cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulations of heavy-ion halo collimation at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: benchmark with measurements and cleaning performance evaluation
Creators: name: Fuster-Martínez, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Protons and heavy-ion beams at unprecedented energies are brought into collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider for high-energy experiments. The LHC multi-stage collimation system is designed to provide protection against regular and abnormal losses in order to reduce the risk of quenches of the superconducting magnets as well as keeping background in the experiments under control. Compared to protons, beam collimation in the heavy-ion runs is more challenging despite the lower stored beam energies, because the efficiency of cleaning with heavy ions has been observed to be two orders of magnitude worse. This is due to the differences in the interaction mechanisms between the beams and the collimators. Ion beams experience fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation at the collimators that result in a substantial flux of off-rigidity particles that escape the collimation system. These out-scattered nuclei might be lost around the ring, eventually imposing a limit on the maximum achievable stored beam energy. Accurate simulation tools are crucial in order to understand and control these losses. A new simulation framework has been developed for heavy-ion collimation based on the coupling of the Sixtrack tracking code and the FLUKA Monte Carlo code that models the electromagnetic and nuclear interactions of the heavy-ions with the nuclei of the collimator material. In this paper, the new simulation tool is described. Furthermore, Sixtrack-FLUKA coupling simulations are presented and compared with measurements done with Pb ions in the LHC. The agreement between simulations and measurements is discussed and the results are used to understand and optimise losses. The simulation tool is also applied to predict the performance of the collimation system for the High-Luminosity LHC.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures
IMPACTS OF CAP REFORM ON RURAL EMPLOYMENT: A MULTIMODELING CROSS COUNTRY APPROACH
Creators: name: Mattas, Konstadinos
name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Midmore, Peter
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
name: Surry, Yves R.
name: Mattas, Konstadinos
name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Midmore, Peter
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
name: Surry, Yves R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: CAP reform
subject: rural employment
subject: I/O analysis
subject: PMP
subject: qualitative analysis.

description: Expected impacts due to recently introduced CAP reforms can be felt beyond the agricultural sector affecting the entire regional economy. Employment levels will be affected within the farming sector and probably non-agricultural sector will feel the pinch too. Policies influencing employment levels attract the attention of the media and the public. Therefore, policy makers are more sensitive on employment issues than rural and agricultural policies as it is widely admitted that no vibrant regions in Europe can be envisioned without enhancing job opportunities. The influence of CAP reform on employment has not been thoroughly studied within a comprehensive approach, accounting for agricultural and non-agricultural effects and covering the diversity of EU rural regions. In this research work, five EU regions [Emilia Romagna (IT), East Wales (UK), Anatoliki Makedonia and Thraki (GR), Östergötland (SWE) and Kassel (GER)] have been selected and studied to identify and measure CAP’s effects on employment throughout the regional economy. A framework of three different approaches (Participatory Process/desk research, PMP, I-O) was developed and then applied to those five EU regions to trace out the current and anticipated employment effects of Pillar I and II. The main focus of this work is on consolidating results derived from different models, applied to five EU regions, to deduce valuable policy generalizations and to derive conclusions that guide policy makers on decisions related to regional and rural development. The results offer a comprehensive picture of the impacts of CAP reforms on regional economies and employment enriching the understanding of the range and diversity of contexts in which CAP is being applied.
Are beryllium abundances anomalous in stars with giant planets?
Creators: name: Santos, N. C.
name: Israelian, G.
name: Lopez, R. J Garcia
name: Mayor, M.
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Randich, S.
name: Ecuvillon, A.
name: Cerdena, C. Dominguez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present beryllium (Be) abundances in a large sample of 41 extra-solar planet host stars, and for 29 stars without any known planetary-mass companion, spanning a large range of effective temperatures. The Be abundances were derived through spectral synthesis done in standard Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium, using spectra obtained with various instruments. The results seem to confirm that overall, planet-host stars have ``normal'' Be abundances, although a small, but not significant, difference might be present. This result is discussed, and we show that this difference is probably not due to any stellar ``pollution'' events. In other words, our results support the idea that the high-metal content of planet-host stars has, overall, a ``primordial'' origin. However, we also find a small subset of planet-host late-F and early-G dwarfs that might have higher than average Be abundances. The reason for the offset is not clear, and might be related either to the engulfment of planetary material, to galactic chemical evolution effects, or to stellar-mass differences for stars of similar temperature.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nothrus C. L. Koch 1836
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Nothridae
Nothrus

description: Nothrus sp. nr. pulchellus (Berlese, 1910)
 Geographic Location and Habitats: BC: Interior (Battigelli et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Additional file 1 of Dynamic behavior of metabolic syndrome progression: a comprehensive systematic review on recent discoveries
Creators: name: Bagheri, Pezhman
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Seif, Mozhgan
name: Rezaianzadeh, Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 Table 7 TP of no component state to other states in studies. Table 8 TP of overweight or obesity state to other states in studies. Table 9 TP of hypertension state to other states in studies. Table 10 TP of dyslipidemia state to other states in studies. Table 11 TP of hyperglycemia state to other states in studies. Table 12 TP of “Overweight / obesity & hypertension” state to other states in studies. Table 13 TP of “Overweight / obesity & hyperglycemia” state to other states in studies. Table 14 TP of “Overweight / obesity & hyperglycemia” state to other states in studies. Table 15 TP of “hypertension & dyslipidemia” state to other states in studies. Table 16 TP of “hypertension & hyperglycemia” state to other states in studies. Table 17 TP of “dyslipidemia & hyperglycemia” state to other states in studies. Table 18 TP of “MetS” state to other states in studies.
Interval type-2 fuzzy logic system based similarity evaluation for image steganography
Creators: name: Ashraf, Zubair
name: Roy, Mukul Lata
name: Muhuri, Pranab K.
name: Lohani, Q. M. Danish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Similarity measure, also called information measure, is a concept used to distinguish different objects. It has been studied from different contexts by employing mathematical, psychological, and fuzzy approaches. Image steganography is the art of hiding secret data into an image in such a way that it cannot be detected by an intruder. In image steganography, hiding secret data in the plain or non-edge regions of the image is significant due to the high similarity and redundancy of the pixels in their neighborhood. However, the similarity measure of the neighboring pixels, i.e., their proximity in color space, is perceptual rather than mathematical. This paper proposes an interval type 2 fuzzy logic system (IT2 FLS) to determine the similarity between the neighboring pixels by involving an instinctive human perception through a rule-based approach. The pixels of the image having high similarity values, calculated using the proposed IT2 FLS similarity measure, are selected for embedding via the least significant bit (LSB) method. We term the proposed procedure of steganography as IT2 FLS LSB method. Moreover, we have developed two more methods, namely, type 1 fuzzy logic system based least significant bits (T1FLS LSB) and Euclidean distance based similarity measures for least significant bit (SM LSB) steganographic methods. Experimental simulations were conducted for a collection of images and quality index metrics, such as PSNR, UQI, and SSIM are used. All the three steganographic methods are applied on datasets and the quality metrics are calculated. The obtained stego images and results are shown and thoroughly compared to determine the efficacy of the IT2 FLS LSB method. Finally, we have done a comparative analysis of the proposed approach with the existing well-known steganographic methods to show the effectiveness of our proposed steganographic method.
Le texte grec des récits utiles à l´ame d´Anastase (le Sinaite)
Creators: name: Nau, P.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (1903): Oriens christianus, Band 3, Heft 1
THE EFFECTS OF CAP REFORM ON THE PERIURBAN AGRICULTURAL AREA IN THE PLAIN OF THE CITY OF ASSISI (CENTRAL ITALY)
Creators: name: Torquati, Biancamaria
name: Giacche, Giulia
name: Taglioni, Chiara
name: Musotti, Francesco
name: Torquati, Biancamaria
name: Giacche, Giulia
name: Taglioni, Chiara
name: Musotti, Francesco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Periurban Agriculture
subject: Cap Reform
subject: Economic Valuation
subject: Contingent Valuation
subject: Assisi

description: In periurban areas agriculture can assume a multifunctional role that includes landscape conservation, sustainable resource management, biodiversity conservation, leisure activities, and can also maintain adequate conditions in densely populated areas for a safe and habitable environment. This study investigates the effects of the introduction of single farm payment on the periurban agricultural area in the plain of the City of Assisi, an area with a strong landscape value. A survey was carried out to determine: changes in production, changes on farm incomes, structural adjustments, the level of multifunctionality of periurban agriculture. Moreover, a survey of 355 residents was made to assess their willingness to pay for some positive externalities of the agriculture in this area. The results suggest the low-impact of reform on farms and the existence of a significant demand for environmental and social functions of the periurban agriculture of this region.
Accuracy of Y-function methods for parameters extraction of two-dimensional FETs across different technologies
Creators: name: Pacheco-Sanchez, Anibal
name: Jiménez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accuracy of contact resistance values of two-dimensional field-effect transistors extracted with the \textit{Y}-function considering the impact of the intrinsic mobility degradation is evaluated here. The difference between methodologies that take this factor into account and ignore it is pointed out by a detailed analysis of the approximations of the transport model used for each extraction. In contrast to the oftenly used approach where the intrinsic mobility degradation is neglected, a \textit{Y}-function-based method considering a more complete transport model yields contact resistance values similar to reference values obtained by other intricate approaches. The latter values are more suitable also to describe experimental data of two dimensional devices of different technologies. The intrinsic mobility degradation factor of two-dimensional transistors is experimentally characterized for the first time and its impact on the device performance is described and evaluated.
POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIOS FOR SICILIAN CEREAL CROPPING IN THE LIGHT OF CURRENT TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Creators: name: Crescimanno, Maria
name: De Stefano, V.
name: Galati, Antonino
name: Crescimanno, Maria
name: De Stefano, V.
name: Galati, Antonino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP
subject: Future of the CAP
subject: Sicilian agriculture

description: This paper sets out the results of a research project carried out by the University of Palermo and financed by the Sicilian Region, which aims to establish the impact of the Fischler Reform on Sicilian agriculture, and to project future scenarios that take into account some of the changes that the production process may undergo in the Region, following both the application of the Reform itself (now in force) and the eventual application of indications contained in the Health check. The impacts of the Fischler Reform, and especially the application of the Single Payment scheme to companies, were examined in cereal cropping companies, especially considering the significant amount of durum wheat cultivation in vast areas of the Region’s hilly and its strategic importance for many areas where there is a risk of farming being abandoned, with grave consequences for the territory and its farmland, for employment and for the encouragement of food and processing industries. The chosen means for assessing the effects of the reform was that of direct interviews at a statistically representative sample made up of 400 agricultural companies, determining possible earnings within the current situation, but also in the eventuality of some of the indications in the Health check being applied. The results indicate that Community aid plays a crucial role in the companies looked at, allowing them to remain on the market. Indeed, the elimination of the aid planned within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy in the hypothetical scenarios showed a negative impact on earnings for the companies and could cause their exclusion from the market.
Attached growth biological treatment of stormwater run-off from log yards
Creators: name: Woodhouse, Christine Alison
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Stormwater run-off from log yards, which is frequently toxic, high in solids and poses a significant biological oxygen demand (BOD) on aquatic environments, is a burgeoning environmental concern. The discharge is generated when precipitation comes into contact with wood, debris and equipment at outdoor lumber sorting, processing and storage facilities adjacent to waterways. The treatment of log yard run-off is not common. Nine run-off samples were collected, between May, 2001 and April, 2002, from different locations at the log yard of a Vancouver Island sawmill. Characterization of the samples revealed BOD levels ranging from 25 to 745mg/L, chemical oxygen demand (COD) from 125 to 4610mg/L, tannin and lignin concentrations (T+L) from 10 to 1505mg/L and total suspended solid concentrations (TSS) from 65 to 2205mg/L. Six samples were acutely toxic according to Microtox. A preliminary attempt at elucidating the toxic constituents in the run-off was made. In both samples tested, metals were not found to contribute to run-off toxicity. Wood extractives are the suspected toxicants in these samples, based on related literature. The focus of this project was the treatment of run-off in a lab-scale, attached microbial growth reactor. A biofilm was initially grown, on solid plastic support media, from pulp mill wastewater treatment system seed. Consuming run-off, methanol and supplemental nutrients, a resilient biofilm quickly colonized the reactor. The biofilm effectively treated all five run-off samples tested. Treatment for 24 hours at 34°C resulted in BOD concentration reductions of 94 to 100%, COD of 86 to 93% and T+L of 91 to 97%. Substantial toxicity and colour reductions were also observed. Runoff treatment at 5 and 24°C reduced BOD concentrations by 76 and 97%, COD by 64 and 91%, and T+L by 67 and 95%, respectively.
Production of vector mesons in pentaquark states resonance channel in $p$-$A$ ultraperipheral collisions
Creators: name: Xie, Ya-Ping
name: Wang, Xiao-Yun
name: Chen, Xurong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of protons and nuclei are important for the study of the photoproduction of vector mesons and exotic states. The photoproduction of vector mesons in the pentaquark resonance channel in $p\mbox{-}Au$ UPCs at the Relative Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and $p$-$Pb$ UPCs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is investigated by employing STARlight package. The cross sections of vector mesons via pentaquark state resonances channel are obtained using effective Lagrangian method. The pseudo-rapidity and rapidity distributions of $J/ψ$ and $Υ(1S) $ are given for $p\mbox{-}Au$ UPCs at the RHIC and $p$-$Pb$ at the LHC. It is found that the RHIC is a better platform for discovering the pentaquark states than the LHC. Moreover, $P_{b}(11080)$ is easier to identify than $P_c(4312)$ because the background of $Υ(1S)$ is weaker than $J/ψ$ in the $t$-channel at the RHIC.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
COHERENCE BETWEEN STRATEGIES AND TOOLS IN ITALIAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 2007-2013: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Panico, Teresa
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Pascucci, Stefano
name: Panico, Teresa
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Pascucci, Stefano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: RDP
subject: Policy Coherence
subject: Italian RDP

description: In the years to come Rural Development Policies will be an increasingly important part of EU Cohesion Policies. In particular, Convergence Regions with a high percentage of rural areas and a major development gap will be the most affected by this scenario. The objectives of this paper are twofold. The first is to analyze Italian Rural Development Programs in order to investigate how the Italian regional authorities have interpreted the potential role of the new RD programs and identified the specific strategies to be pursued. The second objective is to evaluate the coherence between strategies and tools indicated in the different programs. The financial plans will be compared in order to detect the possible different strategic approaches existing among regions characterized by different situations and development levels of the agricultural sector and the rural economy. For developing the analysis we will adopt the menu approach (Terluin, Venema, 2004). We will analyze three main steps which have to be taken in applying this method: (1) identification of rural development priorities; (2) selection of rural development measures to determine rural development priorities; and (3) allocation of finance to take such rural development measures. Following this approach, the 21 Italian Rural Development Programs will be compared. The first results show that the different regions selected quite a large number of rural development measures from the potential menu. Moreover, the different importance given to the agricultural and rural sectors in selecting various measures is never clear-cut.
5G Radio Access Network Architecture for Terrestrial Broadcast Services
Creators: name: Säily, Mikko
name: Estevan, Carlos Barjau
name: Gimenez, Jordi Joan
name: Tesema, Fasil
name: Guo, Wei
name: Gomez-Barquero, David
name: Mi, De
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has defined based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) enhanced Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (eMBMS) a set of new features to support the distribution of Terrestrial Broadcast services in Release 14. On the other hand, a new 5th Generation (5G) system architecture and radio access technology, 5G New Radio (NR), are being standardised from Release 15 onwards, which so far have only focused on unicast connectivity. This may change in Release 17 given a new Work Item set to specify basic Radio Access Network (RAN) functionalities for the provision of multicast/broadcast communications for NR. This work initially excludes some of the functionalities originally supported for Terrestrial Broadcast services under LTE e.g. free to air, receive-only mode, large-area single frequency networks, etc. This paper proposes an enhanced Next Generation RAN architecture based on 3GPP Release 15 with a series of architectural and functional enhancements, to support an efficient, flexible and dynamic selection between unicast and multicast/broadcast transmission modes and also the delivery of Terrestrial Broadcast services. The paper elaborates on the Cloud-RAN based architecture and proposes new concepts such as the RAN Broadcast/Multicast Areas that allows a more flexible deployment in comparison to eMBMS. High-level assessment methodologies including complexity analysis and inspection are used to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed architecture design and compare it with the 3GPP architectural requirements.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, IEEE Trans. Broadcasting
Elliptic CMB Sky
Creators: name: Gurzadyan, V. G.
name: de Bernardis, P.
name: De Troia, G.
name: Bianco, C. L.
name: Kashin, A. L.
name: Kuloghlian, H.
name: Masi, S.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Polenta, G.
name: Yegorian, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ellipticity of the anisotropy spots of the Cosmic Microwave Background measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has been studied. We find an average ellipticity of about 2, confirming with a far larger statistics similar results found first for the COBE-DMR CMB maps, and then for the BOOMERanG CMB maps. There are no preferred directions for the obliquity of the anisotropy spots. The average ellipticity is independent of temperature threshold and is present on scales both smaller and larger than the horizon at the last scattering. The measured ellipticity characteristics are consistent with being the effect of geodesics mixing occurring in an hyperbolic Universe, and can mark the emergence of CMB ellipticity as a new observable constant describing the Universe. There is no way of simulating this effect. Therefore we cannot exclude that the observed behavior of the measured ellipticity can result from a trivial topology in the popular flat $Λ$-CDM model, or from a non-trivial topology.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, the version to appear in Mod.Phys.Lett. A
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS IN ITALY OF ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF REGIONALIZATION OF THE SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME
Creators: name: Pupo D'Andrea, Maria Rosaria
name: Pupo D'Andrea, Maria Rosaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP
subject: decoupling
subject: FADN
subject: regionalization
subject: Single Payment Scheme

description: The Fischler reform of the CAP deepened the decoupling process of agricultural support started with the 1992 reform, introducing the Single Payment Scheme (SPS). Two models could be used to apply the SPS: in the historic model payments are based on individual reference amounts; in the regional model payments are based on regional reference amounts. Italy chose to apply the historic model, thus “freezing” the distribution of support to farms at the historic reference level. The recent Proposal on the Health Check of the CAP envisaged Member States being allowed to adjust their model towards a flatter rate of the SPS from 2010, a move that could become compulsory for Member States after 2013. The paper analyses the effects at territorial and farm level of the application of a flat rate payment in Italy as a replacement for the current payment based on the historic farm reference. The analysis makes it possible to assess and quantify the redistribution effects of alternative hypotheses of “regionalization”, highlighting how these effects, at farm and territorial level, are heavily dependent on the land use on the basis of which support was calculated in the reference period, by the criterion utilized to define “region”, as well as the percentage of regionalization chosen. The originality and significance of the work lies in the fact that, to the best of our knowledge, no similar works at farm level are currently available for Italy. The aim of the territorial analysis is to identify the amount of resources to be redistributed across different areas of Italy according to the definition of “region” adopted (administrative Regions, territorial ”macro-regions”, Italy as a whole) and the percentage of regionalization adopted (10%, 50%, 100%). The farm analysis is based on the 2006 Italian sample of FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) that contains, roughly, 14,000 farms. For each hypothesis the analysis has considered: the distribution of farms by class of the difference between payments (historic and simulated), to highlight the redistribution of support to farms in the “region” considered; the percentage of farms that gain/lose in excess of a certain amount of support; finally, the redistribution effects are also evaluated in terms of crop land uses. The analysis highlights the fact that the larger the “region” the greater are the redistribution effects. Moreover, as expected, these redistribution effects are more pronounced the wider the diversification of crop land uses, and, therefore, the support received in the historic reference period.
A Study on Technical Efficiency of Wheat Cultivation in Haryana
Creators: name: Singh, Surender
name: Singh, Surender
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm-specific technical efficiency of wheat cultivation in Haryana at the aggregate and disaggregate levels has been studied using stochastic frontier approach. A high degree of technical inefficiency in wheat farming has been reported, which is due to factors under farm’s control. It has been argued that wheat-cultivating farms in the state can increase their production by 27 per cent without increasing the quantity of inputs, i.e. just by way of realizing efficiency. The estimates of technical efficiency have indicated that small-size farms are more efficient than medium- and large-size farms, negating thereby the myth that large-size farming is more profit/business-oriented.
Additional file 1 of Determinants of physician attitudes towards the new selective measles vaccine mandate in Germany
Creators: name: Neufeind, Julia
name: Betsch, Cornelia
name: Zylka-Menhorn, Vera
name: Wichmann, Ole
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Title: Mediation analyses: Effect of occupational group (X) on attitude towards mandates (Y) via expected consequences (M). Supplementary Table 2. Title: Sociodemographic characteristics of the study population and of physicians in Germany
Spurious contribution to CR scattering calculations
Creators: name: Shalchi, A.
name: Yan, H.
name: Lazarian, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasilinear theory for cosmic ray propagation is a well known and widely accepted theory. In this paper, we discuss the different contributions to the pitch-angle Fokker-Planck coefficient from large and small scales for slab geometry using the damping model of dynamical turbulence. These examinations will give us a hint on the limitation range where quasilinear approximation is a good approximation.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Quantum Hall effects of exciton condensate in topological flat bands
Creators: name: Zeng, Tian-Sheng
name: Sheng, D. N.
name: Zhu, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tunable exciton condensates in two dimensional electron gas systems under strong magnetic field exhibits anomalous Hall transport owing to mutual Coulomb coupling, and have attracted a lot of research activity. Here, we explore another framework using topological flat band models in the absence of Landau levels, for realizing the many-body exciton phases of two-component fermions under strong intercomponent interactions. By developing new diagnosis based on the state-of-the-art density-matrix renormalization group and exact diagonalization, we show the theoretical discovery of the emergence of Halperin (111) quantum Hall effect at a total filling factor $ν=1$ in the lowest Chern band under strong Hubbard repulsion, which is classified by the unique ground state with bulk charge insulation and spin superfluidity, The topological nature is further characterized by one edge branch of chiral propagating Luttinger modes with level counting $1,1,2,3,5,7$ in consistent with the conformal field theory description. Moreover, with nearest-neighbor repulsions, we propose the Halperin (333) fractional quantum Hall effect at a total filling factor $ν=1/3$ in the lowest Chern band.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Economic Viability of Henna in Semi-arid Rajasthan
Creators: name: Chand, Khem
name: Jangid, B.L.
name: Chand, Khem
name: Jangid, B.L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Henna (Lawsonia sp.) is a rainfed plantation crop commercially cultivated in Rajasthan on 32,084 ha (2001-02) for its leaves, which are important source of a natural dye. The present study has assessed the profitability and economic viability of henna cultivation based on the data collected from a sample of 100 farmers during 2003-04 in the Pali district of Rajasthan. Based on the factors like net present value, internal rate of return, benefitcost ratio, henna cultivation practised by the farmers has been found to be a financially viable proposition. The financial viability parameters have been found to be more sensitive to changes in prices than cost.
Broad Iron Lines in AGN and X-ray Binaries
Creators: name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several AGN and black hole X-ray binaries show a clear very broad iron line which is strong evidence that the black holes are rapidly spinning. Detailed analysis of these objects shows that the emission line is not significantly affected by absorption and that the source variability is principally due to variation in amplitude of a power-law. Underlying this is a much less variable, relativistically-smeared, reflection-dominated, component which carries the imprint of strong gravity at a few gravitational radii. The strong gravitational light bending in these regions then explains the power-law variability as due to changes in height of the primary X-ray source above the disc. The reflection component, in particular its variability and the profile of the iron line, enables us to study the innermost regions around an accreting, spinning, black hole.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, to appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole Accretion on All Mass Scales, ed. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, and L. C. Ho (Dordrecht: Kluwer), breaks now corrected
Nothrus C. L. Koch 1836
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Nothridae
Nothrus

description: Nothrus sp.
 Geographic Locations and Habitats: AK: Seward Peninsula, near to Cape Espenberg, 66°28′22″N, 163°56′56″W, greyish tephra from Aniakchak eruption (Blackford et al. 2014); AB: Roy Berg Kinsella Research Ranch (Newton & Proctor 2013); ABMI Sites; Moose Pasture Research Site (Walter et al. 2014); ABMI Sites (Meehan et al. 2019); ON: Lake Superior, Granite Is., Black Bay, ring-billed gull nests (Freitag & Ryder 1973); QC: boreal claybelt region of Western Québec (Doblas-Miranda & Work 2015); NB: peatlands (Behan-Pelletier & Bissett 1994); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP; southwest Nova Scotia uplands (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987); PE: (Behan-Pelletier 2010, Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987).
 Family Trhypochthoniidae
 Genus Mainothrus Choi, 1996
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Die armenischen apokryphen Apostelakten
Creators: name: Vetter, P.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (1903): Oriens christianus, Band 3, Heft 1
Optimising Farm Plans in Different Farming Systems
Creators: name: Nedunchezhian, P.
name: Thirunavukkarasu, M.
name: Nedunchezhian, P.
name: Thirunavukkarasu, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This study has been conducted to optimize farm plans in different farming systems in Orathanadu block of the Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu by randomly selecting 150 livestock farmers from 6 villages. A linear programming (LP) model has been developed to arrive at the optimal farm plans for different categories of farms (landless, marginal, small and large) separately. The net returns from dairying have been found as Rs 25,864, which is about 29.7 per cent to the total and it also could contribute maximum to employment (55 per cent). The optimal plan for small-farmer category has revealed that dairy animals have contributed maximum net returns (Rs 31,640) to the aggregate net returns (Rs 49,105). Dairy animals have also generated an employment of 840 humandays as against 45, 80 and 38.6 humandays, from paddy–I, paddy–II and groundnut crops, respectively. The optimal plan for marginal farmers has indicated that dairy animals and sheep could be more attractive in terms of income and employment generation. Optimal plan for landless households has revealed that 5 dairy animals, 15 goats and 15 sheep could be valuable for increasing their income and employment. Income increase in the optimal farm plans has been found maximum (223.5 per cent) in large-farmer category, followed by small (192.7 per cent), marginal (180.1 per cent) and landless households (116 per cent). The increase in employment of family labour in the optimal plan over the existing plan in all categories has indicated that optimal combination of enterprises could reduce unemployment.
Electron impact single ionization of hydrogen molecule by twisted electron beam
Creators: name: Dhankhar, Nikita
name: Choubisa, Rakesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this communication, we present the results of the Five-fold Differential Cross Section (5DCS) and Triple Differential Cross Section (TDCS) for the (e,2e) process on molecular hydrogen ($H_2$) by the plane wave and the twisted electron beam impact. The formalism is developed within the first Born approximation using the plane wave and the twisted wave for the incident electron beam. We describe the plane wave, Heitler-London type wave function and Coulomb wave for the scattered electron, $H_2$ molecular state, and the ejected electron respectively. We compare the angular profiles of the 5DCS and TDCS for the different values of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) number {\it m} of the twisted electron beam with that of the plane wave beam. We also present the 5DCS for different molecular orientations and study the effect of {\it m} on the 5DCS. We further investigate the influence of the twisted electron beam on the (e,2e) process on the $H_2$ molecule from the perspective of the "Young-type" interference of the scattered waves, emanating from the two atomic centers of the $H_2$ molecule. We also study the TDCS for macroscopic $H_2$ target to explore the effect of opening angle ($θ_p$) of the twisted electron beam on the TDCS. Our results clearly show the effect of the twisted electron's OAM number (m) and the opening angle ($θ_p$) on the 5DCS and TDCS of the molecular hydrogen.
Hydrogen sulphide removal kinetics in a trickling biofilter
Creators: name: Symons, Stephen Albert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The first-order kinetics of hydrogen sulphide oxidation was examined in two trickling biofilter reactors using residence time distribution analysis and the Tanks in Series model for packed bed reactors. The reactor's liquid phase was maintained at pH 5.0 in Reactor 1 and pH 2.5 in Reactor 2. Carbon dioxide was added as a supplemental carbon source in varying concentrations. Hydrogen sulphide concentrations to 300 ppm were investigated. The Tanks in Series parameter N was found to be approximately 7 for both reactors, and was insensitive to the air flow rate. The hydrogen sulphide removal rate constant decreased with increasing hydrogen sulphide inlet concentration. Substrate inhibition was suspected due to the toxic nature of hydrogen sulphide on the trickling biofilter microbes, but was shown to be insignificant at the hydrogen sulphide concentrations under investigation. At equal hydrogen sulphide inlet concentrations, the oxidation rate constant at pH 5.0 was approximately twice that at pH 2.5. The greatest removal rate constant found was k=0.130 s⁻¹ at a hydrogen sulphide inlet concentration of 50 ppm. The Tanks in Series model was shown to be a viable means of estimating the 1st-order rate constant for the removal of gaseous hydrogen sulphide from air streams in a trickling biofilter. A scale-up approach using the Tanks in Series model to determine the kinetic rate constant and literature data for determining the parameter N in a production-scale trickling biofilter is briefly discussed. This will aid in the application of economical and environmentally preferable trickling biofilters to the emissions control systems for Kraft pulp mills and other H₂S producing industries.
Sugar Industry in Uttar Pradesh: Efficiency Still Holds the Key
Creators: name: Singh, N.P.
name: Singh, Paramatma
name: Singh, R.P.
name: Singh, N.P.
name: Singh, Paramatma
name: Singh, R.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The sugar industry is a major agro-based industry of Uttar Pradesh where cropping pattern is largely subsistence-oriented and sugarcane is one of the important cash crops. During 2001-02, the state had 20.35 lakh ha area under sugarcane out of the total 44.03 lakh ha area under sugarcane in the country. The sugar industry has shown considerable instability in the level of production as a result of inter-dependence and inter-relationship between sugarcane, gur, khandsari and white sugar, leading to fluctuations in the production of sugarcane as well as sugar. These fluctuations emanate from the presence of various processing sectors and the differential governmental policies. Such an uncertain state of affairs is neither conducive to sound growth of the industry nor the growers. In view of this scenario, it was felt necessary to carry out an investigation, which can reveal the present status of sugar industry in terms of its efficiency in operations. The study has revealed that most of the mills were in the efficiency range of 60-80 per cent. Efficiency was higher in the private sector (81%), followed by the public (73%) and co-operative (66%) sectors. Though this study has advocated the continuation of partial decontrol policy, it has urged the policymakers to streamline strategies that promote stabilization of sugarcane economy and make the state a credible supplier of sugar in the international market, benefiting growers, processors and, in turn, consumers.
Dynamics of Impurity and Valence Bands in GaMnAs within the Dynamical Mean Field Approximation
Creators: name: Majidi, M. A.
name: Moreno, J.
name: Jarrell, M.
name: Fishman, R. S.
name: Aryanpour, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the density-of-states and the spectral function of GaMnAs within the dynamical mean-field approximation. Our model includes the competing effects of the strong spin-orbit coupling on the J=3/2 GaAs hole bands and the exchange interaction between the magnetic ions and the itinerant holes. We study the quasi-particle and impurity bands in the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases for different values of impurity-hole coupling at the Mn doping of x=0.05. By analyzing the anisotropic angular distribution of the impurity band carriers at T=0, we conclude that the carrier polarization is optimal when the carriers move along the direction parallel to the average magnetization.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Grade Development and Study of Price-Quality Relationship of Cashew Nut in North District of Goa
Creators: name: Namdeo, Naik Amita
name: Koulagi, K.
name: Wader, L.K.
name: Namdeo, Naik Amita
name: Koulagi, K.
name: Wader, L.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The grade standards have been developed for ascertaining the quality of cashew nuts and quality-price relationship has been studied in the North District of Goa, based on the data collected through personal interview for the year 1999-2000. Laboratory analysis, indexing, stepwise multiple regression analysis and tabular presentation have been employed for data analysis. Laboratory analysis consisted of generating data on qualitative variables, namely (i) number of nuts per kg, (ii) extraneous matter, (iii) void nuts, (iv) broken and damaged nuts, (v) oozing of liquid from cashew nut shell, (vi) cutting test, (vii) floating test, (viii) length, (ix) width, (x) thickness, (xi) moisture percentage, and (xii) recovery of kernels. By assigning appropriate weightages to these qualitative variables, scores have been worked out by adding the 12 quality parameters multiplied by the respective weightage. The total score so obtained has constituted the basis for grades. Five grade standards have been developed for cashew nut, based on composite index. It has been found that the number of nuts per kg, moisture percentage and cutting test reduce the prices and these factors could explain 98 per cent variations in price. All variables have been found to have the expected signs and only three variables, namely number of nuts per kg, floating test, and length have been observed significant in price determination. These results could be used as a guide by the farmers for fetching better price in the market, and by buyers for getting product of ascertained quality.
Trhypochthonius cladonicola
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Trhypochthoniidae
Trhypochthonius
Trhypochthonius cladonicola

description: Trhypochthonius cf. cladonicola (Willmann, 1919)
 Geographic Location: AB: ABMI sites (Walter et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Multi-task pre-training of deep neural networks for digital pathology
Creators: name: Mormont, Romain
name: Geurts, Pierre
name: Marée, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we investigate multi-task learning as a way of pre-training models for classification tasks in digital pathology. It is motivated by the fact that many small and medium-size datasets have been released by the community over the years whereas there is no large scale dataset similar to ImageNet in the domain. We first assemble and transform many digital pathology datasets into a pool of 22 classification tasks and almost 900k images. Then, we propose a simple architecture and training scheme for creating a transferable model and a robust evaluation and selection protocol in order to evaluate our method. Depending on the target task, we show that our models used as feature extractors either improve significantly over ImageNet pre-trained models or provide comparable performance. Fine-tuning improves performance over feature extraction and is able to recover the lack of specificity of ImageNet features, as both pre-training sources yield comparable performance.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, special issue on Computational Pathology
Additional file 1 of Mechanisms of scaling up: combining a realist perspective and systems analysis to understand successfully scaled interventions
Creators: name: Koorts, Harriet
name: Cassar, Samuel
name: Salmon, Jo
name: Lawrence, Mark
name: Salmon, Paul
name: Dorling, Henry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Online database search strategy. Description of the online database search strategy.