cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 4 of The extracellular thioredoxin Etrx3 is required for macrophage infection in Rhodococcus equi
Creators: name: Mourenza, Álvaro
name: Collado, Cristina
name: Bravo-Santano, Natalia
name: Gil, José A.
name: Mateos, Luís M.
name: Letek, Michal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. List of bacterial strains, cell lines and plasmids used in this study.
THEORY OF MIND, DIVERGENT THINKING AND CREATIVE PERSONALITY IN CHILDREN AGED 4 TO 6 YEARS
Creators: name: Misailidi, Plousia
name: Tsiloni, Eva
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2020
Subjects: Creativity; Creative personality; Divergent thinking; Fluency; Originality; Theory of mind

description: The study examined the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and two indices of children's creativity: divergent thinking and creative personality. Seventy-five children aged 4 to 6 years (Μ = 4.7 years) took part in the study. Children’s ToM was assessed using four standard ToM tasks, three first-order and one second-order ToM task. Divergent thinking was assessed with the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM, Moran, Milgram, Sawyers, & Fu, 1983) and creative personality was measured with the Teachers’ Evaluation of Students’ Creativity (TESC, Runco, 1984). The results showed that ToM task performance was significantly related to children's fluency but not to originality scores in the MSFM. Children with higher performance in the ToM tasks had higher scores in the creative personality measure. Limitations of the study and future directions are explored.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 16, No 2 (2019)
Farm Policy
Creators: name: University Of Western Australia
name: University Of Western Australia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Livestock Production/Industries

description: U.S. Beef Production and Imports from Australia by M. T. Gibson; The Prospects for Lot-Feeding in Australia by B. Quinnell; Data Processing Services for Farm Managment by R.G. Mauldon; Land Clearing versus Heavier Stocking at Kojonup by J. Stirton; Alternatives in Land Development by R. W. Prunster.
ΤHE EFFECTS OF GROUP MEMBERSHIP AND PERCEIVED HUMANNESS OF VICTIMS ON MOTIVES FOR PUNISHMENT AND JUSTICE DECISIONS
Creators: name: Fousiani, Kyriaki
name: Demoulin, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2020
Subjects: Infrahumanization; Intergroup relations; Justice; Punishment; Retributive motives; Restorative motives; Utilitarian motives

description: Information about a victim’s emotional state influences observers’ justice-providing reactions. This study (N = 124) tested people’s motives for distribution of justice depending on whether emotions with differential social value were experienced by a victim. Uniquely human (UH) emotions are highly valued compared to non-uniquely human (NUH) emotions as they differentiate humans from animals. Moreover, people attribute UH emotions more to ingroup than to outgroup members. Such a bias, however, does not occur regarding NUH emotions. During judgmental processes, motives for punishment may vary depending on whether the main goal is to punish past harm-doing (i.e., retributive motives for punishment), integrate harm-doers to the society and help them correct their behavior (i.e., restorative motives for punishment), or control harm-doer’s future behavior through deterring or incapacitative practices (i.e., utilitarian motives for punishment). In line with our hypothesis, UH, as compared to NUH negative emotions of victims, triggered observer’s utilitarian motives for punishment. Moreover, utilitarian motives were activated when ingroup victims experienced UH rather than NUH emotions. Unexpectedly, when outgroup victims experienced NUH negative emotions, utilitarian punishments were also triggered. Finally, as expected, emotions (UH as compared to NUH) and group membership (ingroup versus outgroup) of the victims had no effect on either retributive or restorative motives.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 16, No 2 (2019)
Farm Policy, Volume 4, Number 4
Creators: name: University Of Western Australia
name: University Of Western Australia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Farmers, Scientists and Economists by H. P. Schapper; The Use of Experimental Results in Farm Planning by B. R. Martin and B. R. Davidson; Investment in the Kimberley Cattle Industry by D. W. G. Treloar; Farm Population and Land Development in Western Australia by J. S. Nalson and A. W. Hogstorm; Understanding the Economy of Western Australia by M. L. Parker.
Intermittency and scale-free networks: a dynamical model for human language complexity
Creators: name: Allegrini, Paolo
name: Grigolini, Paolo
name: Palatella, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we try to model certain features of human language complexity by means of advanced concepts borrowed from statistical mechanics. We use a time series approach, the diffusion entropy method (DE), to compute the complexity of an italian corpus of newspapers and magazines. We find that the anomalous scaling index is compatible with a simple dynamical model, a random walk on a complex scale-free network, which is linguistically related to Saussurre's paradigms. The network complexity is independently measured on the same corpus, looking at the co-occurrence of nouns and verbs. This connection of cognitive complexity with long-range time correlations also provides an explanation for the famous Zipf's law in terms of the generalized central limit theorem.
Artamus personatus subsp. munna Mathews
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Artamidae
Artamus
Artamus personatus
Artamus personatus munna mathews

description: Artamus personatus munna Mathews
Artamus personatus munna Mathews, 1912a: 94 (New South Wales).
Now Artamus personatus (Gould, 1841). See Mathews, 1930: 636; Mayr, 1962b: 163–164; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 563; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 306.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665098, male, collected at Moree, 29.29S, 149.53E (Times Atlas), New South Wales, Australia, in November 1898, from the T. Thorpe Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 7300) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype but did not indicate that he had other specimens or give a range for the form. The holotype bears the original label, Math- ews Collection and type labels, and a Rothschild type label that is filled in by someone other than Hartert.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 64, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
A Novel Approach to Predicting Exceptional Growth in Research
Creators: name: Klavans, Richard
name: Boyack, Kevin W.
name: Murdick, Dewey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The prediction of exceptional or surprising growth in research is an issue with deep roots and few practical solutions. In this study we develop and validate a novel approach to forecasting growth in highly specific research communities. Each research community is represented by a cluster of papers. Multiple indicators were tested, and a composite indicator was created that predicts which research communities will experience exceptional growth over the next three years. The accuracy of this predictor was tested using hundreds of thousands of community-level forecasts and was found to exceed the performance benchmarks established in Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's (IARPA) Foresight Using Scientific Exposition (FUSE) program in six of nine major fields in science. Furthermore, ten of eleven disciplines within the Computing Technologies field met the benchmarks. Specific detailed forecast examples are given and evaluated, and a critical evaluation of the forecasting approach is also provided.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, 10 tables inline
Artamus phoeus , Ingram 1906
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Artamidae
Artamus
Artamus phoeus

description: Artamus phoeus Ingram
Artamus phoeus Ingram, 1906: 115 (Alexandria).
Now Artamus superciliosus (Gould, 1837). See Mathews, 1923b: 235–242; 1930: 636; Mayr, 1962b: 164; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 564; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 306.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 665203, adult male, collected at Alexandria, 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, in May 1905, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 28). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: This is another case in which Ingram’s types were exchanged to the Rothschild Collection while the remainder of the collection was deposited in the Mathews Collection. In the original description of phoeus, Ingram (1906: 115) neither designat- ed a type nor enumerated his specimens. Both male and female are mentioned and one set of measurements is given. In his later paper, Ingram (1907: 410) listed as Stalker’s no. 28, two males and a female, dated May 1905. All three of these specimens are in AMNH. Hartert (1920: 455) listed as the type of Artamus phoeus a male specimen collected on 28 May 1905 by Stalker at Alexandria and bearing ‘‘no. 626.’’ The number ‘‘626’’ given by Hartert appears on all three labels and is the number of this species in Mathews’ (1908) ‘‘Handlist.’’ Of the three specimens, only AMNH 665203 bears Stalker’s number ‘‘28,’’ which Hartert correctly read as ‘‘28 May.’’ The number ‘‘28’’ is unique to this specimen and by listing it as the type, Hartert designated it the lectotype. In addition to Stalker’s label it bears a Rothschild type label filled in by Hartert.
The other two specimens were in the Mathews Collection (nos. 2417 and 2418), cataloged as Artamus superciliosus with ‘‘ A. phaeus ’’ added in the margin and the Rothschild label on both is printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews.’’ Someone has labeled the male, AMNH 665203 (Mathews no. 2417), as a paralectotype and this is correct. Someone whose handwriting I don’t recognize has added an AMNH type label to the female, AMNH 665204 (Mathews no. 2418), presumably because someone (Mathews?) had written ‘‘TYPE ♀ ’’ on Stalker’s small tag. This is not correct and I have removed the type label and marked its Rothschild label as ‘‘ paralectotype.’’
[Cambellornis superciliosus pallida Mathews]
The entire description of this form in Mathews (1916a: 61) reads: ‘‘Differs from C. s. superciliosus (Gould) in being paler. Type, South-west Australia.’’ There is no evidence that any specimen of Artamus superciliosus in AMNH might have served as Mathews’ type.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 65, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
title: Eucharistic liturgies of the Church of England 1945-1980
Creators: name: Cassidy, James Michael
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1981

description: This thesis examines the 'development of Anglican Eucharistic theology from 1945 to the present day as shown by the texts used for the Service of Holy Communion. Both authorized and unauthorized Orders as well as official publications are used as primary sources. In order to gain insight into the meanings of the texts, the debates of the Convocations, the National Assembly of the Church of England, and the General Synod which concerned the Orders are looked at very closely. The writings of the members of the Liturgical Commission of the General Synod are given special consideration. Also used are the various books and pamphlets which appeared as commentaries on the new Orders (often before authorization), especially where they reflected the position of the Catholic or Evangelical wings of the Church of England. The thesis shows how the Church of England progressed towards the Alternative Service Book and shows how the theological emphases of the Church of England moved, or were perceived to move. The conclusion is drawn that the Church of England has developed from the Book of Common Prayer, fixed in what might be called 'the Cranmerian position', to the Alternative Service Book which deliberately allows individuals to take part in the Eucharistic Mystery with varying insights into its theology.
Farm Policy, Volume 5, Number 1
Creators: name: University Of Western Australia
name: University Of Western Australia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: A National Drought Fodder Reserve by B. R. Davidson; Effects of the Pricing Decisions of the Western Australian Egg Marketing Board by R. G. Mauldon; Some Thoughts on Wool Prices by R. Byron; A New "No-Risk" Wool Scheme by J. W. Longworth; The Service Industries of Western Australia by M. L. Parker.
Search for Fast Radio Bursts in the Direction of the Galaxies M31 and M33
Creators: name: Fedorova, V. A.
name: Rodin, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of a search for individual fast radio bursts with the Large Phased Array of the Lebedev Physical Institute at 111 MHz during July 2012 through August 2018 are presented. The signals were distinguished by convolving the data with a template with a fixed form, followed by convolution with test dispersion measures. Areas of sky containing the galaxies M31 and M33 were chosen for the search. Three radio bursts were detected in the vicinity of M33, five in the vicinity of M31, and one in a region offset from the center of M31 by an hour in right ascension. The dispersion measures of the detected bursts range from 203 to 1262 $ pc \cdot cm^{-3}$.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Farm Policy, Volume 5, Number 2
Creators: name: University Of Western Australia
name: University Of Western Australia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The Martin Report - Extracts; Agricultural Education in Australia and Other Countries by C. Trotman; A Simple Step Towards Better Agricultural Education? by A. W. Humphries; Agricultural Education for Western Australia at Other than University Level by J. S. Nalson; The Agricultural College Viewpoint by R. I. Herriot; A Review of Agricultural Education in Colleges by R. N. Farquhar; Technical Training for Agriculture by H. S. Williams.
Search for Colour Singlet and Colour Reconnection Effects in Hadronic Z Decays at LEP
Creators: name: L3 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is performed in symmetric 3-jet hadronic Z decay events for evidence of colour singlet production or colour reconnection effects. Asymmetries in the angular separation of particles are found to be sensitive indicators of such effects. Upper limits on the level of colour singlet production and colour reconnection effects are established for a variety of models.
Farm Policy, Volume 5, Number 3
Creators: name: University Of Western Australia
name: University Of Western Australia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: Borrowing for Farm Development by C. I. A. Beale; The Farm Labour Force in Western Australia by J. S. Nalson; Stabilisation in Australian Agriculture by D. H. McKay; Trends in Western Australian Agriculture by J. Carlin.
Impact Evaluation of New Irrigation Technology in Crete: Correcting for Selectivity Bias
Creators: name: Vrachioli, M.
name: Stefanou, S.
name: Tzouvelekas, V.
name: Vrachioli, M.
name: Stefanou, S.
name: Tzouvelekas, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The interest in promoting food and water security through development projects has evolved to the need for tools that can evaluate the impact of these projects, and to ensure that the projects reach the most vulnerable (Gertler et al., 2011). This study brings together the stochastic frontier model with impact evaluation methodology to measure the impact on farmers’ technical efficiency (TE) within a modern irrigation technology transition framework. In this study, we apply the Heckman (1979) and Greene (2010) models to correct for selectivity bias that arises from unobserved variables, and then we measure and compare technical efficiency scores (TE) resulting from these models. The empirical application will use data covering 56 small-scale greenhouse farms, mainly cultivating vegetables, from the Ierapetra Valley in the Southeast part of the island of Crete (Greece) for the cropping years from 2009 to 2013. The results reveal that the average technical efficiency for farmers who adopted sprinklers is lower than the group of non-adopters when the presence of selectivity bias cannot be rejected. This outcome can be explained by the fact that after the adoption of new technologies, adopters may need more time to learn how to use the technology efficiently.
Information exchange links, knowledge exposure, and adoption of agricultural technologies in Northern Uganda
Creators: name: Shikuku, K.M.
name: Shikuku, K.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Farmer to farmer extension
subject: information exchange links
subject: adoption
subject: climate smart agriculture
subject: social learning
subject: Uganda

description: Recent evidence has shown that direct provision of agricultural training to selected individuals as knowledge injection points (IPs) can help to implement a farmer to farmer extension approach. This study systematically assesses the determinants of information exchange links between trained IPs and their neighbors and the subsequent effect on awareness, knowledge, and adoption of improved varieties of maize and groundnuts and conservation farming. Using a panel dataset from northern Uganda, results of econometric analysis showed that ‘proximity’ in terms of sex, education, assets, and cultivated land, influenced information exchange links. Information exchange links increased awareness and knowledge for all the technologies, and adoption of maize varieties. Selection criterion for IPs, therefore, matters and considering ‘proximity’ between IPs and other farmers is important in designing farmer to farmer extension programs.
Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu Domains
Creators: name: Bal, Kaushik
name: Mohanta, Kaushik
name: Roy, Prosenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 46E35, 49J52, 54C35

description: Bourgain et al.(2001) proved that for $p>1$ and smooth bounded domain $Ω\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N$, \begin{equation*} \lim\limits_{s\to1}(1-s)\iint \limits_{Ω\times Ω}\frac{\lvert f(x)-f(y) \rvert^p}{\lvert x-y \rvert^{N+sp}}dx dy=κ\int \limits_Ω\lvert \nabla f(x) \rvert^p dx \end{equation*} for all $f\in L^p(Ω)$. This gives a characterization of $W^{1,p}(Ω)$ by means of $W^{s,p}(Ω)$ seminorms only. For the case $p=1$, Dávila(2002) proved that when $Ω$ is a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary, \begin{equation*} \lim\limits_{s\to1}(1-s)\iint \limits_{Ω\times Ω}\frac{\lvert f(x)-f(y) \rvert}{\lvert x-y \rvert^{N+s}}dx dy=κ[f]_{BV(Ω)} \end{equation*} for all $f\in L^1(Ω)$. This characterizes $BV(Ω)$ in terms of $W^{s,1}(Ω)$ seminorm. In this paper we extend the first result and partially extend the second result to extension domains.
Public Attitudes Towards the Use of Vaccination and Antibiotics in Animals in Canada
Creators: name: Muringai, V.
name: Goddard, E.
name: Muringai, V.
name: Goddard, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: attitudes
subject: antibiotics
subject: vaccines
subject: animals
subject: trust
subject: animal husbandry systems

description: Public concerns and attitudes might influence their acceptance of technologies and consumption of food products. In this study, public attitudes about the use of vaccines and antibiotics in animals are compared. Data are from three national online surveys that were conducted in Canada in October 2012, November 2015 and January 2017. Data are analysed using Tobit regressions and net agreement percentages. Overall, respondents have more positive attitudes towards the use of vaccines in animals as compared to antibiotics. Trust in groups or institutions responsible for food and attitudes towards animal husbandry systems significantly influence public attitudes towards the use of vaccines and antibiotics in animals. Therefore, maintaining or building public trust in groups or institutions responsible for food through competence and transparency, for example is important for acceptance of the use of vaccines and antibiotics in animals.
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies
Creators: name: Koprowski, M. P.
name: Coppin, K. E. K.
name: Geach, J. E.
name: Dudzeviciute, U.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Almaini, O.
name: An, Fangxia
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Chen, Chian-Chou
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Gullberg, B.
name: Hartley, W.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Karska, A.
name: Maltby, D.
name: Michałowski, M. J.
name: Pope, A.
name: Salim, S.
name: Scott, D.
name: Simpson, C. J.
name: Simpson, J. M.
name: Swinbank, A. M.
name: Thomson, A. P.
name: Wardlow, J. L.
name: van der Werf, P. P.
name: Whitaker, K. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse 870um Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically-selected z~3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), as well as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUBA-2 mapping of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field. We find that our ALMA-bright LBGs lie significantly off the locally calibrated IRX-beta relation and tend to have relatively bluer rest-frame UV slopes (as parametrised by beta), given their high values of the 'infrared excess' (IRX=L_IR/L_UV), relative to the average 'local' IRX-beta relation. We attribute this finding in part to the young ages of the underlying stellar populations but we find that the main reason behind the unusually blue UV slopes are the relatively shallow slopes of the corresponding dust attenuation curves. We show that, when stellar masses are being established via SED fitting, it is absolutely crucial to allow the attenuation curves to vary (rather than fixing it on Calzetti-like law), where we find that the inappropriate curves may underestimate the resulting stellar masses by a factor of ~2-3x on average. In addition, we find these LBGs to have relatively high specific star-formation rates (sSFRs), dominated by the dust component, as quantified via the fraction of obscured star formation ( f_obs = SFR_IR/SFR_(UV+IR)). We conclude that the ALMA-bright LBGs are, by selection, massive galaxies undergoing a burst of a star formation (large sSFRs, driven, for example, by secular or merger processes), with a likely geometrical disconnection of the dust and stars, responsible for producing shallow dust attenuation curves.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures. Resubmitted to MNRAS after referee report
Seed bank dynamics and the role of mutualisms in the early-life ecology of emerging alien invasive plants: Acacia paradoxa in South Africa
Creators: name: Dickson Mazibuko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Acacia
paradoxa
Honours

description: Seed banks provide a persistent source of propagules for recruitment and establishment and are a very important factor for the success in recruitment, persistence and spread of many invasive alien plants worldwide. Where eradication of an invasive plant species is deemed feasible, the depletion of its seed bank is a crucial goal. The study of seed bank dynamics (in particular seed density, viability, longevity, and germinability) is a vital component of the quantification of invasion risks and of guidelines to direct eradication programmes. In this study the seed bank dynamics of Acacia paradoxa , an invasive alien tree from Australia, targeted for eradication on Table Mountain, South Africa, was investigated. Seed densities in the soil were as high as 3,567 seeds /m2. Seed viability was very high (97%) and there was no evidence of a decline in viability of seeds with increasing age. Natural germinability was very low (7%), but this is greatly enhanced by germination triggers such as heat (98% at 100 0C, 35% at 60 0C) and smoke (82%). Seed bank depletion, in burnt areas after the 2009 large and intense fire, ranged from 64.3% to 100% while natural germination depleted seed banks with 3% to 12%. The fire stimulated dense seedling recruitment (236 seedlings/m 2), and the density of A. Paradoxa seedlings was significantly negatively correlated with the density and number of species of taxa plant taxa ( p = 0.036 and 0.032, respectively). Implications of these results for the eradication effort include the following: 1) the species has a very large seed bank, and seeds are stimulated to germinate by fynbos fires; 2) prescribed fires can be used to reduce the size of the seed bank; 3) all control operations need to be carefully co-ordinated with fires; and 4) all seedlings must be removed before they reach reproductive age. The role of mutualisms has been determined. DNA sequencing of the intergenic spacer (IGS) region of bacterial symbionts isolated from the plant identified the bacteria associated with the roots of A. paradoxa as taxa in the genus Bradyrhizobium and Rhizobium leguminosarum viciae, both of which are known symbionts of Australian acacias in their native ranges. Experiments in the greenhouse showed that the bacterial strains form effective nodules. Nodulation significantly increased plant biomass (P= 0.0003). These results show that A. paradoxa benefits from its association with these bacteria, but it remains to be tested how this relationship affects the competitiveness of the species in its new range.
description: Part of the requirements for the award of an Honors degree
The Rule of Space: Directing Emotion Through Empty Areas
Creators: name: Oliveira D., M. Jorge
Publisher: name: EmpowerVerse Media, Information & Communication Agency
Year: 2025
Subjects: photography
rule of space
composition

description: Every great photograph tells a story. But sometimes, what speaks the loudest is not the subject itself; but the space around it. This article explores the Rule of Space, a powerful composition technique that uses empty areas in the frame to guide emotion, suggest motion, and deepen meaning. Rooted in both visual psychology and artistic tradition, the Rule of Space is more than just a framing trick; it’s a storytelling force. Whether you're just starting out in photography or already experienced with composition, understanding how and why space works will elevate your imagery from good to unforgettable.
Predicting the Politics of an Image Using Webly Supervised Data
Creators: name: Thomas, Christopher
name: Kovashka, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The news media shape public opinion, and often, the visual bias they contain is evident for human observers. This bias can be inferred from how different media sources portray different subjects or topics. In this paper, we model visual political bias in contemporary media sources at scale, using webly supervised data. We collect a dataset of over one million unique images and associated news articles from left- and right-leaning news sources, and develop a method to predict the image's political leaning. This problem is particularly challenging because of the enormous intra-class visual and semantic diversity of our data. We propose a two-stage method to tackle this problem. In the first stage, the model is forced to learn relevant visual concepts that, when joined with document embeddings computed from articles paired with the images, enable the model to predict bias. In the second stage, we remove the requirement of the text domain and train a visual classifier from the features of the former model. We show this two-stage approach facilitates learning and outperforms several strong baselines. We also present extensive qualitative results demonstrating the nuances of the data.
Multiple Wilson and Jacobi-Pineiro polynomials
Creators: name: Beckermann, B.
name: Coussement, J.
name: Van Assche, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45, 42C05

description: We introduce multiple Wilson polynomials, which give a new example of multiple orthogonal polynomials (Hermite-Pade polynomials) of type II. These polynomials can be written as a Jacobi-Pineiro transform, which is a generalization of the Jacobi transform for Wilson polynomials, found by T.H. Koornwinder. Here we need to introduce Jacobi and Jacobi-Pineiro polynomials with complex parameters. Some explicit formulas are provided for both Jacobi-Pineiro and multiple Wilson polynomials, one of them in terms of Kampe de Feriet series. Finally we look at some limiting relations and construct a part of a multiple AT-Askey table.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
Manulea postmaculosa Volynkin & Saldaitis 2021, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Saldaitis, Aidas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Manulea
Manulea postmaculosa

description: Manulea postmaculosa (Matsumura, 1927), stat. rev. & comb. nov.
(Figs 9–15, 20, 21, 26)
 Lithosia postmaculosa Matsumura, 1927, Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 19 (1): 66, pl. 5, fig. 9 (Type locality: [Taiwan, Nantou County, Meiyuan] Formosa, Baibara).
 Type material examined. Photograph of the holotype (Fig. 12): female, “Baibara, Y. Saito Kikuchi” / “ Lithosia postmaculosa ” / red label “Type Matsumura” (EIHU).
 Other material examined: long series of both sexes from Taoyuan, Pingtung, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Nantou, Ilan, Chiayi and Taipei Counties of Taiwan, gen. slide Nos.: ZSM Arct. 2020-160, ZSM Arct. 2020-162, ZSM Arct. 2020-164 (males), ZSM Arct. 2020-161, ZSM Arct. 2020-163, ZSM Arct. 2020-165 (females) (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 15–16 mm in males and 15.5– 16 mm in females. The species is variable in its wing coloration. However, the male and the female genitalia of different forms display no remarkable differences. The differences between M. postmaculosa and M. lienquan are discussed in details above in the diagnosis of the latter species.
 Distribution. The species is endemic to Taiwan Island (Fang, 1982; 2000 partim; Chang 1989; Heppner 2012, as costipuncta postmaculosa).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2021, Two new species of Manulea Wallengren, 1863 from southwestern China and northern Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 389-397 in Zootaxa 4991 (2) on page 393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.2.12, http://zenodo.org/record/5030434
The Effects of Private Stocks versus Public Stocks on Food Price Volatility
Creators: name: Chavas, J.-P.
name: Li, J.
name: Chavas, J.-P.
name: Li, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food price volatility
subject: price dynamics
subject: storage
subject: private stock
subject: public stock
subject: quantile

description: This paper investigates the role of storage and its effects on price dynamics and volatility with an application to food markets. It investigates the differences between private stock and public stock as they affect the distribution of market price. Based on a reduced-form approach, the analysis relies on quantile autoregression (QAR) as a flexible representation of price dynamics. Applied to US wheat and corn markets, the paper documents how storage affects commodity price dynamics and price volatility. Stocks have statistically significant price effects but these effects vary in different parts of the price distribution (e.g., lower tail versus upper tail of the distribution). We find strong statistical evidence that private stock and public stock have different effects on price dynamics and price volatility (including variance, skewness and kurtosis). For wheat, increasing private stock shifts the price distribution to the left, while increasing public stock shifts the price distribution to the right. Studying the effects of storage on price dynamics, we uncover evidence of local dynamic instability in the upper tail of the price distribution. We evaluate how the private/public stock portfolio affects the odds of facing price crashes and spikes.
The Making of a Decision: Women's Voice in the Management of Cacao in Coastal Ecuador
Creators: name: Blare, T.
name: Useche, P.
name: Blare, T.
name: Useche, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development

description: Research has shown that men and women place different values on environmental services obtained and agricultural practices that contribute to the restoration and conservation of these services with several studies pointing out that women have a preference for agroforestry and other sustainable production methods. Our research used game theory to develop a model on household decision-making in order to examine how strengthening women’s voice in household production decisions would influence adoption of sustainable farming practices. We applied this model to the case of agroforestry cacao production in Ecuador, based on household surveys conducted with 300 families. Through a logit estimation, which included independent variables for female and male household head’s educational levels, wealth, access to welfare payments and each gender’s valuation of ecological services from cacao agroforests, we discovered that households were more likely to manage agroforestry parcels when women were wealthier, received welfare payments and were willing to pay more for ecological services. Interventions to strengthen women’s economic position by granting them equal property and inheritance rights may enhance women’s voice in production decisions, leading not only to more just decisions, as both men and women’s preferences are taken into account, but possibly more ecologically sound decisions.
LRP2020: Signposts of planet formation in protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: van der Marel, Nienke
name: Dong, Ruobing
name: Pudritz, Ralph
name: Wadsley, James
name: Boley, Aaron
name: Lee, Eve
name: Ali-Dib, Mohamad
name: Matthews, Brenda
name: Marois, Christian
name: Ngo, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Successful exoplanet surveys in the last decade have revealed that planets are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way, and show a large diversity in mass, location and composition. At the same time, new facilities such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and optical/infrared facilities including Gemini/GPI have provided us with sharper images than ever before of protoplanetary disks around young stars, the birth cradles of planets. The high spatial resolution has revealed astonishing structures in disks, such as rings, gaps, asymmetries and spiral arms, and the enormous jump in sensitivity has provided the tools for both large, statistically relevant surveys and deep, sensitive molecular line studies. These observations have revolutionized our view of planet formation, disk formation and disk evolution, bringing model simulations and observations closer to the same level of detail, with many contributions from Canadian researchers on theoretical, observational and technological sides. The new results have inevitably led to a range of new questions, which require next generation instruments such as the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) and large scale optical infrared facilities. In this white paper we will discuss the current transformation in our understanding of planet formation and the next steps and challenges in connecting theory with exoplanet demographics and protoplanetary disk observations for Canadian research.
description: White paper E013 submitted to the Canadian Long Range Plan 2020
Understanding how risk preferences and social capital affect farmers’ behavior to anticipatory and reactive adaptation options to climate change: the case of vineyard farmers in central Chile
Creators: name: Alvarado, E.
name: Ibanez, M.
name: Brummer, B.
name: Alvarado, E.
name: Ibanez, M.
name: Brummer, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: Adaptation to climate change
subject: Risk preferences
subject: Cumulative Prospect Theory
subject: Social Capital
subject: Vineyard farmers

description: The effects of climate change on agriculture have been widely studied. However, it is necessary to keep studying the responses that farmers could have to climate change. One of these responses is the adaptation. We have used anticipatory and reactive adaptation because we wanted to know if farmers prefer options to avoid or to face negative effects. The objective of this research was to understand how risk preferences along with social capital affect the decision to implement anticipatory or reactive adaptation options to climate change. This study took place in central Chile, data were collected through a field experiment from September to December 2016 with 163 vineyard farmers; we used the structural and midpoint methods to estimate the Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) parameters. Finally, we identify 5 anticipatory and 4 reactive adaptation options. The parameters indicate vineyard farmers are strongly risk averse and sensitive to losses, and their determinants are grape area, membership and subjective norms for risk aversion, and age, household size, and education for loss aversion. The main drivers for anticipatory adaptation are network, trust, time to market and area, and the main drivers for reactive adaptation are risk aversion, institutional trust, age and time to market.
Exchange Rates, Income Growth, and Chinese Agricultural Imports
Creators: name: Wang, S.L.
name: Hong, C.
name: Liefert, W.
name: Wang, S.L.
name: Hong, C.
name: Liefert, W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China
subject: agricultural trade
subject: exchange rate
subject: import elasticities
subject: agricultural imports

description: Using disaggregated data describing trade between China and the rest of the world over the period of 2002-2015, this paper estimates the impacts of changes in China’s real exchange rate and income growth on Chinese agricultural imports. We find that exchange rate and income matters for Chinese agricultural imports over all. A 10 percent annual appreciation of the RMB is found to raise China’s total agricultural imports by about 0.4 percent, and a 10 percent real GDP growth will raises these imports by 7 percent. We further estimate these effects to subcategories of bulk, intermediate, and consumer-ready goods, as well as individual agricultural products. There is much variation in response across different agricultural product groups as well as individual products. We tend to get expected signs for elasticities for non-strategically important products that do not conflict with China’s self-sufficiency policies and are in short-supply. Government interventions in the markets mitigate the impact of exchange rate fluctuation on these products.
Wesbrook Mall Redesign : Phase 4
Creators: name: Abdulameer, Hussain
name: Janz, Aidan
name: Kwok, Derrick
name: Li, David
name: Morrison, Katie
name: Solut, Asal Rahbari
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The Wesbrook Mall corridor from 16th Avenue to Chancellor Boulevard has been undergoing a refurbishment to address the deteriorating road structure, the increasing demand, the existing safety requirements, and to prioritize sustainable modes of transportation. This final design report is developed as per the aforementioned factors, and the client’s requirements and feedback from the preliminary design and previous design stages. R&G has adopted a triple-bottom-line framework and performed detailed population, intersection, traffic, and roundabout analyses. Based on the results, our design is optimized to maximize economic, environmental, and societal benefits. R&G has embedded significant consideration into the design to enhance safety, active and public transportation, traffic flow, aesthetics, comfort, and usability while effectively tying into existing works. As a result of our robust and comprehensive design methodology, R&G presents the following design: A 1.8-metre raised, protected bike in both directions. A multi-use path with delineated spaces for pedestrians and cyclists in the northbound direction. A resurfacing of the damaged sidewalk in the southbound direction. A peak-hour bus lane in the northbound direction and bus lane maintained in the southbound direction. A pedestrian overpass near the Thunderbird Stadium, comprising of a precast concrete deck, square concrete columns and footings, two flights of steel stairs and a green roof. A variety of green infrastructure embedded throughout the corridor by using a green street approach, such as sloped sidewalks and paths, 18 rain gardens and 11 infiltration trenches and an anticipated removal of 5-10 trees. R&G has performed a Class A cost estimate where we have outlined our estimated construction costs to be $6,254,661 including a 10% contingency accounting for the project’s time constraint. Based on our final detailed design and construction sequencing, our team has developed a construction schedule with a project timeline from 2-May-22 to 8-Sep-22. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The Role of Trust in Explaining Food Choice: Combining Choice Experiments and Attribute Best Worst Scaling
Creators: name: Yeh, C.-H.
name: Hartmann, M.
name: Langen, N.
name: Yeh, C.-H.
name: Hartmann, M.
name: Langen, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: consumers' preference
subject: trust
subject: choice experiment
subject: best-worst scaling
subject: latent class analysis
subject: mixed logit models
subject: principal component analysis

description: This paper presents empirical findings from a combination of two elicitation techniques: discrete choice experiment (DCE) and best-worst scaling (BWS) to provide information about the role of consumers’ trust in food choice decisions in the case of credence attributes. The analysis is carried out at the example of Taiwan and focuses on sweet red peppers. DCE data is examined using latent class analysis to investigate the importance and the utility different consumer segments attach to process attributes and their respective levels: production method, country of origin and chemical residual testing. The relevance of attitudinal and trust based items is analyzed by BWS using hierarchical Bayesian mixed logit model. Applying multinomial logit model participant’s latent class membership (obtained from DCE data) is regressed on the identified attitudinal and trust components considering, in addition, demographic information. The analysis is based on a sample of 459 Taiwanese consumers. Results of the DCE latent class analysis for the product attributes show that four distinct segments can be distinguished. Linking the DCE with the attitudinal dimensions reveals that consumers’ attitude and trust significantly explains class membership. Hence, consumers’ food purchase behavior is determined by consumers’ trust in products from respective counties products, labels, and institutions.
Additional file 1 of Smoothing and extraction of traits in the growth analysis of noninvasive phenotypic data
Creators: name: Brien, Chris
name: Jewell, Nathaniel
name: Watts-Williams, Stephanie J.
name: Garnett, Trevor
name: Berger, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supporting material for the analyses of the tomato experiment based on the smoothing and extraction of traits (SET). Three median deviations plots for choosing the smoothing DF and method for the tomato experiment. Three plots comparing direct and log smoothing for six smoothing DF. A table of p-values for determining the significance of the effect of Zn and AMF on the extracted per-cart traits. Residual-versus-fitted-values and normal probability plots for each of the per-cart traits.