cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Voice rest after microflap for benign lesions (King et al., 2022)
Creators: name: King, Renee E.
name: K. Novaleski, Carolyn
name: Rousseau, Bernard
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Speech pathology
Speech production
Surgery

description: Purpose: Voice rest is frequently prescribed after phonosurgery, but optimal type and duration for voice outcomes have not been demonstrated. Studies to date have been characterized by heterogeneity in surgical procedures and laryngeal diagnoses. We sought to analyze the effect of recommended absolute voice rest duration on outcomes of microflap surgery for benign vocal fold lesions. A secondary purpose was to identify patient factors associated with postoperative voice outcomes.Method: Forty-three patients were included in this retrospective review of patients aged 18 years and above who underwent direct microlaryngoscopy with microflap for vocal fold polyp or cyst over a 5-year period at a multidisciplinary voice center. Duration of recommended postoperative absolute voice rest was classified as less than 7 days, 7 days, and more than 7 days. Demographic and vocal hygiene data and voice treatment history were collected. Outcome measures consisted of one pre- and two postoperative Voice Handicap Index (VHI) scores. Effects of recommended voice rest on outcomes were analyzed using mixed models for repeated measures. Effects of patient factors on outcomes were analyzed as exploratory measures. Stroboscopy ratings were analyzed descriptively.Results: Thirteen patients were recommended 7 days of absolute voice rest, 15 were recommended less than 7 days, and 15 were recommended more than 7 days. Postoperatively, VHI scores significantly improved for all patients. Voice rest as a continuous variable was associated with the Functional subscale score in the short term, but there was no effect on VHI total score and no longer term effect of voice rest on any outcome. Age, sex, and preoperative voice therapy were associated with at least one VHI subscale score on at least one time point.Conclusion: VHI outcomes of microflap surgery for polyps and cysts do not differ by duration of recommended absolute postoperative voice rest.
Supplemental Material S1. Recommended voice rest duration for all patients.
Supplemental Material S2. Comparison of effects of recommended voice rest and timepoint relative to microflap surgery on VHI scores with absolute voice rest duration analyzed categorically or continuously.
Supplemental Material S3. Change in VHI Functional score before and after microflap surgery for benign vocal fold lesions by days of recommended absolute postoperative voice rest.
Supplemental Material S4. Results of exploratory analyses.
King, R. E., Novaleski, C. K., & Rousseau, B. (2022). Voice Handicap Index changes after microflap surgery for benign vocal fold lesions are not associated with recommended absolute voice rest duration. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00115
The Blazar Sequence and the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background Radiation in the Fermi Era
Creators: name: Inoue, Yoshiyuki
name: Totani, Tomonori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We present a new model of the blazar gamma-ray luminosity function (GLF) and the spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB), which is consistent with the observed distributions of EGRET blazars. The unified sequence of blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) is taken into account to make a non-trivial prediction for the EGRB spectrum and more realistic comparison with the data than previous studies. We then try to explain the EGRB data by the two AGN populations: one is blazars, and the other is non-blazar AGNs that are responsible for the EGRB in the MeV band. We find that ~80% of the EGRB photon flux at > 100 MeV can be explained by the sum of the two populations, while ~45% can be accounted for only by blazars. The predicted EGRB spectrum is in agreement with a wide range of the observed data from X-ray to GeV, within the systematic uncertainties in the EGRB determination by EGRET. These results indicate that AGNs including blazars are the primary source of EGRB. Blazars are dominant in EGRB at higher energy bands of >100 MeV, while non-blazar AGNs dominate at <100 MeV. Almost all of the EGRB flux from blazars will be resolved into discrete sources by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, while that from non-blazar AGNs will largely remain unresolved. Therefore, comparison between the integrated source counts and diffuse EGRB flux as a function of photon energy will give a simple and clear test of our model. Various quantitative predictions for Fermi observations are also made. Especially, our model predicts 600-1200 blazars in all sky down to 2e-9 photons/cm^-2/s (>100 MeV), which is considerably smaller than most of previous studies.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in ApJ
Exact lower bounds on the exponential moments of Winsorized and truncated random variables
Creators: name: Pinelis, Iosif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60E15, secondary 60E10, 60F10, 60F05

description: Exact lower bounds on the exponential moments of min(y,X) and XI{X
Spectrum of pathogen- and model-specific histopathologies in mouse models of acute pneumonia
Creators: name: Dietert, Kristina
name: Gutbier, Birgitt
name: Wienhold, Sandra M.
name: Reppe, Katrin
name: Jiang, Xiaohui
name: Yao, Ling
name: Chaput, Catherine
name: Naujoks, Jan
name: Brack, Markus
name: Kupke, Alexandra
name: Peteranderl, Chrstin
name: Becker, Stephan
name: Lachner, Carolin Von
name: Baal, Nelli
name: Slevogt, Hortense
name: Hocke, Andreas C.
name: Witzenrath, Martin
name: Opitz, Bastian
name: Herold, Susanne
name: Hackstein, Holger
name: Sander, Leif E.
name: Suttorp, Norbert
name: Gruber, Achim D.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: Pneumonia may be caused by a wide range of pathogens and is considered the most common infectious cause of death in humans. Murine acute lung infection models mirror human pathologies in many aspects and contribute to our understanding of the disease and the development of novel treatment strategies. Despite progress in other fields of tissue imaging, histopathology remains the most conclusive and practical read out tool for the descriptive and semiquantitative evaluation of mouse pneumonia and therapeutic interventions. Here, we systematically describe and compare the distinctive histopathological features of established models of acute pneumonia in mice induced by Streptococcus (S.) pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Legionella pneumophila, Escherichia coli, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, influenza A virus (IAV) and superinfection of IAV-incuced pneumonia with S. pneumoniae. Systematic comparisons of the models revealed striking differences in the distribution of lesions, the characteristics of pneumonia induced, principal inflammatory cell types, lesions in adjacent tissues, and the detectability of the pathogens in histological sections. We therefore identified core criteria for each model suitable for practical semiquantitative scoring systems that take into account the pathogen- and model-specific patterns of pneumonia. Other critical factors that affect experimental pathologies are discussed, including infectious dose, time kinetics, and the genetic background of the mouse strain. The substantial differences between the model-specific pathologies underscore the necessity of pathogen- and model-adapted criteria for the comparative quantification of experimental outcomes. These criteria also allow for the standardized validation and comparison of treatment strategies in preclinical models.
Oxidation of allylic and benzylic alcohols to aldehydes and carboxylic acids
Creators: name: Könning, Daniel
name: Olbrisch, Tobias
name: Sypaseuth, Fanni D.
name: Tzschucke, C. Christoph
name: Christmann, Mathias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie

description: An oxidation of allylic and benzylic alcohols to the corresponding carboxylic acids is effected by merging a Cu-catalyzed oxidation using O2 as a terminal oxidant with a subsequent chlorite oxidation (Lindgren oxidation). The protocol was optimized to obtain pure products without chromatography or crystallization. Interception at the aldehyde stage allowed for Z/E-isomerization, thus rendering the oxidation stereoconvergent with respect to the configuration of the starting material.
Lathrobium obstipum Peng & Li 2012
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium obstipum

description: Lathrobium obstipum Peng & Li, 2012
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°53'59''N 119°09'41''E, 1700 m, 08.X.2013, Peng, Yin & Yu leg. (SNUC); 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, Qingyuan, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'26''N 119°12'08''E, 1730 m, 02.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC); 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, Qingyuan, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'14''N 119°11'55''E, 1560–1750 m, 01.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. This species was previously known from Baishanzu Natural Reserve in Zhejiang. The new locality is about 17 kilometres from the type locality of L. obstipum. For illustrations of L. obstipum see Peng et al. (2012a).
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on pages 247-248, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
ESMS_2 - Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Seminar
Creators: name: Alliston, John
name: Wildman, Heather
name: Malak-Rawlikowska, Agata
name: KlopÄIÄ, Marija
name: Kuipers, Abele
name: De Lauwere, Carolien
name: Nell, Wim
name: Napier, Rob
name: Bisschoff, Christo
name: Karlsson, Ove
name: Andersson, Christine
name: Andersson, Hanna
name: Andersson, Hans
name: Jacobsson, Susanne BÃ¥Ã¥Th
name: Johnsson, Carl
name: Melin, Martin
name: Rehnholm, Fredrik
name: Samuelsson, Malin
name: Ã…Kerberg, Claes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Why Is Acidification Of Slurry A Success Only In Denmark? Transfer Of Environmental Technology Across Boarders
Creators: name: Jacobsen, B.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Acidification
subject: costs
subject: ammonia emission

description: The EU countries are trying to reduce the ammonia emission towards the 2020 and the 2030 targets in the Clean Air agreement. In order to do so, the countries need to implement a range of technologies. The Danish ammonia emission has been reduced by 40% from 1980 to 2015, but more is required. Several technologies have been used in the buildings, in the storage and when applying manure. One technology now used widely in Denmark (20% of all slurry) is acidification of slurry where the application of sulphuric acid reduces the ammonia emission. However, the technology has hardly been used in other EU countries. The main reasons for the low uptake in other countries are; the cost level, lack of implementation in local regulation combined with potentially unwanted side effects such as increased phosphorus (P) mobility in soils and surplus sulphur (S) fertilisation, as well as, uncertainty about safety. For a technology to be accepted in a â€œnon-nativeâ€ country, national farm scale tests are required as the technology acceptance. It is shown that regulatory requirements help companies producing these technologies and without these requirements the companies might struggle financially as the demand for new technologies is low.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
NPR - THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY-CME GROUP AG ECONOMY BAROMETER: PROVIDING A CONTEMPORANEOUS MEASURE OF PRODUCER SENTIMENT AND ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE U.S. PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Creators: name: Mintert, James
name: Langemeier, Michael
name: Widmar, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Ag Economy Barometer
subject: Index of Current Conditions
subject: Index of Future Expectations

description: The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer is a new survey-based confidence measure for the U.S. agricultural economy. The Ag Economy Barometer is based on a monthly survey of U.S producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, beef cattle, dairy, and hogs who have a gross revenue exceeding $500,000. The Ag Economy Barometer is based upon responses to a series of five questions focused on both current conditions in the U.S. production agricultural sector and future expectations. In addition to the Ag Economy Barometer, the survey responses are also used to generate an Index of Current Conditions and an Index of Future Expectations.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Putting Cells into Context
Creators: name: Stricker, Sigmar
name: Knaus, Petra
name: Simon, Hans-Georg
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: cell signaling
subject: mechanobiology
subject: extracellular matrix
subject: artificial matrices
subject: material sciences
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::572 Biochemie

description: Opinion article (excerpt): Cells Live in a Complex World It may sound blatantly obvious, but we have to remind ourselves occasionally that in vivo cells experience an environment with a level of complexity far beyond experimental reach. The developing organism is a highly complex system, where each cell receives a multitude of cues of diverse nature at any given time point. Only the comprehensive integration of all these multivalent interactions determines the actual signaling state and hence the behavior of a cell. The analysis of biological questions is mainly inspired by a reductionist approach adopted from the “exact sciences,” where it has been proven immensely successful. That is, we are used to break down our experimental setup to a manageable number of variables. This of course is inherently contradictory to the complexity of biological systems. While simplification may be the only viable option for the experimenter to dissect biological function down to detail, it has also influenced our perspective toward the experimental systems applied. For example, studies of intracellular signaling pathways are typically performed with cultured cells. Culturing cells in an in vitro setting became a standard model system in biomedical research and with it in cell and developmental biology. These simplified systems allow for the dissection of molecular interactions and pathways and are aimed to deepen and mechanistically understand cellular behavior. While cell cultures have generated a wealth of information into cellular function, the data obtained in vitro frequently are in conflict with in vivo observations. One reason for this discrepancy is that these analyses focus on the cell as a closed functional system, thus conceptually unhinging it from its environment.
title: Porcine E. coli
title: Virulence-associated genes, resistance genes and adhesion and probiotic activity tested by a new screening method
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schierack, Peter
name: Rödiger, Stefan
name: Kuhl, Christoph
name: Hiemann, Rico
name: Roggenbuck, Dirk
name: Li, Ganwu
name: Weinreich, Jörg
name: Weinreich, Jörg
name: Nolan, Lisa K.
name: Nicholson, Bryon
name: Römer, Antje
name: Frömmel, Ulrike
name: Wieler, Lothar H.
name: Schröder, Christian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: We established an automated screening method to characterize adhesion of Escherichia coli to intestinal porcine epithelial cells (IPEC-J2) and their probiotic activity against infection by enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). 104 intestinal E. coli isolates from domestic pigs were tested by PCR for the occurrence of virulence-associated genes, genes coding for resistances to antimicrobial agents and metals, and for phylogenetic origin by PCR. Adhesion rates and probiotic activity were examined for correlation with the presence of these genes. Finally, data were compared with those from 93 E. coli isolates from wild boars. Isolates from domestic pigs carried a broad variety of all tested genes and showed great diversity in gene patterns. Adhesions varied with a maximum of 18.3 or 24.2 mean bacteria adherence per epithelial cell after 2 or 6 hours respectively. Most isolates from domestic pigs and wild boars showed low adherence, with no correlation between adhesion/probiotic activity and E. coli genes or gene clusters. The gene sfa/foc, encoding for a subunit of F1C fimbriae did show a positive correlative association with adherence and probiotic activity; however E. coli isolates from wild boars with the sfa/foc gene showed less adhesion and probiotic activity than E. coli with the sfa/foc gene isolated from domestic pigs after 6 hour incubation. In conclusion, screening porcine E. coli for virulence associated genes genes, adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells, and probiotic activity revealed a single important adhesion factor, several probiotic candidates, and showed important differences between E. coli of domestic pigs and wild boars.
title: Applications of point vortex equilibria
title: blocking events and the stability of the polar vortex
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Müller, Annette
name: Névir, Peter
name: Schielicke, Lisa
name: Hirt, Mirjam
name: Pueltz, Joscha
name: Sonntag, Isabell
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: point vortices
subject: blocked events
subject: polar vortex
subject: Holton-Tan mechanism
subject: kinematic vorticity number
subject: pattern recognition
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: The present study investigates non-linear dynamics of atmospheric flow phenomena on different scales as interactions of vortices. Thereby, we apply the idealised, two-dimensional concept of point vortices considering two important issues in atmospheric dynamics. First, we propose this not widely spread concept in meteorology to explain blocked weather situations using a three-point vortex equilibrium. Here, a steady state is given if the zonal mean flow is identical to the opposed translational velocity of the vortex system. We apply this concept exemplarily to two major blocked events establishing a new pattern recognition technique based on the kinematic vorticity number to determine the circulations and positions of the interacting vortices. By using reanalysis data, we demonstrate that the velocity of the tripole in a westward direction is almost equal to the westerly flow explaining the steady state of blocked events. Second, we introduce a novel idea to transfer a stability analysis of a vortex equilibrium to the stability of the polar vortex concerning its interaction with the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). Here, the point vortex system is built as a polygon ring of vortices around a central vortex. On this way we confirm observations that perturbations of the polar vortex during the QBO east phase lead to instability, whereas the polar vortex remains stable in QBO west phases. Thus, by applying point vortex theory to challenging problems in atmospheric dynamics we show an alternative, discrete view of synoptic and planetary scale motion.
Low-lying positive-parity excited states of the nucleon
Creators: name: Mahbub, M. S.
name: Cais, Alan Ó
name: Kamleh, Waseem
name: Lasscock, B. G.
name: Leinweber, Derek B.
name: Williams, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an overview of the correlation-matrix methods developed recently by the CSSM Lattice Collaboration for the isolation of excited states of the nucleon. Of particular interest is the first positive-parity excited-state of the nucleon known as the Roper resonance. Using eigenvectors of the correlation matrix we construct parity and eigenstate projected correlation functions which are analysed using standardized methods. The robust nature of this approach for extracting the eigenstate energies is presented. We report the importance of using a variety of source and sink smearings in achieving this. Ultimately the independence of the eigenstate energies from the interpolator basis is demonstrated. In particular we consider $4\times 4$ correlation matrices built from a variety of interpolators and smearing levels. Using FLIC fermions to access the light quark mass regime, we explore the curvature encountered in the energy of the states as the chiral limit is approached. We report a low-lying Roper state contrasting earlier results using correlation matrices. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a low-lying Roper resonance has been found using correlation matrix methods. Finally, we present our results in the context of the Roper results reported by other groups.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures., Presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
PR - ENHANCING THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF FARMER BUSINESS NETWORKS/ADVISORY SERVICES ON NEW ZEALANDâ€™S AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION SYSTEM [AKIS] - THE RURAL PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Bailey, Alison
name: Kambuta, Jacob
name: SchrÃ¶Er-Merker, Eva
name: Perrier, Thomas
name: Old, Kevin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS)
subject: farm decision making
subject: advisory services

description: The Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) is a concept that describes the different organisations and individuals involved in the process of innovation adoption and their links. Organisations are seen as the traditional source of advice, and historically, this was led by government institutions. In developed economies, disengagement of government from information and advice provision has led to a rise in the privatisation of the service leading to a complex set of interrelationships. The aim of this project was to provide recommendations for improving the performance and effectiveness of advisory services in strengthening the knowledge flows between science, in its widest context and practice, and the farming community, and with particular emphasis on the needs of the farmer. This was achieved through a series of interviews with individuals involved in the provision of advice to the farming community based around findings from an initial discussion with cropping, dairy, and beef and sheep farmers. The study found that in order to take the industry forward there needs to be a more cohesive extension programme involving rural professionals engaged in clearly defined roles to support farmers through their decision-making processes.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Design and implementation of a high-level language for interactive computer graphics
Creators: name: Pieké, Albertus Jacobus
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The design and implementation of the interactive graphics language IGL is described. This language not only allows the definition and display of line drawings but also has full facilities for manipulating, naming, identifying and interacting with such drawings. The language has been implemented as an extension to Fortran IV using the XPL compiler generator system. The experience gained so far in the use of the language has already proven a number of advantages over present-day graphics systems. The language is readily learned by users with previous high-level language experience. As no extensive testing and documentation is necessary due to the readability of the program, the time required for the completion of a project is greatly reduced.
Lathrobium tamurai Watanabe & Luo 1992
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium tamurai

description: Lathrobium tamurai Watanabe & Luo, 1992
(Figs 2 B, 4)
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Taishun, Wuyanling Natural Reserve, 27°42'N 119°39'E, 10.V.2004, 700– 1300 m, Hu, Tang & Zhu leg. (SNUC); 1 ♀, Taishun, Wuyanling Natural Reserve, 27°54'N, 119°10'E, 1550 m, 06.V.2012, Jian-Qing Zhu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. Lathrobium tamurai has been recorded only from Wuyanling Natural Reserve in Zhejiang. For illustrations of L. tamurai see Figs 2 B, 4.
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on page 249, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
PR - A CRITICAL REVIEW OF GLOBAL VEGETABLE BENCHMARKING
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: vegetables
subject: benchmarking
subject: gross margin analysis

description: The aim of this research was to conduct a critical investigation of global vegetables benchmarking initiatives for the development of a new benchmarking system for vegetable production in Western Australia. While farm-level benchmarking is far more robust for arable crop production and livestock enterprises, the rigorous benchmarking systems from non-government organisations were found to be the Farm Business Survey in the UK, Zentrum fÃ¼r Betriebswirtschaft im Gartenbau e.V. in Germany, AACREA in Argentina, Farm Digital in the Netherlands for innovative data sharing platforms, Agribenchmark benchmarks international farm-level data and Farm Sustainability Assessment which is based in the USA but collects global farm data. It was found that databases are similarly structured and principally based on gross margin analyses with additional information provided on fixed costs. Overall, the data that are provided are relatively standard: income/receipts from sales and the costs of various fixed and variable costs. Most benchmarking reports also provide details of yields in different formats. The final recommendation of this research is for those building a new vegetables production benchmark to also consider large-scale producers about the possibility of sharing benchmarking data.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Computational design of carbon nanotube sensors for gas phase explosives detection
Creators: name: Doshi, Manasi
name: 0000-0003-2426-7212
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Carbon nanotube
Explosives
Sensors
DFT

description: Gas phase detection of explosive molecules is a sensing application of wide interest. Light weight, low power sensors are needed for mobility and wide dissemination, however low vapor pressures and the presence of similar functional groups in a variety of explosive molecules make the development of sensitive and selective detection systems difficult. Experimental research has reported some success in the development of carbon nanotube based explosives sensors, however safety considerations and strict controls on the distribution of explosive materials hamper experimental progress. In this dissertation, ab initio computational models are developed for metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotube sensors, in a variety of device configurations. Their chemiresistive sensing performance is investigated in the detection of three common explosives. The effects of doping, lattice defects, and functionalizations on sensing performance are analyzed. Their performance in sensor arrays is also analyzed; array selectivity is improved by capitalizing upon the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of the CNT sensors. A new ab initio molecular dynamics formulation is developed, for spin polarized systems. It employs a novel nonholonomic Hamiltonian modeling methodology to couple a quantum model of the electronic structure to a molecular model of the nuclear dynamics, and quantifies the modeled nanoscale systems interaction with the external thermal and electromagnetic environment. This theoretical model offers future opportunities for the simulation of finite temperature dynamics in carbon nanotube based sensors, under applied electric and magnetic fields.
Farey tree locking of terahertz semiconductor laser frequency combs
Creators: name: Liu, Guibin
name: Ma, Xuhong
name: Zhou, Kang
name: Liu, Binbin
name: Zheng, Lulu
name: Bi, Xianglong
name: Wu, Shumin
name: Lu, Yanming
name: Li, Ziping
name: Wan, Wenjian
name: Zhang, Zhenzhen
name: Peng, Junsong
name: Zhang, Ya
name: Zeng, Heping
name: Li, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency combs show various applications in molecular fingerprinting, imaging, communications, and so on. In the terahertz frequency range, semiconductor-based quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are ideal platforms for realizing the frequency comb operation. Although self-started frequency comb operation can be obtained in free-running terahertz QCLs due to the four-wave mixing locking effects, resonant/off-resonant microwave injection, phase locking, and femtosecond laser based locking techniques have been widely used to broaden and stabilize terahertz QCL combs. These active locking methods indeed show significant effects on the frequency stabilization of terahertz QCL combs, but they simultaneously have drawbacks, such as introducing large phase noise and requiring complex optical coupling and/or electrical circuits. Here, we demonstrate Farey tree locking of terahertz QCL frequency combs under microwave injection. The frequency competition between the Farey fraction frequency and the cavity round-trip frequency results in the frequency locking of terahertz QCL combs, and the Farey fraction frequencies can be accurately anticipated based on the downward trend of the Farey tree hierarchy. Furthermore, dual-comb experimental results show that the phase noise of the dual-comb spectral lines is significantly reduced by employing the Farey tree locking method. These results pave the way to deploying compact and low phase noise terahertz frequency comb sources.
description: 22 page, 7 figures. Light: Science & Applications, 2025
Recursive Concurrent Stochastic Games
Creators: name: Etessami, Kousha
name: Yannakakis, Mihalis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; F.2; F.1.1

description: We study Recursive Concurrent Stochastic Games (RCSGs), extending our recent analysis of recursive simple stochastic games to a concurrent setting where the two players choose moves simultaneously and independently at each state. For multi-exit games, our earlier work already showed undecidability for basic questions like termination, thus we focus on the important case of single-exit RCSGs (1-RCSGs). We first characterize the value of a 1-RCSG termination game as the least fixed point solution of a system of nonlinear minimax functional equations, and use it to show PSPACE decidability for the quantitative termination problem. We then give a strategy improvement technique, which we use to show that player 1 (maximizer) has ε-optimal randomized Stackless & Memoryless (r-SM) strategies for all ε> 0, while player 2 (minimizer) has optimal r-SM strategies. Thus, such games are r-SM-determined. These results mirror and generalize in a strong sense the randomized memoryless determinacy results for finite stochastic games, and extend the classic Hoffman-Karp strategy improvement approach from the finite to an infinite state setting. The proofs in our infinite-state setting are very different however, relying on subtle analytic properties of certain power series that arise from studying 1-RCSGs. We show that our upper bounds, even for qualitative (probability 1) termination, can not be improved, even to NP, without a major breakthrough, by giving two reductions: first a P-time reduction from the long-standing square-root sum problem to the quantitative termination decision problem for finite concurrent stochastic games, and then a P-time reduction from the latter problem to the qualitative termination problem for 1-RCSGs.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Fluctuating spin density waves in metals
Creators: name: Sachdev, Subir
name: Metlitski, Max A.
name: Qi, Yang
name: Xu, Cenke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work has used a U(1) gauge theory to describe the physics of Fermi pockets in the presence of fluctuating spin density wave order. We generalize this theory to an arbitrary band structure and ordering wavevector. The transition to the large Fermi surface state, without pockets induced by local spin density wave order, is described by embedding the U(1) gauge theory in a SU(2) gauge theory. The phase diagram of the SU(2) gauge theory shows that the onset of spin density wave order in the Fermi liquid occurs either directly, in the framework discussed by Hertz, or via intermediate non-Fermi liquid phases with Fermi surfaces of fractionalized excitations. We discuss application of our results to the phase diagram of the cuprates.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; (v2) Improved figures
Isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi beta decay: Radial excitations
Creators: name: Miller, G. A.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on an exact formalism, we study the effects of isospin-symmetry-breaking interactions on superallowed 0+ -> 0+ transitions. We calculate the second-order renormalization of the Fermi matrix element due to radial contributions and show that radial excitations neglected in the treatment of Towner and Hardy are significant. These are estimated to decrease the isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections. Our results provide a correction term that can be included in existing approaches.
description: 5 pages; NT@UW-09-22
The Social Media Usage and Its Impact on the Filipino Learners' Academic Performance Amidst the Online Education
Creators: name: Tus, Jhoselle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: 160809 Sociology of Education
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130210 Physical Education and Development Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 130199 Education systems not elsewhere classified
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation

description: Social media use has become prevalent and nearly inevitable, changing the way students interact, connect, and socialize; it has become an integral part of their social and cultural fabric. As a result, students spend a significant amount of time on social media. Thus, this study investigates the impact of social media usage on students' academic performance amidst the new normal of education, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the statistical finding, the respondents' perception of their social media usage significantly affects their academic performance (p=.000) with an associated probability value of 0.05 alpha level of significance.
Recurrence in collective dynamics: From the hyperspace to fuzzy dynamical systems
Creators: name: Alvarez, Illych
name: López-Martínez, Antoni
name: Peris, Alfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B02, 37B20, 54A40, 54B20

description: We study for a dynamical system $f:X\longrightarrow X$ some of the principal topological recurrence-kind properties with respect to the induced maps $\overline{f}:\mathcal{K}(X)\longrightarrow\mathcal{K}(X)$, on the hyperspace of non-empty compact subsets of $X$, and $\hat{f}:\mathcal{F}(X)\longrightarrow\mathcal{F}(X)$, on the space of normal fuzzy sets consisting of the upper-semicontinuous functions $u:X\longrightarrow [0,1]$ with compact support and such that $u^{-1}(\{1\})\neq\varnothing$. In particular, we characterize the properties of topological and multiple recurrence for the extended systems $(\mathcal{K}(X),\overline{f})$ and $(\mathcal{F}(X),\hat{f})$, which cover the cases of the so-called nonwandering and Van der Waerden systems. Special attention is given to the case where the underlying space is completely metrizable, for which we obtain some stronger point-recurrence equivalences.
description: 18 pages
Doppler-free Adiabatic Self-Induced Transparency
Creators: name: Loiko, Yu.
name: Serrat, C.
name: Vilaseca, R.
name: Ahufinger, V.
name: Mompart, J.
name: Corbalan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that a Doppler broadened two-level medium can be made transparent to a laser pulse by an appropriate adiabatic variation of the laser field amplitude and its nominal detuning. This new technique of adiabatic self-induced transparency (ASIT) is compared with the well known self-induced transparency (SIT) phenomenon, showing that the adiabatic method is much more robust to variations of the system parameters. We also discuss a possible experimental implementation of ASIT using 87-Rb atoms.
description: 8 pages and 7 figures
Lathrobium tangi Peng & Li 2012
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium tangi

description: Lathrobium tangi Peng & Li, 2012
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 9 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, Qingyuan County, mountain near Liyang, 27°49'38''N 119°11'22''E, 990–1160 m, 29.IV.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. Lathrobium tangi was previously known from Baishanzu Natural Reserve in Zhejiang. The new locality is about 9 kilometres from the type locality of L. tangi. For illustrations of L. tangi see Peng et al. (2012a).
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on pages 249-250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
PR - SUSTAINABILITY IN AUSTRALIAN SEAFOOD SUPPLY CHAINS: IDENTIFYING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: content analysis
subject: sustainability
subject: seafood products

description: This research aims to explore the trend of sustainability policies and practices in Australian seafood product supply chains and to identify the sustainability practices of supply chain members over time. A qualitative approach to content analysis was used to collect and analyse data from the annual reports of seven Australian companies in the seafood supply chain as ranked by their market share in three categories: feed production, processing, and retailing. The data were collected from annual reports over the ten-year timeframe; analysis was conducted in NVivo12. It was found that supply chain members placed sustainability practice as their business priority. The results revealed the trend that companies have become more aware of the impact of sustainability on their business over time. The results of the data analysis show the frequencies of references of each code: â€œsustainabilityâ€, â€œtraceabilityâ€, â€œwaste managementâ€, â€œquality managementâ€, and â€œsupply chain strategyâ€. The code â€œsustainabilityâ€ accounted for the highest of frequencies whereas, despite being a dominant theme in the literature, â€œtraceabilityâ€ was less mentioned throughout the results. The value of this research lies in the identification of the gaps between theory and practice when it comes to traceability of seafood products through the supply chain.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Neutrino Physics and Spontaneous CP Violation in the $μν$SSM
Creators: name: Fidalgo, J.
name: Lopez-Fogliani, D. E.
name: Munoz, C.
name: de Austri, R. Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $μν$SSM provides a solution to the $μ$ problem of the MSSM and explains the origin of neutrino masses by simply using right-handed neutrino superfields. We have completed the analysis of the vacua in this model, studying the possibility of spontaneous CP violation through complex Higgs and sneutrino vacuum expectation values. As a consequence of this process, a complex MNS matrix can be present. Besides, we have discussed the neutrino physics and the associated electroweak seesaw mechanism in the $μν$SSM, including also phases. Current data on neutrino masses and mixing angles can easily be reproduced.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in JHEP, a discussion on EDMs added
Chilo pulverata Wileman & South 1917
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Chilo
Chilo pulverata

description: Chilo pulverata (Wileman & South, 1917)
Figs. 98, 156.
Diatraea pulverata Wileman & South, 1917. Type locality: Taiwan [Formosa], Kanshirei, 1000 ft.
= Chilo izuensis Okano, 1962 a: 123, pl. 6, fig. 6; Bleszynski, 1970: 132 (syn.)
= Chilo izouensis Błeszyński, 1965 a: 115
MATERIAL
No material was examined for this species.
DIAGNOSIS
This species can be separated from other Chilo species by examination of the male genitalia (Fig. 98): juxta symmetrical, with lateral arms arms not extending beyond basal-costal angle of valva; phallus with short ventral arm, subapical long patch of thorns and elongate patch of small cornuti. In female genitalia (Fig. 156), the two lamellate signa of the corpus bursae separate this species from other congeneric species of the Philippines (Anon, 2019; Bleszynski, 1970c).
DISTRIBUTION
CHINA; INDONESIA; JAPAN; PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Benguet); TAIWAN; TIMOR.
REMARKS
Błeszyński investigated two specimens (1 ♂, 1 ♀) of this species from Klondyke on Luzon, Philippines.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 50, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
PR - WIND TURBINES IN GERMAN AGRICULTURE - NO RISK, NO GAIN? CURRENT SITUATION AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY
Creators: name: Fuchs, Clemens
name: Marquardt, Karl
name: Kasten, Joachim
name: Skau, Katharina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Renewable energies
subject: wind turbines
subject: investment

description: Only a small number of German farmers invest into wind turbines on the land they own. In contrast to that they tend to rather lease land for that purpose to investors. An explorative qualitative study on the reasons for this investment pattern was conducted. Calculations of the economic efficiency (e.g. net present value, pay off) of wind turbines build the foundation of the study. In addition, farmers in the North-East Federal State Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania were interviewed for their motives of their capital expenditures. A considerable amount of equity capital is required for setting up a wind turbine. The capital invested frequently competes with the purchase of agricultural land. Building wind turbines involves risks. In advance substantial financial means for a planning permission and other examinations precede the construction of a wind turbine. Only in the very end of these costly investigations a construction permit will be issued, facing a farmer with a high level of uncertainty during the whole process. Fluctuations in wind yield and therefor volatile revenues confront farmers additionally with financial uncertainties. Risk taking behaviour of farmers was assessed normatively by the Hurwicz criterion. Results showed, that only farmers, with the necessary funds at their disposal and a high level of optimism were more likely to take the risk to set up a wind turbine on their land. They take this decision despite the fact that leasing once own land to other investors is of predictable profit and clearly less risky.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019