cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Value Addition on Price: A Hedonic Analysis of Peanut in Retail Supermarkets in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: Ochieng', Otieno Geoffrey
name: Ochieng', Otieno Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Financial Economics

description: Market liberalization, globalization, and changing consumer behaviour are causing transformation in Kenyan agro-food value chains. Production, marketing and consumption are moving towards high-valued products resulting to diversification in the agricultural food production portfolio. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effects of value addition on product price in reducing the declining per capita expenditure as well as reduced competitiveness of peanut and its products sold in the supermarkets of Nairobi. The objectives were, to characterize peanut value addition levels, establish whether the level of value addition affects prices, and determine if there are price differentials due to supermarket location, division as well as across the types of the supermarkets in addition to establishing factors that influence price differentials in Nairobi. The eight administrative divisions of Nairobi were stratified to give a sample of 100, who were randomly selected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze and describe the nature of the supermarkets, while one way ANOVA, least square difference (LSD), Tukey post hoc tests and hedonic model were used in the analysis. Results show that there were eight different levels of value addition for peanuts, and prices differed significantly across the levels of value addition. product packaging, brand and product weight significantly influenced peanut product prices. Therefore, the study suggests policy interventions’ to stimulate production of value added products, establishment of a national market education program in addition to strengthening agricultural research extension services.
The Growth of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Intracluster Light Over the Past Ten Billion Years
Creators: name: DeMaio, Tahlia
name: Gonzalez, Anthony H.
name: Zabludoff, Ann
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Aldering, Greg
name: Brodwin, Mark
name: Connor, Thomas
name: Donahue, Megan
name: Hayden, Brian
name: Mulchaey, John S.
name: Perlmutter, Saul
name: Stanford, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We constrain the evolution of the brightest cluster galaxy plus intracluster light (BCG+ICL) using an ensemble of 42 galaxy groups and clusters that span redshifts of z = 0.05-1.75 and masses of $M_{500,c}=2\times10^{13}-10^{15}$ M$_\odot$ Specifically, we measure the relationship between the BCG+ICL stellar mass $M_\star$ and $M_{500,c}$ at projected radii 10 < r < 100 kpc for three different epochs. At intermediate redshift (z = 0.40), where we have the best data, we find $M_\star\propto M_{500,c}^{0.48\pm0.06}$. Fixing the exponent of this power law for all redshifts, we constrain the normalization of this relation to be $2.08\pm0.21$ times higher at z = 0.40 than at high redshift (z = 1.55). We find no change in the relation from intermediate to low redshift (z = 0.10). In other words, for fixed $M_{500,c}$, $M_\star$ at 10 < r < 100 kpc increases from z = 1.55 to z = 0.40 and not significantly thereafter. Theoretical models predict that the physical mass growth of the cluster from z = 1.5 to z = 0 within $r_{500,c}$ is a factor of 1.4, excluding evolution due to definition of $r_{500,c}$. We find that $M_\star$ within the central 100 kpc increases by a factor of 3.8 over the same period. Thus, the growth of $M_\star$ in this central region is more than a factor of two greater than the physical mass growth of the cluster as a whole. Furthermore, the concentration of the BCG+ICL stellar mass, defined by the ratio of stellar mass within 10 kpc to the total stellar mass within 100 kpc, decreases with increasing $M_{500,c}$ at all redshift. We interpret this result as evidence for inside-out growth of the BCG+ICL over the past ten Gyrs, with stellar mass assembly occuring at larger radii at later times.
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 9 pages, 6 figures
Shapes of tree representations of spin-glass landscapes
Creators: name: Hordijk, Wim
name: Fontanari, Jose F.
name: Stadler, Peter F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Much of the information about the multi-valley structure of disordered spin systems can be convened in a simple tree structure -- a barrier tree -- the leaves and internal nodes of which represent, respectively, the local minima and the lowest energy saddles connecting those minima. Here we apply several statistics used in the study of phylogenetic trees to barrier trees that result from the energy landscapes of p-spin models. These statistics give information about the shape of these barrier trees, in particular about balance and symmetry. We then ask if they can be used to classify different types of landscapes, compare them with results obtained from random trees, and investigate the structure of subtrees of the barrier trees. We conclude that at least one of the used statistics is capable of distinguishing different types of landscapes, that the barrier trees from p-spin energy landscapes are quite different from random trees, and that subtrees of barrier trees do not reflect the overall tree structure, but their structure is correlated with their ``depth'' in the tree.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Analysis of Small-Scale Dairy Farmers' Perceptions of Alternative Fodder Grasses Contingent on Napier Stunt Disease in Bungoma District, Kenya
Creators: name: Taruss, Ruth Chepchirchir
name: Taruss, Ruth Chepchirchir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Smallholder dairy sector in Western Kenya plays an important role in the livelihoods of many farm households by generating income and employment. Napier grass is the principal source of livestock feed in the region; as well as being an integral grass in the push-pull technology (PPT). Despite this fact, Napier stunt disease (NSD) has become a serious threat to the growth of Napier grass and consequently to the livestock industry. This thesis focused on farmers‟ perceptions on alternative fodder grasses to Napier grass and sought to provide a better understanding of the alternative grasses available for adoption due to the threat to fodder availability by NSD. The objective of this study was thus to determine the extent of Napier stunt disease infestation in small-scale dairy farming and to find out alternative fodder grasses small scale dairy farmers would prefer if Napier grass is affected by NSD. The study was conducted in Bungoma District (now county), Western province, Kenya. Primary data were collected from 140 small-scale dairy farmers. Descriptive statistics and multinomial logit model were employed to generate the results using STATA and SPSS application software. Results revealed that, Napier grass is the main source of fodder by the majority (98.6%) of the farmers and that the cultivation and expansion of the fodder crop has been severely threatened by NSD. Most (97.9%) of the interviewed farmers recognized and experienced the damage caused by this disease. At least a portion of each respondent‟s land had been affected ranging from 0.01 acres to 2.0 acres. The reported effects of NSD on dairy enterprise included: reduction in milk production, reduction of breeding stock and increased costs of production. Results further confirmed that, a majority (68.6%) of the respondents showed willingness to replace Napier grass with alternative fodder grasses. The alternatives in order of priority included: Natural grass; signal grass; Giant seteria; Sudan grass; and Molasses grass. Results obtained from multinomial logit model revealed that, some of the farm and farmer characteristics, institutional characteristics, and grass attributes were important determinants of farmers‟ perceptions on alternative grasses used in smallholder dairy farming. Consequently, it is essential that when screening alternative fodder grasses, emphasis should be placed on attributes that conform to farmers‟ preferences and that farmers should be involved in evaluation of fodder grasses to find their suitability to the farmers‟ circumstances. It is also recommended that on farm trials/ demonstrations to test grass attributes suggested as important in decision making on preference of alternative grasses should be validated.
Evaluation of Factors Influencing Value Addition by Butchery Agribusinesses in Igembe North District, Kenya
Creators: name: Ngore, Patrick Muthee
name: Ngore, Patrick Muthee
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Igembe north is categorized as a semi arid agricultural district, with high unemployment, low incomes and dense population. Agriculture is dogged with uncertainty due to turbulent input and output prices, weather dependency and non linear relationship between inputs and outputs; hence financiers have considered the sector as unbankable. Agribusiness has emerged as a feasible way to channel credit to agriculture because it is less susceptible to the foresaid risks than farming. Value addition has the ability to create employment, absorb excess labour from agriculture, enable rural residents to capture more margins from agriculture, hence raising rural income levels. Despite the existence of microfinance and promotion of value addition, there is limited value addition and hence producers in the area receive less return from agriculture. Despite the benefits associated with value addition, what hinders butcheries in Igembe north district from adding value to their products is not known. This study established whether and why butcheries in the district add value to their products, characterized and described the systems of value addition among butchery agribusinesses, determined the socio-economic factors influencing value addition by butchery agribusinesses, and determined the influence of access to credit on value addition by butcheries in the district. A census survey of the butchery operators was done. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive methods, probit and ordered logit models. These models were achieved through STATA and SPSS statistical packages. The results revealed that value addition was significantly influenced by age, show coefficients and level of significance you are alluding to so that the results are verifiable and quantifiable credit use, education and household size. There is need to review and strengthen policies that will improve access to and use of credit and educate the society on the importance of agribusiness as a tool for poverty reduction, employment creation and economic development.
The Luminosity Function of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Hoyle, Fiona
name: Rojas, Randall R.
name: Vogeley, Michael S.
name: Brinkmann, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) The Sloan Digital Sky Survey now extends over a large enough region that galaxies in low density environments can be detected. Rojas et al. have developed a technique to extract more than 1000 void galaxies with delta rho/rho < -0.6 on scales r>7 h^{-1} Mpc from the SDSS. In this paper, we present the luminosity function of these galaxies and compare it to that of galaxies at higher densities. We obtain a measurement of the void galaxy luminosity function over the range -21.55A wall galaxies is very similar in shape to that of the void galaxies, with only slightly brighter M_r* values and similar values of alpha. The value of alpha ~ -1.2 found from the void galaxy LF is shallower that that found from CDM models, suggesting that voids are not filled with a large population of dwarf galaxies.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Applications of Lie systems in Quantum Mechanics and Control Theory
Creators: name: Cariñena, José F.
name: Ramos, Arturo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 34A26; Secondary 81Q70, 93B29

description: Some simple examples from quantum physics and control theory are used to illustrate the application of the theory of Lie systems. We will show, in particular, that for certain physical models both of the corresponding classical and quantum problems can be treated in a similar way, may be up to the replacement of the involved Lie group by a central extension of it. The geometric techniques developed for dealing with Lie systems are also used in problems of control theory. Specifically, we will study some examples of control systems on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces.
description: LaTeX, 28 pages
Determinants of Common Bean Productivity and Efficiency: A Case of Smallholder Farmers in Eastern Uganda
Creators: name: Sibiko, Kenneth Waluse
name: Sibiko, Kenneth Waluse
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management

description: Agriculture sustains the livelihoods of about 70.8% of Ugandans, while common bean has emerged to be an important cash crop as well as a staple food for the majority of farmers and consumers. Although Uganda’s bean output has more than doubled, average bean yields in the country have been between 0.6 and 0.8 Mt Ha-1, even though yields higher than 1.5 Mt Ha-1 can be realized with improved varieties. Thusthe objective of this study was to determine the factors influencing common beanproductivityand efficiency among smallholder farmers in Eastern Uganda.The study was conducted in Busia, Mbale, Budaka and Tororo districts in Eastern Uganda based on a sample of 280 householdsselected using a multi-stage sampling technique. For the data collection, a personally administered structured questionnaire was used to conduct interviews, with a focus on household heads. In the analyses, descriptive statistics, a stochastic frontier modeland a two-limit Tobit regression model were employed. It was established that bean productivity was positively influenced by plot size, ordinary seeds, certified seeds and planting fertilizers. The mean technical efficiency among bean farms was 48.2%, mean economic efficiency was 59.94% and mean allocative efficiency was 29.37%. Finally, Tobit model estimation revealed that technical efficiency was positively influenced by value of assets at 1% level and extension service and group membership at 5% level; while age and distance to the factor market negatively influenced technical efficiency at 10% and 5% levels respectively. Economic efficiency was positively influenced by value of assets at 1% level and off-farm income and credit at 5% level. However, farmers’ primary occupation negativelyinfluenced economic efficiency at 5% level. Allocative efficiency was positively influenced by value of assets at 1% level and farm size and off-farm income at 10% level; while distance to the factor market negatively influenced allocative efficiency at 5% level.Hence the study recommended on the need for increased provision of extension service and training on correct input application and improved farming technologies to increase bean productivity. It also suggested on the need for policy to discourage land fragmentation, develop road and market infrastructure in rural areas and provide affordable and easily available credit facilities to improve production efficiency of bean farms.
MOESM2 of Construction and characterization of a high-quality cDNA library of Cymbidium faberi suitable for yeast one- and two-hybrid assays
Creators: name: Yanqin Xu
name: Junjiang Zhou
name: Qingqing Liu
name: Kunpeng Li
name: Zhou, Yin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. The sequencing and blast results of the 20 selected positive colonies in library screening.
Discovery of Soft Spectral Component and Transient 22.7s Quasi Periodic Oscillations of SAX J2103.5+4545
Creators: name: Inam, S. C.
name: Baykal, A.
name: Swank, J.
name: Stark, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: XMM-Newton observed SAX J2103.5+4545 on January 6, 2003, while RXTE was monitoring the source. Using RXTE-PCA dataset between December 3, 2002 and January 29, 2003, the spin period and average spin-up rate during the XMM-Newton observations were found to be $354.7940\pm0.0008$ s and $(7.4\pm0.9)\times10^{-13}$Hz s$^{-1}$ respectively. In the power spectrum of the 0.9-11 keV EPIC-PN lightcurve, we found quasi periodic oscillations around 0.044 Hz (22.7 s) with an rms fractional amplitude $\sim $6.6 %. We interpreted this QPO feature as the Keplerian motion of inhomogenuities through the inner disk. In the X-ray spectrum, in addition to the power law component with high energy cutoff and $\sim6.4$ keV fluorescent iron emission line (Baykal et al., 2002), we discovered a soft component consistent with a blackbody emission with ${\rm{kT}}\sim1.9$keV. The pulse phase spectroscopy of the source revealed that the blackbody flux peaked at the peak of the pulse with an emission radius $\sim 0.3$ km, suggesting the polar cap on the neutron star surface as the source of blackbody emission. The flux of the iron emission line at $\sim 6.42$ keV was shown to peak at the off-pulse phase, supporting the idea that this feature arises from fluorescent emission of the circumstellar material around the neutron star rather than the hot region in the vicinity of the neutron star polar cap.
description: 16 pages 4 figures. Major revisions present. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Goals and Online Retail Success: The Small Business Perspective
Creators: name: Smith, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: Goal setting theory holds that the act of strategic planning itself contributes to perceived success by identifying goals for the new strategy. Strategic planning activity and performance indicators may affect the perceived success of online strategy in small business. The study uses a survey of 179 small business retailers to find out the performance signals that most influence perceived success of an online retail strategy. The research finds that use of formal goal setting is significantly related to perceived success. The research also finds that perceived success is driven by perceived increases in customer numbers and improvements to customer service.
title: The Approach to Managing Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility in Manufacturing
Creators: name: Myroshnychenko, Iuliia
name: Makarenko, Inna
name: Smolennikov, Denys
name: Buriak, Anna
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: The paper is dedicated to the analysis of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) in the manufacturing companies. The methods of nonparametric statistics (Fechner coefficient and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient) and SWOT-analysis are applied. A sample comprising 63 Ukrainian manufacturing companies is analyzed. As a result of the research, which embodies direct and significant relationship between managed CSER activities by manufacturing Ukrainian companies, the transparency and accountability and their revenue from sales are presented in this paper, too. Direct relationship between CSER activities, transparency and accountability and their net profit (loss) is examined, as well. Additionally, the key peculiarities of manufacturing sector in Ukraine and barriers of CSER implementation and integration are investigated in the paper. Keywords – corporate social and environmental responsibility, manufacturing economic activity, stakeholders, sustainable development, financial performance.
Understanding Social Networks using Transfer Learning
Creators: name: Sun, Jun
name: Staab, Steffen
name: Kunegis, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A detailed understanding of users contributes to the understanding of the Web's evolution, and to the development of Web applications. Although for new Web platforms such a study is especially important, it is often jeopardized by the lack of knowledge about novel phenomena due to the sparsity of data. Akin to human transfer of experiences from one domain to the next, transfer learning as a subfield of machine learning adapts knowledge acquired in one domain to a new domain. We systematically investigate how the concept of transfer learning may be applied to the study of users on newly created (emerging) Web platforms, and propose our transfer learning-based approach, TraNet. We show two use cases where TraNet is applied to tasks involving the identification of user trust and roles on different Web platforms. We compare the performance of TraNet with other approaches and find that our approach can best transfer knowledge on users across platforms in the given tasks.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, IEEE Computer. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1611.02941
title: Predicting Nonconsensual Sexual Experience Acknowledgement: Exploring the Roles of Gender Identity, Sexual Aggression Myths, and Psychological Inflexibility
Creators: name: Criddle, Jessica Marie
name: Malvini, Wesley
name: Sandoz, Emily
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Other Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: acceptance and commitment therapy
subject: behavior analysis
subject: contextual behavioral science
subject: modern myths about sexual aggression
subject: nonconsensual sexual experiences
subject: psychological flexibility
subject: psychological inflexibility
subject: rape
subject: rape acknowledgment
subject: rape myth
subject: rape myth acceptance
subject: sexual assault
subject: sexual assault acknowledgment
subject: sexual victimization
subject: sexual violence
subject: sexual violence acknowledgment
subject: victimization

description: Nonconsensual sexual experiences (NSEs) can take many forms, including rape and sexual assault. NSE acknowledgment has been linked to several positive and negative outcomes. A person’s ability to acknowledge their NSEs may be in part due to the extent they accept myths about sexual aggression (AMASA). However, AMASA does not fully account for NSE acknowledgement , which necessitates research on possible moderators. Further, other individual differences, such as gender identity, may play a role in both AMASA and acknowledgement. The primary aim of this study was to examine psychological flexibility (PF) and inflexibility (PI) as potential moderators of the relationship between NSE acknowledgment and AMASA. AMASA and gender identity both had significant, positive associations with acknowledgment. Furthermore, there was a significant, negative relationship between acknowledgement and PI. The current study provides data on two psychological constructs that may serve as target areas for developing interventions to support people with NSE histories, as well as furthering our understanding about acknowledgment across gender identities.
A grey-box approach to benchmarking and performance modelling of data-intensive applications
Creators: name: Ceesay, Sheriffo
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2021
Subjects: Benchmarking
Performance modelling
MapReduce
Big data
Data-intensive
Communication patterns

description: The advent of big data about a decade ago, coupled with its processing and storage challenges gave rise to the development of a multitude of data-intensive frameworks. These distributed parallel processing frameworks can be used to process petabytes of data stored in a cluster of computing nodes. Companies and organisations can now process massive amounts of data to drive innovation and gain a competitive advantage. However, these new paradigms have resulted in several research challenges due to their inherent difference from the more mature traditional data processing and storage systems. Firstly, they are comparatively more modern, supporting the execution of a wide variety of new data-intensive workloads with varying performance requirements. Therefore, there is a clear need to study and standardise ways to benchmark and compare them to identify and improve performance bottlenecks. Secondly, they are highly configurable; enabling users the freedom to tune the execution environment based on the application's performance requirements. However, this freedom and the ubiquity of the configuration parameters present an additional challenge by shifting the tuning and optimisation responsibilities of these numerous configuration parameters to the users. To address the above broad challenges, in this research, we enabled a grey-box benchmarking and performance modelling framework focusing on two of the most common communication patterns for data-intensive applications. The use of communication patterns allowed us to classify and study varying but related data-intensive workloads using the same sets of requirements. Furthermore, we enabled a multi-objective performance prediction framework that can be used to answer various performance-related questions such as the time it takes to execute an application, the best configuration parameters to satisfy constraints such as deadline, and recommendation of optimal cloud instances to minimise monetary cost. To gauge the generality of this work, we have validated the results on two internal clusters, and the results are consistent across both setups. We have also provided a REST API and web implementation for validation. The primary take way result is that the research showcase a comprehensive approach that can be used to benchmarking and modelling the performance of data-intensive applications.
MOESM1 of Construction and characterization of a high-quality cDNA library of Cymbidium faberi suitable for yeast one- and two-hybrid assays
Creators: name: Yanqin Xu
name: Junjiang Zhou
name: Qingqing Liu
name: Kunpeng Li
name: Zhou, Yin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. The sequencing and blast results of the randomly selected eight colonies in library construction.
Finite-Energy Landau Liquid Theory for the 1D Hubbard Model: Pseudoparticle Energy Bands and Degree of Localization/Delocalization
Creators: name: Carmelo, J. M. P.
name: Sacramento, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is part of a broader study whose main goal is the study of the finite-energy spectral properties of the non-perturbative one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model and the evaluation of finite-energy correlation-function expressions. Here we study the deviations from the ground state values of double occupancy which result from creation or annihilation of holons, spinons, and pseudoparticles. The band-momentum dependence of the obtained double-occupancy spectra provides important information on the degree of localization/delocalization of the real-space lattice electron site distribution configurations associated with the pseudoparticles. We also study the band-momentum, on-site electronic repulsion, and electronic density dependence of the pseudoparticle energy bands. The shape of these bands plays an important role in the finite-energy spectral properties of the model. Such a shape defines the form of the lines in the momentum-energy/frequency plane where the peaks and edges of the one-electron and two-electron spectral weight of physical operators are located. Our findings are useful for the study of the one-electron and two-electron spectral weight distribution of physical operators.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
MOESM2 of Implementation of human factors engineering approach to improve environmental cleaning and disinfection in a medical center
Creators: name: I-Chen Hung
name: Chang, Hao-Yuan
name: Aristine Cheng
name: Chen, Mei-Wen
name: Chen, An-Chi
name: Ting, Ling
name: Yeur-Hur Lai
name: Jann-Tay Wang
name: Yee-Chun Chen
name: Wang-Huei Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. The checklist-form reminder of environmental cleaning.
Information geometry of scaling expansions of non-exponentially growing configuration spaces
Creators: name: Korbel, Jan
name: Hanel, Rudolf
name: Thurner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many stochastic complex systems are characterized by the fact that their configuration space doesn't grow exponentially as a function of the degrees of freedom. The use of scaling expansions is a natural way to measure the asymptotic growth of the configuration space volume in terms of the scaling exponents of the system. These scaling exponents can, in turn, be used to define universality classes that uniquely determine the statistics of a system. Every system belongs to one of these classes. Here we derive the information geometry of scaling expansions of sample spaces. In particular, we present the deformed logarithms and the metric in a systematic and coherent way. We observe a phase transition for the curvature. The phase transition can be well measured by the characteristic length r, corresponding to a ball with radius 2r having the same curvature as the statistical manifold. Increasing characteristic length with respect to the size of the system is associated with sub-exponential sample space growth is associated with strongly constrained and correlated complex systems. Decreasing of the characteristic length corresponds to super-exponential sample space growth that occurs for example in systems that develop structure as they evolve. Constant curvature means exponential sample space growth that is associated with multinomial statistics, and traditional Boltzmann-Gibbs, or Shannon statistics applies. This allows us to characterize transitions between statistical manifolds corresponding to different families of probability distributions.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, 3 appendices
Additional file 1 of A stemness-based eleven-gene signature correlates with the clinical outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Hong, Liang
name: Zhou, Yu
name: Xie, Xiangbang
name: Wu, Wanrui
name: Shi, Changsheng
name: Lin, Heping
name: Shi, Zhenjing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Distribution of clinicopathological parameters in the four subtypes. Supplementary Figure 2. (A-D) Volcano map of differentially expressed genes (DEG) between each subtype and the other subtypes; (E-F) The Venn diagrams of the overlapping genes among the DEGs in each molecular subtype. Supplementary Figure 3. Distribution of clinicopathological parameters including vascular invasion (A) and tumor differentiation (B) between the high-risk and low-risk groups. Supplementary Figure 4. ssGSEA result according to the risk-score of HCC samples in each dataset, enrichment pathways that were significantly correlated in the low-risk groups (FDR < 0.05). Supplementary Table 1. Pathways related to cancer stem cells in Reactome and GO databases. Supplementary Table S2. List of SRGs correlated with the overall survival of patients with HCC. Supplementary Table S3. Protein-protein interaction pairs with a score higher than 0.7. Supplementary Figure S4. Hub genes identified by the Degree, Closeness and Betweenness. Supplementary Table S4. Betweenness in the PPI network. Supplementary Figure S5. Genes with high degree, closeness, and betweenness scores. Supplementary Table S6. Pathways identified in the TCGA HCC cohort. Supplementary Table S7. Pathways identified in the ICGC HCC cohort. Supplementary Table S8. Pathways identified in the GSE15654 cohort.
China’s agriculture, smallholders and trade: driven by the livestock revolution?
Creators: name: Rae, Allan N.
name: Rae, Allan N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: China
subject: livestock
subject: trade
subject: domestic markets

description: China’s sustained rapid economic growth and development has contributed to the surge in consumption and production of livestock in that country termed the livestock revolution. Consumption trends are first reviewed, and changes in food consumption patterns include a marked shift away from grains and towards meats and dairy products. A question is to what extent this rapid increase in demand for livestock products is reflected in China’s agri-food trade statistics? While her agri-food imports have dramatically increased since China’s accession to the WTO, livestock products have not made a noticeable contribution, although the import of certain animal feedstuffs has. This implies China’s continuing self-sufficiency in most livestock products. The paper next considers developments in China’s livestock farming sector and policies that have been contributing to these supply-side developments. The paper concludes with an examina-tion of issues that may be important to the future development of China’s, and the world’s, livestock situation; this includes future demand developments, and the question of whether future demand growth in China might be met with local production, imports of final product, and/or imports of feedstuffs.
title: Emotion Regulation Variability and Relationship Functioning in Emerging Adulthood
Creators: name: Kenneally, Laura B.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic factor that functions as a crucial contributor to individual well-being and social functioning. Research seeking to identify adaptive or maladaptive strategies of emotion regulation has often focused on individual strategies, though emerging evidence suggests that what constitutes “adaptive” regulation is often context-dependent. Having a large repertoire of emotion regulation strategies that one is willing to use at different rates has been termed “emotion regulation variability,” and has been linked to positive individual outcomes. While the benefits of emotion regulation variability have been demonstrated on an individual level, the impact on romantic relationships has yet to be explored. Thus, the present study sought to examine patterns of emotion regulation strategy use to see if some patterns better represent adaptive emotion regulation in the context of a romantic relationship.

Participants (n = 247) were emerging adult college students (Mage = 20.30 years; 84.6 % women; 34.4% African American, 47% Caucasian) in romantic partnerships who completed questionnaires on emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, relationship functioning and emotional awareness. Latent profile analysis was conducted to characterize possible latent profiles of emotion regulation strategy. Results suggested a four-profile solution: 1) low-regulation, 2) relax, engage, and reappraise 3) suppression-propense, and 4) high-regulation. There were significant differences across latent profiles on depression and anxiety, and this relationship was moderated by emotional awareness. Similarly, for relationship functioning, there was a marginal interaction between latent profile and emotional awareness. For three of the profiles (low-regulation, engage, reappraise and relax, high-regulation) there was a negative association between emotional awareness and each outcome variable, whereas the suppression-propense profile evidenced a positive relationship between emotional awareness and each outcome variable. Thus, beneficial emotion regulation tactics may be contingent on emotional awareness, and findings are discussed within each level. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Chaotic behavior of micro quasar GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black hole binaries are variable in timescales of rang from months to milli-seconds. The origin of this variability is still not clear, it could be due to the variation of external parameters, like mass accretion rate, instabilities in the inner regions of the accretion flow etc. Important constraints on these possibilities can be obtained from the study of the non-linear behavior of fluctuations. We present a modified non-linear time series analysis technique which optimizes the use of the available data and computes the correlation dimension in a non-subjective manner. We apply this technique to the X-ray light-curve of the black hole system, GRS 1915+105, to show conclusively that at least for four of its twelve temporal classes, the underlying mechanism is a low order chaotic one.
description: 4 pages including 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "X-Ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Boston, Nov 3-5, 2003", ed. P. Kaaret, F. K. Lamb, & J. H. Swank (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics); on the basis of talk presented
Simulation of the loss-cone instability in spherical systems. I. Dominating harmonic potential
Creators: name: Polyachenko, E. V.
name: Berczik, P.
name: Just, A.
name: Shukhman, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new so-called `gravitational loss-cone instability' in stellar systems has recently been investigated theoretically in the framework of linear perturbation theory and proved to be potentially important in understanding the physical processes in centres of galaxies, star clusters, and the Oort comet cloud. Using N-body simulations of a toy model, we confirm previous findings for the harmonic dominating potential and go beyond the linear theory. Unlike the well-known instabilities, the new one shows no notable change in the spherical geometry of the cluster, but it significantly accelerates the speed of diffusion of particles in phase space leading to an early instability saturation.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS accepted
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Japan: consumers’ food safety perceptions and willingness to pay for tested beef
Creators: name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Grimsrud, Kristine M.
name: Ouchi, Hiromi
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Grimsrud, Kristine M.
name: Ouchi, Hiromi
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: beef
subject: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
subject: Japan

description: The discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as ‘mad cow disease’, in Japan caused anxiety about consuming beef and beef products. As a result, there was a sudden fall in sales of beef that hurt the Japanese beef industry as well as major beef exporters to Japan. We analyse factors that affect Japanese consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) price premiums for BSE-tested beef and estimate the mean WTP for BSE-tested beef using data obtained from a consumer survey in Japan. A single-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation model is used to recover the premium amount. We find that attitudes to food safety, reduction in beef consumption following the BSE outbreak, and being female all have a statistically significant positive effect on the WTP for BSE-tested beef. Interestingly, demographic variables such as age and income do not affect the WTP, possibly indicating that the BSE scare similarly affected multiple segments of the population. In our sample, consumers are willing to pay a premium on average of greater than 50 per cent for BSE-tested beef.
Length-scales of interfacial coupling between metal-insulator phases in oxides
Creators: name: Domínguez, Claribel
name: Georgescu, Alexandru B.
name: Mundet, Bernat
name: Zhang, Yajun
name: Fowlie, Jennifer
name: Mercy, Alain
name: Catalano, Sara
name: Alexander, Duncan T. L.
name: Ghosez, Philippe
name: Georges, Antoine
name: Millis, Andrew J.
name: Gibert, Marta
name: Triscone, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling phase transitions in transition metal oxides remains a central feature of both technological and fundamental scientific relevance. A well-known example is the metal-insulator transition which has been shown to be highly controllable while a less well understood aspect of this phenomenon is the length scale over which the phases can be established. To gain further insight into this issue, we have atomically engineered an artificially phase separated system through fabricating epitaxial superlattices consisting of SmNiO$_{3}$ and NdNiO$_{3}$, two materials undergoing a metal-to-insulator transition at different temperatures. By combining advanced experimental techniques and theoretical modeling, we demonstrate that the length scale of the metal-insulator transition is controlled by the balance of the energy cost of the domain wall between a metal and insulator and the bulk energetics. Notably, we show that the length scale of this effect exceeds that of the physical coupling of structural motifs, introducing a new paradigm for interface-engineering properties that are not available in bulk
description: 38 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected
MOESM1 of Implementation of human factors engineering approach to improve environmental cleaning and disinfection in a medical center
Creators: name: I-Chen Hung
name: Chang, Hao-Yuan
name: Aristine Cheng
name: Chen, Mei-Wen
name: Chen, An-Chi
name: Ting, Ling
name: Yeur-Hur Lai
name: Jann-Tay Wang
name: Yee-Chun Chen
name: Wang-Huei Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
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
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. The regular method of bleach dilution. The bleach was diluted with cold water using the uniform containers by the environmental service workers.
New results on the limit for the width of the exotic Theta^+ resonance
Creators: name: Sibirtsev, A.
name: Haidenbauer, J.
name: Krewald, S.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of the Θ^+(1540) resonance on differential and integrated cross sections for the reaction K^+d{\to}K^0pp, where experimental information is available at kaon momenta below 640 MeV/c. The calculation utilizes the Jülich KN model and extensions of it that include contributions from a Θ^+(1540) state with different widths. The evaluation of the reaction K^+d{\to}K^0pp takes into account effects due to the Fermi motion of the nucleons within the deuteron and the final three-body kinematics. We conclude that the available data constrain the width of the Θ^+(1540) to be less than 1 MeV.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, updated version, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Distribution and Apparent Decline of Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Broader Lake Tahoe Area: A Four-Decade Assessment
Creators: name: Stewart, Joseph AE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Aspen
Populus tremuloides
Remote Sensing
Machine Learning
Fire Ecology
Invasive Species
Climate Change

description: We used machine learning models to produce remotely sensed maps of aspen (Populus tremuloides) percent cover in the broader Lake Tahoe area (BLTA). Aspen is an important ecological and cultural resource both sensitive to and dependent on wildfire, and also vulnerable to climate change. Elsewhere in its range aspen declines have been well documented. More information on where aspen are and how aspen cover has changed over time is needed to inform management. Our ensemble model of aspen cover over the past decade (2014–2023) performed well in cross-validated metrics of predictive performance (e.g., R2 = 0.81). The maps provide a more accurate and detailed view of the distribution of aspen in our area compared with previous maps that delineated aspen presence but did not assess levels of cover. Model outputs indicate that aspen cover has declined in our study area over the past 40 years. This result is consistent across several distinct versions of our models, appears to be robust to potential sources of statistical bias, and is supported by multiple lines of outside evidence. Across the BLTA we provide an initial estimate that aspen cover has declined by about 26% (95% CI: 9–39%) over the 1984–2023 period. A greater focus on restoration treatments, such as prescribed fire, strategic management of naturally ignited fires, and targeted thinning of conifers overtopping aspen, could slow or reverse apparent aspen declines in our region. Detailed maps, such as our product, can serve to inform strategic and adaptive management.

Maps are available at: https://stewartecology.org/TahoeAreaAspenMaps/
MOESM1 of The prediction of acute ischemic stroke patientsâ€™ long-term functional outcomes treated with bridging therapy
Creators: name: Chang, Yu-Jun
name: Chi-Kuang Liu
name: Wu, Wen-Pei
name: Shih-Chun Wang
name: Chen, Wei-Liang
name: Chih-Ming Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Characteristics of patients with differing occlusion sites: TICA, M1 and M2. Table S2 Baseline demographic of patients with differing occlusion sites: TICA, M1 and M2. Table S3 Outcome measurements at baseline and 1 year post-procedure