cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prospects of Entry into the Energy Market by Small and Mid-Sized Farmers: Evidence from Tennessee
Creators: name: Tegegne, Fissesha
name: Ekanem, Enefiok
name: Singh, Surendra
name: Wade, Alvin
name: Mafuyai-Ekanem, Mary
name: Tegegne, Fissesha
name: Ekanem, Enefiok
name: Singh, Surendra
name: Wade, Alvin
name: Mafuyai-Ekanem, Mary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Focus groups and surveys
subject: willingness to grow Switchgrass
subject: bioenergy
subject: Small and mid-sized Tennessee farmers

description: The goal of this study was to get feedback from farmers in selected Tennessee counties on their willingness to grow switchgrass as a dedicated bioenergy crop. Switchgrass can be grown on marginal land. It is environmentally friendly (useful for erosion control etc.) and can assist rural communities by developing rural infrastructure and job creation. There is call for shift from using food products such as corn to cellulosic source such as switch grass as feedstock for bioenergy. Recent increase in the price of corn is noted to have impact of increasing its price, demand for land and more application of fertilizer thereby having undesirable outcomes on economic and environmental aspects.
Dendroleontini Banks 1899
Creators: name: Miller, Robert B.
name: Stange, Lionel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae

description: TRIBE DENDROLEONTINI BANKS 1899   Distribution. Afrotropical; Palaearctic; Oriental; Australian; Nearctic.
 Discussion. The genera of this tribe were reviewed by Stange (1976) with further information on the rich Australian fauna provided by New (1985). Stange and Miller (1990) and Stange (1994) have further defined the tribe on the basis of larval characters. The larvae have a tuft of setae on the mesoscutum which holds a debris ball. Some of the Australian Dendroleontini (Subtribe Periclystina) have this structure further elaborated by having the setae much longer and united basally in a stalk. Also, the mandibles in many genera of Dendroleontini are upturned slightly. This mandibular modification is probably co-adapted with the mesoscutal setal “lure”. However, most of the cave mouth dwelling Dendroleontini do not have the mesoscutal setal lure. One very large species (probably Glenoleon species) with the typical mesoscutal lure structure and upturned mandibles was found in northern Queensland (Slaty Creek) but not reared and remains unknown. This species had dark larvae living in Zone 3 and were large, fast diggers. They were found in 1989 by Miller but were not present when Miller and Stange returned to this cave in 2005. One possible reason was that the large amount of dermestid larvae that were feeding on a dead kangaroo body and bat guano were not present, especially since the bats had left. One species of Glenoleon Banks (G. pulchellus) was found in a cave and has the mesoscutal setal lure. However, the species of the other genera lack the mesoscutal lure structure and do not have upturned mandibles and consequently their phylogenetic relationships are not clear. These three genera may represent an early line of evolution of the Dendroleontini before the acquisition of the mesoscutal “lure” or perhaps, as probably in the case of the Oriental genus Gatzara Navás, have lost the lure in response to habitat adaptation. These three genera are Froggattisca Esben-Petersen and two new genera to be described. A new morphological and taxonomic structure is described. This is called Miller’s organ (Figures 17, 21) which is a small glandular-like structure on the metathorax and abdominal sternite I.
description: Published as part of Miller, Robert B. & Stange, Lionel A., 2012, The cave mouth antlions of Australia (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), pp. 1-65 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (250) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174820
Additional file 4 of Novel associations between parental and newborn cord blood metabolic profiles in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study
Creators: name: Øyri, Linn K. L.
name: Bogsrud, Martin P.
name: Christensen, Jacob J.
name: Ulven, Stine M.
name: Brantsæter, Anne Lise
name: Retterstøl, Kjetil
name: Brekke, Hilde K.
name: Michelsen, Trond M.
name: Henriksen, Tore
name: Van Lennep, Jeanine E. Roeters
name: Magnus, Per
name: Veierød, Marit B.
name: Holven, Kirsten B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Results from mixed model analyses for the association between parental and newborn exposures and newborn metabolites.
Weak turbulence of gravity waves
Creators: name: Dyachenko, A. I.
name: Korotkevich, A. O.
name: Zakharov, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time weak turbulent theory was demonstrated for the surface gravity waves. Direct numerical simulation of the dynamical equations shows Kolmogorov turbulent spectra as predicted by analytical analysis from kinetic equation.
Additional file 1: of Catheter ablation for treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Ma, Yingxu
name: Bai, Fan
name: Qin, Fen
name: Li, Yixi
name: Tu, Tao
name: Sun, Chao
name: Zhou, Shenghua
name: Liu, Qiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplement Materials. (DOCX 2246 kb)
title: Efficient Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts on Several Risky Assets
Creators: name: Melnikov, Alexander
name: Romanyuk, Yuliya
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors use the efficient hedging methodology for optimal pricing and hedging of equity-linked life insurance contracts whose payoff depends on the performance of several risky assets. In particular, they consider a policy that pays the maximum of the values of n risky assets at some maturity date T, provided that the policyholder survives to T. Such contracts incorporate financial risk, which stems from the uncertainty about future prices of the underlying financial assets, and insurance risk, which arises from the policyholder's mortality. The authors show how efficient hedging can be used to minimize expected losses from imperfect hedging under a particular risk preference of the hedger. They also prove a probabilistic result, which allows one to calculate analytic pricing formulas for equity-linked payoffs with n risky assets. To illustrate its use, explicit formulas are derived for optimal prices and expected hedging losses for payoffs with two risky assets. Numerical examples highlighting the implications of efficient hedging for the management of financial and insurance risks of equity-linked life insurance policies are also provided.
description: Les auteurs emploient la méthode de couverture efficiente pour tarifer et couvrir de manière optimale des contrats d'assurance vie indexés sur actions et dont le rendement dépend du comportement d'un nombre n d'actifs risqués. Leur analyse porte en particulier sur le cas d'une police qui verse à son titulaire, s'il est encore en vie à la date d'échéance T du contrat, une somme égale à la plus élevée des valeurs prises par les n actifs risqués. Les polices de ce type comportent autant un risque financier, découlant de l'incertitude entourant l'évolution du prix des actifs sous-jacents, qu'un risque d'assurance, associé à la longévité du titulaire. Les auteurs montrent que la méthode de couverture efficiente peut servir à minimiser l'espérance des pertes résultant d'une couverture imparfaite, et ce, selon la propension au risque de l'opérateur en couverture. Ils démontrent aussi un résultat probabiliste sur lequel peut s'appuyer le calcul des formules analytiques servant à l'évaluation de la somme qui reviendra au titulaire de la police étant donné un nombre n d'actifs risqués. Afin d'illustrer l'utilité de la méthode, les auteurs déduisent des formules explicites permettant d'établir les prix optimaux et les pertes de couverture attendues dans le cas où n est égal à deux. D'autres illustrations chiffrées sont données, afin de mettre en lumière les diverses applications de la méthode de couverture efficiente dans la gestion du risque financier et du risque d'assurance propres aux contrats d'assurance vie indexés sur actions.
title: The Long-Term Effects of Cross-Listing, Investor Recognition, and Ownership Structure on Valuation
Creators: name: King, Michael R.
name: Segal, Dan
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors show that the widening of a foreign firm's U.S. investor base and the improved information environment associated with cross-listing on a U.S. exchange each have a separately identifiable effect on a firm's valuation. The increase in valuation associated with cross-listing is transitory, not permanent. Valuations of Canadian firms peak in the year of cross-listing and fall monotonically thereafter, regardless of the level of U.S. investor holdings or the ownership structure of the firm. Cross-listed firms with a 20 per cent or more blockholder attract a similar number of U.S. institutional investors as widely held firms, on average, but experience a lower increase in valuation at high levels of investor recognition. While U.S. investors are less willing to invest in firms with dual-class shares, these firms benefit more from cross-listing even when they fail to widen their U.S. investor base, suggesting that the reduction in information asymmetry between controlling and minority investors has a separate impact on valuation for firms where agency problems are greatest.
description: Les auteurs montrent que la hausse de la participation des investisseurs américains au capital d'une entreprise étrangère et l'amélioration de l'information disponible sur celle-ci après son inscription à une bourse des États-Unis ont sur la valeur de ses actions des effets discernables l'un de l'autre. L'appréciation qu'enregistrent les titres d'entreprises canadiennes nouvellement intercotées est passagère. Leur cours culmine en effet durant l'année qui suit, puis il diminue de façon monotone, peu importe le niveau de participation des investisseurs américains au capital ou la structure de l'actionnariat de l'entreprise. Les sociétés intercotées contrôlées par un actionnaire dominant qui possède au moins 20 % du capital-actions attirent en moyenne autant d'investisseurs institutionnels aux États-Unis que celles dont la propriété est plus dispersée, mais leur titre s'apprécie moins lorsqu'elles sont déjà bien connues des investisseurs. S'il est vrai que les investisseurs américains hésitent davantage à investir dans les entreprises émettant deux catégories d'actions, il reste que ces entreprises tirent plus de bénéfices de l'intercotation même quand elles ne parviennent pas à élargir leur actionnariat aux États-Unis. Ce résultat donne à penser que la réduction de l'asymétrie d'information entre l'actionnaire dominant et les actionnaires minoritaires a un effet distinct sur la valeur de l'action là où le conflit d'intérêts entre les deux types d'actionnaire est le plus grand.
Expanding the Y Dwarf Census with Spitzer Follow-up of the Coldest CatWISE Solar Neighborhood Discoveries
Creators: name: Meisner, Aaron M.
name: Caselden, Dan
name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
name: Marocco, Federico
name: Gelino, Christopher R.
name: Cushing, Michael C.
name: Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.
name: Wright, Edward L.
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Koontz, Renata
name: Marchese, Elijah J.
name: Khalil, Mohammed
name: Fowler, John W.
name: Schlafly, Edward F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Spitzer 3.6$μ$m and 4.5$μ$m follow-up of 170 candidate extremely cool brown dwarfs newly discovered via the combination of WISE and NEOWISE imaging at 3$-$5$μ$m. CatWISE, a joint analysis of archival WISE and NEOWISE data, has improved upon the motion measurements of AllWISE by leveraging a $>$10$\times$ time baseline enhancement, from 0.5 years (AllWISE) to 6.5 years (CatWISE). As a result, CatWISE motion selection has yielded a large sample of previously unrecognized brown dwarf candidates, many of which have archival detections exclusively in the WISE 4.6$μ$m (W2) channel, suggesting that they could be both exceptionally cold and nearby. Where these objects go undetected in WISE W1 (3.4$μ$m), Spitzer can provide critically informative detections at 3.6$μ$m. Of our motion-confirmed discoveries, seventeen have a best-fit Spitzer [3.6]$-$[4.5] color most consistent with spectral type Y. CWISEP J144606.62$-$231717.8 ($μ\approx 1.3''$/yr) is likely the reddest, and therefore potentially coldest, member of our sample with a very uncertain [3.6]$-$[4.5] color of 3.71 $\pm$ 0.44 magnitudes. We also highlight our highest proper motion discovery, WISEA J153429.75$-$104303.3, with $μ\approx 2.7''$/yr. Given that the prior list of confirmed and presumed Y dwarfs consists of just 27 objects, the Spitzer follow-up presented in this work has substantially expanded the sample of identified Y dwarfs. Our new discoveries thus represent significant progress toward understanding the bottom of the substellar mass function, investigating the diversity of the Y dwarf population, and selecting optimal brown dwarf targets for JWST spectroscopy.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ
Froggattisca anicis New 1985
Creators: name: Miller, Robert B.
name: Stange, Lionel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae
Froggattisca
Froggattisca anicis

description: Froggattisca anicis New
(Figures 2, 3)
 Froggattisca anicis New 1985b: 69, figures 953-965 (wings; male, female terminalia; male genitalia). Holotype female, 1 km. north by northeast of Millstream HS, Western Australia, 16.IV.1971, Upton & Mitchell (ANIC).
 Description. Adult: length of body 13 mm, forewing 17 mm, hindwing 18 mm. Coloration: antenna dark brown to black, apices of flagellomeres pale brown; labrum and clypeus slightly darkened; palpi pale; interantennal area broadly dark brown; vertex with anterior transverse brown bar linked medially with more extensive dark brown posterior markings; pronotum with broad dark brown median stripe and lateral dark brown stripe each side; wing venation mainly dark brown, some longitudinal veins intermittently pale brown, without golden brown suffusion; abdomen dark brown, some anterior tergites with slight median posterior yellow mark. Chaetotaxy: pronotum with long pale outstanding setae; femora with many elongate white setae; abdomen with mostly pale setae; female lateral gonapophysis with about eight short thickened setae; male genitalic membrane with short median setae. Structure: male without goitre; vertex raised; antennae widely spaced, flagellomeres broader than long; club slightly developed over last six flagellar segments; pronotum longer than wide; wings narrow, venation as in Figure 2; legs long and slender, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus longer than tibia, distal tarsomere longer than tarsomeres I and II together which are longer than tarsomere III which is longer than tarsomere IV; foreleg shorter than hindleg; tibial spurs slender, longer than one-half length of basal tarsomere; female terminalia with small lateral gonapophysis, posterior gonapophysis broad and rounded; anterior gonapophysis absent; pregenital plate not evident but there are ventral sinuous sclerotized bars in membrane below tergites VIII, IX; spermatheca strongly coiled; male genitalia with gonarcus very deep, parameres slender, rugose ventrally.
 New record. AUSTRALIA. Western Australia: Wittenoom, 4. III. 1994, R. Miller (A76 reared) (5m, FSCA; USMB).
description: Published as part of Miller, Robert B. & Stange, Lionel A., 2012, The cave mouth antlions of Australia (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), pp. 1-65 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (250) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174820
title: The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle
Creators: name: Covas, Francisco
name: den Haan, Wouter
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors show that debt and equity issuance are procyclical for most listed U.S. firms. The procyclicality of equity issuance decreases monotonically with firm size. At the aggregate level, however, the authors' results are not conclusive: issuance is countercyclical for very large firms that, although few in number, have a large effect on the aggregate because of their enormous size. If firms use the standard one-period contract, then the shadow price of external funds is procyclical and the cyclicality decreases with firm size. This property generates equity to be procyclical and—as in the data—the procyclicality decreases with firm size. Other factors that cause equity to be procyclical in the model are a countercyclical price of risk and a countercyclical cost of equity issuance. The model (i) generates a countercyclical default rate, (ii) magnifies shocks, and (iii) generates a stronger cyclical response for small firms, whereas the model without equity does the exact opposite.
description: Les auteurs montrent que les activités d'emprunt et d'émission d'actions de la plupart des entreprises américaines cotées sont procycliques, tout en notant que le caractère procyclique de l'émission d'actions s'atténue de façon monotone avec la taille de la firme. À l'échelle de l'ensemble des entreprises, toutefois, les résultats des auteurs ne sont pas concluants : même s'il y a peu de très grandes entreprises, le comportement anticyclique de l'émission d'actions dans leur cas pèse lourd au final en raison de leur énorme taille. Si les firmes ont recours à un emprunt classique d'une période, le prix implicite du financement externe évolue dans le même sens que l'activité économique et son caractère procyclique varie en raison inverse de la taille de l'entreprise. Cette propriété confère à l'émission d'actions un caractère procyclique, qui décroît, tout comme dans les données, avec la taille de la firme. Les autres facteurs à l'origine du comportement procyclique de l'émission d'actions dans le modèle sont le prix du risque (anticyclique) et le coût d'émission d'actions (anticyclique également). Le modèle i) génère un taux de défaillance anticyclique; ii) amplifie les chocs; et iii) engendre une réaction cyclique plus forte parmi les petites entreprises, alors que le modèle sans émission d'actions produit exactement les résultats contraires.
Phase space of static wormholes sustained by an isotropic perfect fluid
Creators: name: Fay, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phase space is built that allows to study, classify and compare easily large classes of static spherically symmetric wormholes solutions, sustained by an isotropic perfect fluid in General Relativity. We determine the possible locations of equilibrium points, throats and curvature singularities in this phase space. Throats locations show that the spatial variation of the gravitational redshift at the throat of a static spherically symmetric wormhole sustained by an isotropic perfect fluid is always diverging, generalising the result that there is no such wormhole with zero-tidal force. Several specific static spherically symmetric wormholes models are studied. A vanishing density model leads to an exact solution of the field equation allowing to test our dynamical system formalism. It also shows how to extend it to the description of static black holes. Hence, the trajectory of the Schwarzschild black hole is determined. The static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions of several usual isotropic dark energy (generalised Chaplygin gas, constant, linear and Chevallier-Polarski-Linder equations of state) and dark matter (Navarro-Frenk-White profile) models are considered. They show various behaviours far from the throat: singularities, spatial flatness, cyclic behaviours, etc. None of them is asymptotically Minkowski flat. This discards the natural formation of static spherically symmetric and isotropic wormholes from these dark fluids. Last we consider a toy model of an asymptotically Minkowski flat wormhole that is a counterexample to a recent theorem claiming that a static wormhole sustained by an isotropic fluid cannot be asymptotically flat on both sides of its throat.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
Secondary proton flux induced by cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere
Creators: name: Baret, B.
name: Derome, L.
name: Huang, C. Y.
name: Buenerd, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atmospheric secondary proton flux is studied for altitudes extending from sea level up to the top of atmosphere by means of a 3-dimensional Monte-Carlo simulation procedure successfully used previously to account for flux measurements of protons, light nuclei, and electrons-positrons below the geomagnetic cutoff (satellite data), and of muons and antiprotons (balloon data). The calculated flux are compared with the experimental measurements from sea level uo to high float ballon altitudes. The agreement between data and simulation results are very good at all altitudes, including the lowest ones, where the calculations become extremely sensitive to the proton production cross section. The results are discussed in this context. The calculations are extended to the study of quasi trapped particles above the atmosphere to about 5 Earth radii, for prospective purpose.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Impact of Rainfall, Sales Method, and Time on Land Prices
Creators: name: Stephens, Steve
name: Schurle, Bryan
name: Stephens, Steve
name: Schurle, Bryan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: farmland prices in western Kansas
subject: regression
subject: appraisal of farmland

description: Land prices in Western Kansas are analyzed using regression to estimate the influence of rainfall, sales method, and time of sale. The estimates from regression indicate that land prices decreased about $27 for each range that was farther west which can be converted to about $75 per inch of average rainfall. In addition, the influence of method of sale (private sale or auction) is estimated along with the impact of time of sale. Auction sales prices are approximately $100 higher per acre than private sales, and prices have been increasing by about $10 per month. Regression is shown to be a very useful tool to support adjustments in appraisals for several different factors that influence land prices.
MOESM1 of The largest reported intrathoracic lipoma: a case report and current perspectives review
Creators: name: Aldahmashi, Mohammed
name: Abdalmotaleb Elmadawy
name: Mahdy, Mahmoud
name: Alaa, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Informed consent
Melitaea phoebe subsp. malvida Gaede 1930
Creators: name: Russell, P. J. C.
name: Bartolozzi, L.
name: Hawkins, R. L.
name: Tennent, W. J.
name: Léger, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Melitaea
Melitaea phoebe
Melitaea phoebe malvida gaede, 1930

description: Melitaea phoebe malvida Gaede, 1930
[TL: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia, Maklen (also spelt Makljen) Pass]; Gaede described (page 207) this subspecies and figured the upperside (Plate 13, d5). Gaede attributed this name to Fruhstorfer, but without a date; like HIGGINS (1941: 340) the present authors were unable to find any original description by Fruhstorfer. This subspecies was not mentioned by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014). The specimen figured and the description by Gaede indicated that the apices of the forewings were quite acute, indicating that this subspecies belongs to M. phoebe, as described. Gaede also indicated an association with the subspecies narenta Fruhstorfer, 1917, from Herzegovina (see above), also identified here as M. phoebe. No indication of the precise location or date of capture was provided, making for difficulties in finding this subspecies at the location given, which has a maximum elevation of 1123 m (Yugoslav Coast, Lascelles, scale 1:300,000, dated 1988/9). Until such time as further specimens become available, this identification requires confirmation.
description: Published as part of Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J. & Léger, T., 2020, Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 449-472 in SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191) on page 455, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369
A novel ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of dopamine and cupric ions
Creators: name: Liu, Jingjing
name: Liang, Yongqi
name: Luan, Chunpeng
name: Kong, Youpeng
name: He, Fei
name: Liu, Siyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this paper, bovine serum albumin served as the initial materials for preparing a kind of cyan-emitting fluorescent protein nanoparticles (BSA NPs). The BSA NPs were further adopted as a template to synthesize protein nanoparticles-stabilized silver nanoclusters (BSA NPs@Ag NCs) that offered two well-separated fluorescence emission peaks respectively at 470 nm and 670 nm. Dopamine could specifically induce the fluorescence enhancement at 470 nm and the fluorescence quenching at 670 nm of BSA NPs@Ag NCs. Moreover, cupric ions could cause the fluorescence quenching at 670 nm of BSA NPs@Ag NCs just with a negligible impact on the fluorescence intensity at 470 nm. The BSA NPs@Ag NCs can serve as a ratiometric probe for detection of dopamine and cupric ions.
title: Survey-Based Estimates of the Term Structure of Expected U.S. Inflation
Creators: name: Kozicki, Sharon
name: Tinsley, P. A.
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: Surveys provide direct information on expectations, but only short histories are available at quarterly frequencies or for long-horizon expectations. Longer histories typically contain only semi-annual observations of short-horizon forecasts. The authors fill in the gaps by constructing a 50-year monthly history of expected inflation at all horizons from one month to 10 years that is consistent with inflation data and infrequent survey data. In the process, some models that fit inflation well are found to generate forecasts that bear little resemblance to survey data. Also, survey data on near-term expectations are found to contain considerable information about longhorizon views. The estimated long-horizon forecast series, a measure of the private sector's perception of the inflation target of monetary policy, has shifted considerably over time and is the source of some of the persistence of inflation. When compared with estimates of the effective inflation goal of policy, these perceptions suggest that monetary policy has been less than fully credible historically.
description: Les enquêtes offrent une information de première main sur les attentes d'inflation, mais celles de périodicité trimestrielle ou portant sur des horizons éloignés sont encore jeunes. Sur de plus longues périodes, on ne dispose en général que d'observations recueillies à une fréquence semestrielle et se rapportant à un horizon rapproché. Pour suppléer aux observations manquantes, les auteurs élaborent une série mensuelle qui mesure sur 50 ans les attentes d'inflation à tous les horizons compris entre un mois et dix ans et qui est conforme aux données de l'inflation et aux résultats des enquêtes menées à intervalles peu fréquents. Ce faisant, ils constatent que certains modèles qui décrivent pourtant bien l'évolution passée de l'inflation génèrent des prévisions peu conformes aux données d'enquête. Ils remarquent également que les données d'enquête sur les attentes à court terme renferment une masse considérable d'informations sur les attentes à long terme. Leur estimation des taux d'inflation prévus aux horizons éloignés, qui donne une idée des perceptions des agents du secteur privé au sujet de la cible d'inflation des autorités monétaires, a beaucoup changé au fil du temps et explique en partie la persistance de l'inflation. Confrontées aux estimations de l'objectif d'inflation réel des autorités, ces perceptions donnent à penser que la politique monétaire n'était pas parfaitement crédible dans le passé.
Steel-glass Structural Elements with a New Generation of Adhesives
Creators: name: Horcickova, I.
name: Machalická, K.
name: Eliasova, M.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Intensive progress in the field of polymer adhesives opens up new opportunities in their usage. Glass is combined with steel in hybrid systems to improve its load-bearing capacity, stiffness, residual load-carrying capacity and to preserve a high degree of transparency at the same time. Adhesive connection between glass and other materials in hybrid structures is beneficial, because in dependence on geometry and stiffness, the glue in joints can provide uniform stress distribution along the contact area. The current paper deals with the research study of two generations of adhesives. The study begins with a description of tensile behavior of dumbbell test specimens made from a new type of adhesive and its predecessor. Because shear connection is used in hybrid steel-glass beams due to its suitable stress distribution and good feasibility, both glues were tested in shear joint specimens to compare their properties. Both adhesives were also applied in the linear connection of steel-glass beams with the span of 4 m and compared to each other as the last step of the study.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
title: Stress Testing the Corporate Loans Portfolio of the Canadian Banking Sector
Creators: name: Misina, Miroslav
name: Tessier, David
name: Dey, Shubhasis
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: Stress testing, at its most general level, is an investigation of the performance of an entity under abnormal operating conditions. The authors focus on one set of entities—the Canadian banking sector—and investigate losses in the loans portfolio of this sector as a function of changing circumstances in the different industries in which these loans reside. These circumstances are characterized by means of one summary measure—sectoral probabilities of default—and this measure is modelled as a function of macroeconomic variables. Using this model, the authors assess the interrelationship between the macroeconomic environment and sectoral defaults, and perform a series of stress tests under different scenarios that are thought to be most pertinent to Canada. The tools underlying the authors' analysis are general and can be applied to other countries, as well as to other macroeconomic scenarios.
description: La conduite de simulations de crise (stress testing) sert de façon générale à évaluer la performance d'une entité dans des conditions de fonctionnement anormales. Les auteurs centrent leur analyse sur le secteur bancaire canadien, en reliant les pertes sur le portefeuille des prêts bancaires aux modifications de l'environnement dans lequel les différents secteurs d'activité bénéficiaires de ces prêts évoluent. Les caractéristiques de l'environnement sont résumées au moyen d'un indicateur — la probabilité de défaut dans chaque secteur — qui est modélisé sous la forme d'une fonction de variables macroéconomiques. À l'aide de ce modèle, les auteurs évaluent les liens réciproques entre le contexte macroéconomique et les défaillances d'entreprises dans chacun des secteurs, et mènent une série de simulations selon divers scénarios de crise jugés pertinents dans le cas canadien. Les outils sur lesquels repose l'analyse des auteurs sont de nature générale et peuvent être appliqués à d'autres pays ainsi qu'à d'autres scénarios macroéconomiques.
title: Modelling Term-Structure Dynamics for Risk Management: A Practitioner's Perspective
Creators: name: Bolder, David
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: Modelling term-structure dynamics is an important component in measuring and managing the exposure of portfolios to adverse movements in interest rates. Model selection from the enormous term-structure literature is far from obvious and, to make matters worse, a number of recent papers have called into question the ability of some of the more popular models to adequately describe interest rate dynamics. The author, in attempting to find a relatively simple term-structure model that does a reasonable job of describing interest rate dynamics for risk-management purposes, examines two sets of models. The first set involves variations of the Gaussian affine term-structure model by modestly building on the recent work of Dai and Singleton (2000) and Duffee (2002). The second set includes and extends Diebold and Li (2003). After working through the mathematical derivation and estimation of these models, the author compares and contrasts their performance on a number of in- and out-of-sample forecasting metrics, their ability to capture deviations from the expectations hypothesis, and their predictions in a simple portfolio-optimization setting. He finds that the extended Nelson-Siegel model and an associated generalization, what he terms the "exponential-spline model," provide the most appealing modelling alternatives when considering the various model criteria.
description: La modélisation de la dynamique de la structure des taux d'intérêt est un élément important de la mesure et de la gestion de l'exposition d'un portefeuille aux mouvements défavorables des taux d'intérêt. Il est toutefois difficile de choisir un modèle parmi ceux recensés dans la vaste littérature consacrée au sujet, tout particulièrement depuis la parution de récents articles qui remettent en question la capacité de certains des modèles les plus utilisés à décrire la dynamique des taux. L'auteur cherche à mettre au point un modèle simple qui parvienne relativement bien à rendre compte de cette dynamique aux fins de la gestion des risques. Pour ce faire, il examine deux catégories de modèles. Le premier modèle étudié consiste en une variante du modèle gaussien affine décrit par Dai et Singleton (2000) et Duffee (2002). Les modèles de la seconde catégorie s'inspirent, en les prolongeant, des travaux de Diebold et Li (2003). Après avoir présenté la dérivation mathématique de ces modèles et les avoir estimés, l'auteur compare, sur la base de différents critères, leur capacité à prévoir l'évolution des taux durant la période d'estimation et au-delà de celle-ci, leur capacité à rendre compte des écarts par rapport à l'hypothèse relative aux attentes, de même que leur pouvoir de prédiction dans un cadre simple d'optimisation des portefeuilles. Il constate que le modèle étendu de Nelson-Siegel et une variante généralisée de celui-ci, qu'il appelle « modèle spline exponentiel », constituent les modèles les plus prometteurs eu égard aux divers critères de sélection retenus.
Persistent spin currents in mesoscopic Heisenberg rings
Creators: name: Schuetz, Florian
name: Kollar, Marcus
name: Kopietz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that at low temperatures T an inhomogeneous radial magnetic field with magnitude B gives rise to a persistent magnetization current around a mesoscopic ferromagnetic Heisenberg ring. Under optimal conditions this spin current can be as large as g mu_B (T / hbar) exp [ - 2 pi (g mu_B B / Delta )^1/2 ], as obtained from leading-order spin-wave theory. Here g is the gyromagnetic factor, mu_B is the Bohr magneton, and Delta is the energy gap between the ground state and the first spin-wave excitation. The magnetization current endows the ring with an electric dipole moment.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, published version
The Effect of Adhesive Joints on the Performance of Hybrid Steel-Glass Beams – An Analytical and Experimental Study
Creators: name: Firmo, F.
name: Jordão, S.
name: Costa Neves, L.
name: Bedon, C.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The aim of the present paper is a preliminary assessment and critical discussion of full-scale experimental test results recently obtained for hybrid steel-glass beams composed of a laminated glass web and steel flanges, based on the analytical Möhler method. As known, the structural response of this typology of hybrid solutions markedly depends on the stiffness and resistance of all its components, and specifically the connection, which act as a flexible shear bonding layer between the glass web and the steel flanges. Therefore, the appropriate mechanical calibration of the component materials is mandatory for accurate calculations. In order to fully characterize the used adhesive, push-out shear tests and simple shear tests were performed on small specimens. The results obtained from these small specimens are then implemented as main input mechanical parameters for the analytical model, so that this latter could be applied to the full-scale tests in view of comparative analyses. As shown, due to accurate estimation of the main mechanical properties of the adhesive layers, the presented analytical method provides rather accurate results for the examined full-scale hybrid beams, hence suggesting its application for practical calculations and pre-design considerations.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
Evaluation of the Economic Net Benefits of the various fields found on a smallholder farming system in Vihiga-Kenya
Creators: name: Munialo, S.
name: Akundabweni, L.S.M.
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Namutebi, A.
name: Munialo, S.
name: Akundabweni, L.S.M.
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Namutebi, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Smallholder
subject: Economic Net Benefits
subject: Gross margin
subject: Land positions
subject: Soil fertility
subject: Unequal

description: Strong gradients of decreasing soil fertility are found with increasing distance from the homestead within smallholder farms in Vihiga-Kenya. Nutrient use efficiency varies strongly between fields along these gradients of soil fertility. There is continuous accumulation of nutrients in areas around the homestead at the expense of nutrient depletion in further and larger fields. Unequal distribution of nutrients on the farm causes differences in yield with more yields being obtained in some areas on the farm than others. This has affected the overall crop yield and general wellbeing of the households on the smallholder farm. This study therefore undertook an evaluation of the economic benefits of the various fields belonging to smallholder farmesr. This was an effort to recommend strategies aimed at improving soil fertility levels to nutrient deficient fields. The objective of the study was to determine Economic Net Benefits across the fields on smallholder farms in Jinja and Vihiga. A division of the smallholder land into three farm portions of Near House (NH), Mid Farm (MF) and Far Farm positions with respect to distance from the homestead was done. An onion design layout was adopted to refer to these reference points. A household survey was administered to 76 households from in Vihiga. Using data on the gross margins collected from farmers, the Economic Net Benefits of various fields found on smallholder farms were calculated. Data was analysed using SPSS version 14. T test analysis showed a high significant difference of P≤0.001 in Economic Net Benefits between the (NH and MF) and (MF and FF) positions. Differences in Economic Net Benefits across the farm as a result of differences in soil fertility occasioned by unequal resource allocation might have implications in the economic as well as nutritional wellbeing of the household members. Appropriate intervention therefore need be instituted.
Additional file 5 of Novel associations between parental and newborn cord blood metabolic profiles in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study
Creators: name: Øyri, Linn K. L.
name: Bogsrud, Martin P.
name: Christensen, Jacob J.
name: Ulven, Stine M.
name: Brantsæter, Anne Lise
name: Retterstøl, Kjetil
name: Brekke, Hilde K.
name: Michelsen, Trond M.
name: Henriksen, Tore
name: Van Lennep, Jeanine E. Roeters
name: Magnus, Per
name: Veierød, Marit B.
name: Holven, Kirsten B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Heatmap of the associations between parental and newborn exposures and newborn metabolites including all subjects.
Land Prices During Periods of Rapid Change
Creators: name: Schurle, Bryan
name: Featherstone, Allen
name: Wilson, Christine
name: Crossan, Dylan
name: Schurle, Bryan
name: Featherstone, Allen
name: Wilson, Christine
name: Crossan, Dylan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land prices
subject: land values
subject: usda data
subject: sales data
subject: asset bubble

description: Accurate information on land values is a consequential concern when prices are changing rapidly. This study compares USDA data and sales data from 1971-2011. While the land prices from these series move in similar patterns, there are periods of substantial differences. These periods show a pattern where differences are larger when prices are changing rapidly, and where USDA prices lag sales data prices. The spread in prices in sales data is also examined. While the standard deviation of prices in a year is higher when prices are higher, the coefficient of variation, which measures relative variability, is very stable
Additional file 1 of Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells embedded in PF-127 hydrogel plus sodium ascorbyl phosphate combination promote diabetic wound healing in type 2 diabetic rat
Creators: name: Jiao, Yiren
name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Niu, Yongxia
name: Huang, Sunxing
name: Wang, Jingwen
name: Luo, Mingxun
name: Shi, Guang
name: Huang, Junjiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells embedded in PF-127 hydrogel plus sodium ascorbyl phosphate combination promote diabetic wound healing in type 2 diabetic rat.
Are the Tails of Percolation Thresholds Gaussians ?
Creators: name: de Oliveira, P. M. C.
name: Nobrega, R. A.
name: Stauffer, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The probability distribution of percolation thresholds in finite lattices were first believed to follow a normal Gaussian behaviour. With increasing computer power and more efficient simulational techniques, this belief turned to a stretched exponential behaviour, instead. Here, based on a further improvement of Monte Carlo data, we show evidences that this question is not yet answered at all.
description: 7 pages including 3 figures
MOESM3 of Integrating health care in Australia: a qualitative evaluation
Creators: name: Trankle, Steven
name: Usherwood, Tim
name: Abbott, Penny
name: Roberts, Mary
name: Crampton, Michael
name: Girgis, Christian
name: Riskallah, John
name: Yashu Chang
name: Jaspreet Saini
name: Reath, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Matrix coding of specific WSICP initiatives with illustrative quotations.
Outlier Detection in High Dimensional Data
Creators: name: Kamalov, Firuz
name: Leung, Ho Hon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-dimensional data poses unique challenges in outlier detection process. Most of the existing algorithms fail to properly address the issues stemming from a large number of features. In particular, outlier detection algorithms perform poorly on data set of small size with a large number of features. In this paper, we propose a novel outlier detection algorithm based on principal component analysis and kernel density estimation. The proposed method is designed to address the challenges of dealing with high-dimensional data by projecting the original data onto a smaller space and using the innate structure of the data to calculate anomaly scores for each data point. Numerical experiments on synthetic and real-life data show that our method performs well on high-dimensional data. In particular, the proposed method outperforms the benchmark methods as measured by the $F_1$-score. Our method also produces better-than-average execution times compared to the benchmark methods.