cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deliverable D1.4: TRANSCEND Toolbox v2
Creators: name: Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
name: Steen, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report introduces the second iteration of the TRANSCEND Toolbox, a resource designed for immediate application in pilot activities focusing on Disaster Resilience, Fighting Crime and Terrorism, and Cybersecurity. The Toolbox is structured to facilitate a progressive and iterative development process, with a third version scheduled for release at the 24-month milestone, targeting Border Management pilot activities.

The Toolbox is segmented into five primary sections: an Introduction; Guidelines for initiating engagement processes; Methods for organising societal engagement; Methods for integrating ethics, human rights, and societal considerations; and practical examples illustrating the application of these methods across various security domains. Additionally, it includes multiple Appendices with Worksheets providing more detailed instructions. This is due to the authors’ desire to maintain an accessible “core” part of the Toolbox, with dozens of well-interlinked appendices available independently.

At its core, the Toolbox emphasizes two critical, mutually supported areas: the involvement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and citizens in the security technology lifecycle, and the assessment of ethics, human rights, and societal impacts of these technologies. These areas are explored through a blend of engagement methods and guidelines as well as Technology Assessment approaches, offering a diverse set of ways to facilitate meaningful engagement and thorough impact assessments.

The TRANSCEND Toolbox is an essential resource for stakeholders involved in the research, development and deployment of security technologies. It provides a structured framework for involving citizen and societal input, ensuring that ethics, legal, and societal aspects are considered throughout the innovation process. By promoting a participatory and iterative approach, the Toolbox aims to enhance the effectiveness, acceptability, and ethics standards alignment of security technologies across the EU.
Identity, Interest and International Structure in Foreign Policy : Security and Reconciliation in Germany's Ostpolitik
Creators: name: Sengueler, Ayse Eren
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Description to be added
Heriaeus hirtus
Creators: name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Christille, Claretta
name: Marguerettaz, Fabio
name: Isaia, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Heriaeus
Heriaeus hirtus

description: Heriaeus hirtus (Latreille, 1819)
LITERATURE. — Isaia 2005; [Rossi & Bosio 2012].
CHOROTYPE. — EUR.
MACROHABITAT. — Synanthropic habitats.
description: Published as part of Paschetta, Mauro, Christille, Claretta, Marguerettaz, Fabio & Isaia, Marco, 2016, Regional catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Aosta Valley (NW Italy), pp. 49-125 in Zoosystema 38 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n1a3, http://zenodo.org/record/4578074
Relativistic nuclear energy density functional constrained by low-energy QCD
Creators: name: Finelli, P.
name: Kaiser, N.
name: Vretenar, D.
name: Weise, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relativistic nuclear energy density functional is developed, guided by two important features that establish connections with chiral dynamics and the symmetry breaking pattern of low-energy QCD: a) strong scalar and vector fields related to in-medium changes of QCD vacuum condensates; b) the long- and intermediate-range interactions generated by one-and two-pion exchange, derived from in-medium chiral perturbation theory, with explicit inclusion of $Δ(1232)$ excitations. Applications are presented for binding energies, radii of proton and neutron distributions and other observables over a wide range of spherical and deformed nuclei from $^{16}O$ to $^{210}Po$. Isotopic chains of $Sn$ and $Pb$ nuclei are studied as test cases for the isospin dependence of the underlying interactions. The results are at the same level of quantitative comparison with data as the best phenomenological relativistic mean-field models.
description: 48 pages, 12 figures, elsart.cls class file. Revised version, accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A
title: The changing nature of employment : how self-employed professionals manage their lives, learning and knowledge
Creators: name: Evans, Christina Fay
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: This research has investigated how one particular group of knowledge workers, self-employed human resource professionals, are managing their lives, learning and knowledge. Its contextual background is the changing nature of work and employment in late 20th century Britain, informed by the 'informational technological paradigm' (Castells, 1996), and the changing landscape of careers. Although there is other empirical work that has investigated the lives of individuals pursuing nontraditional career models (e.g. 'portfolio career', or 'lifestyle career'), this research is different. First, it is based on a broader view of a career, where the term career is seen as applying to all lifeareas, not just an individual's working life. Second, it has adopted a different methodological approach, applying the Life History Methodology. The research sample included twenty-six participants, seventeen male and nine female, identified through non-probability sampling. By taking a broader perspective of the term career the research has illuminated how the decisions that these individuals make about their work career is balanced with the needs and demands from other life-areas e.g. family and learning, together with the availability of key resources. The findings include: a description of the structural changes that occur in these individuals' lives; the benefits, threats, opportunities and paradoxes associated with the self-employed lifestyle, and the strategies adopted for managing their learning and knowledge. Whilst formal learning was found to have an important place in these individuals' lives, at strategic points, much of their learning falls into six informal learning categories. The thesis concludes by discussing the implications and opportunities for policy making. These fall into two main areas. First, the insights into the different ways that individuals construct work-life balance could help organisations rethink policies aimed at addressing the phenomenon of work-life balance. Second, the insights into the tensions that these professionals experience with their learning could help inform the provision of learning resources aimed at 'Self-employed professionals.
The subsurface habitability of small, icy exomoons
Creators: name: Tjoa, J.
name: Mueller, M.
name: van der Tak, F. F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming our Solar System as typical, exomoons may outnumber exoplanets. If their habitability fraction is similar, they would thus constitute the largest portion of habitable real estate in the Universe. Icy moons in our Solar System, such as Europa and Enceladus, have already been shown to possess liquid water, a prerequisite for life on Earth. We intend to investigate under what circumstances small, icy moons may sustain subsurface oceans and thus be "subsurface habitable". We pay specific attention to tidal heating. We made use of a phenomenological approach to tidal heating. We computed the orbit averaged flux from both stellar and planetary (both thermal and reflected stellar) illumination. We then calculated subsurface temperatures depending on illumination and thermal conduction to the surface through the ice shell and an insulating layer of regolith. We adopted a conduction only model, ignoring volcanism and ice shell convection as an outlet for internal heat. In doing so, we determined at which depth, if any, ice melts and a subsurface ocean forms. We find an analytical expression between the moon's physical and orbital characteristics and the melting depth. Since this expression directly relates icy moon observables to the melting depth, it allows us to swiftly put an upper limit on the melting depth for any given moon. We reproduce the existence of Enceladus' subsurface ocean; we also find that the two largest moons of Uranus (Titania & Oberon) could well sustain them. Our model predicts that Rhea does not have liquid water. Habitable exomoon environments may be found across an exoplanetary system, largely irrespective of the distance to the host star. Small, icy subsurface habitable moons may exist anywhere beyond the snow line. This may, in future observations, expand the search area for extraterrestrial habitable environments beyond the circumstellar habitable zone.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures. To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, section 10. Planets and planetary systems
Anwendung glaziotektonischer Untersuchungen bei der geologischen Kartierung in Dänemark
Creators: name: Petersen, Kaj Strand
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1978

description: Ein Abriß des historischen Hintergrundes und der Diskussion über die Ursachen der beobachteten Dislokationen in den Kliff-Aufschlüssen der dänischen Küsten wird gegeben (mit Hinweisen auf die dänischen Veröffentlichungen). Anhand von Beispielen wird der Nutzen glaziotektonischer Untersuchungen sowohl für die geologische Kartierung als auch für die Prospektion aufgezeigt. Die Eisvorstöße der Weichsel-Kaltzeit werden im Lichte der neueren glaziotektonischen Untersuchungen diskutiert.
description: research
Additional file 1 of Association of left atrial strain by cardiovascular magnetic resonance with recurrence of atrial fibrillation following catheter ablation
Creators: name: Benjamin, Mina M.
name: Moulki, Naeem
name: Waqar, Aneeq
name: Ravipati, Harish
name: Schoenecker, Nancy
name: Wilber, David
name: Kinno, Menhel
name: Rabbat, Mark
name: Sanagala, Thriveni
name: Syed, Mushabbar A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Multiple comparison graphs of the baseline and post-ablation reservoir (top) and contractile (bottom) strain data in both groups.
Additional file 1 of Daily cost of consumer food wasted, inedible, and consumed in the United States, 2001–2016
Creators: name: Conrad, Zach
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
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. Methodological uncertainty and assumptions embedded in data source linkages.
A Coulomb Gauge Model of Mesons
Creators: name: Ligterink, Norbert
name: Swanson, Eric S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of mesons which is based on the QCD Hamiltonian in Coulomb gauge is presented. The model relies on a novel quasiparticle basis to improve the reliability of the Fock space expansion. It is also relativistic, yields chiral pions, and is tightly constrained by QCD (quark masses are the only parameters). Applications to hidden flavor mesons yield results which are comparable to phenomenological constituent quark models while revealing the limitations of such models.
description: 13 pages, 1 eps figure, 5 tables
Misumena vatia
Creators: name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Christille, Claretta
name: Marguerettaz, Fabio
name: Isaia, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Misumena
Misumena vatia

description: Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757)
LITERATURE. — Isaia 2005; [Rossi & Bosio 2012].
CHOROTYPE. — OLA.
MACROHABITAT. — Not specified.
description: Published as part of Paschetta, Mauro, Christille, Claretta, Marguerettaz, Fabio & Isaia, Marco, 2016, Regional catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Aosta Valley (NW Italy), pp. 49-125 in Zoosystema 38 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n1a3, http://zenodo.org/record/4578074
Insektenfraßspuren in letztinterglazialen Hölzern aus den Sanden und Kiesen der nördlichen Oberrheinebene
Creators: name: Klinger, Ralf
name: Koenigswald, Wighart Von
name: Kreuz, Angela
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1984

description: Aus den jungpleistozänen Schottern der Oberrheinebene werden Hölzer des letzten Interglazials beschrieben, die von Holzinsekten befallen sind. An Hölzern von Picea vel Larix (3x), Abies alba (2x), Ulmus sp. (2x) und Fraxinus excelsior (1x) werden Vertreter der Siricidae (Holzwespen) [Hymenoptera], der Anobiidae (Klopfkäfer), Buprestidae (Prachtkäfer), Cerambycidae (Bockkäfer), Curculionidae (Bohrrüsselkäfer) und Scolytidae (Borkenkäfer) [Coleoptera], an ihren Fraßgängen nachgewiesen. Im Falle des Prachtkäfers ist die Gruppe auch durch mehere Larvenfunde gesichert. Belegt sind weiterhin eine Parasitierung durch Braconidae vel Bethylidae vel Chalcididae, Hymenoptera, sowie eine Prädation durch Spechte und schließlich eine sekundäre Nutzung von Holzkäfergängen durch Grabwespen (Sphecidae, Hymenoptera). In dieser Insektenfauna wird ein palökologisch aussagefähiger Teil der Lebensgemeinschaft des interglazialen Auewaldes erfaßt.
description: research
title: Transport planning for health : explaining and evaluating barriers and opportunities to intersectoral collaboration
Creators: name: Davis, Adrian Lawrence
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: The establishment in the 1980s of a European Health for All strategy and set of targets has implications for transport planning policy across Europe. Potentially, Health for All provides a means by which transport planning can better promote public health. Key to this is the ability of local Health for All projects to develop effective intersectoral collaboration with transport planning professionals. The progress of Health for All in influencing priorities in transport planning is explored through a comparative study of Health for All collaborating cities in Denmark, the Netherlands and England between 1986 and 1996. Three cities are used as case studies: Copenhagen, Groningen, and Sheffield. The study examines the extent to which transport policies have been influenced by Health for All strategies and targets. Archival and interview data are used to explore the nature and degree of intersectoral collaboration between Health for All projects and transport planning departments. The research contributes to knowledge about how Health for All can influence transport planning in promoting health, an issue largely neglected in the literature. There are similarities and differences between Health for All projects studied in the way that they have sought to develop intersectoral collaboration on transport issues. The research highlights common barriers to effective collaboration, but also how Health for All projects could develop collaborative initiatives. It indicates that health needs to be translated into values such as quality of life, equity, and environmental protection, found to be policy drivers within transport planning. Quality of life and equity are identified in Health for All targets but were not drawn on sufficiently by health promoters. The study findings also underscore the importance of national policy frameworks on both health and transport which can provide common ground between the two sectors. The most successful city Health for All project was characterised by concerns for environmental protection and quality of life, with supportive national government frameworks for health promotion and transport planning.
title: Η ψυχολογία των γυναικών κατά τη διάρκεια της μαστογραφίας και η συμβολή του τεχνολόγου ακτινολόγου
title: Woman’s phychology during mammography and the contribution of radiologist technologist
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ηλκίνα, Άννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Μαστογραφία
Άγχος

description: Ο καρκίνος του μαστού είναι ο πιο συχνά εμφανιζόμενος καρκίνος στις γυναίκες και αποτελεί τη δεύτερη αιτία θνησιμότητας παγκοσμίως. Η εμφάνιση του καρκίνου του μαστού επηρεάζεται από παράγοντες όπως οι ορμόνες, η πυκνότητα του μαστού, γενετικοί παράγοντες, προϋπάρχουσα καλοήθης νόσος, έκθεση σε ακτινοβολία και τρόπος ζωής. Απεικονίζεται ποικιλοτρόπως, με υπερηχογραφία, μαγνητική τομογραφία, θερμογραφία, ψηφιακή τομοσύνθεση και το “gold standard” της απεικόνισης του μαστού τη μαστογραφία. Η μαστογραφία όπως και αρκετές εξετάσεις έχουν οφέλη μεν αλλά και κινδύνους. Τα οφέλη είναι κυρίως η μείωση της θνησιμότητας, μειωμένα χαμένα έτη ζωής και μειωμένη νοσηρότητα κατά τη θεραπεία. Από την άλλη μεριά η συσσωρευτική ακτινοβολία που λαμβάνουν οι μαστοί, τα ψευδώς θετικά, ψευδώς αρνητικά, ο πόνος και η υπερδιάγνωση είναι ενδεχόμενοι κίνδυνοι που δεν θα πρέπει να υποτονισθούν. Η επιτυχής πρόληψη του καρκίνου του μαστού εξαρτάται από τη συμμετοχή των γυναικών στον προσυμπτωματικό έλεγχο ο οποίος επηρεάζεται εκτός των άλλων και από ψυχολογικούς παράγοντες, όπως ο φόβος ,το άγχος κ.α . Τα μοντέλα πεποιθήσεων για την υγεία μας βοηθούν να κατανοήσουμε αυτούς τους παράγοντες και τη στάση των γυναικών απέναντι στον προληπτικό μαστογραφικό έλεγχο. Το άγχος που μπορεί να νιώθει μια γυναίκα μπορεί να αυξήσει ή να μειώσει την πιθανότητα πραγματοποίησης μιας μαστογραφίας προσυμπτωματικού ελέγχου. Υπάρχουν πολλαπλοί τρόποι με τους οποίους μπορεί να μειωθεί το άγχος που σχετίζεται με τη μαστογραφία προσυμπτωματικού ελέγχου, μεταξύ άλλων πριν, κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά την εξέταση. Σε αυτούς περιλαμβάνονται απλά μέτρα όπως η εκπαίδευση των εξεταζόμενων, η βελτίωση της επικοινωνίας με τον τεχνολόγο απεικόνισης, η επίγνωση της πιθανής δυσφορίας της ασθενούς και η αντιμετώπισή της, η επικύρωση του άγχους της ασθενούς καθώς και η παροχή θετικών πραγματικών δεδομένων στην ασθενή, τα οποία μπορούν εύκολα να εφαρμοστούν σε κάθε κέντρο μαστού. Οι πιο σύνθετες παρεμβάσεις περιλαμβάνουν την αλλαγή του περιβάλλοντος του κέντρου μαστού με πολυαισθητηριακή διέγερση, την αναδιοργάνωση της ροής των ασθενών για την ελαχιστοποίηση του χρόνου αναμονής και τις τεχνικές χαλάρωσης, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της συμπληρωματικής και εναλλακτικής ιατρικής.
Additional file 4 of Armed conflict as a determinant of children malnourishment: a cross-sectional study in The Sudan
Creators: name: Dahab, Rihab
name: Bécares, Laia
name: Brown, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 4:. Appendix. The associations by individual predictors for severe and moderate underweight.
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of steroids versus placebo in preventing upper airway obstruction after extubation in critically ill children: rationale and design of a multicentric, double-blind, randomized study
Creators: name: Manrique, Gema
name: Butragueño-Laiseca, Laura
name: González, Rafael
name: Corsino Rey
name: Compañon, Zuriñe Martínez De
name: Gil, Javier
name: Rodríguez-Núñez, Antonio
name: Martínez, Cecilia
name: Manrique, Silvia
name: López-Herce, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Ein mittelpaläolithischer Fundplatz in den Basiskiesen der Emscher-Niederterrasse bei Bottrop/ Westfalen
Creators: name: Schmitz, Ralf-W.
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1990

description: Beim Umbau des Rhein-Herne-Kanales zwischen 1956 und 1975 wurde bei Bottrop in den „ Knochenkiesen" an der Basis der Emscher-Niederterrasse ein Siedlungsplatz des pleistozänen Menschen vom Bagger erfaßt. Bei dem Inventar des Platzes handelt es sich kulturell um ein Jungacheuléen, eine durch Faustkeile und blattförmige Schaber gekennzeichnete Formengruppe. Bis heute ist das Alter dieser Formengruppe (vorletzte oder frühe letzte Kaltzeit) im westlichen Mitteleuropa der Kernpunkt einer Kontroverse, entzündet am wichtigsten Jungacheuléen-Fundplatz Nordwestdeutschlands, Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Tode 1982). Das in Bottrop reichlich erhaltene Zahnmaterial von Mammuthus trogontherii eröffnete die Möglichkeit, mit naturwissenschaftlichen Datierungsmethoden dieser Frage nachzugehen. Daran geknüpft ist der Versuch einer chronologischen Einstufung der Basiskiese der Emscher-Niederterrasse, deren Einordnung, meist in das frühe Weichselglazial, ebenfalls umstritten ist.
description: research
Ozyptila atomaria
Creators: name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Christille, Claretta
name: Marguerettaz, Fabio
name: Isaia, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Ozyptila
Ozyptila atomaria

description: Ozyptila atomaria (Panzer, 1801)
NEW DATA. — Gressan: Natural Reserve of Côte de Gargantua, 700 m, dry meadow, 3-24.V.2012, 1♂, leg. Negro (MRSN-VDA); Torgnon: Lo Ditor, 1950 m, peat bog, 11-26.VI.2013, 1 ♀, leg. Negro (MRSN-VDA).
LITERATURE. — Di Caporiacco 1928; [Isaia 2005]; [Rossi & Bosio 2012].
CHOROTYPE. — PAL.
MACROHABITAT. — Shrublands, wetlands.
description: Published as part of Paschetta, Mauro, Christille, Claretta, Marguerettaz, Fabio & Isaia, Marco, 2016, Regional catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Aosta Valley (NW Italy), pp. 49-125 in Zoosystema 38 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n1a3, http://zenodo.org/record/4578074
Efektywność emisji gazów cieplarnianych w rolnictwie Unii Europejskiej
Efficiency of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in European Union Agriculture
Creators: name: Klepacki, Bogdan
name: Gołasa, Piotr
name: Wysokiński, Marcin
name: Klepacki, Bogdan
name: Gołasa, Piotr
name: Wysokiński, Marcin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: rolnictwo
subject: efekty zewnętrzne
subject: emisja gazów cieplarnianych
subject: efektywność emisji gazów cieplarnianych
subject: agriculture
subject: external effects
subject: emission of greenhouse gases
subject: emission efficiency of greenhouse gases

description: W artykule zaprezentowano zagadnienie emisji gazów cieplarnianych (GHG) na gruncie ekonomii środowiskowej. Przedstawiono problematykę teoretyczną dotyczącą efektów zewnętrznych, optimum Pareto i potrzebę ujęcia kwestii środowiskowych w ra- chunku ekonomicznym rolnictwa. Na podstawie danych pochodzących z European Envi- ronmental Agency (EEA) oraz bazy Eurostat za lata 1990–2013 obliczono poziom emisji gazów cieplarnianych pochodzących z rolnictwa oraz jej efektywność. Stwierdzono, że Francja, Wielka Brytania, Niemcy, Polska i Hiszpania odpowiadają za połowę emisji rolni- czych gazów cieplarnianych w UE. Średnia efektywność emisji gazów cieplarnianych w rol- nictwie krajów UE w 2013 r. wyniosła 391 EUR nadwyżki na 1 tonę emisji GHG. Najwyższą efektywnością charakteryzowały się takie kraje, jak: Słowacja, Włochy i Malta. W żadnym z badanym krajów rolnictwo nie osiągnęło tak wysokiej efektywności emisji jak cała go- spodarka, w najlepszym wypadku wskaźnik ten wynosi od 0,4 do 0,5. ----- The article tackles the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) against the back- ground of environmental economics. It presents theoretical issues concerning external effects, Pareto optimal and the need to include environmental matters in the economic accounts for agriculture. Based on the figures from the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and the Eurostat for 1990–2013, the level of agricultural GHG emissions was calculated, including its efficiency. It was found out that France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and Spain were responsible for a half agricultural GHG emissions in the EU. The average emission efficiency of the EU Member States in 2013 amounted to EUR 391 of surplus per 1 ton of GHG emissions. The highest efficiency was recorded in such countries as Slovakia, Italy and Malta. In none of the investigated countries did agriculture achieve as high emission efficiency as the whole economy; at best, the index amounted to 0.4–0.5.
Strengthening research capacity of African Agricultural Higher Education Institutions
Creators: name: Mark, Erbaugh
name: Mark, Erbaugh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: sustainable agricultural development

description: The African Journal of Rural Development (AFJRD) is focused on issues that affect sustainable rural development. The articles contained in this issue of the AFJRD, Volume 2 Issue 1 demonstrate the contributions that scientists affiliated with African Agricultural Higher Education Institutions (AHEI) can make to increasing agricultural productivity, food and nutrition security and improved livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These institutions are essential to sustainable agricultural development because they are responsible for training the next generations of scientists and policy makers, communicating science to the general population, and through their research, addressing critical challenges to food security facing the continent.
Cobaya: Code for Bayesian Analysis of hierarchical physical models
Creators: name: Torrado, Jesus
name: Lewis, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Cobaya, a general-purpose Bayesian analysis code aimed at models with complex internal interdependencies. Without the need for specific code by the user, interdependencies between different stages of a model pipeline are exploited for sampling efficiency: intermediate results are automatically cached, and parameters are grouped in blocks according to their dependencies and optimally sorted, taking into account their individual computational costs, so as to minimize the cost of their variation during sampling, thanks to a novel algorithm. Cobaya allows exploration of posteriors using a range of Monte Carlo samplers, and also has functions for maximization and importance-reweighting of Monte Carlo samples with new priors and likelihoods. Cobaya is written in Python in a modular way that allows for extendability, use of calculations provided by external packages, and dynamical reparameterization without modifying its source. It can exploit hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallelization, and has sub-millisecond overhead per posterior evaluation. Though Cobaya is a general purpose statistical framework, it includes interfaces to a set of cosmological Boltzmann codes and likelihoods (the latter being agnostic with respect to the choice of the former), and automatic installers for external dependencies.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. Significant additions. Closely matches published version
Improving the capacity of Agricultural Higher Education Institutions to contribute to food security: the iAGRI experience and lessons learned
Creators: name: David, Kraybill
name: Mark, Erbaugh
name: Isaac, Minde
name: David, Hansen
name: David, Kraybill
name: Mark, Erbaugh
name: Isaac, Minde
name: David, Hansen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Feed the Future
subject: iAGRI
subject: Tanzania
subject: USAID

description: The Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (iAGRI) is a long-term investment in agricultural higher education and research capacity in Tanzania funded by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and led by The Ohio State University in conjunction with five other U.S. land grant universities and the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM). Although University contributions to sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa have been well documented, for the past several decades, donors and national governments have neglected agricultural higher education institutions. The main goal of the iAGRI project is to improve food security and agricultural productivity in Tanzania by strengthening the training and collaborative research capacities of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF) and has four major objectives:1) implementing a program of collaborative agriculture research with SUA and MALF; 2) providing advanced degree training in agriculture for Tanzanian graduate students; 3) strengthening the capacity of SUA to develop and implement instructional, research and outreach programs; and 4) promoting cooperation between SUA, U.S. universities, and global south universities. The paper summarizes outcomes of the degree training, collaborative research and institutional strengthening efforts and innovative approaches to institutional capacity development (ICD). iAGRI granted scholarships to 139 Tanzanians to pursue graduate degrees in the agricultural sciences, with half studying at U.S. universities and half studying at RUFORUM affiliated universities in Africa and India. Nearly half of the candidates were women. Although human capacity development (HCD) is important, it is not a substitute for ICD. Approaches used to promote ICD are discussed including improved planning processes, organizational experiments, and promotion of innovations and linkages to the private sector.
Effect of organic and inorganic fertilisers on natural food composition and performance of African catfish fry produced under artificial propagation
Creators: name: Sebastian, Mosha
name: Jeremiah, Kang'ombe
name: Wilson, Jere
name: Nazael, Madalla
name: Sebastian, Mosha
name: Jeremiah, Kang'ombe
name: Wilson, Jere
name: Nazael, Madalla
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Chicken manure
subject: Clarias gariepinus
subject: DAP fertilizer
subject: growth performance
subject: Plankton

description: In recent times, the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus has gained popularity in the aquaculture sector of Tanzania. However, many aquaculture farmers face the challenge of unreliable supply of seed due to difficulties of reproducing in captivity and high larvae mortality. This study was conducted to determine the effect of organic and inorganic fertilizers on natural food composition and performance of African catfish fry produced under artificial propagation. A completely randomized and factorial experimental design were adopted with three replication for a one week and two months period of time, respectively. Plankton abundance and diversity, growth performance and survival rate of African catfish fry were determined. One way and two way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine differences between treatments (p<0.05). Post-hoc analysis was done where significant differences existed between treatments using Tukey’s Test. Results indicated that phytoplankton abundance and diversity were significantly higher (p<0.05) in di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilizer applied tanks compared to chicken manure and no fertilizer. Zooplankton diversity was also higher in tanks applied with chicken manure in comparison with other treatments. Growth performance was higher in fertilized tanks compared to unfertilized tanks at low stocking density (5fry/m2). There was no significant difference (p>0.05) in fry survival rates between chicken manure and DAP fertilized treatments across stocking densities. Water quality parameters were within the optimum ranges.
Role of farmer field schools in adoption of innovative rice production practices in Mvomero district, Tanzania
Creators: name: Nyamonge, Kenya
name: Charles, Masangano
name: Daimon, Kambewa
name: Mlongo, Mlozi
name: Nyamonge, Kenya
name: Charles, Masangano
name: Daimon, Kambewa
name: Mlongo, Mlozi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farmers Field Schools
subject: rice production
subject: Tanzania

description: Farmer Field Schools (FFS) provide farmers with an opportunity to experiment new technologies which help them to make informed decisions that eventually lead to increased production and income. This study assessed the role of FFS in adoption of innovative rice production practices in Mvomero district, Tanzania. Adoption was conceptualized as an act in which FFS members accept and use the recommended rice production practices in their own fields. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 188 respondents (FFS members) selected through a multi-stage sampling technique. Frequencies were run to determine the adoption level (proportion of FFS members who adopted the innovative rice production practices). Additionally, T-test and Chi-square tests were run to assess the influence of FFS members’ socio-economic characteristics on the adoption of innovative rice production practices. The results of the study showed that a total of 15 recommended rice production practices were promoted using FFS in the study area and more than 75% of FFS members were found to be aware of them. Further, 80% of the innovative rice production practices promoted were adopted by more than 65% FFS members. Household size, total land size, land planted with rice, marital status, literacy and nonfarm income influenced the adoption of some of innovative rice production practices. The findings suggest that FFS played an important role in awareness creation among FFS members whereby a total of 15 innovative rice production practices were promoted. Additionally Farmer Field Schools improved FFS members’ knowledge and experience which facilitated the increased adoption of innovative rice production practices among FFS members. It is therefore evident that FFS provide a good opportunity for the dissemination of innovative rice production practices and other agricultural technologies and their use. It is recommended that the FFFS approach be further scaled out.
The N Enrichment and Supernova Ejection of the Runaway Microquasar LS 5039
Creators: name: McSwain, M. V.
name: Gies, D. R.
name: Huang, W.
name: Wiita, P. J.
name: Wingert, D. W.
name: Kaper, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an investigation of new optical and ultraviolet spectra of the mass donor star in the massive X-ray binary LS 5039. The optical band spectral line strengths indicate that the atmosphere is N-rich and C-poor, and we classify the stellar spectrum as type ON6.5 V((f)). The N-strong and C-weak pattern is also found in the stellar wind P Cygni lines of N V 1240 and C IV 1550. We suggest that the N-enrichment may result from internal mixing if the O-star was born as a rapid rotator, or the O-star may have accreted N-rich gas prior to a common-envelope interaction with the progenitor of the supernova. We re-evaluated the orbital elements to find an orbital period of P=4.4267 +/- 0.0010 d. We compared the spectral line profiles with new non-LTE, line-blanketed model spectra, from which we derive an effective temperature T_eff = 37.5 +/- 1.7 kK, gravity log g = 4.0 +/- 0.1, and projected rotational velocity V sin i = 140 +/- 8 km/s. We fit the UV, optical, and IR flux distribution using a model spectrum and extinction law with parameters E(B-V)= 1.28 +/- 0.02 and R= 3.18 +/- 0.07. We confirm the co-variability of the observed X-ray flux and stellar wind mass loss rate derived from the H-alpha profile, which supports the wind accretion scenario for the X-ray production in LS 5039. Wind accretion models indicate that the compact companion has a mass M_X/M_sun = 1.4 +/- 0.4, consistent with its identification as a neutron star. The observed eccentricity and runaway velocity of the binary can only be reconciled if the neutron star received a modest kick velocity due to a slight asymmetry in the supernova explosion (during which >5 solar masses was ejected).
description: 38 pages, 9 figures; 2004, ApJ, 600, Jan. 10 issue, in press Discussion revised thanks to comments from P. Podsiadlowski
Exchange induced ordinary reflection in a single-channel superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction
Creators: name: Cayssol, J.
name: Montambaux, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stationnary Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction is revisited for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The quasiclassical calculation of the supercurrent assumes that the Andreev reflection is complete for all channels. However, De Jong and Beenakker have shown that the Andreev reflection at a clean FS interface is incomplete, due to the exchange interaction in the ferromagnet. Taking into account this incomplete Andreev reflection, we investigate the quasiparticle spectrum, the Josephson current and the $0-π$ transition in a ballistic single channel SFS junction. We find that energy gaps open in the phase dependent spectrum. Although the spectrum is strongly modified when the exchange energy increases, the Josephson current and the $0-π$ transition are only weakly affected by the incomplete Andreev reflection, except when the exchange energy is close to the Fermi energy.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, added references, typos added
Finite dimensional approximations in geometry
Creators: name: Furuta, Mikio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R57

description: In low dimensional topology, we have some invariants defined by using solutions of some nonlinear elliptic operators. The invariants could be understood as Euler class or degree in the ordinary cohomology, in infinite dimensional setting. Instead of looking at the solutions, if we can regard some kind of homotopy class of the operator itself as an invariant, then the refined version of the invariant is understood as Euler class or degree in cohomotopy theory. This idea can be carried out for the Seiberg-Witten equation on 4-dimensional manifolds and we have some applications to 4-dimensional topology.
Additional file 1 of Identification in silico and expression analysis of a β-1-4-endoglucanase and β-galactosidase genes related to ripening in guava fruit
Creators: name: Mejía-Mendoza, Mario A.
name: Garcidueñas-Piña, Cristina
name: Padilla-Ramírez, José S.
name: Soria-Guerra, Ruth E.
name: Morales-Domínguez, José Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Likelihood analysis of the Local Group acceleration revisited
Creators: name: Ciecielag, P.
name: Chodorowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine likelihood analyzes of the Local Group (LG) acceleration, paying particular attention to nonlinear effects. Under the approximation that the joint distribution of the LG acceleration and velocity is Gaussian, two quantities describing nonlinear effects enter these analyzes. The first one is the coherence function, i.e. the cross-correlation coefficient of the Fourier modes of gravity and velocity fields. The second one is the ratio of velocity power spectrum to gravity power spectrum. To date, in all analyzes of the LG acceleration the second quantity was not accounted for. Extending our previous work, we study both the coherence function and the ratio of the power spectra. With the aid of numerical simulations we obtain expressions for the two as functions of wavevector and σ_8. Adopting WMAP's best determination of σ_8, we estimate the most likely value of the parameter βand its errors. As the observed values of the LG velocity and gravity, we adopt respectively a CMB-based estimate of the LG velocity, and Schmoldt et al.'s (1999) estimate of the LG acceleration from the PSCz catalog. We obtain β= 0.66^{+0.21}_{-0.07}; thus our errorbars are significantly smaller than those of Schmoldt et al. This is not surprising, because the coherence function they used greatly overestimates actual decoherence between nonlinear gravity and velocity.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS, accepted
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of steroids versus placebo in preventing upper airway obstruction after extubation in critically ill children: rationale and design of a multicentric, double-blind, randomized study
Creators: name: Manrique, Gema
name: Butragueño-Laiseca, Laura
name: González, Rafael
name: Corsino Rey
name: Compañon, Zuriñe Martínez De
name: Gil, Javier
name: Rodríguez-Núñez, Antonio
name: Martínez, Cecilia
name: Manrique, Silvia
name: López-Herce, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Ultraviolet finiteness of Chiral Perturbation Theory for two-dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Paston, S. A.
name: Prokhvatilov, E. V.
name: Franke, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the perturbation theory in the fermion mass (chiral perturbation theory) for the two-dimensional quantum electrodynamics. With this aim, we rewrite the theory in the equivalent bosonic form in which the interaction is exponential and the fermion mass becomes the coupling constant. We reformulate the bosonic perturbation theory in the superpropagator language and analyze its ultraviolet behavior. We show that the boson Green's functions without vacuum loops remain finite in all orders of the perturbation theory in the fermion mass.
description: LaTeX 2.09, 9 pages
Power variations for fractional type infinitely divisible random fields
Creators: name: Basse-O'Connor, Andreas
name: Pilipauskaitė, Vytautė
name: Podolskij, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents new limit theorems for power variation of fractional type symmetric infinitely divisible random fields. More specifically, the random field $X = (X(\boldsymbol{t}))_{\boldsymbol{t} \in [0,1]^d}$ is defined as an integral of a kernel function $g$ with respect to a symmetric infinitely divisible random measure $L$ and is observed on a grid with mesh size $n^{-1}$. As $n \to \infty$, the first order limits are obtained for power variation statistics constructed from rectangular increments of $X$. The present work is mostly related to Basse-O'Connor, Lachièze-Rey, Podolskij (2017), Basse-O'Connor, Heinrich, Podolskij (2019), who studied a similar problem in the case $d=1$. We will see, however, that the asymptotic theory in the random field setting is much richer compared to Basse-O'Connor, Lachièze-Rey, Podolskij (2017), Basse-O'Connor, Heinrich, Podolskij (2019) as it contains new limits, which depend on the precise structure of the kernel $g$. We will give some important examples including the Lévy moving average field, the well-balanced symmetric linear fractional $β$-stable sheet, and the moving average fractional $β$-stable field, and discuss potential consequences for statistical inference.
Investigating bruise susceptibility of pomegranate cultivars during postharvest handling
Creators: name: Hussein, Zaharan
name: Olaniyi, Amos Fawole
name: Umezuruike, Linus Opara
name: Hussein, Zaharan
name: Olaniyi, Amos Fawole
name: Umezuruike, Linus Opara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Bruise susceptibility
subject: drop height
subject: fresh produce
subject: impact energy
subject: mechanical damage
subject: postharvest loss

description: Bruising is the most common type of mechanical damage of horticultural produce which results mainly from excessive impact and compression forces due to improper postharvest handling. The presence of bruise contributes to downgrading and rejection of produce, thereby contributing to postharvest losses; it is therefore important to understand the mechanism of bruising and how to reduce it. This study investigated the susceptibility of three pomegranate (Punica granatum L) fruit cultivars (‘Acco’, ‘Herskawitz’ and ‘Wonderful’) to bruising by impacting a known mass of steel ball onto individual fruit. Impact threshold level required to cause bruising was investigated by subjecting fruit to damage at different drop heights (5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 cm) which corresponded to low impact energy levels. Bruise size (area and volume) and bruise susceptibility (bruise volume per unit of impact energy) at higher drop heights (20, 40 and 60 cm) were cultivar dependent in the order of ‘Wonderful’>‘Herskawitz’> ‘Acco’. Similarly, the drop height (cm) at which bruising was first observed and the associated bruising incidence (%) ranged from 5 cm and 34% for ‘Wonderful’, to 10 cm and 21% ‘Herskawitz’ and 15 cm and 27% for ‘Acco’. ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate fruit had the lowest equivalent drop height (3.13 cm) at which bruising occurred, which indicates its higher susceptibility to bruising compared with the other cultivars studied. The findings reported in this study provide science-based tools to assist in improving postharvest handling management of fresh pomegranate fruit to minimize the incidence of mechanical damage. In addition, the methodology can be applied to assess the bruise damage susceptibility of other types of fresh produce as part of overall management strategy to reduce the high incidence of postharvest losses of agricultural and horticultural commodities.
Additional file 2 of Identifying and understanding the health and social care needs of Indigenous older adults with multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a scoping review
Creators: name: Webkamigad, Sharlene
name: Rowe, Robyn
name: Peltier, Shanna
name: Chow, Amanda Froehlich
name: McGilton, Katherine S.
name: Walker, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Quality Assessment Using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Table of nine studies assessed using the MMAT
Noncommutative recurrence over locally compact Hausdorff groups
Creators: name: de Beer, Richard
name: Duvenhage, Rocco
name: Stroh, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend previous results on noncommutative recurrence in unital *-algebras over the integers, to the case where one works over locally compact Hausdorff groups. We derive a generalization of Khintchine's recurrence theorem, as well as a form of multiple recurrence. This is done using the mean ergodic theorem in Hilbert space, via the GNS construction.
description: 11 pages