cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stacking non-BPS D-Branes
Creators: name: Alberghi, Gian Luigi
name: Caceres, Elena
name: Goldstein, Kevin
name: Lowe, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a candidate supergravity solution for a stacked configuration of stable non-BPS D-branes in Type II string theory compactified on T^4/Z_2. This gives a supergravity description of nonabelian tachyon condensation on the brane worldvolume.
description: 10 pages, revtex
Small farmers’ preferences for the design of certification schemes: Does gender matter?
Creators: name: Meemken, Eva-Marie
name: Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Meemken, Eva-Marie
name: Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Choice experiment
subject: farmer preferences
subject: food standards
subject: gender
subject: mixed logit models

description: Farmers’ preferences for sustainability certification are analyzed, building on a choice experiment conducted with smallholder coffee growers in Uganda. Farmers have positive general attitudes towards certification. While they dislike bans of productivity-enhancing inputs, benefits associated with agricultural training and special female support are appreciated. Many also see requirements that have to be met for certification as a welcome nudge to invest in better farm management and quality upgrading. Gender-disaggregated data reveal that female farmers have a higher preference for sustainability certification than male farmers. Also within households, significant preference heterogeneity between males and females is found for some certification attributes.
Additional file 1: of Shared decision making when patients consider surgery for lumbar herniated disc: development and test of a patient decision aid
Creators: name: Andersen, Stina
name: Andersen, Mikkel
name: Carreon, Leah
name: Coulter, Angela
name: Steffensen, Karina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Description and illustration of questionnaires used in this study (DOCX 670 kb)
Aloina rigida Limpr.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Aloina
Aloina rigida

description: Aloina rigida (Hedw.) Limpr.
RECORDS. — Montagne (1838), Jelenc (1955a): Alger. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Cap Matifou; Constantine; Gigthi. Gallego et al. (1999): Oran. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 66, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Additional file 1 of A comparison of random survival forest and Cox regression for prediction of mortality in patients with hemorrhagic stroke
Creators: name: Wang, Yuxin
name: Deng, Yuhan
name: Tan, Yinliang
name: Zhou, Meihong
name: Jiang, Yong
name: Liu, Baohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Bäcklund transforms of the extreme Kerr near-horizon geometry
Creators: name: Meinel, Reinhard
name: Kleinwächter, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the method of Bäcklund transformations to generate a new hierarchy of exact solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations starting from the extreme Kerr near-horizon geometry. Solutions with extreme Kerr near-horizon asymptotics containing an arbitrary number of free parameters are included.
description: 7 pages, v3: final version, to appear in Phys. Lett. A
Long-term Impacts of Poverty Programs: A Local-economy Cost-benefit Analysis of Lesotho's Child Grants Programme
Creators: name: Gupta, Anubhab
name: Taylor, J. Edward
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Luca, Pellerano
name: Ousmane, Niang
name: Gupta, Anubhab
name: Taylor, J. Edward
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Luca, Pellerano
name: Ousmane, Niang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Long-run
subject: SCTs
subject: Lesotho
subject: CGP
subject: capital formation
subject: cost-benefit analysis

description: This study quantifies the long-run impacts of Social Cash Transfers (SCTs) and carries out the first ever (to our knowledge) long-run cost-benefit analysis of a SCT program. The impacts of SCTs include socio-economic and productive outcomes in beneficiary households as well as the economic spillovers that result from linkages between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries within local economies. Using data from the PtoP impact evaluation of Lesotho’s Child Grants Program (CGP), we parameterize a cost-benefit model and estimate costs and benefits for both beneficiary and non-beneficiary households. The long-run benefits accruing to beneficiary households include the transfers themselves, plus a future stream of returns from human, physical and social capital formation stimulated by the program. These income gains, in turn, generate income multipliers in treated economies. We use unique panel data from Lesotho to model capital formation within treated households, together with the effect of this capital on household income. Then we link the cost-benefit model for CGP beneficiaries with a local economy-wide impact evaluation (LEWIE) model. We find that the discounted future stream of benefits from the CGP substantially exceed the program’s costs in the village clusters initially included in the program. The CGP produces 42.11 million Lesotho loti (LSL) in discounted benefits over a ten-year period, compared to a total discounted program cost of 22.38 million LSL.
Learning about Integrated Soil Fertility Practices: Evidence from a RCT in Malawi
Creators: name: Maertens, Annemie
name: Michelson, Hope
name: Maertens, Annemie
name: Michelson, Hope
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Agricultural technology adoption
subject: ISFM
subject: learning
subject: demonstration plots
subject: farmer field days

description: We combine panel survey data with a randomized controlled trial conducted among 250 villages in Malawi to test the effectiveness of a standard agricultural extension service. The two main tools of the service are a mid-season farmer field day and farmer club managed demonstration plots. We find that farmers in villages who were invited to attend the farmer field days display an increased knowledge of Integrated Soil Fertility Management Practices and a higher probability of adoption (plans), with the majority of the effects concentrated among non-attendees. However, when combined with in-village demonstration plots, farmers who participate in the demonstration plots display a higher knowledge of what we refer to as “detailed” production knowledge, such as types of inputs, quantity of inputs, and increased likelihood of planning to adopt these.
Femtosecond Time-Bin Entangled Qubits for Quantum Communication
Creators: name: Marcikic, Ivan
name: de Riedmatten, Hugues
name: Tittel, Wolfgang
name: Scarani, Valerio
name: Zbinden, Hugo
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We create pairs of non-degenerate time-bin entangled photons at telecom wavelengths with ultra-short pump pulses. Entanglement is shown by performing Bell kind tests of the Franson type with visibilities of up to 91%. As time-bin entanglement can easily be protected from decoherence as encountered in optical fibers, this experiment opens the road for complex quantum communication protocols over long distances. We also investigate the creation of more than one photon pair in a laser pulse and present a simple tool to quantify the probability of such events to happen.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Anacolia webbii Schimp.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bartramiaceae
Anacolia
Anacolia webbii

description: Anacolia webbii (Mont.) Schimp.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Blidah, aux Deux-Frères; Kabylie; La Mouzaïa. Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Qued-Kebir bei Blidah, 200 m. Trabut (1914): Djurdjura. Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida, 1400 m; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Akfadou; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Azerou Arzela; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tala Ghizan. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 66, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
A Very Sensitive 21cm Survey for Galactic High-Velocity HI
Creators: name: Lockman, Felix J.
name: Murphy, Edward M.
name: Petty-Powell, Sara
name: Urick, Vincent J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very sensitive HI 21cm observations have been made in 860 directions at dec >= -43deg in search of weak, Galactic, high-velocity HI emission lines at moderate and high Galactic latitudes. One-third of the observations were made toward extragalactic objects. The median 4-sigma detection level is NHI = 8x10^{17} cm^-2 over the 21' telescope beam. High-velocity HI emission is detected in 37% of the directions; about half of the lines could not have been seen in previous surveys. The median FWHM of detected lines is 30.3 km/s. High- velocity HI lines are seen down to the sensitivity limit of the survey implying that there are likely lines at still lower values of NHI. The weakest lines have a kinematics and distribution on the sky similar to that of the strong lines, and thus do not appear to be a new population. Most of the emission originates from objects which are extended over several degrees; few appear to be compact sources. At least 75%, and possibly as many as 90%, of the lines are associated with one of the major high-velocity complexes. The Magellanic Stream extends at least 10 deg to higher Galactic latitude than previously thought and is more extended in longitude as well. Although there are many lines with low column density, their numbers do not increase as rapidly as NHI^-1, so most of the HI mass in the high-velocity cloud phenomenon likely resides in the more prominent clouds. The bright HI features may be mere clumps within larger structures, and not independent objects.
description: 88 pages includes 22 figures Accepted for Publication in ApJ Suppl. June 2002
Micromya Rondani 1840
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Micromya

description: 330. Micromya Rondani, 1840b: 21, 23.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Micromya lucorum Rondani, 1840.
 TYPE SPECIES: Micromya lucorum Rondani, 1840, by monotypy.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Gagné (2004: 23)].
FAMILY: CECIDOMYIIDAE.
 EMENDATIONS: Micromyia Oken, 1844: 451 (unjustified), n. syn.
 [Midina] Rondani, 1866a: 108 [1877c: 143].
 CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect subsequent spelling of Medina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830.
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
REMARKS: Criteria for making this name available as an emendation were not found to be fulfilled in this work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 118
Sexual Harassment of Female Workers at Manufacturing Sectors in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Haque, Muhammad Faizul
name: Md. Atiqur Rahman Sarker
name: Md. Syfur Rahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: Women's participation in the national work force is increasing rapidly in Bangladesh. Most of the women are migrated from village to an industrial area for employment, and they are mostly poor and illiterate. The number of female worker in many manufacturing sectors in Bangladesh are comparatively higher than men, and their contribution to GDP is remarkable. However, violence against women at work is an emerging issue globally. Bangladesh is also having the same scenario since it is mainly a dominating male nation. This paper aims to identify the current status and nature of sexual harassment of female workers in Bangladesh. Six In-depth Interviews (IDIs) and four Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) have been conducted among the female workers work in tannery, RMG, and leather footwear manufacturing sectors in Bangladesh. Both IDIs and FGDs are interaction-based, and participants are allowed to do open discussion free from interruption as recommended by Yin (2003). Findings of the study indicate that working women are always in fear of losing their sexual safety and security. Female workers in Bangladesh are not safeguarded by the management in general.
Local and global well-posedness of dispersion generalized Benjamin-Ono equations on the circle
Creators: name: Schippa, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35

description: New local well-posedness results for dispersion generalized Benjamin-Ono equations on the torus are proved. The family of equations under consideration links the Benjamin-Ono and Korteweg-de Vries equation. For sufficiently high dispersion global well-posedness in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$ is derived.
description: 38 pages
The effectiveness of point counts and mist-netting in surveying Afrotemperate forest bird community structure in South Africa
Creators: name: J. M. Mulvaney
name: M. I. Cherry
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Point counts and mist-netting are two frequently employed survey techniques used in assessing forest avian communities, although the reliability of these methods varies according to species composition and habitat. This study investigates how effectively these two methods survey forest bird community structures within South African Afrotemperate forests. Seven forests within the Eastern Cape were surveyed from 140 duplicate point count and 63 mist-netting stations. Both methods were compared for assessing species richness, as determined from bird atlas data. Generalised linear mixed-effect modelling was used to determine functional traits which most impacted species detection, and to identify detection biases for both methods. Both methods compared consistently across the seven forests, which shared similar community structure. Point counts detected 79.2% of the total diversity versus 41.0% using mist-netting, and mixed-effects modelling corroborated that species detection is more effective using point counts. All functional traits tested (body size, primary foraging stratum, feeding guild, habitat specialisation, and dispersal behaviour) affected detection outcome. Point counts better represented all aspects forest bird community structure, including mid- and understorey birds which are presumed to be better detected by mist-netting. Use of mist-netting only slightly enhanced diversity assessments, and combined survey efforts under-represented forest-edge foragers, woodland and grassland habitat generalists (~63.6% total diversity), large birds, Palaearctic migrants, and carnivores.
Ties that Bind: Network Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies
Creators: name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Feri, Francesco
name: Pin, Paolo
name: Vollenweider, Xavier
name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Feri, Francesco
name: Pin, Paolo
name: Vollenweider, Xavier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Ego-network
subject: Field Experiment
subject: Redistributive pressure
subject: Harvest
subject: Tanzania

description: In this paper, we identify the economic implications of the pressure to share resources within a social network. Through a set of field experiments in rural Tanzania we randomly increased the expected harvest of a treatment group by the assignment of an improved and much more productive variety of maize. We find that individuals in this group reduced their interaction with their own network. We also find that treated individuals reduced labor input by asking fewer network members to work on their farm during the growing season and, as a result, obtained fewer harvest gains.
Consumer Preference and Demand for Traceable Food Attributes: A Choice-based Conjoint Analysis
Creators: name: Lu, Jiao
name: Wu, Linhai
name: Wang, Shuxian
name: Xu, Lingling
name: Lu, Jiao
name: Wu, Linhai
name: Wang, Shuxian
name: Xu, Lingling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Traceable Pork
subject: Attributes
subject: Levels
subject: Consumer Preference
subject: Choice-based Conjoint Analysis

description: The China market for traceable food has developed gradually over the past decade. This study surveyed 1380 consumers in seven pilot cities designated by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce for the construction of a meat and vegetable circulation traceability system. A choice-based conjoint analysis and multinomial logit model were used to study consumer preferences and demand for traceable pork attributes. The results demonstrated that certification of traceable information was the most important characteristic, followed by appearance and traceable information. Significant heterogeneity was observed in consumer preferences for the attributes of traceable pork. Consumers’ preferences for traceable attributes were significantly influenced by age, income level, and education level. Based on these results, we suggest that the government should strengthen the promotion of scientific knowledge regarding traceability systems, and encourage and support the production of traceable food with different traceability levels and different certification types. Moreover, the development of food traceability systems should be combined with a labeling system for quality certification.
Curved Domain Walls of Five Dimensional Gauged Supergravity
Creators: name: Chamseddine, A. H.
name: Sabra, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study curved domain wall solutions for gauged supergravity theories obtained by gauging some of the isometries of the manifold spanned by the scalars of vector and hypermultiplets. We first consider the case obtained by compactifying M-theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold in the presence of G-fluxes. It is found that supersymmetry allows for the construction of domain wall configurations with curved worldvolume and a cosmological constant. However it turns out that the equations of motion, if one insists on the supersymmetric ansatz for the scalars and warp factor, rule out solutions with a cosmological constant and allows only for Ricci-flat worldvolumes. Moreover, in the absence of flux, there are non-supersymmetric solutions with worldvolumes given by Einstein manifolds. We also generalize our results to all five dimensional gauged supergravity.
description: Nucl. Phys. version, minor changes
Additional file 6 of Cisplatin resistance-related multi-omics differences and the establishment of machine learning models
Creators: name: Sui, Qihai
name: Chen, Zhencong
name: Hu, Zhengyang
name: Huang, Yiwei
name: Liang, Jiaqi
name: Bi, Guoshu
name: Bian, Yunyi
name: Zhao, Mengnan
name: Zhan, Cheng
name: Lin, Zongwu
name: Wang, Qun
name: Tan, Lijie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Sequences of siRNAs targeting BATF3, IRF5, ZBTB38.
Milesiformis Rondani 1845
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Milesiformis

description: 332. Milesiformis Rondani, 1845a: 454.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Milesiformis fallenii Rondani, 1845.
 TYPE SPECIES: Milesiformis fallenii Rondani, 1845, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Tropidia Meigen, 1822 [teste Peck (1988: 218)].
FAMILY: SYRPHIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 118
Massless Dirac-Fermions in Stable Two-Dimensional Carbon-Arsenic Monolayer
Creators: name: Kamal, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict from DFT based electronic structure calculations that a monolayer made up of Carbon and Arsenic atoms, with a chemical composition (CAs3) forms an energetically and dynamically stable system. The optimized geometry of the monolayer is slightly different from the buckled geometric configuration observed for silicene and germanene. The results of electronic structure calculations predict that it is a semi-metal. Interestingly, the electronic band structure of this material possesses a linear dispersion and a Dirac cone at the Fermi level around the high symmetric K point in the reciprocal lattice. Thus, at low energy excitation (up to 105 meV), the charge carriers in this system behave as massless Dirac-Fermions. Detailed analysis of partial density of state suggests that the 2pz orbital of C atoms plays vital role in determining the nature of the states, which has a linear dispersion and hence the Dirac cone, around the Fermi level. Thus, the electronic properties of CAs3 monolayer are similar to those of graphene and other group IV based monolayers. In addition, we have also investigated the influence of mechanical strain on the properties of CAs3 monolayer. The buckled configuration becomes the planar configuration for a tensile strain beyond 18%. Our results indicate that the monolayer possesses linear dispersion in the electronic band structure for a wide range of mechanical strain from -12 to 20%, though the position of Dirac point may not lie exactly at the Fermi level. The linear dispersion disappears for a compressive strain beyond -12% & it is due to the drastic changes in the geometrical environment around C atom. Finally, we wish to point out that CAs3 monolayer belongs to the class of Dirac materials where the behaviour of particles, at low energy excitations, are characterized by the Dirac-like Hamiltonian rather than the Schrodinger Hamiltonian.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
On Integrability of Many-Body Problems with Point Interactions
Creators: name: Albeverio, S.
name: Fei, S. M.
name: Kurasov, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of the integrability of one-dimensional quantum mechanical many-body systems with general point interactions and boundary conditions describing the interactions which can be independent or dependent on the spin states of the particles is presented. The corresponding Bethe ansatz solutions, bound states and scattering matrices are explicitly given. Hamilton operators corresponding to special spin dependent boundary conditions are discussed.
description: 10 pages
Index-based Costs of Agricultural Production (INCAP) – A new cost and risk analysis tool
Creators: name: Heinschink, Karin
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Tribl, Christoph
name: Heinschink, Karin
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Tribl, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: INCAP
subject: agricultural production costs
subject: economic modelling
subject: risk analysis
subject: Austria

description: Producers of agricultural commodities are exposed to numerous uncertainties regarding output and input prices, crop yields, yield responses to inputs and the like. In agricultural risk analyses, relevant developments or events are usually measured in economic terms resulting in a positive or negative impact on farm incomes. We develop a novel data set: the ‘Index-based Costs of Agricultural Production’ (INCAP) that can be used to quantify risk-related statistics associated with standardised production systems. Activity-specific gross margins and their stochasticity can be measured at an arbitrary level of aggregation. The aims of this article are to present the structure and scope of INCAP and to demonstrate its potential use in agribusiness, farm extension programmes and policy analyses. Wheat production in Austria is presented as an example.
Developing a passive acoustic monitoring technique for Australia’s most numerous seabird, the Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
Creators: name: Brownlie, Katherine C.
name: Monash, Ross
name: Geeson, Johanna J.
name: Fort, Jérôme
name: Bustamante, Paco
name: Arnould, John P.Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Establishing appropriate conservation management objectives and actions for seabirds requires timely detection of changes in their populations. However, obtaining regular accurate measures of seabird population size and trends can be difficult due to logistical and financial constraints in accessing remote breeding sites. The Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) is a wide-ranging, burrow-nesting Procellariiform with an estimated breeding population size of ca 23 million individuals. Despite its ecological significance, there is currently limited monitoring of the species. In the present study, eight acoustic data loggers were deployed across six sites over two breeding seasons to assess the efficacy of acoustic monitoring. Five acoustic indices were used to investigate vocal activity over the breeding season, detect phenology events, and to determine the most accurate period to assess the density of occupied nests. The general pattern over the breeding season was similar for several of the acoustic indices and reflected colony attendance patterns. Linear regressions fitted to the normalised difference soundscape index values and density of occupied nests (burrows·m−2) revealed significant relationships in both the incubation and chick-rearing. The results suggest that passive acoustic monitoring could be used as an effective method to predict nesting density in Short-tailed Shearwater breeding colonies. Used in conjunction with information on the breeding colony area, this could enable regular estimates of colony population size. Such information is crucial for the early detection of population trajectory changes. The method may also be applicable for other burrow- or surface-nesting seabirds for which regular wide-spread monitoring currently proves difficult.
Serial non-participation and ecosystem services providers’ preferences towards incentive-based schemes
Creators: name: Villanueva, Anastasio J.
name: Glenk, Klaus
name: Rodriguez-Entrena, M.
name: Villanueva, Anastasio J.
name: Glenk, Klaus
name: Rodriguez-Entrena, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Protest response
subject: Willingness to accept
subject: Payments for ecosystem services
subject: Agri-environmental schemes
subject: Choice experiment

description: The incidence of serial non-participation and protest responses has largely been ignored in willingness to accept (WTA) applications. This paper analyses serial non-participation with a focus on choice experiment applications using a WTA format to investigate preferences of ecosystem services providers towards incentive-based schemes. The paper addresses two main objectives. First, a review of the literature on WTA for participation in incentive-based schemes is used to identify and discuss a range of possible motives for protest responses that emerge in a WTA context. Second, drawing on choice experiment data on olive farmers’ preferences for agri-environmental scheme participation in Southern Spain, we analyse the impact on WTA estimates of censoring serial non-participation resulting from protest or high compensation requirements (very high takers) from further analysis. Using a random parameter logit model in WTA space, we find that the inclusion or exclusion of serial non-participants in the analysis can have a significant impact on marginal and total WTA estimates. Based on the findings, the paper makes recommendations on how to minimise the incidence of protest responses through survey design, regarding the identification of protesters as opposed to very high takers, and regarding the treatment of both for WTA estimation.
Additional file 3 of Cisplatin resistance-related multi-omics differences and the establishment of machine learning models
Creators: name: Sui, Qihai
name: Chen, Zhencong
name: Hu, Zhengyang
name: Huang, Yiwei
name: Liang, Jiaqi
name: Bi, Guoshu
name: Bian, Yunyi
name: Zhao, Mengnan
name: Zhan, Cheng
name: Lin, Zongwu
name: Wang, Qun
name: Tan, Lijie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. (A) the model established by classification and regression tree (CART). (B) the model established by C4.5 decision tree classification algorithm.
Appraisal of Capital-Intensive Investments Upon Effectiveness to Business Ecosystem
Creators: name: Sartzetaki, Maria F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: The complexity of decision-making for capital intensive investments addressed to a variety of stakeholders with different expectations and to many business and financial risks and uncertainties. There are many cases where decision-makers and governmental authorities do not clearly distinguish between the investment likelihood alternative scenarios and the effectiveness of the investment to the business ecosystem. This especially applies to decisions regarding the implementation of capital-intensive projects where large amounts of capital are reserved, which is a major concern in the planning and business development process. Therefore, the appraisal of the investment effectiveness to business ecosystem into the project lifetime is very critical to support decision-makers. The key objective of the paper is to define and quantify the overall contribution of the capital-intensive project to a business ecosystem during its lifecycle. The paper provides a compact and applicable methodological framework providing quantitative results in terms of the overall income generated into the project life cycle. According to a deterministic approach, the key variables based on the project financial viability and likelihood scenarios are presented. The numerical application deals with the development of a new logistic center in Greece, stimulating new business opportunities by establishing a new freight transportation corridor from Black Sea to Southeast Mediterranean.
A Correlation Between Inclination and Color in the Classical Kuiper Belt
Creators: name: Trujillo, Chadwick A.
name: Brown, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured broadband optical BVR photometry of 24 Classical and Scattered Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), approximately doubling the published sample of colors for these classes of objects. We find a statistically significant correlation between object color and inclination in the Classical Kuiper belt using our data. The color and inclination correlation increases in significance after the inclusion of additional data points culled from all published works. Apparently, this color and inclination correlation has not been more widely reported because the Plutinos show no such correlation, and thus have been a major contaminant in previous samples. The color and inclination correlation excludes simple origins of color diversity, such as the presence of a coloring agent without regard to dynamical effects. Unfortunately, our current knowledge of the Kuiper belt precludes us from understanding whether the color and inclination trend is due to environmental factors, such as collisional resurfacing, or primordial population effects. A perihelion and color correlation is also evident, although this appears to be a spurious correlation induced by sampling bias, as perihelion and inclination are correlated in the observed sample of KBOs.
description: Accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Optimization of Corporate Branding Strategy in Higher Education as the Marketing Sustainability: Study at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional (UPN) "Veteran" Jawa Timur
Creators: name: Siti Ning Farida
name: Azizah, Nurul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: The rise of the phenomenon of state institutions which are required to become independent both financially and management are forced to be competitive with each other, both from domestic and foreign private institutions. It's forcing the institution to improve the competitiveness both in terms of services and achievements to hold its existence in the current of global markets. UPN "Veteran" Jawa Timur is one of the new state institutions, which is expected to be independent in both, financial and management, and they use the brand "bela Negara" as the corporate branding strategy. As a higher education institution have to improve tri dharma services. Corporate branding is a strategy to increase the market value of an organization. The three stages in corporate branding strategy are the goal (vision), culture, and externalization. This research focuses on identifying the vision of how awareness among users. Two independent variables, namely brand association and brand reputation, are taken from the theory of corporate branding strategy. While the brand image variable as a moderator and brand awareness as an independent variable. Samples were taken from 411 UPNVJT students by purposive random sampling. The questionnaire as the instrument research which uses a Likert scale. All item and variable indicators are tested both reflective and formative with the SmartPLS 3 software. From the results of the outer and inner model, it is found that the brand image as a moderator has the most influence on brand awareness. Overall, it shows that it supports the existing hypothesis, and the variable which has the smallest influence on brand awareness is the brand association.
Measuring National Character Toward Developing A Research Method for International Accounting Studies
Creators: name: Mukai, Ichiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: This study measures national character in seven developed countries, based on social capital concept. Evaluating national character in developed countries help cross-country study on accounting system. The measurements of national character use data of the World Values Surveys (WVS) conducted by the World Values Surveys Association. The WVS is a questionnaire survey that uses a random sampling method with multiple precoded selections. Compared to other social capital surveys, this survey makes better measurement of national character because it includes numerous questions in a wide range of fields and focuses on many people in diverse countries. Factor analysis of the WVS data identifies three factors of social capital concept. These three factors are consistent with the components of social capital concept proposed in previous studies. Structural equation model finds the coefficients for measuring national character, and regression analysis measures three indexes of national character of each country. The findings are as follows. Social capital consists of three factors such as social trust, religious social norms, and political networks. The measures of these three factors are the lowest in Japan, followed by France, the United States, Germany, Canada, and Australia, in increasing order. In developed countries, religious social norms measures are negative and low, and the effect of political networks on national character is relatively low. This study implies that differences in national character affect various national institutions and systems. This study has significant implications for both regulators and financial markets.
Empirical Analysis of the Main Factors Influencing Rice Harvest Losses Based on Sampling Survey Data of 10 Provinces in China
Creators: name: Wu, Linhai
name: Hu, Qipeng
name: Zhu, Dian
name: Wang, Jianhua
name: Wu, Linhai
name: Hu, Qipeng
name: Zhu, Dian
name: Wang, Jianhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: rice
subject: harvest losses
subject: ordered multinomial logistic model
subject: marginal effect

description: Grain security should be a priority for the Chinese government when managing state affairs. The total rice production needs to remain stable at more than 200 million tons. However, there have been serious rice harvest losses, especially the harvest stage. In this study, the meaning of rice harvest losses was defined based on previous research findings on the definition of grain harvest losses and the realities in China. The current rice harvest losses in different areas in China were analyzed based on sampling survey data from 957 farmers in 10 provinces in China. On this basis, the main factors influencing rice harvest losses and their marginal effects were analyzed using the ordered multinomial logistic model. The survey found that 56.22% of respondents believed that rice harvest losses were 4% or lower in China, though there were differences among the province. The proportion of family rice-farming income, size of production area, level of mechanization, timely harvest, and operational meticulousness had negative effects on rice harvest losses. On the other hand, farmers' experience of employment as migrant workers had a positive effect on rice harvest losses. In addition, bad weather and short handedness during harvest significantly increased rice harvest losses.
Mimegralla Rondani 1850
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Micropezidae
Mimegralla

description: 333. Mimegralla Rondani, 1850c: 180.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Calobata caeruleifrons Macquart, 1843.
 TYPE SPECIES: Calobata caeruleifrons Macquart, 1843, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Evenhuis (1989a: 465)].
FAMILY: MICROPEZIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 119
Relativistic Three-Quark Bound States in Separable Two-Quark Approximation
Creators: name: Oettel, M.
name: von Smekal, L.
name: Alkofer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryons as relativistic bound states in 3-quark correlations are described by an effective Bethe-Salpeter equation when irreducible 3-quark interactions are neglected and separable 2-quark correlations are assumed. We present an efficient numerical method to calculate the nucleon mass and its covariant wave function in this quantum field theoretic quark-diquark model with quark-exchange interaction. Expanding the components of the spinorial wave function in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, the four-dimensional integral equations are in a first step reduced to a coupled set of one-dimensional ones. This set of linear and homogeneous equations defines a generalised eigenvalue problem. Representing the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue, the Chebyshev moments are then obtained by iteration. The nucleon mass is implicitly determined by the eigenvalue, and its covariant wave function is reconstructed from the moments within the Chebyshev approximation.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Computer Physics Communications
What Drives Inclusive Growth? Evidence from Georgia
Creators: name: Amuka, Joseph I.
name: Asogwa, Fredrick O.
name: Chukwudi F. Ezeudeka
name: Ugwuanyi, Romanus O.
name: Tochukwu Onyechi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: Inclusive growth is the current debate in development economics because it is seen as central to sustainable economic growth and development. Georgia is one country where growth seems to have been inclusive among the emerging economies. This stimulated a research interest. The paper used growth model and dynamic ordinary least squares method to analyse the Determinants of Inclusive Growth, using Georgia data generated from World Bank Development Indicators between 1996 and 2016. Result shows that growths in industrial and service sectors were significantly responsible for rise in the income share of the poorest and richest income group in Georgia.
Integrating Deep Learning with Fundus and Optical Coherence Tomography for Cardiovascular Disease Prediction
Creators: name: Maldonado-Garcia, Cynthia
name: Zakeri, Arezoo
name: Frangi, Alejandro F
name: Ravikumar, Nishant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Early identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is crucial for effective preventive care, reducing healthcare burden, and improving patients' quality of life. This study demonstrates the potential of retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging combined with fundus photographs for identifying future adverse cardiac events. We used data from 977 patients who experienced CVD within a 5-year interval post-image acquisition, alongside 1,877 control participants without CVD, totaling 2,854 subjects. We propose a novel binary classification network based on a Multi-channel Variational Autoencoder (MCVAE), which learns a latent embedding of patients' fundus and OCT images to classify individuals into two groups: those likely to develop CVD in the future and those who are not. Our model, trained on both imaging modalities, achieved promising results (AUROC 0.78 +/- 0.02, accuracy 0.68 +/- 0.002, precision 0.74 +/- 0.02, sensitivity 0.73 +/- 0.02, and specificity 0.68 +/- 0.01), demonstrating its efficacy in identifying patients at risk of future CVD events based on their retinal images. This study highlights the potential of retinal OCT imaging and fundus photographs as cost-effective, non-invasive alternatives for predicting cardiovascular disease risk. The widespread availability of these imaging techniques in optometry practices and hospitals further enhances their potential for large-scale CVD risk screening. Our findings contribute to the development of standardized, accessible methods for early CVD risk identification, potentially improving preventive care strategies and patient outcomes.
description: Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 15155))
Genetic distinctiveness of Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) on Bedout Island, Western Australia
Creators: name: Mahalia R. Kingsley
name: Lavers, Jennifer L.
name: Steeves, Tammy E.
name: Burridge, Christopher P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology

description: The Masked Booby is a highly vagile, pantropical seabird of which up to six subspecies have been recognised: S. d. dactylatra, S. d. californica, S. d. personata, S. d. melanops, S. d. bedouti and S. d. tasmani. The genetic distinction of several S. dactylatra colonies has been previously investigated, but this has not yet been conducted for the Bedout Island population in Western Australia, which has been considered by some to be part of a distinct subspecies. Suspected population decline on Bedout Island has renewed interest in determining the extent to which genetic novelty might be threatened. To answer this question, morphological and mitochondrial control region sequence variation were used to determine the distinction of the Bedout Island population. Whereas the morphological measures were equivocal, six haplotypes were identified from 31 individuals, none of which were shared by individuals previously sampled from the Indo-Pacific. The Bedout Island haplotypes were most closely related to other haplotypes found in a distinct Indian Ocean haplogroup, but haplotype frequencies at Bedout Island differed significantly from all other. This indicates that the Bedout Island population rarely exchanges mitochondrial genes with any of the other Masked Booby colonies presently studied, which may reflect dependence on local recruitment for its persistence.