cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Scope and Scale of Processed Food Retailing in Urban Mali
Creators: name: Theriault, Veronique
name: Vroegindewey, Ryan
name: Assima, Amidou
name: Keita, Naman
name: Theriault, Veronique
name: Vroegindewey, Ryan
name: Assima, Amidou
name: Keita, Naman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Mali
subject: Processed food retailing

description: The increasingly urbanized Malian population combined with the growth in disposable income are bringing major changes in lifestyle and diet. There is an unprecedented demand for diversified and easy-toprepare foods. In the region, urban consumers are shifting away from traditional staples (i.e., roots and tubers) and towards processed rice and wheat-based products (i.e., noodles, pasta, and bread) (Hollinger and Staatz 2015). Income increases are also associated with growth in foods with high-income elasticities of demand, such as meat, dairy products, and fruits and vegetables (Zhou and Staatz 2016).
Additional file 3 of Health risks and mitigation strategies from occupational exposure to wildland fire: a scoping review
Creators: name: Koopmans, Erica
name: Cornish, Katie
name: Fyfe, Trina M.
name: Bailey, Katherine
name: Pelletier, Chelsea A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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 3. Grey literature search
The evolution of garnishment and wage assignment law in Illinois
Creators: name: Hansen, Bradley A.
name: Hansen, Mary
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Recent research shows that, despite high interest rates, wage earners in the early twentieth century frequently obtained credit from retail shops, from loan sharks, and from the emerging formal consumer credit market. When wage earners defaulted, the options for collection available to their creditors were governed by state laws on garnishment and wage assignment. These important laws varied widely from state to state, and little is known about their origins or evolution. In Illinois, the law put significant restrictions on creditors in the late nineteenth century, but the restrictions were removed in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This article shows how this dramatic shift resulted from the interaction of legislative and judicial activity and was driven by both interest group politics and judicial action.
Consumers’ attitudes on carbon footprint labelling. Results of the SUSDIET project
Creators: name: Feucht, Yvonne
name: Zander, Katrin
name: Feucht, Yvonne
name: Zander, Katrin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Carbon footprint labelling
subject: consumer research
subject: climate change
subject: climate-friendly food
subject: mixed methods
subject: choice experiments

description: The purchase of products labelled with Carbon footprints is one option for consumers to act climate-friendly and consumers frequently state that they are interested in this kind of labels. But even though various carbon footprint labelling schemes exist throughout Europe, their market relevance is low. In this context, the present research investigates preferences for climate-friendly food and identifies barriers for climate friendly food choices in the European market. Using a mixed methods approach combining an online survey (choice experiments and a questionnaire) with qualitative face-to-face interviews, the preferences and willingness to pay for different carbon labels and a climate-friendly claim were explored in six European countries. While the online survey mainly aimed at eliciting consumer preferences for different ways of communicating climate-riendliness, the face-to-face interviews which were based on the results of the online survey, deepened and broadened the quantitative results. Thereby, consumers’ perceptions of climate-friendly food and their information needs with respect to climate-friendly food are elicited. Our results show that the presence of a carbon label on a product increases the purchase probability and that consumers are willing to pay a (small) price premium for a carbon label in all countries under investigation (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Germany, UK). However, the contribution of a carbon label to a more climate-friendly consumption will be limited. Main reasons are the lack of knowledge of climate friendly actions, reluctance to change consumption habits (e.g. meat and dairy consumption), time preference and uncertainty regarding the relevance of climate change. Consumers appear to be frequently overstrained with respect to climate-friendly buying decisions. Policy makers and retailers are challenged to set appropriate structures to support climate-friendly consumption.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1507534833000
Spin and energy transfer in nanocrystals without transport of charge
Creators: name: Govorov, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a mechanism of spin transfer between individual quantum dots that does not require tunneling. Incident circularly-polarized photons create inter-band excitons with non-zero electron spin in the first quantum dot. When the quantum-dot pair is properly designed, this excitation can be transferred to the neighboring dot via the Coulomb interaction with either {\it conservation} or {\it flipping} of the electron spin. The second dot can radiate circularly-polarized photons at lower energy. Selection rules for spin transfer are determined by the resonant conditions and by the strong spin-orbit interaction in the valence band of nanocrystals. Coulomb-induced energy and spin transfer in pairs and chains of dots can become very efficient under resonant conditions. The electron can preserve its spin orientation even in randomly-oriented nanocrystals.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Many-Body Invariants for Chern and Chiral Hinge Insulators
Creators: name: Kang, Byungmin
name: Lee, Wonjun
name: Cho, Gil Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct new many-body invariants for 2d Chern and 3d chiral hinge insulators, which are characterized by quantized pumping of dipole and quadrupole moments. The invariants that we devise are written entirely in terms of many-body ground state wavefunctions on a torus geometry with a set of unitary operators. We provide a number of supporting evidences for our invariants via topological field theory interpretation, adiabatic pumping argument, and direct mapping to free-fermion band indices. We finally confirm our invariants by numerical computations including infinite density matrix renormalization group on a quasi-one-dimensional system. The many-body invariants therefore explicitly encircle several different pillars of theoretical descriptions of topological phases.
description: 5+6 pages, 2+1 figures
Kemeny, G., 2010. Sokkolni kell- ENNYI. Belügyi Szemle, 58(12), pp. 58-72.
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160205 Police Administration, Procedures and Practice
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 160201 Causes and Prevention of Crime

description: The young and enthusiastic team of the Police Station of Kaposvár City started a new traffic accident prevention programme of type previously unknown in Hungary. The number of traffic accidents, especially fatal ones has been decreased significantly in the past two years. The concept of shocking is known in many countries of Western Europe and in the United States. This essay is about a Hungarian adaptation of this concept .
The evolution of garnishment and wage assignment law in Illinois
Creators: name: Hansen, Bradley A.
name: Hansen, Mary
Publisher: name: The Economic & Business History Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: Recent research shows that, despite high interest rates, wage earners in the early twentieth century frequently obtained credit from retail shops, from loan sharks, and from the emerging formal consumer credit market. When wage earners defaulted, the options for collection available to their creditors were governed by state laws on garnishment and wage assignment. These important laws varied widely from state to state, and little is known about their origins or evolution. In Illinois, the law put significant restrictions on creditors in the late nineteenth century, but the restrictions were removed in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This article shows how this dramatic shift resulted from the interaction of legislative and judicial activity and was driven by both interest group politics and judicial action.
Protoribates (Protoribates) paracapucinus Mahunka 1988
Creators: name: Gol, Tahereh Taghipour
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Ahaniazad, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Protoribatidae
Protoribates
Protoribates paracapucinus

description: Protoribates (Protoribates) paracapucinus Mahunka, 1988
 Material examined – Table 2 (10, 25, 33).
 Distribution – Oriental, Eastern Palearctic, Ethiopian and Neotropical; Iran (Subías 2004, updated 2016).
 Iranian localities – West Azerbaijan province (Hashemi Khabir et. al. 2014); Abarkouh, Tehran, Firoozabad, Arak, Mazandaran province, Shabestar, Shendabad, Rasht, Shiraz, Estahban, Larestan, Sistan and Balouchestan, Soofian, Jolfa, Marvdasht, Heyran & Arasbaran, Zanjan and Tabriz (Akrami 2015); Dasht-e Arjan & Parishan (Iranpoor and Akrami 2016); Marand (Lotfollahi et. al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Gol, Tahereh Taghipour, Bagheri, Mohammad & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2017, Oribatid mites of Oripodoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from northwest of Iran with additional description of Scheloribates (Scheloribates) labyrinthicus, pp. 81-93 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (2) on page 88, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i2.28227, http://zenodo.org/record/4634075
The evolution of black neighborhoods since Kerner
Creators: name: Casey, Marcus D.
name: Hardy, Bradley
Publisher: name: Russell Sage Foundation
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This article studies the evolution of African American neighborhoods since the publication of the groundbreaking Kerner Commission report in 1968. We first examine how black and riot-affected neighborhoods evolved in four representative cities—Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.—during this period. Among black neighborhoods in these cities, we find that black neighborhoods not directly affected by riots fare better but trend similar to those that were. Notably, a number of disparities the commission identified as policy priorities—such as relatively lower income, higher poverty, and higher unemployment—persist despite declines in racist attitudes, extreme segregation, and an increased suburbanization of blacks. Fifty years after its publication, these findings suggest that the concerns of the Kerner Commission report remain relevant.
DEVELOPING SOCIOCULTURAL SKILLS IN UZBEK  THROUGH SONGS
Creators: name: Adilova Saodat Abdurakhimovna, Acting professor, Tashkent State Pedagogical University named after Nizami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes the possibility of using song material to develop socio-cultural competence in students studying Uzbek as a foreign language. Particular attention is paid to developing an understanding of cultural customs and values through the analysis of song lyrics. Practical techniques and tasks based on the use of authentic Uzbek songs are proposed, which can be effectively applied in Uzbek language lessons.

Keywords: language teaching, foreign language, language skills, competence, socio-cultural competence, interdisciplinary integration, songs, song lyrics, interactive tasks, text analysis, dictionaries, artificial intelligence
Status quo der Umsetzung von Naturschutz im Wald gegen Entgelt in Deutschland. Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Stiftungen
Current implementation status of nature conservation contracts in Germany. Results of an asking of foundations
Creators: name: Kownatzki, Dierk
name: Blomberg, Moritz Von
name: Demant, Laura
name: Lutter, Carina
name: Meyer, Peter
name: Möhring, Bernhard
name: Paschke, Marian
name: Seintsch, Björn
name: Selzer, Anne M.
name: Franz, Kristin
name: Kownatzki, Dierk
name: Blomberg, Moritz Von
name: Demant, Laura
name: Lutter, Carina
name: Meyer, Peter
name: Möhring, Bernhard
name: Paschke, Marian
name: Seintsch, Björn
name: Selzer, Anne M.
name: Franz, Kristin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Contract-based nature conservation or payments for nature conservation measures are de facto sporadically implemented in forests. Against this background the joint research project “Nature Conservation Contracts in Forests (WaVerNa Project)” aims to analyze the current implementation status as well as opportunities and constraints of nature conservation contracts in the field of forest ecology, economics, and law. In this context foundations were asked in a nationwide online survey referring to their financial involvement in forest nature conservation. The answers of 38 foundations which financially sponsor or intend to sponsor measures of forest nature conservation were assessed. When asked, foundations stated to sponsor or intend to sponsor a broad range of measures of forest nature conservation. Most of the foundations are actively supporting almost small areas outside of nature reserves. Consequently, most of the foundations deal with an annual funding budget for nature conservation measures in forests of less than 50,000 €. The number of foundations which sponsor nature conservation measures in third-party forest areas in Germany is unknown. Based on assumptions referring to the response rate, the basic population of foundations could roughly be estimated by an approximate dimension of 90 to 170 foundations. Based on this dimension the annually funded forest area of all German foundations involved in forest nature conservation is estimated between approximately 14,000 and 17,000 hectares, while the corresponding estimate of annual funding budget ranges between 2.7 and 3.7 million € at mean. Due to an almost positive assessment of their experiences of nature conservation contracts in forests, two third of the participating foundations are planning for the future to continue their engagement in the same manner.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1513066749000
Phases of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets on the square and triangular lattices
Creators: name: Yu, Yue
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the zero temperature phase diagrams of the spin S quantum antiferromagnet on square and triangular lattices with competing nearest and next-nearest exchange interactions as well as biquadratic couplings. We approach the problem from the large S limit. Our primary focus is on determining the extent to which the existence and character of any quantum disordered phases can be inferred from this approach.
Interfaces in Diblocks: A Study of Miktoarm Star Copolymers
Creators: name: Grason, Gregory M.
name: Kamien, Randall D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study AB$_n$ miktoarm star block copolymers in the strong segregation limit, focussing on the role that the AB interface plays in determining the phase behavior. We develop an extension of the kinked-path approach which allows us to explore the energetic dependence on interfacial shape. We consider a one-parameter family of interfaces to study the columnar to lamellar transition in asymmetric stars. We compare with recent experimental results. We discuss the stability of the A15 lattice of sphere-like micelles in the context of interfacial energy minimization. We corroborate our theory by implementing a numerically exact self-consistent field theory to probe the phase diagram and the shape of the AB interface.
description: 12 pages, 11 included figures
(2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity, spin networks and asymptotics
Creators: name: Garcia-Islas, J. Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method to evaluate spin networks for (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity is given. We analyse the evaluation of spin networks for Lorentzian, Euclidean and a new limiting case of Newtonian quantum gravity. Particular attention is paid to the tetrahedron and to the study of its asymptotics. Moreover, we propose that all this technique can be extended to spin networks for quantum gravity in any dimension.
The deep Chandra survey in the SDSS J1030+0524 field
Creators: name: Nanni, R.
name: Gilli, R.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Mignoli, M.
name: Peca, A.
name: Marchesi, S.
name: Annunziatella, M.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Calura, F.
name: Cappelluti, N.
name: Chiaberge, M.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Lanzuisi, G.
name: Liuzzo, E.
name: Marchesini, D.
name: Prandoni, I.
name: Tozzi, P.
name: Vito, F.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Norman, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the X-ray source catalog for the 479 ks Chandra exposure of the SDSS J1030+0524 field, that is centered on a region that shows the best evidence to date of an overdensity around a z > 6 quasar, and also includes a galaxy overdensity around a Compton-thick Fanaroff-Riley type II radio galaxy at z = 1.7. Using wavdetect for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for source photometry and significance assessment, we create preliminary catalogs of sources that are detected in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively. We produce X-ray simulations that mirror our Chandra observation to filter our preliminary catalogs and get a completeness level of > 91% and a reliability level of 95% in each band. The catalogs in the three bands are then matched into a final main catalog of 256 unique sources. Among them, 244, 193, and 208 are detected in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively. This makes J1030 field the fifth deepest extragalactic X-ray survey to date. The field is part of the Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC), and is also covered by optical imaging data from the Large Binocular Camera (LBC) at the Large Binocular Telescope, near-IR imaging data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope WIRCam, and Spitzer IRAC. Thanks to its dense multi-wavelength coverage, J1030 represents a legacy field for the study of large-scale structures around distant accreting supermassive black holes. Using a likelihood ratio analysis, we associate multi-band counterparts for 252 (98.4%) of the 256 Chandra sources, with an estimated reliability of 95%. Finally, we compute the cumulative number of sources in each X-ray band, finding that they are in general agreement with the results from the Chandra Deep Fields.
description: A&A in press, 20 pages, 15 figures. The figures A.2 and and A.3 (postage-stamp images of the catalog) can be found online at: http://www.oabo.inaf.it/~LBTz6/1030/chandra_1030
Additional file 1 of Context specific realities and experiences of nurses and midwives in basic emergency obstetric and newborn care services in two district hospitals in Rwanda: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Nishimwe, Aurore
name: Conco, Daphney Nozizwe
name: Nyssen, Marc
name: Ibisomi, Latifat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
title: Exploring Place: Further Education, Working Class Women and a Foundation Degree
Creators: name: Attwood, Megan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: In May 2010 a newly elected coalition government inherited a concern about widening access to higher education in the United Kingdom. As far as widening participation within higher education is concerned, research indications are that while overall participation has increased, the rate of participation from under-represented groups has remained at a consistently low level (UCAS 2012a, ESRC 2012).

My study is motivated by these disparities in participation rates and by a desire to critique the assumptions made within policy. I view widening participation policy as problematic in its negative portrayal of working class students as having low aspirations (Dearing 1997, DfES 2003a).

An interpretive method of enquiry was adopted to develop a qualitative case study approach. This drew on data gathered between 2011 and 2015. Eighteen semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with four women studying on a foundation degree.

Key documents including the Robbins Report (Robbins, 1963a), the Dearing Report (Dearing, 1997) and The Future of Higher Education (DfES, 2003c) were selected to discuss the assumptions that circulate in the government in order to explore how these might have shaped successive thinking. I suggest that there are implications for practice as attitudes towards education are shaped by factors which filter down from policy such as access and curriculum design.

Findings from my study suggest that working class women possess future aspirations, have some support mechanisms in place and in part study ‘to increase knowledge and understanding for their own sake’ (Dearing, 1997, p. 72. ) despite living multifaceted lives. Fluctuating levels of self-esteem and issues of engrained gender roles and conflict as the women attempt to combine family life and study are also evident.

A move towards a transformative model of education where a more student-centred approach to curriculum design and delivery is developed is required. The long term benefits of such will remain unrealised as long as the economy remains the government’s focal driver of societal change.
Erythraeus (Zaracarus)
Creators: name: Noei, Javad
name: Maroufpoor, Mostafa
name: Faizi, Fardin
name: Ostovan, Hadi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Erythraeidae
Erythraeus

description: Key to species of the subgenus Erythraeus (Zaracarus) of the world (larva) [modified from Mahmoudi et al. (2014) with corrections]
1. fn BFe 3-3-3 or 3-3-2 ……...…………………..……………………………………………...….. 2
– fn BFe 2-2-2 ………………..…………………………………………………………………… 18
 2. BFe 3-3-2 ……………...…….…………………………………...…. E. (Z.) plumatus Beron, 2008
– BFe 3-3-3 ……...............……..……………………………………...…………………………… 3
 3. Ti III <242 …………………………………………………...... E. (Z.) jinkaensis Haitlinger, 2006
– Ti III> 271 ………………………………………………….……………………………...…….. 4
4. Ti III> 420 ……………………………………………………..………………………………… 5
– Ti III <370 …………………………………………………………….………………………..... 8
5. Ti III <424 …………………………………………………………………......………………… 6
– Ti III> 439 …………………………………………………………………………….……...….. 7
 6. Ti III 420, Ti II with 14 normal setae ………………...…….......… E. (Z.) fabiolae Haitlinger, 1997
 – Ti III 424, Ti II with 15 normal setae ……….……..... E. (Z.) longipedus Saboori & Nowzari, 2001
 7. Ti III 439–511, Ti II and III with 14 normal setae, AL with swelling near bases ……………...……. ………………………………..…..…………..……………..… E. (Z.) adrianicus Haitlinger, 2012
 – Ti III 470–484, Ti II and III with 15 normal setae, AL without swelling near bases..………………. ……..………………………….……...…. E. (Z.) hafezi Saboori, Hakimitabar & Mahmoudi, 2014
 8. Ti III 271–278, Ti III with 16 normal setae ……………………..………………………………….. ……...………….............................................................….. E. (Z.) perpusillus Kamran et al., 2009
– Ti III> 346, Ti III with less than 16 setae ……………….……………………………….……… 9
 9. NDV 68, fD 54 …………………………………………...….. E. (Z.) kastaniensis Haitlinger, 2006
– NDV <61, fD <42 ………………………………………………..…………………………….. 10
10. AL without swelling near bases …………..…………………………………………………… 11
description: Published as part of Noei, Javad, Maroufpoor, Mostafa, Faizi, Fardin & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, Second record of Erythraeus (Zaracarus) coleopterus (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran with new morphological data, pp. 71-80 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (2) on page 76, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i2.29406, http://zenodo.org/record/4634063
The evolution of black neighborhoods since Kerner
Creators: name: Casey, Marcus D.
name: Hardy, Bradley
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This article studies the evolution of African American neighborhoods since the publication of the groundbreaking Kerner Commission report in 1968. We first examine how black and riot-affected neighborhoods evolved in four representative cities—Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.—during this period. Among black neighborhoods in these cities, we find that black neighborhoods not directly affected by riots fare better but trend similar to those that were. Notably, a number of disparities the commission identified as policy priorities—such as relatively lower income, higher poverty, and higher unemployment—persist despite declines in racist attitudes, extreme segregation, and an increased suburbanization of blacks. Fifty years after its publication, these findings suggest that the concerns of the Kerner Commission report remain relevant.
BeppoSAX observation of PSR B1937+21
Creators: name: Nicastro, L.
name: Cusumano, G.
name: Loehmer, O.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Kuiper, L.
name: Hermsen, W.
name: Mineo, T.
name: Becker, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest rotating pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~200 ks observation (78.5 ks MECS/34 ks LECS on-source time) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the spectral properties and the pulse profile shape. The pulse profile is clearly double peaked at energies > ~4 keV. Peak widths are compatible with the instrumental time resolution and the second pulse lags the main pulse 0.52 in phase, like is the case in the radio. In the 1.3-4 keV band we detect a ~45% DC component; conversely the 4-10 keV pulsed fraction is consistent with 100%. The on-pulse spectrum is fitted with an absorbed power-law of spectral index ~1.2, harder than that of the total flux which is ~1.9. The total unabsorbed (2-10 keV) flux is F_{2-10} = 4.1 10^-13 cgs, implying a luminosity of L_X = 5.0 10^31 Θ(d/3.6 kpc)^2 erg s^-1 and a X-ray efficiency of η= 4.5 10^-5 Θ, where Θis the solid angle spanned by the emission beam. These results are in agreement with those obtained by ASCA and a more recent Rossi-XTE observation. The hydrogen column density N_H ~2 10^22 cm^-2 is ~10 times higher than expected from the radio dispersion measure and average Galactic density of e-. Though it is compatible (within 2σ) with the Galactic (HI derived) value of ~1 10^22 cm^-2, inspection of dust extinction maps reveal that the pulsar falls in a highly absorbed region. In addition, 1.4 GHz radio map shows that the nearby (likely unrelated) HII source 4C21.53W is part of a circular emission region ~4' across.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Building healthy communities
Creators: name: Fawcett, Stephen B.
name: Francisco, Vincent T.
name: Hyra, Derek
name: Paine-Andrews, Adrienne
name: Schultz, Jerry A.
name: Russos, Stergios
name: Fisher, Jacqueline L.
name: Evensen, Paul
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Chapter in: The Society and Population Health Reader: A State and Community Perspective
Additional file 2 of Context specific realities and experiences of nurses and midwives in basic emergency obstetric and newborn care services in two district hospitals in Rwanda: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Nishimwe, Aurore
name: Conco, Daphney Nozizwe
name: Nyssen, Marc
name: Ibisomi, Latifat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
AN ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE CROP INSURANCE AT THE FARMLAND IN KOREA
Creators: name: Park, Jiyun
name: Kim, Chang-Gil
name: Park, Jiyun
name: Kim, Chang-Gil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: climate change adaptation
subject: crop insurance
subject: extreme weather events
subject: Just-Pope model
subject: evaluation of climate change adaptation options

description: Climate change has a direct and indirect impact on agricultural production through rising temperatures, changes in precipitation and extreme weather events. To cope with climate change efficiently, it is important to carefully estimate the economic effects of adaptation measures and establish innovative methods based on the findings. In this study, we examine statistically the damage and correlation of natural disasters, which are soaring due to climate change, and farm income, and measure the economic effect of crop insurance, which is a representative option for climate change adaptation. To achieve the purpose, we employ the Just-Pope model to perform an econometric analysis and use the data of orchard households. The empirical analysis demonstrates that there exists a negative effect of extreme weather on farm income and the negative effect increases as frequency of weather disasters increases. However, the study also proves that crop insurance is an effective adaptation measure and the economic effect of the crop insurance is greater as more frequent extreme weather events occur. Finally this study shows that insured farmers receive benefits of 1.39 million KRW in comparison with uninsured farmers.
Near-infrared variability in dusty white dwarfs: tracing the accretion of planetary material
Creators: name: Rogers, Laura K.
name: Xu, Siyi
name: Bonsor, Amy
name: Hodgkin, Simon
name: Su, Kate Y. L.
name: von Hippel, Ted
name: Jura, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inwards scattering of planetesimals towards white dwarfs is expected to be a stochastic process with variability on human time-scales. The planetesimals tidally disrupt at the Roche radius, producing dusty debris detectable as excess infrared emission. When sufficiently close to the white dwarf, this debris sublimates and accretes on to the white dwarf and pollutes its atmosphere. Studying this infrared emission around polluted white dwarfs can reveal how this planetary material arrives in their atmospheres. We report a near-infrared monitoring campaign of 34 white dwarfs with infrared excesses with the aim to search for variability in the dust emission. Time series photometry of these white dwarfs from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (Wide Field Camera) in the J, H and K bands were obtained over baselines of up to three years. We find no statistically significant variation in the dust emission in all three near-infrared bands. Specifically, we can rule out variability at ~1.3% for the 13 white dwarfs brighter than 16th mag in K band, and at ~10% for the 32 white dwarfs brighter than 18th mag over time-scales of three years. Although to date two white dwarfs, SDSS J095904.69-020047.6 and WD 1226+110, have shown K band variability, in our sample we see no evidence of new K band variability at these levels. One interpretation is that the tidal disruption events which lead to large variabilities are rare, occur on short time-scales, and after a few years the white dwarfs return to being stable in the near-infrared.
description: 14 pages + supplementary figures, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
THE PRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AT U.S. RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: THE ROLE AND MISSION OF LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: Lee, Yoo Hwan
name: Graff, Gregory D.
name: Lee, Yoo Hwan
name: Graff, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agricultural R&D
subject: Land-Grant university
subject: knowledge production function
subject: public domain
subject: technology transfer and dissemination
subject: polynomial distributed lags

description: This paper analyzes food and agriculturally-related knowledge production and transfer for 114 top-tier U.S. research universities from 1993 to 2015, to understand the role of the Land-Grant universities in promoting commercial innovation and regional economic development in this sector. We utilize two empirical methods: (1) a panel analysis of the knowledge production function (KPF) for research productivity and (2) an analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the role of the Land-Grant universities in such knowledge production. Output of research publications exhibits decreasing returns to scale for all sub-fields, but cost advantages and mean research (gestation) lags vary by sub-field. The mean number of research publications by the Land-Grant universities is much higher than non Land-Grant universities, especially in the Central region of the U.S. These results demonstrate how specialization by Land-Grant universities in agricultural R&D contributes to commercial innovation within a diffuse yet regionalized industry. Moreover, the main context and results of this paper would suggest some important implications to the study of the system of food and agricultural R&D and commercial innovations in Korea.
BRANECODE: A Program for Simulations of Braneworld Dynamics
Creators: name: Martin, Johannes
name: Felder, Gary N.
name: Frolov, Andrei V.
name: Kofman, Lev
name: Peloso, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an algorithm and a C++ implementation that we have written and made available for calculating the fully nonlinear evolution of 5D braneworld models with scalar fields. Bulk fields allow for the stabilization of the extra space. However, they complicate the dynamics of the system, so that analytic calculations (performed within an effective 4D theory) are typically only reliable close to stabilized configurations or when the evolution of the extra space is negligible. In the general case, a numerical study of the 5D equations is necessary, and the algorithm and code we describe are the first ones designed for this task. The program and its full documentation are available on the Web at http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~jmartin/BRANECODE/. In this paper we provide a brief overview of what the program does and how to use it.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Logarithmic Sobolev inequality for zero-range Dynamics
Creators: name: Pra, Paolo Dai
name: Posta, Gustavo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 82C22 (Primary)

description: We prove that the logarithmic Sobolev constant for zero-range processes in a box of diameter $L$ grows as $L^2$.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000332 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Building healthy communities
Creators: name: Fawcett, Stephen B.
name: Francisco, Vincent T.
name: Hyra, Derek
name: Paine-Andrews, Adrienne
name: Schultz, Jerry A.
name: Russos, Stergios
name: Fisher, Jacqueline L.
name: Evensen, Paul
Publisher: name: The New Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Chapter in: The Society and Population Health Reader: A State and Community Perspective
Lévy Statistics for Random Single--Molecule Line Shapes in a Glass
Creators: name: Barkai, E.
name: Naumov, A. V.
name: Vainer, Yu. G.
name: Bauer, M.
name: Kador, l.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the statistical behavior of random line shapes of single tetra-tert-butylterrylene chromophores embedded in an amorphous polyisobutylene matrix at T=2 K, is described by Lévy statistics as predicted theoretically by Barkai, Silbey, and Zumofen [{\em Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 84} 5339 (2000)]. This behavior is a manifestation of the long range interaction between two level systems in the glass and the single molecule. A universal amplitude ratio is investigated which shows that the standard tunneling model assumptions are compatible with the experimental data.
description: accepted for publication in PRL
Lasioerythraeus Welbourn & Young 1987
Creators: name: Hakimitabar, Masoud
name: Saboori, Alireza
name: Saaveh, Hossein Mokhtari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Erythraeidae
Lasioerythraeus

description: Key to species of Lasioerythraeus of the world (larva)
1. fn Ge I–III 8–8–8 ……………………………………..…………………………..……………… 2
– fn Ge I–III 9–9–8 ……………………………………………………………………..………….. 4
 2. Ti III> 340, fD ~120 …………………………..………..………………………….. L. cardonensis
– Ti III <270, fD 38–45 …………………………………….………………...…………………… 3
 3. Scutum with large and sparse punctation, Ge III/Ti III> 0.65 ………………….... L. shirleyanneae
 – Scutum with small and dense punctation, Ge III/Ti III <0.51 …………………....…… L. johnstoni
 4. Ti III> 280, PSens> 100, fV = 18 ……………….….……………………..……….….. L. saboorii
 – Ti III <210, PSens <95 and fV = 12 ………………………….……………………..….. L. setarius
description: Published as part of Hakimitabar, Masoud, Saboori, Alireza & Saaveh, Hossein Mokhtari, 2018, New morphological data and new host record of Lasioerythraeus saboorii (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from Iran, pp. 41-49 in Persian Journal of Acarology 7 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v7i1.34679, http://zenodo.org/record/4634148
Segregation and the subprime lending crisis
Creators: name: Squires, Gregory D.
name: Hyra, Derek S.
name: Renner, Robert N.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: The recent rise in subprime lending and record-level foreclosure rates has generally been explained in terms of ill-informed borrowers, irresponsible lenders, greedy investors, lax regulators, fraudulent appraisers, and other institutional actors in the financial and insurance services industries. Few have asked whether broader contextual factors influence the growth of high-cost loans. Some research has examined selected individual- and neighborhood-level predictors of subprime lending. In particular, prior research has shown that minorities or residents of predominately minority neighborhoods are more likely to receive a subprime loan. However, little research has examined the possible effects of racial segregation and the concentration of people of color. Using multivariate OLS regression models, with data from the 2006 HMDA report, the 2006 American Community Survey, and the 2000 Census, and credit score information, we find evidence that even after controlling for percent minority, low credit scores, poverty, and median home value, racial segregation is clearly linked with the proportion of subprime loans originated at the metropolitan level. We also find that black segregation has a stronger effect than Hispanic segregation. This research suggests that the context of racial segregation is an important determinant of subprime lending. We also find that general education levels seem to be an important protective factor against high proportions of subprime loans. Consequently, policy initiatives should address these broader dimensions of segregation and uneven development, in addition to consumer behavior, banking practices, and regulation of financial services industries.
The bispectrum and 21cm foregrounds during the Epoch of Reionization
Creators: name: Watkinson, Catherine A
name: Trott, Cathryn M
name: Hothi, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous studies have established the theoretical potential of the 21cm bispectrum to boost our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), and therefore early generation of stars and galaxies. In this paper we look at the impact of foregrounds and instrumental effects on the 21cm bispectrum and our ability to measure it. Unlike the power spectrum for which (in the absence of instrumental effects) there is a window clear of smooth-spectrum foregrounds in which the 21cm power spectrum may be detectable, there is no such "EoR window" for the bispectrum. Instead, on smaller scales EoR structure modulates that of the foregrounds (FG) to alter the EoR+FG bispectrum from that of the foregrounds in a complex manner. On larger scales the EoR structures are completely swamped by those of the foregrounds, and the EoR+FG bispectrum is entirely dominated by that of the foregrounds. It is therefore unlikely that the bispectrum will be useful in cases where we are observationally restricted to using foreground avoidance techniques. We also find that there is potential for instrumental effects to seriously corrupt the bispectrum, possibly even rendering the bispectrum useless for parameter estimation. On larger scales, foreground removal using GMCA is found to recover the EoR bispectrum to a reasonable level of accuracy (even better than the power spectrum for certain configurations). Further studies are necessary to understand the error and/or bias associated with foreground removal before the 21cm bispectrum can be practically applied in analysis of future data.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures + 2 appendix figures. Submitted to MNRAS (14th February 2020)
Segregation and the subprime lending crisis
Creators: name: Squires, Gregory D.
name: Hyra, Derek S.
name: Renner, Robert N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The recent rise in subprime lending and record-level foreclosure rates has generally been explained in terms of ill-informed borrowers, irresponsible lenders, greedy investors, lax regulators, fraudulent appraisers, and other institutional actors in the financial and insurance services industries. Few have asked whether broader contextual factors influence the growth of high-cost loans. Some research has examined selected individual- and neighborhood-level predictors of subprime lending. In particular, prior research has shown that minorities or residents of predominately minority neighborhoods are more likely to receive a subprime loan. However, little research has examined the possible effects of racial segregation and the concentration of people of color. Using multivariate OLS regression models, with data from the 2006 HMDA report, the 2006 American Community Survey, and the 2000 Census, and credit score information, we find evidence that even after controlling for percent minority, low credit scores, poverty, and median home value, racial segregation is clearly linked with the proportion of subprime loans originated at the metropolitan level. We also find that black segregation has a stronger effect than Hispanic segregation. This research suggests that the context of racial segregation is an important determinant of subprime lending. We also find that general education levels seem to be an important protective factor against high proportions of subprime loans. Consequently, policy initiatives should address these broader dimensions of segregation and uneven development, in addition to consumer behavior, banking practices, and regulation of financial services industries.
Cosmic Superstring Gravitational Lensing Phenomena: Predictions for Networks of (p,q) Strings
Creators: name: Shlaer, Benjamin
name: Wyman, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unique, conical spacetime created by cosmic strings brings about distinctive gravitational lensing phenomena. The variety of these distinctive phenomena is increased when the strings have non-trivial mutual interactions. In particular, when strings bind and create junctions, rather than intercommute, the resulting configurations can lead to novel gravitational lensing patterns. In this brief note, we use exact solutions to characterize these phenomena, the detection of which would be strong evidence for the existence of complex cosmic string networks of the kind predicted by string theory-motivated cosmic string models. We also correct some common errors in the lensing phenomenology of straight cosmic strings.
description: 11 Pages, 6 Figures
SBA lending equity and efficiency challenges
Creators: name: Hyra, Derek
name: Doughty, Meghan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: America’s small businesses are important drivers of the national economy and job creation. Small firms employ half of the United States (U.S.) labor force and since 1995 small businesses have provided approximately 65 percent of net new jobs in the American economy. Moreover, since the Great Recession small businesses have contributed to a significant proportion of American job recovery (Mills and McCarthy, 2014). While small businesses are vital to the American economy, it is often difficult for lenders to determine the credit worthiness of these types of businesses (Craig, Jackson and Thomson, 2007). To help stimulate lending to small businesses, in 1953 Congress created the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to facilitate the deployment of credit to small firms. Two cornerstone SBA efforts have been the 7(a) and 504 loan guaranteed programs.1 These programs minimize risk by providing federal guarantees, ranging from 40 percent to 75 percent of the origination amount, on loans made by private lenders. These programs have been critical in facilitating loans to America’s small businesses. Without these programs many small businesses might not have otherwise received loans on reasonable terms. Since 2009, these programs have deployed over $122 billion in small business credit combined. In the 21st century the SBA loan guaranteed programs face two challenges: equity and efficiency. Since the end of the Great Recession, the proportion of loans to African Americans has declined, while loan volume has increased. Some in the mainstream media claim that African American small firms are missing out on America’s economic recovery. Additionally, there is a scholarly debate as to whether SBA lending provides economic benefits to areas. Some studies suggest that SBA lending is positively associated with economic growth and employment, while others point to a negative association. This white paper explores some of the equity and efficiency concerns associated with the SBA lending programs and provides recommendations to increase the portion of government guaranteed loans going to African Americans and presents research ideas to further investigate the relationship between SBA lending and local economic growth.