cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Governance in Algeria's Services Sector through Digital Transformation: A Comparative Analysis to Reduce Corruption
Creators: name: Amara Hicheur
name: Abdelghani Ferdi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Digital Transformation, Governance, Services Sector, Algeria, Comparative Analysis.

description: Abstract

Governance in the services sector is a crucial driver of economic development, especially in emerging economies like Algeria. This paper examines how digital transformation enhances governance in Algeria’s services sector, improving efficiency, transparency, and service delivery. Through a comparative analysis of international experiences—such as Estonia’s e-government model, the UAE’s digital governance initiatives, and Singapore’s smart services ecosystem—this study identifies best practices that Algeria can adopt. Additionally, it presents case studies from Algeria’s banking, healthcare, and public administration sectors to assess the impact of digitalization. The paper also discusses key challenges, including digital infrastructure gaps, cybersecurity concerns, and regulatory hurdles. Finally, it proposes strategic policy recommendations to enhance governance through digital solutions, ensuring sustainable economic growth and improved service quality.
A General Effective Action for High-Density Quark Matter
Creators: name: Reuter, Philipp T.
name: Wang, Qun
name: Rischke, Dirk H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general effective action for quark matter at nonzero temperature and/or nonzero density. For this purpose, we distinguish irrelevant from relevant quark modes, as well as hard from soft gluon modes by introducing two separate cut-offs in momentum space, one for quarks, $Λ_q$, and one for gluons, $Λ_g$. We exactly integrate out irrelevant quark modes and hard gluon modes in the functional integral representation of the QCD partition function. Depending on the specific choice for $Λ_q$ and $Λ_g$, the resulting effective action contains well-known effective actions for hot and/or dense quark matter, for instance the ``Hard Thermal Loop'' or the ``Hard Dense Loop'' action, as well as the high-density effective theory proposed by Hong and others. We then apply our effective action to review the calculation of the color-superconducting gap parameter to subleading order in weak coupling, where the strong coupling constant $g \ll 1$. In this situation, relevant quark modes are those within a layer of thickness $2 Λ_q$ around the Fermi surface. The non-perturbative nature of the gap equation invalidates naive attempts to estimate the importance of the various contributions via power counting on the level of the effective action. Nevertheless, once the gap equation has been derived within a particular many-body approximation scheme, the cut-offs $Λ_q, Λ_g$ provide the means to rigorously power count different contributions to the gap equation. We recover the previous result for the QCD gap parameter for the choice $Λ_q \alt g μ\ll Λ_g \alt μ$, where $μ$ is the quark chemical potential. We also point out how to improve this result beyond subleading order in weak coupling.
description: 34 pages, 22 figures, RevTeX4, minor revisions compared to v1
Enhanced Yield from a Cryogenic Buffer Gas Beam Source via Excited State Chemistry
Creators: name: Jadbabaie, Arian
name: Pilgram, Nickolas H.
name: Klos, Jacek
name: Kotochigova, Svetlana
name: Hutzler, Nicholas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use narrow-band laser excitation of Yb to substantially enhance the brightness of a cold beam of YbOH, a polyatomic molecule with high sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). By exciting atomic Yb to the metastable $^3$P$_1$ state in a cryogenic environment, we significantly increase the chemical reaction cross-section for collisions of Yb with reactants. We characterize the dependence of the enhancement on the properties of the laser light, and study the final state distribution of the YbOH products. The resulting bright, cold YbOH beam can be used to increase the statistical sensitivity in searches for new physics utilizing YbOH, such as electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) and nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment (NMQM) experiments. We also perform new quantum chemical calculations that confirm the enhanced reactivity observed in our experiment. Additionally, our calculations compare reaction pathways of Yb($^3$P) with the reactants H$_2$O and H$_2$O$_2$. More generally, our work presents a broad approach for improving experiments that use cryogenic molecular beams for laser cooling and precision measurement searches of BSM physics.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Characteristics of Women Farm Operators and Their Farms
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert
name: Korb, Penni
name: Hoppe, Robert
name: Korb, Penni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: farm operators
subject: farm structure
subject: farm women
subject: female farm operators
subject: female-operated farms
subject: small farms
subject: women farm operators
subject: women-operated farms
subject: women in agriculture

description: Over the past three decades, the number of women-operated farms increased substantially. In 2007, women operated 14 percent of all U.S. farms, up from 5 percent in 1978. Women-operated farms increased in all sales classes, including farms with annual sales of $1 million or more. Most women farmers operated very small farms in 2007; about three-fourths of their farms had sales of less than $10,000. A small share of their farms (5 percent), however, sold $100,000 or more in farm products. About half of women-operated farms specialized in grazing livestock—beef cattle, horses, and sheep or goats. In addition to a principal operator, some farms have secondary operators. If both principal and secondary operators are counted, the number of women operators in 2007 expands from 306,200 to nearly 1 million.
Strongly hyperbolic second order Einstein's evolution equations
Creators: name: Nagy, Gabriel
name: Ortiz, Omar E.
name: Reula, Oscar A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BSSN-type evolution equations are discussed. The name refers to the Baumgarte, Shapiro, Shibata, and Nakamura version of the Einstein evolution equations, without introducing the conformal-traceless decomposition but keeping the three connection functions and including a densitized lapse. It is proved that a pseudo-differential first order reduction of these equations is strongly hyperbolic. In the same way, densitized Arnowitt-Deser-Misner evolution equations are found to be weakly hyperbolic. In both cases, the positive densitized lapse function and the spacelike shift vector are arbitrary given fields. This first order pseudodifferential reduction adds no extra equations to the system and so no extra constraints.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, uses revtex4. Referee corections and new appendix added. English grammar improved; typos corrected
An Empirical Comparison of Functional Forms for Engel Relationships
Creators: name: Salathe, Larry
name: Salathe, Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Engel curves
subject: functional form
subject: goodness of fit
subject: income
subject: household size

description: The functional form used to represent expenditures or consumption as a function of income and household size (Engel relationship) dramatically affects estimates of elasticities of these variables. This impact also holds true when the elasticities are computed at the mean of the sample used. When per capita expenditures were expressed as a function of per capita income, the double-and semi-log functional forms provided the best statistical fit. When expenditures were expressed as a function of household size and income, the quadratic functional form provided the best statistical fit.
On the Tensionless Limit of Bosonic Strings, Infinite Symmetries and Higher Spins
Creators: name: Bonelli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the tensionless limit of string theory on flat background all the massive tower of states gets squeezed to a common zero mass level and the free theory is described by an infinite amount of massless free fields with arbitrary integer high spin. We notice that in this situation the very notion of critical dimension gets lost, the apparency of infinite global symmetries takes place, and the closed tensionless string can be realized as a constrained subsystem of the open one in a natural way. Moreover, we study the tensionless limit of the Witten's cubic sting field theory and find that the theory in such a limit can be represented as an infinite set of free arbitrary higher spin excitations plus an interacting sector involving their zero-modes only.
description: 1+17 pages. Typos corrected and references added
NeuroMask: Explaining Predictions of Deep Neural Networks through Mask Learning
Creators: name: Alzantot, Moustafa
name: Widdicombe, Amy
name: Julier, Simon
name: Srivastava, Mani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deliver state-of-the-art performance in many image recognition and understanding applications. However, despite their outstanding performance, these models are black-boxes and it is hard to understand how they make their decisions. Over the past few years, researchers have studied the problem of providing explanations of why DNNs predicted their results. However, existing techniques are either obtrusive, requiring changes in model training, or suffer from low output quality. In this paper, we present a novel method, NeuroMask, for generating an interpretable explanation of classification model results. When applied to image classification models, NeuroMask identifies the image parts that are most important to classifier results by applying a mask that hides/reveals different parts of the image, before feeding it back into the model. The mask values are tuned by minimizing a properly designed cost function that preserves the classification result and encourages producing an interpretable mask. Experiments using state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks for image recognition on different datasets (CIFAR-10 and ImageNet) show that NeuroMask successfully localizes the parts of the input image which are most relevant to the DNN decision. By showing a visual quality comparison between NeuroMask explanations and those of other methods, we find NeuroMask to be both accurate and interpretable.
High-Energy Emission from Pulsars: The Polar Cap Scenario
Creators: name: Baring, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of pulsars in the three and a half decades since their discovery has highlighted a handful of issues critical to their understanding. To date there is no consensus on the physical mechanism for their radio radio emission, despite a rapid increase in the observed population due to the Parkes Multi-Beam survey and prospects for similar growth in the radio population database in the near future. The small subset of pulsars that emit at X-ray to gamma-ray wavelengths are critical to refining the pulsar paradigm since this energy band (i) is where the vast majority of radiative luminosity is observed, and (ii) is intimately connected to the pair winds that form the dominant mode of energy deposition in the circum-pulsar environment. The most crucial point of contention pertaining to the high energy astrophysics of pulsars is the location of the acceleration region in their magnetospheres: is an outer gap model or a polar cap scenario (or both) the most appropriate picture. Radiative signatures provide the clues to this current enigma. This review focuses on salient characteristics of the polar cap scenario; these form the basis for discriminating observational diagnostics that should drive pulsars studies in the GLAST era just three years away.
description: 11 pages, 2 embedded figures, invited review for the COSPAR Symposium E1.4 "High Energy Studies of Supernova Remnants and Neutron Stars" held in Houston, TX 2002, Adv. Space Res., in press
FAIR data principles in practice. To what extent are the FAIRsFAIR "Recommendations on practice to support FAIR data principles" supported by the results of the EOSC-hub project?
Creators: name: van Horik, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The FAIRsFAIR project formulated ten recommendations on practice to support the FAIR data principles. This working paper reports on a consultation (in the form of desk-research) conducted to assess the relevance of these recommendations in relation to services developed by the EOSC-hub project. This working paper covers the outcomes of the consultation and describes the extent EOSC-hub services can be used to implement the recommendations made by the FAIRsFAIR project. Based on the Key Exploitable Results of the EOSC-hub project, examples could be found that follow the recommendations on the FAIR data principles formulated by the FAIRsFAIR project. The FAIR data principles were not a prominent aspect of the original design principles of the services, but they were found to fit the FAIR data model at the end of the EOSC-hub project.
Liquid-crystalline Casimir effect in the presence of a patterned substrate
Creators: name: Haddadan, F. Karimi Pour
name: Schlesener, F.
name: Dietrich, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a nematic liquid crystal confined by two parallel planar interfaces, one being laterally homogeneous and the other provided by a substrate endowed with a periodic chemical stripe pattern. Based on continuum theory we analyze the influence of the lateral pattern on the liquid-crystalline Casimir force acting on the interfaces of the nematic cell at distance d due to the thermal fluctuations of the nematic director. For d much larger than the pattern periodicity, the influence of the patterned substrate can be described by a homogeneous, effective anchoring energy. By tuning this parameter we recover previous results for the liquid-crystalline Casimir force. For the general case, i.e., smaller separations, we present new numerical results.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Chemotherapy receipt in affected BRCA1/2 and PALB2 carriers with operable breast cancer: the impact of early detection and pre-diagnostic awareness on clinical outcomes and treatment
Creators: name: Wong, Stephanie M.
name: Apostolova, Carla
name: Ferroum, Amina
name: Alhassan, Basmah
name: Prakash, Ipshita
name: Basik, Mark
name: Martel, Karyne
name: Meterissian, Sarkis
name: Fleiszer, David
name: Wong, Nora
name: Sadinsky, Michaela Bercovitch
name: Malagon, Talia
name: Boileau, Jean Francois
name: Foulkes, William D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Newton Law on the Generalized Singular Brane with and without 4d Induced Gravity
Creators: name: Jung, Eylee
name: Kim, SungHoon
name: Park, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Newton law arising due to the gravity localized on the general singular brane embedded in $AdS_5$ bulk is examined in the absence or presence of the 4d induced Einstein term. For the RS brane, apart from the subleading correction, Newton potential obeys 4d-type and $5d$-type gravitational law at long- and short-ranges if it were not for the induced Einstein term. The 4d induced Einstein term generates an intermediate range at short distance, in which the $5d$ Newton potential $1/r^2$ emerges. For Neumann brane the long-range behavior of Newton potential is exponentially suppressed regardless of the existence of the induced Einstein term. For Dirichlet brane the expression of Newton potential is dependent on the renormalized coupling constant $v^{ren}$. At particular value of $v^{ren}$ Newton potential on Dirichlet brane exhibits a similar behavior to that on RS brane. For other values the long-range behavior of Newton potential is exponentially suppressed as that in Neumann brane.
description: 27 pages, 2 postscript figures included V1 figures are improved and few comments are added for further discussion. version to appear in NPB
Handheld Mobile Photography in Very Low Light
Creators: name: Liba, Orly
name: Murthy, Kiran
name: Tsai, Yun-Ta
name: Brooks, Tim
name: Xue, Tianfan
name: Karnad, Nikhil
name: He, Qiurui
name: Barron, Jonathan T.
name: Sharlet, Dillon
name: Geiss, Ryan
name: Hasinoff, Samuel W.
name: Pritch, Yael
name: Levoy, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Taking photographs in low light using a mobile phone is challenging and rarely produces pleasing results. Aside from the physical limits imposed by read noise and photon shot noise, these cameras are typically handheld, have small apertures and sensors, use mass-produced analog electronics that cannot easily be cooled, and are commonly used to photograph subjects that move, like children and pets. In this paper we describe a system for capturing clean, sharp, colorful photographs in light as low as 0.3~lux, where human vision becomes monochromatic and indistinct. To permit handheld photography without flash illumination, we capture, align, and combine multiple frames. Our system employs "motion metering", which uses an estimate of motion magnitudes (whether due to handshake or moving objects) to identify the number of frames and the per-frame exposure times that together minimize both noise and motion blur in a captured burst. We combine these frames using robust alignment and merging techniques that are specialized for high-noise imagery. To ensure accurate colors in such low light, we employ a learning-based auto white balancing algorithm. To prevent the photographs from looking like they were shot in daylight, we use tone mapping techniques inspired by illusionistic painting: increasing contrast, crushing shadows to black, and surrounding the scene with darkness. All of these processes are performed using the limited computational resources of a mobile device. Our system can be used by novice photographers to produce shareable pictures in a few seconds based on a single shutter press, even in environments so dim that humans cannot see clearly.
description: 22 pages, 27 figures
Structural Differentiation and Rural Development
Creators: name: Stuby, Richard G.
name: Stuby, Richard G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Rural development
subject: Social indicators
subject: Development indicators
subject: Structural differentiation

description: Structural differentiation, a concept used here to measure differences between rural U.S. counties, can assist policymakers in determining degrees of rural development. The Guttman scale of structural differentiation, derived from Dun and Bradstreet retail establishment data, is examined for its validity as a measure and its ability to discriminate among counties. Valid, stable scales of differentiation can be built from secondary data sources and may help in research. They must be further refined in terms of their relationship with population size and density, economic growth, and individual quality of life.
Sublevel sets and global minima of coercive functionals and local minima of their perturbations
Creators: name: Ricceri, Biagio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J20

description: The aim of the present paper is essentially to prove that if $Φ$ and $Ψ$ are two sequentially weakly lower semicontinuous functionals on a reflexive real Banach space and if $Ψ$ is also continuous and coercive, then then following conclusion holds: if, for some $r > \inf_X Ψ$, the weak closure of the set $Ψ^{-1}(]-\infty, r[)$ has at least $k$ connected components in the weak topology, then, for each $λ> 0$ small enough, the functional $Ψ+ λΦ$ has at least $k$ local minima lying in $Ψ^{-1}(]-\infty, r[)$.
description: 12 pages
MOESM14 of Host plant adaptation in the polyphagous whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, is associated with transcriptional plasticity and altered sensitivity to insecticides
Creators: name: Pym, Adam
name: Singh, Kumar
name: Nordgren, Åsa
name: T. Davies
name: Zimmer, Christoph
name: Elias, Jan
name: Slater, Russell
name: Bass, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 14: Figure S4. The carboxyl/cholinesterases (CCE) gene family of T. vaporariorum. A) Maximum likelihood tree of CCE genes from T. vaporariorum (red) and B. tabaci (black). Branches are coloured according to clade and bootstrap values of 1000 replicates are given as decimals on branches. (B) Relative expression (log2fold) of the full length CCEs from 4 T. vaporariorum lines compared to the French bean-reared line.
Stabilization of phase-pure rhombohedral HfZrO4 in Pulsed Laser Deposited thin films
Creators: name: Bégon-Lours, Laura
name: Mulder, Martijn
name: Nukala, Pavan
name: de Graaf, Sytze
name: Birkhölzer, Yorick
name: Kooi, Bart
name: Noheda, Beatriz
name: Koster, Gertjan
name: Rijnders, Guus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the crystalline structure of Hafnium Zirconate and its epitaxial relationship to a semiconducting electrode has a high technological interest, as ferroelectric materials are key ingredients for emerging electronic devices. Using Pulsed Laser Deposition, a phase pure, ultra-thin film of HfZrO4 is grown epitaxially on a GaN (0001) / Si (111) template. Since standard microscopy techniques do not allow to determine with certitude the crystalline structure of the film due to the weak scattering of oxygen, differentiated differential phase contrast (DPC) Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy is used to allow the direct imaging of oxygen columns in the film. Combined with X-Rays diffraction analysis, the polar nature and rhombohedral R3 symmetry of the film are demonstrated.
Pros and cons of the bioeconomy: a critical appraisal of public claims through Critical Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: Sodano, V.
name: Sodano, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: bioeconomy
subject: discourse analysis
subject: ideology
subject: neoliberalism

description: In this paper Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to uncover hidden political agenda and value systems concealed behind the alleged “value-free” discourse of EU and US governments on the bioeconomy. The main assumption of the paper is that the claimed social benefits of the bioeconomy, far from relying on sound scientific arguments (as stated in government documents), are instead false promises made in the interest of profits of powerful transnational companies (TNCs). The analysis is carried out on four publications which represent the voices of proponents (the EU and US governments) and the opponents (the two civil society organizations, ETC group and Global Forest Coalition) of the bioeconomy. The results of text analysis indicate that all the four texts exhibit some ideological biases. Nevertheless, pro bioeconomy documents prove to be far more ideologized than those against. The general conclusion of the research is that the debate on the risks and benefits of the bioeconomy needs to be cleansed of the ideological prejudices that characterize both its supporters and opponents and instead enriched with transparency and democratic political confrontation.
MOESM1 of Melioidosis fatalities in captive slender-tailed meerkats (Suricata suricatta): combining epidemiology, pathology and whole-genome sequencing supports variable mechanisms of transmission with one health implications
Creators: name: Rachlin, Audrey
name: Shilton, Cathy
name: Webb, Jessica
name: Mayo, Mark
name: Kaestli, Mirjam
name: Kleinecke, Mariana
name: Rigas, Vanessa
name: Benedict, Suresh
name: Gurry, Ian
name: Currie, Bart
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Clinical microbiological detection of B. pseudomallei in meerkats B. pseudomallei growth on Sheep’s Blood Agar (A.), and growth on selective Ashdown Agar (B.) Gram-negative bacilli characteristic of B. pseudomallei as seen by Gram-stain (C.) (bar = 10 μm)
Environmental and Economic Impact of Agricultural Land Use - a Spatially Explicit DEA Approach -
Creators: name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Kantelhardt, J.
name: Eckstein, K.
name: Hübner, R.
name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Kantelhardt, J.
name: Eckstein, K.
name: Hübner, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agricultural land use
subject: data envelopment
subject: environment-oriented technical efficiency
subject: economy-oriented technical efficiency

description: Agriculture produce commodities and but also influence the environment. However, even if the value of commodities is easy to determine, it is difficult to assess the efficiency of agricultural production at site level. Furthermore, the valuation of environmental impact is complex. Non-parametric approaches such as DEA allow for an assessment of environment and economic performance. We implement a plot-specific approach combining GIS and DEA models. This allows a spatially explicit assessment of agricultural land use for different subjects such as ecology and economy. In a second stage DEA-model, the impact of farm- and site-specific characteristics on efficiency is analysed.
Integral functionals on Sobolev spaces having multiple local minima
Creators: name: Ricceri, Biagio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J20

description: In this paper, two multiplicity results about local minima of integrals of the calculus of variations are established. The main tool used to prove them is the theory developed in [B. Ricceri, Sublevel sets and global minima of coercive functionals and local minima of their pertubations, math.OC/0402444].
description: 6 pages
Meson Spectroscopy in Photo-production at CLAS
Creators: name: Nozar, Mina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photo-production of excited mesons in the 1-2 GeV mass range decaying via multi-pion or multi-kaon emission has been investigated at the TJNAF\thanks{This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and The U.S. National Science Foundation.} experiment E01-017 (g6c) in the $4.8-5.4$ GeV photon beam energy range. The main objective of the experiment is to extract resonance parameters of the produced states by way of a Partial Wave Analysis (PWA) technique. In this paper, we will focus on the general characteristics of the data distributions in both the neutral and charged 3-pion final states, i.e. $π^{+}π^{-}π^{0}$ and $π^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, CIPANP 2003 proceedings contribution
MOESM13 of Host plant adaptation in the polyphagous whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, is associated with transcriptional plasticity and altered sensitivity to insecticides
Creators: name: Pym, Adam
name: Singh, Kumar
name: Nordgren, Åsa
name: T. Davies
name: Zimmer, Christoph
name: Elias, Jan
name: Slater, Russell
name: Bass, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 13: Figure S3. The glutathione-S-transferase (GST) gene family of T. vaporariorum. (A) Maximum likelihood tree of GST genes from T. vaporariorum (red) and B. tabaci (black). Branches are coloured according to clade and bootstrap values of 1000 replicates are given as decimals on branches. (B) Relative expression (log2fold) of the full length GSTs from 4 T. vaporariorum lines compared to the French bean-reared line.
Additional file 3 of Analysis of antibiotic resistance gene cassettes in a newly identified Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum strain in Korea
Creators: name: Tran, Thanh Quang
name: Park, Minyoung
name: Lee, Jong Eun
name: Kim, Soo Hyun
name: Jeong, Jae-Ho
name: Choy, Hyon E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Oligonucleotides used for real-time PCR.
Development of Total Factor Productivity in Alpine Farming - A Malmquist index approach -
Creators: name: Kantelhardt, J.
name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Franzel, M.
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
name: Kantelhardt, J.
name: Kapfer, Martin
name: Franzel, M.
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Malmquist total factor productivity index
subject: technical progress
subject: Alpine farming
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: matching

description: In comparison to flatland agriculture mountainous agriculture is often shaped by small plot sizes, unfavourable climatic conditions and steep slopes. All those conditions make it extraordinarily expensive to implement new technologies and to modernise farms. Consequently our research hypothesis is that technical progress in mountainous regions is slower in comparison to flatland regions. In order to test this hypothesis we develop a model combining a Malmquist index approach with a matching analysis. We apply our model in Austria, using a panel data set comprising the data of 1034 Austrian voluntarily bookkeeping farms and ranging from 2003 to 2009. On basis of the Austrian Mountain Farm Cadastre the farms are classified into five categories expressing the degree of disadvantage which farms are exposed from being located in a mountainous area. Our results show that technical change in mountain regions is significantly lower than in flatland regions and continuously decreasing with increasing disadvantage. Matching our results shows that this result is mainly based on farm grassland share, while farm size is of minor importance. With regard to efficiency change and change of total factor productivity we do not find any significant results.
Einblicke ins Forschungsdatenmanagement - Darf ich das veröffentlichen? Rechtsfragen im Umgang mit Forschungsdaten
Creators: name: Wünsche, Stephan
name: Voigt, Pia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement
Forschungsdaten
Recht
Research Data Management
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Production costs of Soft Wheat in Italy
Creators: name: Tiberti, M.
name: Tiberti, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: multi-output
subject: outlier detection
subject: production costs
subject: seemingly unrelated regression
subject: soft wheat

description: This paper investigates production costs of soft wheat by applying the FACEPA cost of production model to the Italian data (RICA) for 2005-2009. Estimates are obtained by carrying out a SUR, allowing for correlated errors between the set of equations and for imposing constraints to coefficients The main aim of this study is to provide a robust analysis of the cost, per hectare and per quintal, of soft wheat in order to analytically support a negotiation bargain on the contractual price for soft wheat within the industrial bread marketing chain. Since RICA, unlike EU FADN, reports some costs related to specific production processes (i.e. related to specific farm outputs), this study reports results of an alternative estimation strategy: the GECOM is carried out by taking into account only those costs that are not ascribed for the specific farm output, but are related to the whole production process. Estimates, per hectare and per quintal, related to such input costs are combined with those costs that are directly observed by farmers, so that we obtain a “hybrid” estimation. This method is carried out in order to confirm results obtained with the “complete” estimation. Outcomes of both methods are reported for Italy and for macro-regions. Costs related to machinery and buildings upkeep represent the most important costs, although a remarkable decline is observed from 2005 onwards. Expenditure in land rent and taxes on land and buildings shows a similar trend, but with smaller values. As a whole, there was a shift expenditure patterns: in 2005-2007 fixed costs prevailed, while in 2008-2009 variable costs became predominant. Anyway, estimates reveal that there are important differences, at geographical level, in production costs.
Deep Learning for Detecting Building Defects Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Perez, Husein
name: Tah, Joseph H. M.
name: Mosavi, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T0

description: Clients are increasingly looking for fast and effective means to quickly and frequently survey and communicate the condition of their buildings so that essential repairs and maintenance work can be done in a proactive and timely manner before it becomes too dangerous and expensive. Traditional methods for this type of work commonly comprise of engaging building surveyors to undertake a condition assessment which involves a lengthy site inspection to produce a systematic recording of the physical condition of the building elements, including cost estimates of immediate and projected long-term costs of renewal, repair and maintenance of the building. Current asset condition assessment procedures are extensively time consuming, laborious, and expensive and pose health and safety threats to surveyors, particularly at height and roof levels which are difficult to access. This paper aims at evaluating the application of convolutional neural networks (CNN) towards an automated detection and localisation of key building defects, e.g., mould, deterioration, and stain, from images. The proposed model is based on pre-trained CNN classifier of VGG-16 (later compaired with ResNet-50, and Inception models), with class activation mapping (CAM) for object localisation. The challenges and limitations of the model in real-life applications have been identified. The proposed model has proven to be robust and able to accurately detect and localise building defects. The approach is being developed with the potential to scale-up and further advance to support automated detection of defects and deterioration of buildings in real-time using mobile devices and drones.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures
Farms’ Performance and Short Supply Chains in Italy: an Econometric Analysis
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Cembalo, L.
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Dentoni, D.
name: Pascucci, S.
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Cembalo, L.
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Dentoni, D.
name: Pascucci, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: short supply chains
subject: Price-Cost-Margin
subject: GMM
subject: Italy

description: In spite of several cases study existing that assess the profitability of farms participating in direct sales activities (Brown, 2002; Brown and Miller (2008), no analysis has verified whether the notion that farmers participating in short supply chains are profitable holds to the empirical test. The objective of this analysis is that of testing econometrically whether farmers joining short supply chains do experience better performances, accounting for confounding factors and endogeneity of channel choice decision. To that end, we use the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) referred to 2010. Results indicate that participation in SSCs doesn’t positively contribute to farms profitability. We use this preliminary empirical evidence to shape future research steps in this domain, and namely to further investigate the differential impact of participation in SSCs on gross sales and variable costs.
Hiltonius Chamberlin 1918
Creators: name: Shelley, Rowland M.
name: Floyd, Samuel D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirobolida
Spirobolidae
Hiltonius

description: Genus Hiltonius Chamberlin, 1918
 Julus (Julus) (not Linnaeus) in part: Saussure, 1859:329; 1860:96.
 Spirobolus (not Brandt) in part: Saussure and Humbert, 1872:74–75, 175.
 Hiltonius Chamberlin, 1918b:166; 1943b:21; 1949:166. Loomis and Hoffman, 1951:51. Chamberlin and Hoffman, 1958:163. Hoffman and Keeton, 1960:15. Keeton, 1960a:97–99. Buckett, 1964:23. Loomis, 1966:25; 1968a:92; 1968b:392. Jeekel, 1971:199. Hoffman, 1980a:77; 1998b:64; 1999:41. Shelley, 2002a:98.
 Type-species. H. pulchrus Chamberlin, 1918, by original designation.
 Diagnosis. Generally stout, robust Tylobolini; paraprocts usually slightly re-entrant, with or without marginal rims. Posterior gonopod acropodite usually with two variably distinct distal lobes, only slightly prolonged if any, not curving strongly dorsad or decurved and not imparting uncinate appearance to overall appendage.
 Components. Ten nominal species, both extant and fossilized; one species is divided into two subspecies: H. mexicanus (Saussure, 1859); H. hebes (Bollman, 1887); H. reptans (Porat, 1888); H. australis (Grinnell, 1908); H. fossulifer (Pocock, 1908); H. pulchrus Chamberlin, 1918; H. mimus Chamberlin, 1941; H. erythropygus Chamberlin, 1943; H. carpinus carpinus Chamberlin, 1943, and H. c. vulcan (Chamberlin, 1952); and H. flavocinctus Loomis, 1968 (Keeton 1960a; Hoffman 1999; Shelley 2002 a, 2010).
 Distribution (Fig. 12, black lines). Four segregated areas: southern California and adjacent Baja California Norte; southeastern Arizona; from southern Durango, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to Guerrero, Mexico; and the Guatamalan point locality. The distributions of Hiltonius and H. pulchrus extend from Ft. Tejon and the Santa Monica Mountains, Kern/Los Angeles cos., in northern metropolitan Los Angeles, to northern Baja California Norte and eastward to the vicinities of San Bernardino and Riverside.
 Origin. Since H. carpinus occurs in southeastern Arizona, Guatemala, and the presumtive, central Mexican, familial source area, we believe it is the original, ancestral tylobolinine and arose <301 mya.
 Remarks. While Hiltonius was dispersing to California and Guatemala, divergences and evolution continued in the source area and Floridobolini were spreading northeastward.
description: Published as part of Shelley, Rowland M. & Floyd, Samuel D., 2014, Expanded concept of the milliped family Spirobolidae Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidea): Proposals of Aztecolini n. tribe and Floridobolinae / ini and Tylobolini n. stats.; (re) descriptions of Floridobolus and F. penneri, both Causey, 1957, and F. orini n. sp.; hypotheses on origins and affinities, pp. 1-50 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (357) on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5179125
MOESM1 of Complete genome sequences of Streptomyces spp. isolated from disease-suppressive soils
Creators: name: Heinsch, Stephen
name: Szu-Yi Hsu
name: Otto-Hanson, Lindsey
name: Kinkel, Linda
name: Smanski, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Streptomyces sp. GS93–23, Table S2. Streptomyces sp. 3211–3,Table S3. Streptomyces sp. S3–4 gene clusters, Table S4. Cluster abundance for 125 Complete Streptomyces genomes, Figure S1. Indel comparison of Illumina polished vs. PacBio only assemblies.
MOESM12 of Host plant adaptation in the polyphagous whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, is associated with transcriptional plasticity and altered sensitivity to insecticides
Creators: name: Pym, Adam
name: Singh, Kumar
name: Ã…Sa Nordgren
name: T. Davies
name: Zimmer, Christoph
name: Elias, Jan
name: Slater, Russell
name: Bass, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 12: Table S14. Number of P450, GST, CCE, UGT and ABC genes in the genomes of five insect species.
Exclusive pi^+ production at HERMES
Creators: name: Hadjidakis, C.
name: Hasch, D.
name: Thomas, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hard exclusive production in deep inelastic lepton scattering provides access to the unknown Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon. At HERMES, different observables for hard exclusive pi^+ production have been measured with a 27.6 GeV positron beam on an internal hydrogen gas target. First preliminary results for the unpolarized ep->enpi^+ total cross section for 1.5
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the XII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, April 14-18, 2004, Strbske Pleso, Slovakia
Quadrideres simplicipes
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Quadrideres
Quadrideres simplicipes

description: Quadrideres simplicipes (Gebien, 1910)
Selinus simplicipes Gebien, 1910: 374.— Gebien 1938: 298.
Quadrideres simplicipes (Gebien, 1910).— Koch 1956: 205; Iwan 1990: 432, 2002a: 96, 2002b: 296; Kamiński 2013a: 86.
Type material. During its description Gebien (1910) did not selected a holotype specimen. Four individuals from the type series were available, thus a lectotype designation is needed to fix the taxonomic status of the species.
Lectotype, male (ZMHB): “Kilimandjaro / Sjöstedt. 1905–6”, “ Type ”, “96203”, “ 8 sept ”. Paralectotypes, female (ZMHB): same data as holotype; male and female (MNHN): “Kilimandjaro / Sjöstedt. 1905–6”, “aug.”, “Museum Paris / Kilimandjaro et Mérou / Expedit. Suédoise / Y. Sjostedt 1912”.
Other studied material: 4 males and 4 females (HNHM): “Moschi / 1905.VII.”, “Africa pr. / Katona”, “ modestus / Lesne / det. dr. Kaszab”; 5 males and 7 females (MNHN): “Museum Paris / Kilimandjaro / Zone des cultures / Kiléma 1400–1500 M. / Ch. Alluaud 1909”; male and female (MNHN): “Museum Paris / Afrique Orient. All / Kilimandjaro / Kibosho / Ch. Alluaud 1904; ”female (ZMHB): “Kilimandscharo / 1300–1700 m / Volkens”.
Morphological data. Because the redescription of this species made by Koch (1956) is clear and consistent with the data obtained in this study the morphology of this species was not redescribed.
Distribution. This species has been collected in the following ecoregions of the East Africa (Tanzania): East African montane forests and Southern Acacia -Commiphora bushlands and thickets (Fig. 12, 13).
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2015, A taxonomic revision of the Quadrideres simplicipes species-group (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), including description of a new species from Tanzania, pp. 217-226 in Zootaxa 3986 (2) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/243017
MOESM7 of High genetic diversity but no geographical structure of Aedes albopictus populations in Réunion Island
Creators: name: Latreille, Anne
name: Milesi, Pascal
name: Magalon, Hélène
name: Mavingui, Patrick
name: Atyame, Célestine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S3. Relationship between FST values for Aedes albopictus pairs of populations. a Comparisons of FST estimated using R (x-axis) and GenAlEx v.6.5 [43] (y-axis) without taking into account relatives. b Comparisons of FST estimated using R without taking relatives into account (x-axis) and by taking relatives into account (y-axis). Full line: regression line; dotted line: y = x.