cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Remapping of visual space in primate frontal eye field
Creators: name: Umeno, Marc Michiki
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Primates can make accurate sequential saccades to rapidly flashed targets despite, in the case of an intervening saccade, dissonance between the retinal location of a target and the vector of the saccade necessary to acquire that target. The saccadic system must therefore be able to plan and execute trajectories incorporating the metric of the intervening saccade. When shown stimuli that will be brought into their visual receptive fields by a saccade, 33% of visually responsive neurons in the frontal eye fields (FEF) produce predictive responses: they fire before the stimuli reach their visual receptive fields. Also, when shown stimuli that have recently vanished, a majority (59%) of these FEF visually responsive neurons carry a short term memory trace of the recently vanished stimuli when the locations of these stimuli are brought into their receptive fields. This group of neurons also has an intertrial memory trace associated with the spatial location of stimuli, in recent trials, which have been shown in the receptive field of the neurons. These neurons are used by the FEF to account for dynamic motor situations by remapping the visual world through neuronal mechanisms.
Additional file 2 of Mapping the reach of a rural Transitions Nurse Program for veterans with geographic information systems
Creators: name: Connelly, Brigid
name: Motta, Lexus L. Ujano-De
name: Leonard, Chelsea
name: Ashlea Mayberry
name: Kelley, Lynette
name: Gaskin, David
name: Gilmartin, Heather M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Acceptability and Appropriateness of Intervention Measure (AIM) Survey Questions.
Location of blow-up points in fully parabolic chemotaxis systems with spatially heterogeneous logistic source
Creators: name: Fuest, Mario
name: Lankeit, Johannes
name: Mizukami, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B44, 35K55, 92C17

description: We consider the fully parabolic, spatially heterogeneous chemotaxis-growth system \begin{align*}
 \begin{cases}
 u_t = Δu - \nabla\cdot(u\nabla v) + κ(x)u-μ(x)u^2, \\
 v_t = Δv - v + u
 \end{cases} \end{align*} in bounded domains $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ and show that the blow-up set is contained in the set of zeroes of $μ$.
description: 16 pages
12th General Hospital final report. Injuries to the spine and spinal cord
Creators: name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Spinal Injuries
subject: Spinal Fractures
subject: Spinal Cord Injuries

description: This report includes statistics about the types of spinal and spinal cord injuries treated by the 12th General Hospital Unit during World War II.
Firm conduct: The case of the United States malt beverage industry
Creators: name: Wharff, Jeffrey Craig
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation examines the role of strategic-pricing in a product-differentiated oligopolistic industry. The U.S. malt beverage industry is considered because it resembles the consumer-goods industries that populate a modern market economy. The analysis is based on the empirical conduct parameter model in which firm behavior is treated as an unknown parameter. Traditional textbook models of oligopoly--Bertrand-pricing, price-matching, dominant-firm, and joint-profit-maximization--are tested to determine which, if any, adequately describe brewer behavior. While most of the textbook models receive little empirical support, we identify a structure reminiscent of a dominant group where dominant-group members share a common empirical conjecture.
Additional file 15 of Rule-based meta-analysis reveals the major role of PB2 in influencing influenza A virus virulence in mice
Creators: name: Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius
name: Kwoh, Chee Keong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 15: Table S11. Examples of rules generated by OneR, JRip and PART for two-class and three-class BALB/C datasets containing concatenated alignments of IAV proteins.
Firm conduct: The case of the United States malt beverage industry
Creators: name: Wharff, Jeffrey Craig
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the role of strategic-pricing in a product-differentiated oligopolistic industry. The U.S. malt beverage industry is considered because it resembles the consumer-goods industries that populate a modern market economy. The analysis is based on the empirical conduct parameter model in which firm behavior is treated as an unknown parameter. Traditional textbook models of oligopoly--Bertrand-pricing, price-matching, dominant-firm, and joint-profit-maximization--are tested to determine which, if any, adequately describe brewer behavior. While most of the textbook models receive little empirical support, we identify a structure reminiscent of a dominant group where dominant-group members share a common empirical conjecture.
Measurement of the spin structure function of the neutron from deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized neutrons in helium-3
Creators: name: Dunne, James Andrew
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Polarized electrons of energies 19.42, 22.67, and 25.5 GeV were scattered off a polarized $\sp3$He target at SLAC's End Station A to measure the spin asymmetry of the neutron. From this asymmetry, the spin dependent structure function $g\sb1\sp{\rm n}(x)$ was determined over a range in x from 0.03 to 0.6 with an average $Q\sp2$ of 2 (GeV/C)$\sp2$. The value of the integral of $g\sb1\sp{\rm n}$ over x is $\int\limits\sbsp{0}{1}g\sb1\sp{\rm n}(x)dx$ = $-$0.036 $\pm$ 0.009. The results were interpreted in the framework of the Quark Parton Model (QPM) and used to test the Ellis-Jaffe and Bjorken sum rules. The value of the integral is 2.6 standard deviations from the Ellis-Jaffe prediction while the Bjorken sum rule was found to be in agreement with this data and proton data from SMC and E-143.
Irreversible Investment, Capacity Choice and the Value of the Firm
Creators: name: Pindyck, Robert S.
name: Pindyck, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: A model of capacity choice and utilization is developed consistent with value maximization when investment is irreversible and future demand is uncertain. Investment requires the full value of a marginal unit of capacity to be at least as large as its full cost. The former includes the value of the firm's option not to utilize the unit, and the latter includes the opportunity cost of exercising the investment option. We show that for moderate amounts of uncertainty, the firm's optimal capacity is much smaller than it would be if investment were reversible, and a large fraction of the firm's value is due to its options for future growth. We also characterize the behavior of capacity and capacity utilization, and discuss implications for the measurement of marginal cost and Tobin's q.
Measurement of the spin structure function of the neutron from deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized neutrons in helium-3
Creators: name: Dunne, James Andrew
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5106
subject: Nuclear and plasma physics
classificationCode: 5107
subject: Particle and high energy physics

description: Polarized electrons of energies 19.42, 22.67, and 25.5 GeV were scattered off a polarized $\sp3$He target at SLAC's End Station A to measure the spin asymmetry of the neutron. From this asymmetry, the spin dependent structure function $g\sb1\sp{\rm n}(x)$ was determined over a range in x from 0.03 to 0.6 with an average $Q\sp2$ of 2 (GeV/C)$\sp2$. The value of the integral of $g\sb1\sp{\rm n}$ over x is $\int\limits\sbsp{0}{1}g\sb1\sp{\rm n}(x)dx$ = $-$0.036 $\pm$ 0.009. The results were interpreted in the framework of the Quark Parton Model (QPM) and used to test the Ellis-Jaffe and Bjorken sum rules. The value of the integral is 2.6 standard deviations from the Ellis-Jaffe prediction while the Bjorken sum rule was found to be in agreement with this data and proton data from SMC and E-143.
Eliciting and Uplifting Youth Voice in Illinois Child Welfare Residential Care
Creators: name: Garibaldi, Patricia
name: Pinkerton, Linzy
name: Neil, Jordan
name: Wilkins, Wendi
name: Thompson, Alysha
name: Kisiel, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Adolescent Health
subject: Illinois
subject: IDCFS
subject: Residential Facilities
subject: Adolescent

description: This study explores qualitative data capturing the strengths and challenges of residential care from the perspective of 512 youth in Illinois child welfare residential care in November 2018. Ninety percent of eligible youth participated in a Youth Experience of Care survey, with youth providing more negative than positive feedback about residential care.  Themes that emerged from youths' feedback, in descending order of frequency, included: programming, general feedback, relationships and connections, staff, material resources, empowerment and independence, and safety.  Youths' recommendations include enhancing recreational and community programming, providing opportunities to connect with family and peers (e.g., through visits and phone calls), investing in staff training and retention, teaching independent living skills, and partnering with youth when determining the kind and quantity of material resources needed (e.g., food and clothes).  Additionally, 40% of youths' responses aligned with principles of trauma-informed care, supporting the expansion of trauma-informed approaches in residential settings.  The high response rate yielded by this study, and the concrete, meaningful feedback youth provided to improve services further supports the inclusion of youth voice in quality improvement and research efforts.
Algeria's energy sector: A quantitative analysis
Creators: name: Ferroukhi, Rabea
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Algeria's economy depends almost exclusively on hydrocarbon exports for its foreign exchange revenues. At the same time, domestic energy consumption is expected to grow rapidly in response to population increases and future economic growth. Therefore, meeting future energy needs has the potential to impose serious burdens on export availability and, therefore, on the country's development process. As a result, the purpose of this study is to understand the demand behavior of all consumers in the energy sector in the period between 1975 and 1992 and develop a demand management tool. This tool would allow policymakers to use both price and non-price instruments to control the growth of energy demand and introduce a more efficient use of energy. Based on the Cobb-Douglas production function, we estimate price and income elasticities of energy demand by fuel (oil, gas, electricity, coal) and by sector (industry, household/commercial, transportation, agriculture) using the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression technique. The results are then used to forecast energy demand using different scenarios based on various future trends in the exogenous variables. The initial business as usual (BAU) scenario highlights energy demand trends under a moderate rise in energy prices. The second category of scenarios, the subsidy phase-out (SPO), analyzes the impacts of pricing instruments on energy trends. The last category, the autonomous energy efficiency increase (AEEI), estimates the impact of technical efficiency measures. The results suggest that energy demand will be strong throughout the forecasting period (1993-2010) and that price and non-price instruments can be used to dampen it and develop a more efficient use of energy. Linking the consumption block to a supply module, the energy balance of the country is derived and the potential hydrocarbon export availability and revenues are estimated. The revenues can be substantially enhanced using the demand management tools. In addition, introducing a SPO or AEEI leads to an increase in energy efficiency and a decrease in carbon emissions. In sum, the findings highlight the importance of energy demand management on various economic and environmental indicators, potentially contributing to the development process. This management tool is even more pertinent in the case of a hydrocarbon export-dependent economy like Algeria.
Constant-roll in the Palatini-$R^2$ models
Creators: name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Lykkas, Angelos
name: Tamvakis, Kyriakos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider models of a scalar field coupled to quadratic $R\!+\!R^2$ gravity in the framework of the Palatini formulation. The resulting Einstein-frame generalized $k$-inflation effective theory is analyzed assuming that the constant-roll condition holds. We focus on a quartic self-interaction potential, a case of particular appeal modelling Higgs inflation, considering the cases of minimal and non-minimal coupling of the inflaton to gravity. For an appropriate range of the model parameters in the large field domain the obtained values for the inflationary observables are found in agreement with current observations.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, JCAP accepted version
title: 01_2756
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Algeria's energy sector: A quantitative analysis
Creators: name: Ferroukhi, Rabea
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Algeria's economy depends almost exclusively on hydrocarbon exports for its foreign exchange revenues. At the same time, domestic energy consumption is expected to grow rapidly in response to population increases and future economic growth. Therefore, meeting future energy needs has the potential to impose serious burdens on export availability and, therefore, on the country's development process. As a result, the purpose of this study is to understand the demand behavior of all consumers in the energy sector in the period between 1975 and 1992 and develop a demand management tool. This tool would allow policymakers to use both price and non-price instruments to control the growth of energy demand and introduce a more efficient use of energy. Based on the Cobb-Douglas production function, we estimate price and income elasticities of energy demand by fuel (oil, gas, electricity, coal) and by sector (industry, household/commercial, transportation, agriculture) using the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression technique. The results are then used to forecast energy demand using different scenarios based on various future trends in the exogenous variables. The initial business as usual (BAU) scenario highlights energy demand trends under a moderate rise in energy prices. The second category of scenarios, the subsidy phase-out (SPO), analyzes the impacts of pricing instruments on energy trends. The last category, the autonomous energy efficiency increase (AEEI), estimates the impact of technical efficiency measures. The results suggest that energy demand will be strong throughout the forecasting period (1993-2010) and that price and non-price instruments can be used to dampen it and develop a more efficient use of energy. Linking the consumption block to a supply module, the energy balance of the country is derived and the potential hydrocarbon export availability and revenues are estimated. The revenues can be substantially enhanced using the demand management tools. In addition, introducing a SPO or AEEI leads to an increase in energy efficiency and a decrease in carbon emissions. In sum, the findings highlight the importance of energy demand management on various economic and environmental indicators, potentially contributing to the development process. This management tool is even more pertinent in the case of a hydrocarbon export-dependent economy like Algeria.
Degenerate Sub-keV Fermion Dark Matter from a Solution to the Hubble Tension
Creators: name: Choi, Gongjun
name: Suzuki, Motoo
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dark sector model addressing both the Hubble tension and the core-cusp problem. The model is based on a hidden Abelian gauge symmetry group with some chiral fermions required by the anomaly cancellation conditions, producing a candidate for the decaying fermion dark matter as a solution to the Hubble tension. Moreover, the sub-keV mass regime and the thermal history of the dark sector help the dark matter candidate resolve the core-cusp problem occurring in the standard $Λ$CDM cosmology.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, version published in PRD
Beyond obedience: Lessons about the mass violence of ordinary people through an examination of European witch-hunting
Creators: name: Leighton, Paul S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation argues that an important element of mass violence and genocide is the involvement of ordinary people, which Arendt described as the banality of evil. The question addressed here is how people who are not violent in their own lives can nevertheless come together into a killing machine that can wreak holocaust. This question is ultimately about the system of social control under which people act and it is investigated by using a case study--witch-hunting in early modern Europe. The longevity and intensity of this direct, face-to-face violence against women provides a rich source of data for generating theory about how ordinary people participate in extraordinary evil. Much of the little research that does address this question is based directly on Milgram's research on obedience to authority. My research argues that obedience per se has limited explanatory power, but the experiments are useful for generating ideas about other dimensions of explanation. In general, we must understand that the context within which people act relates to a bureaucracy or command hierarchy that organizes people into a killing machine. This context helps people see their actions in a positive light and alienates them from the suffering that results from their actions. First, authorities in a society create a definition of the situation that authorizes the destruction of others. It defines others as an immediate threat, and thus confers glory, heroism, identity and meaning on those willing to do something in defense of The Good. Second, the bureaucratic organization helps divide labor and diffuse responsibility by creating small, repetitive tasks. This behavior becomes normalized, and the switch to an 'agentic state' translates moral issues into a formal rationality emphasizing efficient means to achieve role expectations. Third, the victim group must not only be dehumanized, but demonized if they are to be systematically slaughtered. Conditions that create difficult life times are likely to cause moral panics and promote the creation of scapegoats or folk devils.
Evolution of the Colour--Radius Relation and the Morphology--Radius Relation in the SDSS Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Yagi, Masafumi
name: Tanaka, Masayuki
name: Okamura, Sadanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the redshift evolution of the colour--cluster-centric-radius relation and the morphology--cluster-centric-radius relation in three redshift bins, $0.02\leq z\leq 0.14$, $0.14< z\leq 0.20$, and $0.20< z\leq 0.30$ using a homogeneous sample of 736 galaxy clusters selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Both the relations are well-defined in all the redshift bins; the fraction of blue/late-type galaxies increases toward outside of clusters.Blue/late-type galaxy fractions are found to decrease with decreasing redshift at any cluster-centric radius. The trend is consistent with the Butcher-Oemler effect and the morphological Butcher-Oemlereffect. In addition, we find that colour (spectral) evolution is almost completed by $z\sim0.2$, whereas morphological evolution continues to the present day. The colour-radius relation is smooth inall the redshift bins, while the morphology--radius relation has a break only in the highest redshift bin. It is also found thatfractions of blue-late type galaxies decreases mostly between the highest and the intermediate redshift bins, while fractions of red-late type galaxies continuously decreases with decreasing redshift through all the redshift bins. These results are consistent with the interpretation that the timescale of the colour (spectral) evolution is shorter than that of the morphological evolution. It is suggested that red-late type galaxies in the middle of the transformation are observed as passive spiral galaxies.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS in press
Additional file 14 of Rule-based meta-analysis reveals the major role of PB2 in influencing influenza A virus virulence in mice
Creators: name: Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius
name: Kwoh, Chee Keong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 14: Table S10. Examples of rules generated by OneR, JRip and PART for two-class and three-class IV datasets containing concatenated alignments of IAV proteins.
Análisis de la medición de productividad de granos básicos, en Nicaragua, periodo 1961-2013
Analysis of the measurement of productivity of basic grains, in Nicaragua, period 1961-2013
Creators: name: Álvaro Santiago López-González, MSc
name: Álvaro Santiago López-González, MSc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Productividad; Eficiencia Técnica; Tecnología; Eficiencia a Escala;
subject: Eficiencia Pura

description: El presente estudio aborda la problemática de los enfoques parciales utilizados en la medición de los indicadores de productividad en el sub sector de la producción de granos básicos en Nicaragua y propone un modelo que permite un enfoque más amplio para la medición de estos indicadores. En la parte inicial del informe se presenta un resumen del contexto actual de la producción de los cultivos del arroz, frijoles y maíz y se señalan las debilidades de las metodologías utilizadas en el contexto nacional para medir la productividad de estos rubros. Se presenta una breve explicación de las diferentes metodologías para medir los niveles de productividad de sub sectores económicos en particular y que han servido como base para realizar estudios en varios países de América latina y el mundo. Se hace una revisión de las teorías más destacadas respecto al tema de la productividad y la eficiencia técnica como los elementos primordiales del objeto de estudio. Con datos de la Organización para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO por sus siglas inglés) de las Naciones Unidas, de los rubros arroz, maíz y frijol, referente a las áreas de siembra, rendimientos productivos y nivel de utilización de semillas y datos de variables agroclimáticas, se aplicó un modelo que permitió medir los cambios interanuales de los índices de productividad de los rubros en estudio en el período 1961 – 2013. Finalmente se presentan los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación del modelo y se analizan los factores de eficiencia e ineficiencia que inciden en el comportamiento de los índices de productividad. El estudio refleja que el cultivo del frijol es el rubro que presenta un mayor ritmo de crecimiento interanual con un 12%, seguido del cultivo del arroz con un 11% y el cultivo del maíz con un 5%.
description: Tutor: Carlos Alberto Zúniga-González, PhD
Prospecting plant growth promoting bacteria and cyanobacteria as options for enrichment of macro- and micronutrients in grains in rice–wheat cropping sequence
Creators: name: Anuj Rana
name: Soumya Ranjan Kabi
name: Verma, Shikha
name: Anurup Adak
name: Madan Pal
name: Yashbir Singh Shivay
name: Prasanna, Radha
name: Nain, Lata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The influence of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) and cyanobacteria, alone and in combination, was investigated on micronutrient enrichment and yield in rice–wheat sequence, over a period of two years. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) in both crops indicated significant differences in soil dehydrogenase activity and micronutrient enrichment in grains (Fe, Zn in rice, and Cu, Mn in wheat). The combined inoculation of Anabaena oscillarioides CR3, Brevundimonas diminuta PR7, and Ochrobactrum anthropi PR10 (T6) significantly increased nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) content and improved rice yield by 21.2%, as compared to the application of recommended dose of NPK fertilizers (T2). The treatment T5 (Providencia sp. PR3 + B. diminuta PR7 + O. anthropi PR10) recorded an enhancement of 13–16% in Fe, Zn, Cu, and Mn concentrations, respectively, in rice grains. In wheat, Providencia sp. PW5 (T6) recorded the highest yield (5.23 Mg ha−1) and significantly higher enrichment of Fe and Cu (44–45%) in the grains. This study highlighted the promise of combinations of cyanobacteria/bacteria and their synergistic action in biofortification and providing savings of 40–60 kg N ha−1. Future focus needs to be towards integrating such promising environment-friendly and environmentally sustainable options in nutrient management strategies for this cropping sequence.
Unveiling the Distinct Formation Pathways of the Inner and Outer Discs of the Milky Way with Bayesian Machine Learning
Creators: name: Ciucă, Ioana
name: Kawata, Daisuke
name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Davies, Guy R.
name: Grand, Robert J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a Bayesian Machine Learning framework called BINGO (Bayesian INference for Galactic archaeOlogy) centred around a Bayesian neural network. After being trained on the APOGEE and \emph{Kepler} asteroseismic age data, BINGO is used to obtain precise relative stellar age estimates with uncertainties for the APOGEE stars. We carefully construct a training set to minimise bias and apply BINGO to a stellar population that is similar to our training set. We then select the 17,305 stars with ages from BINGO and reliable kinematic properties obtained from \textit{Gaia} DR2. By combining the age and chemo-kinematical information, we dissect the Galactic disc stars into three components, namely, the thick disc (old, high-[$α$/Fe], [$α$/Fe] $\gtrsim$ 0.12), the thin disc (young, low-[$α$/Fe]) and the Bridge, which is a region between the thick and thin discs. Our results indicate that the thick disc formed at an early epoch only in the inner region, and the inner disc smoothly transforms to the thin disc. We found that the outer disc follows a different chemical evolution pathway from the inner disc. The outer metal-poor stars only start forming after the compact thick disc phase has completed and the star-forming gas disc extended outwardly with metal-poor gas accretion. We found that in the Bridge region the range of [Fe/H] becomes wider with decreasing age, which suggests that the Bridge region corresponds to the transition phase from the smaller chemically well-mixed thick to a larger thin disc with a metallicity gradient.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Beyond obedience: Lessons about the mass violence of ordinary people through an examination of European witch-hunting
Creators: name: Leighton, Paul S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation argues that an important element of mass violence and genocide is the involvement of ordinary people, which Arendt described as the banality of evil. The question addressed here is how people who are not violent in their own lives can nevertheless come together into a killing machine that can wreak holocaust. This question is ultimately about the system of social control under which people act and it is investigated by using a case study--witch-hunting in early modern Europe. The longevity and intensity of this direct, face-to-face violence against women provides a rich source of data for generating theory about how ordinary people participate in extraordinary evil. Much of the little research that does address this question is based directly on Milgram's research on obedience to authority. My research argues that obedience per se has limited explanatory power, but the experiments are useful for generating ideas about other dimensions of explanation. In general, we must understand that the context within which people act relates to a bureaucracy or command hierarchy that organizes people into a killing machine. This context helps people see their actions in a positive light and alienates them from the suffering that results from their actions. First, authorities in a society create a definition of the situation that authorizes the destruction of others. It defines others as an immediate threat, and thus confers glory, heroism, identity and meaning on those willing to do something in defense of The Good. Second, the bureaucratic organization helps divide labor and diffuse responsibility by creating small, repetitive tasks. This behavior becomes normalized, and the switch to an 'agentic state' translates moral issues into a formal rationality emphasizing efficient means to achieve role expectations. Third, the victim group must not only be dehumanized, but demonized if they are to be systematically slaughtered. Conditions that create difficult life times are likely to cause moral panics and promote the creation of scapegoats or folk devils.
Nucleon and $Δ$ resonances in $γp \to K^+ Σ^0(1385)$ photoproduction
Creators: name: Wang, Ai-Chao
name: Wang, Wen-Ling
name: Huang, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photoproduction of $γp \to K^+ Σ^0(1385)$ is investigated based on an effective Lagrangian approach using the tree-level Born approximation, with the purpose of understanding the reaction mechanisms and resonance contents and their associated parameters in this reaction. In addition to the $t$-channel $K$ and $K^\ast(892)$ exchanges, $s$-channel nucleon ($N$) exchange, $u$-channel $Λ$ exchange, and generalized contact term, the exchanges of a minimum number of $N$ and $Δ$ resonances in the $s$ channel are taken into account in constructing the reaction amplitudes to describe the experimental data. It is found that the most recent differential cross-section data from the CLAS Collaboration can be well reproduced by including one of the $N(1895){1/2}^-$, $Δ(1900){1/2}^-$, and $Δ(1930){5/2}^-$ resonances. The reaction mechanisms of $γp \to K^+ Σ^0(1385)$ are discussed in detail, and the predictions of the beam and target asymmetries for this reaction are given. The cross sections of $γp \to K^0 Σ^+(1385)$ are shown to be able to further constrain the theoretical models and pin down the resonance contents for $γp \to K^+ Σ^0(1385)$.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Version published in PRD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1704.04562, arXiv:1810.07012
International cooperation and the rules of change: A neo-institutional approach to the Helsinki process
Creators: name: Visentin, Annamaria
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been an important agent of international cooperation and change. The present analysis spans from 1975, the year in which the CSCE was established, to 1990, the year in which the CSCE was endowed with a permanent organizational structure. This early CSCE phase is known as "the Helsinki process". The present study looks at the impact of this process upon the end of the Cold War in Europe. The analysis begins with a critique of traditional regime theory and justifies the adoption of a neo-institutional approach to the study of the CSCE. What the author calls a neo-institutional approach (1) puts the evolution of a regime or its historical development at the center of analysis and (2) focuses on the interaction between international institutions and non-governmental organizations--respectively "above" and "below" the level of the state. The author maintains that well grounded institutions are ones which exert a broad societal impact. The main assumption is that the more "informal" an institution, the broader its societal impact. This appreciation of informality stems from the consideration of the "constitutive" and/or transformational nature of institutional rules. To this effect, the author suggests that institutions be seen, first and foremost, as "rule-making" processes. The study is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the formation of CSCE rules through a linguistic analysis of the main CSCE text: the Helsinki Final Act. The second part looks at the actual impact of CSCE rules, through an analysis of the principal social practices and/or epistemic communities which emerged in the wake of the Final Act. The third part looks at the recent transformation of the CSCE into a "formal" organization (OSCE). Empirical findings confirm the author's main contention that the Helsinki process or institution exerted a broad societal impact. This impact was facilitated by the informality of the process, which stimulated participation "from below"--of peace movements and human rights groups in particular--while triggering a merging of NGO discourses in support of the main Helsinki idea of a linkage between security and human rights. This linkage worked to undermine the Cold War in Europe--or the legitimacy of the political-military status quo--as it was perceived and sustained by society at large as the basis of a new, more humane security "order-to-be" beyond the East-West divide.
Search for Narrow Nucleon Resonances below Pion Threshold in the H(e,e'pi^+)X and D(e,e'p)X Reactions
Creators: name: Kohl, M.
name: Antelo, M. Ases
name: Ayerbe, C.
name: Baumann, D.
name: Boehm, R.
name: Bosnar, D.
name: Ding, M.
name: Distler, M. O.
name: Friedrich, J.
name: Llongo, J. Garcia
name: Jennewein, P.
name: Manas, G. Jover
name: Merkel, H.
name: Merle, P.
name: Mueller, U.
name: Neuhausen, R.
name: Nungesser, L.
name: Benito, R. Perez
name: Pochodzalla, J.
name: Potokar, M.
name: Rangacharyulu, C.
name: Richter, A.
name: Schrieder, G.
name: Seimetz, M.
name: Walcher, Th.
name: Weis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two series of high-resolution coincidence experiments at the three-spectrometer facility at MAMI, the H(e,e'pi^+)X and D(e,e'p)X reactions were studied to search for narrow nucleon resonances below pion threshold. The missing-mass resolution was 0.6 to 1.6 MeV/c^2 (FWHM) in the proton experiment and 0.9 to 1.3 MeV/c^2 in the deuteron experiment. The experiments covered the missing-mass region from the neutron mass up to about 1050 and 1100 MeV/c^2, respectively. None of our measurements showed a signal for narrow resonances to a level of down to 10^-4 with respect to the neutron peak in the missing-mass spectra.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Mapping the reach of a rural Transitions Nurse Program for veterans with geographic information systems
Creators: name: Connelly, Brigid
name: Motta, Lexus L. Ujano-De
name: Leonard, Chelsea
name: Ashlea Mayberry
name: Kelley, Lynette
name: Gaskin, David
name: Gilmartin, Heather M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Guiding Questions for 2018 TNP Outcomes Report Presentation with TN’s and Champions.
Dinichthyidae Newberry 1885
Creators: name: Carr, Robert K.
name: Hlavin, William J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Placodermi
Arthrodira
Dinichthyidae

description: FAMILY DINICHTHYIDAE NEWBERRY, 1885   Diagnosis (emended from Newberry, 1885): Same as for the genus and species after the present revision.
description: Published as part of Carr, Robert K. & Hlavin, William J., 2010, Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira), pp. 195-222 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x, http://zenodo.org/record/4890044
Cyanobacterial inoculation elicits plant defense response and enhanced Zn mobilization in maize hybrids
Creators: name: Prasanna, Radha
name: Ngangom Bidyarani
name: Babu, Santosh
name: Hossain, Firoz
name: Yashbir Singh Shivay
name: Nain, Lata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The present investigation evaluated the effect of inoculating different cyanobacterial formulations on a set of hybrids of maize, in terms of plant defense enzyme activity, soil health parameters, Zn concentration, and yields. Microbial inoculation showed significant effects on accumulation of Zn in flag leaf, with A4 (Anabaena–Azotobacter biofilm) recording the highest values. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that both the hybrids and cyanobacterial treatments brought about significant variation in terms of glomalin-related soil proteins and polysaccharides in soil and the activity of defense enzymes in roots and shoots of the plants. Cyanobacterial inoculants—A4 (Anabaena–Azotobacter biofilm) and A1 (Anabaena sp.–Providencia sp., CW1 + PW5) enhanced the activity of peroxidase, PAL and PPO in roots, which also showed a positive correlation with Zn concentration in the flag leaf. Grain yield ranged from 7.0 to 7.29 t/ha among the different inoculants. Comparative analyses of treatments showed that A3 (Anabaena–Trichoderma-biofilmed formulation) and hybrid B8 (Bio-9681) were superior in terms of parameters investigated. This represents the first report on the genotypic responses of maize hybrids to cyanobacteria-based inoculants. Future research should focus on dissecting the role of root exudates and cyanobacteria-mediated Zn mobilization pathway in maize.
Integrated management of green manures and nitrogen fertilizer on the growth of transplant aman rice
Creators: name: Sarkar, M. A. R.
name: Pramanik, M. Y. A.
name: Samad, M. A.
name: Islam, M. S.
name: Sarkar, M. A. R.
name: Pramanik, M. Y. A.
name: Samad, M. A.
name: Islam, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Green manure
subject: Nitrogen
subject: Cow dung
subject: Transplant aman rice
subject: Growth

description: A field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh to study the effect of integrated management of green manures and nitrogen fertilizer on the growth of transplant aman rice (cv.BRRIdhan32).The experiment comprised of three green manures viz., Sesbania rostrata, Sesbania aculeata and Crotalaria juncea and 5 nitrogen (N) levels viz., 0, 20, 40, 60 and 80 kg ha-i. Absolute control and recommended dose of nitrogen (i.e., 80 kg N ha-1) and @ 20 t ha-1 of well-decomposed cow dung were also included. Growth attributes of transplant aman rice such as plant height, leaf area index (LAI), leaf area duration (LAD), dry matter production and grain yield due to green manures in combination with 40 kg N ha-1 were statistically identical to 80 kg N ha-1. On the other hand, cow dung at 20 t ha-1 was comparable with sole green manuies in these parameters . Growth attributes showed higher values with the incorporation of green manures in combination with higher levels of nitrogen. The growth performance of rice due to using of cow dung at 20 t ha-1 varied and it recorded lower values than that of 80 kg N ha-i. Growth attributes of transplant aman rice with green manures S. rostrata and S. aculeata in combination with nitrogen were at par and C. juncea recorded lower values. All green manuring crops in combination with 40 kg N ha' produced the highest grain yield in transplant aman rice.
Chemical changes in mango as influenced by different postharvest treatments
Creators: name: Barua, G.
name: Mondal, M. F.
name: Barua, G.
name: Mondal, M. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Mango
subject: Postharvest treatment
subject: Chemical changes

description: An experiment was carried out at the Laboratories of the Department of Horticulture and the Department of Biochemistry of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during June to September, 2003. Mature green Mango fruits of the varieties Fazli and Amrapali were treated with different postharvest treatments viz, control, hot water treatment at 55°C for 5 minutes, low temperature storage at 15°C, polythene bagging and hot water treatment (55°C for 5 minutes) followed by polythene bagging + low temperature storage at 15°C (hot water + polythene bagging + low temperature storage). The fruits were assessed for chemical changes during storage. Some of the chemical properties such as sugar content (reducing, non-reducing and total), total soluble solid and pH of pulp increased while titratable acidity and vitamin c (ascorbic acid) contents decreased with the increase in the duration of storage.