναλυτικά το στρατηγικό πλάνο της εταιρίας, τα ισχυρά σημεία του αγώνα αλλά και τις αδυναμίες που χρειάζονται βελτίωση στο μελλοντικό μας πλάνo.
On the selection of a program of economic policy with an application to the current situation in the United States
Creators: name: MUNDELL, R.A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Policy, targets, instruments, full employment, inflation, balance of payments equilibrium, US
subject: E60, E31, E24, F32

description: The article considers the selection of appropriate economic policies, which obviously depends on some form of judgement regarding the likely magnitude of their impact, however crude this estimate may be. The author first reviews the distinction between targets and instruments, and argues that successful policy programs require preparatory quantitative work examining the effectiveness of instruments. An attempt is then made to elucidate some of the problems likely to be encountered in pursuing two very important “targets” in the post-war years: full employment without inflation and balance-of-payments equilibrium. Some graphical devices are then used to demonstrate how these targets can be attained through various conventional policy measures. Finally, the author considers the case of the United States and what combination of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate or wage policies may bring about equilibrium. JEL: E60, E31, E24, F32
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 66 (1963)
Income characterization and the sharing of global tax revenues in the context of electronic commerce
Creators: name: Nyborg, Anne Mette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The question of characterizing income by its source in the context of electronic commerce has brought forward problematic issues in the international taxation regime. It has presented prominent scholars, administrators and judges with what have sometimes seemed intractable difficulties. Characterization and geographic source difficulties are linked to the lack of international uniformity in the characterization of income from computer software transactions, which expose taxpayers to potentially arbitrary characterization outcomes. Characterization outcomes also affect the global sharing of tax revenues collected from international transactions as the taxation in a particular country is linked to the character of the income. The current international tax system furthermore brings forward problems of equity and the inequalities between developed and developing countries in sharing international tax revenues arising from electronic commerce transactions. In this thesis I analyze the international tax rules currently applied to electronic commerce transactions. I explore the underlying rationale for characterizing income by its source and the international uniformity in the area. I review the international guidance for the application of traditional rules to electronic commerce transactions and examine the international uniformity for the characterization. Moreover, I review the theoretical foundation for the taxation of international income and analyze the imbalance in sharing the global tax base under the current rules. This reveals, that the underlying rationale for income characterization has no convincing support for the continued distinction. The application of traditional rules and concepts reveals uncertainties and complications and there is no absolute international uniformity. Ultimately, the theoretical basis for taxing international income appears to suffer a disconnect and today's system furthermore fails to ensure a fair sharing of the global tax base.
Taylor coefficients of Anderson generating functions and Drinfeld torsion extensions
Creators: name: Maurischat, Andreas
name: Perkins, Rudolph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J93

description: We generalize our work on Carlitz prime power torsion extension to torsion extensions of Drinfeld modules of arbitrary rank. As in the Carlitz case, we give a description of these extensions in terms of evaluations of Anderson generating functions and their hyperderivatives at roots of unity. We also give a direct proof that the image of the Galois representation attached to the $\mathfrak{p}$-adic Tate module lies in the $\mathfrak{p}$-adic points of the motivic Galois group. This is a generalization of the corresponding result of Chang and Papanikolas for the $t$-adic case.
description: 16 pages; v1->v2: Changes in Section 5: Corrected some flaws and expanded the explanations
A Survey of Aflatoxin and Aflasafe Awareness and Management Among Nigerian Poultry Producers and Feed Millers
Creators: name: Johnson, Andrew
name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Widmar, Nicole J. Olynk
name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Aydeun, Bamikole
name: Akande, Adebowale
name: Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
name: Manyong, Victor
name: Johnson, Andrew
name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Widmar, Nicole J. Olynk
name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Aydeun, Bamikole
name: Akande, Adebowale
name: Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
name: Manyong, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: aflatoxin
subject: Aflasafe
subject: AgResults
subject: maize millers
subject: poultry farmers
subject: Nigeria

description: Aflatoxin is a potent mycotoxin that can cause cancer, stunted growth, and (in extreme instances) rapid death. Aflatoxin can contaminate many staple crops, including maize and groundnuts. As many as 4.5 billion people in the developing world may be chronically exposed. Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Resource Service, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and African Agricultural Technology Foundation have developed a biological control product called Aflasafe. IITA is currently working with the AgResults initiative to promote widespread adoption of Aflasafe in Nigeria and with the Aflasafe Technology Transfer and Commercialization Program to promote Aflasafe adoption in 11 African countries. In the fall of 2016, 272 oral surveys were administered to maize-buying poultry producers and feed millers in Nigeria. The survey was developed to obtain data regarding farmer awareness of aflatoxin and Aflasafe. Levels of aflatoxin and Aflasafe awareness were higher among enterprises registered with state and federal government agencies than among enterprises not registered. Awareness levels were also higher among enterprises with membership in professional poultry associations. The percentage of enterprises within each state that controlled for aflatoxin in their maize supply, typically with the use of toxic binder, ranged from 2% to 92%. Only 4% of enterprises tested for the amount of aflatoxin in their maize supply.
Productivity, labour efficiency and growth
Creators: name: EVANS, E.W.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Full employment, labour efficiency, policy, scale productivity, innovation, British experience, machinery
subject: J24, O31, O52

description: With full employment an accepted fact of economic life, there has been a continuously increasing emphasis on raising output per man-hour, more commonly referred to as labour efficiency. However desirable it may be to raise the efficiency of labour in the short run, it may well be a less appropriate policy over the longer period. The present article reviews some of the disadvantages of the numerous attempts to raise labour efficiency. Specifically, the author argues that emphasis on raising utilisation productivity by obtaining a better adaptation of labour to existing plant is less desirable than concentration upon improving scale productivity through innovation to economize all factors per unit of output. Using the available evidence, the analysis is applied to the British economy. Both the problems of innovation and of machinery and technical development, in particular the machine tool trade, are analysed. JEL: J24, O31, O52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 66 (1963)
Iphiaulax lucidus SZEPLIGETI 1913
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax lucidus

description: Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913
 Iphiaulax lucidus n.sp.: SZÉPLIGETI 1913: 421 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: BRUES 1926: 333 (cat.).
 Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: FAHRINGER 1935: 530 (key, tax.), 584 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: GRANGER 1949: 52 (syn. of Iphiaulax didymus (BRULLÉ 1846)).
 Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: SHENEFELT 1978: 1777 (tax., cat.).
 Iphiaulax lucidus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: QUICKE & KOCH 1990: 218 (tax., cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: without locality.
 Endemic. The material identified as Iphiaulax didymus (BRULLÉ 1846) by GRANGER (1949: 52) should be checked for this species.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
A history of Venice from its origins to the sixteenth century
Creators: name: SAPORI, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Venice, history, Gino Luzzatto
subject: N13, N43

description: A review article of Gino Luzzatto’s Storia economica di Venezia dall’XI al XVI secolo, Venice, “Centro internazionale delle arti e del costume”, 1961. Apart from its vividness and fidelity in reconstructing the events which Venice has experienced during the course of several centuries, the fundamental importance of the volume lies in the questions it raises: reticular problems of a city and general problems of time, which are obviously interlinked. Here, the author confines himself to indicating some of those problems. JEL: N13, N43
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 66 (1963)
Geometry-aware Dynamic Movement Primitives
Creators: name: Abu-Dakka, Fares J.
name: Kyrki, Ville
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many robot control problems, factors such as stiffness and damping matrices and manipulability ellipsoids are naturally represented as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, which capture the specific geometric characteristics of those factors. Typical learned skill models such as dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) can not, however, be directly employed with quantities expressed as SPD matrices as they are limited to data in Euclidean space. In this paper, we propose a novel and mathematically principled framework that uses Riemannian metrics to reformulate DMPs such that the resulting formulation can operate with SPD data in the SPD manifold. Evaluation of the approach demonstrates that beneficial properties of DMPs such as change of the goal during operation apply also to the proposed formulation.
description: conference
Iphiaulax scutellaris SZEPLIGETI 1913
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax scutellaris

description: Iphiaulax scutellaris SZÉPLIGETI 1913
 Iphiaulax scutellaris n.sp.: SZÉPLIGETI 1913: 422 (descr. ♀, Europa).
 Iphiaulax scutellaris SZÉPLIGETI 1913: BRUES 1926: 343 (cat.).
 Iphiaulax scutellaris SZÉPLIGETI 1913: FAHRINGER 1935: 523 (key), 606 (tax., Europa).
 Iphiaulax scutellaris SZÉPLIGETI 1913: SHENEFELT 1978: 1794 (cat. (Europa (not Mozambique)). Iphiaulax scutellaris SZÉPLIGETI 1913: PARNAUDEAU & MADL 2009: 455 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Réunion: Europa.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Iphiaulax seyrigi GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax seyrigi

description: Iphiaulax seyrigi GRANGER 1949
 Iphiaulax seyrigi n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 50 (key), 51 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Iphiaulax seyrigi GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1978: 1795 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Toamasina: Andekaleka (Rogez) – Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Radiation reaction from quantum electrodynamics and its implications for the Unruh effect
Creators: name: Tulipánt, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac theory predicts vanishing radiation reaction for uniformly accelerated charges. However, since an accelerating observer should detect thermal radiation, the charge should be seen absorbing photons in the accelerated frame which, if nothing else occurs, would influence its motion. This means that either there is radiation reaction seen in an inertial frame or there should be an additional phenomenon seen in the accelerated frame countering the effect of absorption. In this paper I rederive the Abraham--Lorentz--Dirac force from quantum electrodynamics, then I study the case of a uniformly accelerated charge. I show that in the accelerated frame, in addition to the absorption of photons due to the Unruh effect there should also be stimulated emission. The net effect of these phenomena on the motion of the charge is found to be zero.
description: 26 pages
The aims of a taxation reform in Italy
Creators: name: COSCIANI, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian fiscal system, Italy, tax system, reform proposal, economic planning
subject: E62, H21, H30

description: The drawbacks and deficiencies of the Italian fiscal system have become such and so many that a structural revision is urgent both concerning legislation and the organization of the tax system. The first aim of a reform must be to make the system clear and simple. Secondly, the progressiveness of the system must be announced. Third, the fiscal system should become an instrument of economic planning. The paper puts forward a reform proposal and draws a set of priorities for the reorganization of fiscal structures and jurisdictions in Italy. JEL: E62, H21, H30
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 67 (1963)
Risk preferences and crop diversification amongst smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Lawin, Kotchikpa G.
name: Tamini, Lota D.
name: Lawin, Kotchikpa G.
name: Tamini, Lota D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk aversion
subject: diversity index
subject: crop diversification
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: Burkina Faso

description: The literature considers crop diversification a risk management strategy at the farm level. In this article, we combine experimental data on risk aversion with survey data to identify the extent to which risk aversion affects crop diversification decisions. We conduct experiments to measure the risk aversion of smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso and a field survey to gather data on various socio-economic variables. To measure crop diversification, we use three indices of spatial diversity in crop species adapted from the ecological economics literature, i.e., the count index, the Herfindahl index measure of crop concentration and the Shannon index of evenness. An Ordinary Least square (OLS) model is used to estimate the impact of risk aversion on crop diversification when the count index is used as the dependent variable, whereas a Tobit model is used for the Herfindahl index and the Shannon index. Our results show that risk aversion has a negative and significant effect on crop diversification. Although the effect is significant for all diversity indexes, the magnitude of the effect differs among them. Other variables also affect crop diversification. In particular, education level, distance to market, farm area and land fragmentation are associated with greater crop diversification.
title: Food, art, books : a case study of the cultural politics of rural place branding
Creators: name: Fordham, Andrew Ian
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Using a multi-sited ethnographic case study, this thesis examines the development of rural place brands in three towns in Scotland. Engaging with the literatures on place branding and entrepreneurial governance, and the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis critically examines how and why the place brands in a rural context were developed; how the places were transformed (reconstructed) through branding; the struggles and contestations within the branding process; and the perceived audiences for such developments. It is argued that whilst there are numerous similarities in the developments of the brands, there are also significant differences to that of urban place branding. This thesis thus problematises the application of theories of branding developed in urban areas to rural contexts. It is also argued that, despite the branding literature suggesting that brands promote a clear, coherent and holistic identity for place (see Kavaratzis, 2005), the development of brands in the current research has been deeply contested, and fraught with various struggles over how the brand (and the place more broadly) should be represented. This thesis thus challenges the extent to which a clear, coherent and holistic identity of the brand (and place) can be established. Finally, whilst it has been argued that place marketing and branding strategies seek to target specific audiences (as was also the case in the current research) (see Gotham, 2002), this thesis argues that in practice, this is a deeply problematic process as the audience of place brands is actually rather diverse. In sum, this thesis makes a significant contribution to our knowledge on place branding by providing an in-depth critical examination of place branding processes in a rural context, which has been all too often neglected by a dominant focus on the urban.
Kimavu annulicornis
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Kimavu
Kimavu annulicornis

description: Kimavu annulicornis (BRUES 1924)
 Bracon annulicornis (BRUES 1924): GRANGER 1949: 56 (key), 66 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar). Bracon annulicornis (BRUES 1924): SHENEFELT 1978: 1465 (cat.).
 Kimavu annulicornis (BRUES 1924): QUICKE 1986: 184 (cat., key), 185 (tax.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily, Ranomafana (leg. Seyrig).
Known from the Afrotropical region.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Measurement of differential $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ production cross sections using top quarks at large transverse momenta in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement is reported of differential top quark pair ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) production cross sections, where top quarks are produced at large transverse momenta. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC are from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The measurement uses events where at least one top quark decays as t $\to$ Wb $\to$ qq'b and is reconstructed as a large-radius jet with transverse momentum in excess of 400 GeV. The second top quark is required to decay either in a similar way, or leptonically, as inferred from a reconstructed electron or muon, a bottom quark jet, and a missing transverse momentum due to the undetected neutrino. The cross section is extracted as a function of kinematic variables of individual top quarks or of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ system. The results are presented at the particle level, within a region of phase space close to that of the experimental acceptance, and at the parton level, and are compared to various theoretical models. In both decay channels the observed absolute cross sections are significantly lower than the predictions from theory, while the normalized differential measurements are well described.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-18-013 (CMS Public Pages)
Comparative Analysis of pKa Predictions for Arsonic Acids Using Density Functional Theory-Based and Machine Learning Approaches
Creators: name: Nedyalkova, Miroslava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: pKa
descriptors
SVM
ESP

description: The presented files are based on the recently published qwork for developing a predictio methods for pKa for the set of Arsonic acids.
Optimum world monetary arrangements and the dual currency system
Creators: name: MCKINNON, R.I.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International monetary system, IMF, liquidity, Europe, US
subject: E42, F33

description: Recently some concerns have been expressed over constraints placed on American monetary and fiscal policy by balance of payments problems. Conversely, the attempts of several European countries to control inflation have been hampered by large capital inflows attracted by high interest rates. Thus, the “Group of Ten” members of the International Monetary Fund recently appointed a study committee to examine world monetary arrangements, particularly liquidity needs. The present work discusses optimum world monetary arrangements, which would seem to be significantly different from present arrangements. The different economic needs and positions of various areas are distinguished; in particular, the internal problems of Western Europe are differentiated from the position of Western Europe vis-a-vis the United States. JEL: E42, F33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 67 (1963)
Robust B-exciton emission at room temperature in few-layers of MoS2:Ag nanoheterojunctions embedded into a glass matrix
Creators: name: Sarkar, Abdus Salam
name: Konidakis, Ioannis
name: Demeridou, Ioanna
name: Serpetzoglou, Efthymis
name: Kioseoglou, George
name: Stratakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tailoring the photoluminescence (PL) properties in two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) crystals using external factors is critical for its use in valleytronic, nanophotonic and optoelectronic applications. Although significant effort has been devoted towards enhancing or manipulating the excitonic emission in MoS2 monolayers, the excitonic emission in few-layers MoS2 has been largely unexplored. Here, we put forward a novel nano-heterojunction system, prepared with a non-lithographic process, to enhance and control such emission. It is based on the incorporation of few-layers MoS2 into a plasmonic silver metaphosphate glass (AgPO3) matrix. It is shown that, apart from the enhancement of the emission of both A and B excitons, the B-excitonic emission dominates the PL intensity. In particular, we observe an almost six-fold enhancement of the B exciton emission, compared to control MoS2 samples. This enhanced PL at room temperature is attributed to an enhanced exciton-plasmon coupling and it is supported by ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy that reveals plasmon-enhanced electron transfer that takes place in Ag nanoparticles-MoS2 nanoheterojunctions. Our results provide a great avenue to tailor the emission properties of few-layers MoS2, which could find application in emerging valleytronic devices working with B excitons.
Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for Health and Wellness applications: a tutorial
Creators: name: Tohka, Jussi
name: van Gils, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research on decision support applications in healthcare, such as those related to diagnosis, prediction, treatment planning, etc., have seen enormously increased interest recently. This development is thanks to the increase in data availability as well as advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning research. Highly promising research examples are published daily. However, at the same time, there are some unrealistic expectations with regards to the requirements for reliable development and objective validation that is needed in healthcare settings. These expectations may lead to unmet schedules and disappointments (or non-uptake) at the end-user side. It is the aim of this tutorial to provide practical guidance on how to assess performance reliably and efficiently and avoid common traps. Instead of giving a list of do's and don't s, this tutorial tries to build a better understanding behind these do's and don't s and presents both the most relevant performance evaluation criteria as well as how to compute them. Along the way, we will indicate common mistakes and provide references discussing various topics more in-depth.
description: To be published in Computers in Biology and Medicine
The influence of the public’s behaviour on liquidity creation
Creators: name: GAMBINO, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Liquid funds, credit system, treasury, public behaviour, nominal volume of financial assets, monetary reserves, policy
subject: E03, E51, E52, G02

description: While liquid funds in the hands of public and private operators cannot be created except by the credit system and the treasury, it is not equally easy to grasp how the public’s behaviour may effect the amount of liquid resources in existence. The credit system can influence public’s capacity to hold financial assets through loans. However, it cannot decide at its discretion the volume of financial assets held by the public. On the contrary, in several ways, e.g. through convertibility, the public can make its influence felt on monetary reserves, and as a consequence on the nominal volume of financial assets. Thus, if the first priority of economic policy is assigned to the maintenance of monetary stability, the monetary authorities have few margins to regulate at their discretion the trend of liquid assets at the market’s disposal. JEL: E03, E51, E52, G02
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 16, N. 67 (1963)