cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Overview of Bilateral Trade Agreements for Agricultural Commodities in International Markets
Creators: name: Webb, Alan J.
name: Wilson, Edward C.
name: Webb, Alan J.
name: Wilson, Edward C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Bilateral trade agreements
subject: grain exports
subject: world price variability

description: Tighter world grain markets, increased price variability, and the growing importance of the state trading agencies of developing and centrally planned countries have been major forces increasing the use of bilateral trade agreements. The terms of these agreements are examined and current trends in the pattern of trade under bilateral arrangements are identified. A theoretical trade model is developed and shows that the major impact of bilateral agreements is an increase in price and trade variability. The model is used to define a maximum limit to U.S. bilateral trade commitments for a given level of risk.
Neanthes Kinberg 1866
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Neanthes

description: Neanthes Kinberg, 1866
 bongcoi Pillai, 1965: Bonuan, Dagupan City, Luzon, Philippines. RTS 20, NHM AN03 1965.33.16
 donghaiensis Wu, Sun & Yang, 1981: Ningde, Fujian, China. IOCAS 1-54, A55
 maculata Wu, Sun & Yang, 1981: Guangdong, China. IOCAS A56, A57
 manatensis Pillai, 1965. Mant, Dagupan City, Luzon, Philippines. RTS 19, NHM AN03 1965.33.17-18
 nanhaiensis Wu, Sun & Yang, 1981: Nanhaien, South China Sea. FIOQ 58, 59
 philippinensis de León-González & Salazar-Vallejo, 2003: Philippines. MNHN 76, 77, UANL 5079
 suluensis Kirkegaard, 1995: Sulu Sea. ZMUC 40
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Preliminary Data: Pesticide Use on Selected Deciduous Fruits in the United States, 1978
Creators: name: Webb, Shwu-Eng H.
name: Webb, Shwu-Eng H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Pesticides
subject: organic pesticides
subject: fungicides
subject: insecticides
subject: herbicides
subject: deciduous fruits
subject: acres treated
subject: acre—treatments
subject: active ingredient

description: Pesticide use in the production of apples, peaches, pears, and tart cherries in 1978 is reported for four producing regions--Northeast, South, North Central, and West (excluding California). Growers of these fruits used an estimated 36.5 million pounds of pesticides in 1978--12.8 million pounds of organic pesticides, 17 million pounds of oil as an insecticide, .9 million pounds of oil as a herbicide, and 5.8 million pounds of sulfur as a fungicide. Most of the organic pesticides were fungicides and insecticides with herbicides and other pesticides used in relatively small amounts. The West was the largest user of pesticides followed by the Northeast, South, and North Central regions.
USIA Poll # 1977-I77003: Politics/Consumerism
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Visit Northern Ireland on holidays (1); building societies (3); government job performance (1); Prime Minister Callaghan (1); Thatcher job performance (1); Steel job performance (1); political party vote for in general election (2); vote in 1974 general election (2); unemployment (1); inflation (1); business (1); personal finances (1); good/bad time to buy goods (2); furniture products (2); consumer products in home (22); television (1); moped/motorcycle (2); imports into Britain (3); imports from West Germany (4); respondent ever rented a car (1); rental car companies (4); international organizations (1); NATO (3); respondent has a driving license (1); TV commercials on drinking and driving (7); fishing (1); Open University (1); respondent owns a washing machine (12); own/rent a home (1).
Nectoneanthes Imajima 1972
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Nectoneanthes

description: Nectoneanthes Imajima, 1972
 multignatha Wu, Sun & Yang, 1981: Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea. IOCAS A62, A63 (= Nectoneantehs oxypoda fide Sato 2013)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Multi-messenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant
Creators: name: Dietrich, Tim
name: Coughlin, Michael W.
name: Pang, Peter T. H.
name: Bulla, Mattia
name: Heinzel, Jack
name: Issa, Lina
name: Tews, Ingo
name: Antier, Sarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of neutron-star mergers based on distinct messengers, including gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals, can be used to study the behavior of matter denser than an atomic nucleus, and to measure the expansion rate of the Universe described by the Hubble constant. We perform a joint analysis of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817 with its electromagnetic counterparts AT2017gfo and GRB170817A, and the gravitational-wave signal GW190425, both originating from neutron-star mergers. We combine these with previous measurements of pulsars using X-ray and radio observations, and nuclear-theory computations using chiral effective field theory to constrain the neutron-star equation of state. We find that the radius of a $1.4$ solar mass neutron star is $11.75^{+0.86}_{-0.81}\ \rm km$ at $90\%$ confidence and the Hubble constant is $66.2^{+4.4}_{-4.2}\ \rm km \,Mpc^{-1}\, s^{-1}$ at $1σ$ uncertainty.
Detection of X-ray Clusters of Galaxies by Matching RASS Photons and SDSS Galaxies within GAVO
Creators: name: Schuecker, Peter
name: Boehringer, Hans
name: Voges, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method for a simultaneous search for clusters of galaxies in X-ray photon maps and optical galaxy maps is described. The merging of X-ray and optical data improves the source identification so that a large amount of telescope time for spectroscopic follow-up can be saved. The method appears thus ideally suited for the analysis of the recently proposed wide-angle X-ray missions like DUO and ROSITA. As a first application, clusters are extracted from the 3rd version of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and the Early Date Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The time-consuming computations are performed within the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO). On a test area of 140 square degrees, 75 X-ray clusters are detected down to an X-ray flux limit of $3-5\times 10^{-13} {\rm erg} {\rm s}^{-1} {\rm cm}^{-2}$ in the ROSAT energy band 0.1-2.4 keV. The clusters have redshifts $z\le 0.5$. The survey thus fills the gap between traditional large-area X-ray surveys and serendipitous X-ray cluster searches based on pointed observations, and has the potential to yield about 4,000 X-ray clusters after completion of SDSS.
description: 19 pages, low-resolution figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nicon Kinberg 1866
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Nicon

description: Nicon Kinberg, 1866
 japonicus Imajima, 1972: Ariake Sea, Japan. NSMT 72, 73
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
The Impact of Environment on Climate Change Action
Creators: name: Smith-Manchip, Jessie
name: Ng, Grace
name: McKeown, Gabriel
name: Kim, Yoo Jung
name: Cahyadi, Kezia Reinata
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Our study explored the effect of one’s immediate environment on their likelihood of engaging in pro-environmental behaviour. Specifically we survey participants in three different locations across UBC Vancouver campus, two of these locations were defined as urban (one indoor and one outdoor), and one was defined as natural. When comparing the results from all three conditions there was no significant effect on petition signing behaviour. However, we did find a significant effect on petition signing between our indoor urban and natural environment. We hypothesise that the lack of an effect found at our outdoor urban condition may be due to the fact that it wasn’t perceived as urban by participants. Overall our research suggests that environmental context may influence one’s likelihood on engaging in pro-environmental behaviours, however, more research is needed to confirm or deny this, as well as to undercover the mechanisms by which this may work. Based on our results we suggest that people canvassing for petition signatures for environmental issues do so in a natural environment such as a park to increase efficiency. 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.”
Von Schatten-IT und versehentliche Servitisierung
Creators: name: Ritley, Kenneth
name: Anderson, Matthew
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft
Year: 2024

description: Im Labyrinth moderner Unternehmen lauern Schatten-IT und versehentliche Servitisierung wie formwandelnde Monster, die hilfreiche Tools in komplexe Dienste verwandeln, die unvorbereitete Teams überfordern können. Sie haben Tentakel, die sich in Strategie und Betrieb verheddern, sie schaffen enorme Risiken und Gefahren und sie stellen geplante Geschäftsmodelle in Frage. In diesem Artikel werden einige Strategien vorgestellt, um diese Ungeheuer nicht nur zu zähmen, sondern ihre Macht zu nutzen und aus potenziellen Gegnern Verbündete des Fortschritts und der Chancen zu machen.
Accelerating Reinforcement Learning for Reaching using Continuous Curriculum Learning
Creators: name: Luo, Sha
name: Kasaei, Hamidreza
name: Schomaker, Lambert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in the training of robot behavior due to the sequential decision making characteristics. However, the required enormous amount of interactive and informative training data provides the major stumbling block for progress. In this study, we focus on accelerating reinforcement learning (RL) training and improving the performance of multi-goal reaching tasks. Specifically, we propose a precision-based continuous curriculum learning (PCCL) method in which the requirements are gradually adjusted during the training process, instead of fixing the parameter in a static schedule. To this end, we explore various continuous curriculum strategies for controlling a training process. This approach is tested using a Universal Robot 5e in both simulation and real-world multi-goal reach experiments. Experimental results support the hypothesis that a static training schedule is suboptimal, and using an appropriate decay function for curriculum learning provides superior results in a faster way.
Localization and extinction of bacterial populations under inhomogeneous growth conditions
Creators: name: Lin, Anna L.
name: Mann, Bernward A.
name: Torres-Oviedo, Gelsy
name: Lincoln, Bryan
name: Kas, Josef
name: Swinney, Harry L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transition from localized to systemic spreading of bacteria, viruses and other agents is a fundamental problem that spans medicine, ecology, biology and agriculture science. We have conducted experiments and simulations in a simple one-dimensional system to determine the spreading of bacterial populations that occurs for an inhomogeneous environment under the influence of external convection. Our system consists of a long channel with growth inhibited by uniform UV illumination except in a small ``oasis'', which is shielded from the UV light. To mimic blood flow or other flow past a localized infection, the oasis is moved with a constant velocity through the UV-illuminated ``desert''. The experiments are modeled with a convective reaction-diffusion equation. In both the experiment and model, localized or extinct populations are found to develop, depending on conditions, from an initially localized population. The model also yields states where the population grows everywhere. Further, the model reveals that the transitions between localized, extended, and extinct states are continuous and non-hysteretic. However, it does not capture the oscillations of the localized population that are observed in the experiment.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Mliltiple Crop Supply and Factor Demand Component of the World Grains, Oilseeds, and Livestock Model
Creators: name: Liu, Karen
name: Liu, Karen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: multiple crop supply
subject: GOL model
subject: area
subject: yield
subject: production

description: This paper reviews the crop supply component of the world grains, oilseeds, and livestock (GOL) model and attempts to develop an improved conceptual framework for specifying the multiple crop supply and input demand relationships in the GOL model. As a basis for examining and revising the crop supply component, the theoretical foundations for a multiple product production system and empirical studies related to. agricultural commodity supply response were reviewed. The revised specification of the crop supply equations consists of a nonlinear equation system of area, yield and production. The major emphasis on the revision of the crop supply component is to ensure consistent acreage allocation among crop alternatives, to more realistically capture cross-price effects or substitution possibilities between alternative crops and to include policy variables to reflect the effects of government farm policies on crop supply response.
How can the expertise of people with experience of poverty inform Swiss poverty policy in the long term and have an impact on it? Foundations and concept for a permanent participation structure, which was developed on the basis of research conducted with people who have experience of poverty.
Creators: name: Chiapparini, Emanuela
name: Guerry, Sophie
name: Reynaud, Caroline
Publisher: name: Federal Social Insurance Office
Year: 2025

description: People affected by poverty are a large group in Switzerland, and they have little lobbying in the federal parliament and in cantonal and municipal governments. As a result, they are insufficiently able to exercise their political rights in Switzerland's direct democracy. This is where the ‘Council for Poverty Issues in Switzerland’ comes in, which people with experience of poverty, organizations of people affected, and experts from various federal areas of Switzerland, together with the research team from the Bern University of Applied Sciences, have developed on behalf of the National Platform against Poverty (FISO) in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Fribourg from 2022 to 2024. With the proposal of a council, people with experience of poverty are given a voice and continuous opportunities to identify their concerns and bring them into political processes. At the same time, the council's opinion can be used by decision-makers in politics, administration, business, the media and social services to uncover blind spots in poverty policy measures, for example. With the approval of the Federal Council in December 2024, the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) will take the next steps in 2025 to establish the “Poverty Council” in the future.
O discurso político republicano desde a fundação do Partido Republicano Português até ao Ultimato britânico (1876­‑1890). Breves considerações à luz de três exemplos
Creators: name: Sardinha, Carlos
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2013

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 1 n. Especial (2013): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Nuno José Espinosa Gomes da Silva
Seeing the trees without the forest: What and how can agroforestry and urban forestry learn from each other?
Creators: name: Sousa-Silva, Rita
name: Feurer, Mélanie
name: Morhart, Christoph
name: Sheppard, Jonathan P.
name: Albrecht, Stefanie
name: Anys, Markus
name: Beyer, Friderike
name: Blumenstein, Kathrin
name: Reinecke, Sabine
name: Seifert, Thomas
name: Whitehead, Ian
name: Pauleit, Stephan
name: Bauhus, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2024

description: Purpose of Review: Agroforestry and urban forestry have evolved mainly as separate disciplines, although they share a long history of tree cultivation in man-made environments. Here, we review their common threads, exploring how trees in both systems interact with and shape their environments. We examine common themes and methodologies – ranging from tree growth dynamics to environmental stressors, ecosystem services provision, and questions of governance – and identify opportunities for synergies between these felds. Recent Findings: We emphasize the potential of agroforestry and urban forestry for enhancing multifunctional landscapes. Geographical divides in research are evident, with agroforestry predominantly studied in the Global South and urban forestry receiving more attention in the Global North. However, signifcant research gaps provide avenues for collaboration, for instance, addressing challenges in capturing the monetary and socio-cultural value of ecosystem services and environmental justice considerations. Summary: In light of the growing need for integrated approaches in addressing contemporary challenges, from climate change mitigation and adaptation to community well-being, our review explores what these research felds can learn from each other and provides recommendations for fostering greater interdisciplinary dialogue and new avenues for collaborations in a meaningful and synergistic manner, aiming to advance policy, research, and practice in agroforestry and urban forestry.
Environmental Education : Geographical Proximity on the Willingness to Change Behaviour
Creators: name: Sutton, Caroline
name: Keller, Jasmine
name: Fu, Sven
name: Martin, Emily
name: Friedenstab, Emma
name: Ho, Connie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The way in which environmental issues are framed may have an impact on individual willingness to change behaviour. This experiment was conducted to determine how the education on salmon stock declines affect people’s willingness to change their consumption behaviour. We hypothesized that individuals exposed to a locally emphasized-education intervention would have increased willingness to change their seafood consumption and be more likely to sign a petition to help stop overfishing, compared to globally emphasized-education (GEE) and no education (NE) conditions. In an online questionnaire, participants were randomly assigned to the conditions and GEE and LEE were asked to read a short infographic specific to that condition. Each participant was asked to answer the same questionnaire regarding their awareness of the environmental issue of overfishing and their willingness to change their seafood consumption behaviour and sign a petition to support efforts to improve the environmental issue. Due to limitations in our study design and implementation, the results did not demonstrate statistically significant results. Nevertheless, our hypothesis is supported by construal theory which outlines how education regarding a local issue has a greater impact on one's willingness to change behaviour than does education regarding a global, or abstract issue(₁). Our findings can be used to develop further research projects to explore the effectiveness of educating in a local vs. global context. 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.”
Paraleonnates Khlebovich & Wu 1962
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Paraleonnates

description: Paraleonnates Khlebovich & Wu, 1962
 uschakovi Khlebovich & Wu, 1962: Hainan, China. IOCAS 8181 (diagn., syn. & redescr. Khlebovich 1996, Hong et al. 2012)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Floral Ethics and Aesthetics: Understanding Professional Expertise at Work
Creators: name: Zinn, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Emerald Publishing Limited
Year: 2024

description: This chapter presents a study of ‘floral ethics’, defined as a set of standardized practices for handling flowers shared among members of the florist occupation. Drawing on 36 months of ethnographic fieldwork in flower shops in Switzerland and Chicago, it contributes to the sociology of work and professions by providing a nuanced understanding of the tensions that can arise between the professional expertise of florists and the aesthetic preferences of customers. The findings on the micro-level reveal that adherence to floral ethics serves as a strategy for protecting and maintaining occupational legitimacy. By uncovering divergent conceptions of what constitutes ‘work well done’ among florists, this chapter offers a broader argument on the power asymmetry inherent in service relationships.
Planck Low Frequency Instrument: Beam Patterns
Creators: name: Sandri, M.
name: Bersanelli, M.
name: Burigana, C.
name: Butler, R. C.
name: Malaspina, M.
name: Mandolesi, N.
name: Mennella, A.
name: Morgante, G.
name: Terenzi, L.
name: Valenziano, L.
name: Villa, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Low Frequency Instrument on board the ESA Planck satellite is coupled to the Planck 1.5 meter off-axis dual reflector telescope by an array of 27 corrugated feed horns operating at 30, 44, 70, and 100 GHz. We briefly present here a detailed study of the optical interface devoted to optimize the angular resolution (10 arcmin at 100 GHz as a goal) and at the same time to minimize all the systematics coming from the sidelobes of the radiation pattern. Through optical simulations, we provide shapes, locations on the sky, angular resolutions, and polarization properties of each beam.
description: On behalf of the Planck collaboration. 3 pages, 1 figure. Article published in the Proceedings of the 2K1BC Experimental Cosmology at millimetre wavelengths
Impulsive electron acceleration by Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Vlahos, Loukas
name: Voyatzis, George
name: Papadopoulos, Demetrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the non-linear interaction of a strong Gravitational Wave with the plasma during the collapse of a massive magnetized star to form a black hole, or during the merging of neutron star binaries (central engine). We found that under certain conditions this coupling may result in an efficient energy space diffusion of particles. We suggest that the atmosphere created around the central engine is filled with 3-D magnetic neutral sheets (magnetic nulls). We demonstrate that the passage of strong pulses of Gravitational Waves through the magnetic neutral sheets accelerates electrons to very high energies. Superposition of many such short lived accelerators, embedded inside a turbulent plasma, may be the source for the observed impulsive short lived bursts. We conclude that in several astrophysical events, gravitational pulses may accelerate the tail of the ambient plasma to very high energies and become the driver for many types of astrophysical bursts.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Valence and magnetic instabilities in Sm compounds at high pressures
Creators: name: Barla, A.
name: Sanchez, J. -P.
name: Derr, J.
name: Salce, B.
name: Lapertot, G.
name: Flouquet, J.
name: Doyle, B. P.
name: Leupold, O.
name: Rueffer, R.
name: Abd-Elmeguid, M. M.
name: Lengsdorf, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the study of the response to high pressures of the electronic and magnetic properties of several Sm-based compounds, which span at ambient pressure the whole range of stable charge states between the divalent and the trivalent. Our nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation and specific heat investigations show that in both golden SmS and SmB6 the pressure-induced insulator to metal transitions (at 2 and about 4-7 GPa, respectively) are associated with the onset of long-range magnetic order, stable up to at least 19 and 26 GPa, respectively. This long-range magnetic order, which is characteristic of Sm(3+), appears already for a Sm valence near 2.7. Contrary to these compounds, metallic Sm, which is trivalent at ambient pressure, undergoes a series of pressure-induced structural phase transitions which are associated with a progressive decrease of the ordered 4f moment.
description: 15 pages (including 7 figures) submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
Eça nas conferências do Casino: o quadro de Courbet “Retour de la conférence”
Creators: name: Xavier, Bernardo Da Gama Lobo
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2013

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 1 n. Especial (2013): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Nuno José Espinosa Gomes da Silva
Platynereis Kinberg 1866
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Platynereis

description: Platynereis Kinberg, 1866 sinica Sun, Wu & Shen, 1978: Zhongsha Islands, Guangdong, China. IOCAS, type not located] (redescr. Wu et al. 1981)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
REGIONAL FINANCIAL AND MONETARY POLICY ANALYSIS MODEL
Creators: name: Division, Chase Econometric Associates For The Economic Development
name: Division, Chase Econometric Associates For The Economic Development
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Multiregional econometric model
subject: monetary policy sensitivity
subject: urban-rural comparisons
subject: regional development
subject: regional monetary model

description: A multiregional econometric model is presented for evaluating the differences in impact of monetary and financial policy changes on economic development in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions in the United States. The model is demonstrated using the four principal U.S. Census regions, eacn of which is disaggregated into metropolitan and nonmetropolitan components. The model indicates that nonmetropolitan regions generally are less affected by overall changes in monetary policy than are metropolitan areas. However, significant differences are found among both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan reactions in different parts of the United States, depending on the economic structure of the region. The model also indicates that increases in credit to rural areas financed from metropolitan areas increases rural economic activity; however, the decrease in metropolitan activity more than offsets the rural gains, and the rural gains tend to dissipate over time. Special features of the model permit it to be easily changed to test alternative policies and assumptions regarding economic structure.
“We, the people(s)”: o estatuto de cidadania europeia
Creators: name: Rocha, Armando L. S.
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2013

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 1 n. Especial (2013): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Nuno José Espinosa Gomes da Silva
Inexact Tensor Methods with Dynamic Accuracies
Creators: name: Doikov, Nikita
name: Nesterov, Yurii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study inexact high-order Tensor Methods for solving convex optimization problems with composite objective. At every step of such methods, we use approximate solution of the auxiliary problem, defined by the bound for the residual in function value. We propose two dynamic strategies for choosing the inner accuracy: the first one is decreasing as $1/k^{p + 1}$, where $p \geq 1$ is the order of the method and $k$ is the iteration counter, and the second approach is using for the inner accuracy the last progress in the target objective. We show that inexact Tensor Methods with these strategies achieve the same global convergence rate as in the error-free case. For the second approach we also establish local superlinear rates (for $p \geq 2$), and propose the accelerated scheme. Lastly, we present computational results on a variety of machine learning problems for several methods and different accuracy policies.
Vortex solitons in photonic crystal fibers
Creators: name: Ferrando, Albert
name: Zacares, Mario
name: de Cordoba, Pedro Fernandez
name: Binosi, Daniele
name: Monsoriu, Juan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the existence of vortex soliton solutions in photonic crystal fibers. We analyze the role played by the photonic crystal fiber defect in the generation of optical vortices. An analytical prediction for the angular dependence of the amplitude and phase of the vortex solution based on group theory is also provided. Furthermore, all the analysis is performed in the non-paraxial regime.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE PLANNING CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Johnson, James B.
name: Johnson, James B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural planning
subject: resource delineation
subject: resource use
subject: internalization methods

description: This report documents the development and adaptation of agricultural resource planning concepts and procedures for use in developing countries. Major concepts were those applicable to land resource delineation, major land use delineation, and the disaggregation of agricultural production and cropping pattern statistics to land resource delineations. The procedures used in the five developing countries are discussed. A limited discussion is presented on the design and application of two information systems that manage information obtained by inventory and assessment. The goals, purposes, and products of institutionalization activities in each of the five countries are presented.
Tomando a história a sério. Código dos homens e ordem de Deus na “era da exegese”
Creators: name: Hespanha, António Manuel
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2013

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 1 n. Especial (2013): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Nuno José Espinosa Gomes da Silva
The XMM-Newton EPIC Background: Production of Background Maps and Event Files
Creators: name: Read, Andrew M.
name: Ponman, Trevor J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: XMM-Newton background maps for the 3 EPIC instruments in their different instrument/mode/filter combinations and in several energy bands have been constructed using a superposition of 72 pointed observations. Event datasets, with point sources excised, for the different instrument/mode/filter combinations have also been assembled, with longer exposure times than previously available files. The construction of the background maps and event files, together with their properties and usage are described here. Also given are statistical properties of the photon and particle components of the XMM-Newton EPIC background, based on the analysis of the 72 datasets.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, A&A accepted, also available from http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~amr/publications.html
Generating Biomedical Question Answering Corpora from Q&A forums
Creators: name: Lamurias, Andre
name: Sousa, Diana
name: Couto, Francisco M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical questions are still a challenge to most QA approaches, due to the complexity of the domain and limited availability of training sets. We present a method to automatically extract question-article pairs from Q\&A web forums, which can be used for document retrieval, a crucial step of most QA systems. The proposed framework extracts from selected forums the questions and the respective answers that contain citations. This way, QA systems based on document retrieval can be developed and evaluated using the question-article pairs annotated by users of these forums. We generated the BiQA corpus by applying our framework to three forums, obtaining 7,453 questions and 14,239 question-article pairs. We evaluated how the number of articles associated with each question and the number of votes on each answer affects the performance of baseline document retrieval approaches. Also, we demonstrated that the articles given as answers are significantly similar to the questions and trained a state-of-the-art deep learning model that obtained similar performance to using a dataset manually annotated by experts. The proposed framework can be used to update the BiQA corpus from the same forums as new posts are made, and from other forums that support their answers with documents. The BiQA corpus and the framework used to generate it are available at \url{https://github.com/lasigeBioTM/BiQA}.
On efficient adjustment in causal graphs
Creators: name: Witte, Janine
name: Henckel, Leonard
name: Maathuis, Marloes H.
name: Didelez, Vanessa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider estimation of a total causal effect from observational data via covariate adjustment. Ideally, adjustment sets are selected based on a given causal graph, reflecting knowledge of the underlying causal structure. Valid adjustment sets are, however, not unique. Recent research has introduced a graphical criterion for an 'optimal' valid adjustment set (O-set). For a given graph, adjustment by the O-set yields the smallest asymptotic variance compared to other adjustment sets in certain parametric and non-parametric models. In this paper, we provide three new results on the O-set. First, we give a novel, more intuitive graphical characterisation: We show that the O-set is the parent set of the outcome node(s) in a suitable latent projection graph, which we call the forbidden projection. An important property is that the forbidden projection preserves all information relevant to total causal effect estimation via covariate adjustment, making it a useful methodological tool in its own right. Second, we extend the existing IDA algorithm to use the O-set, and argue that the algorithm remains semi-local. This is implemented in the R-package pcalg. Third, we present assumptions under which the O-set can be viewed as the target set of popular non-graphical variable selection algorithms such as stepwise backward selection.
description: 45 pages, 11 figures
Rullierinereis Pettibone 1970
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Rullierinereis

description: Rullierinereis Pettibone, 1970 gallardoi Pettibone, 1971: Nha Trang, South Vietnam. LACM 252
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
A inadmissibilidade de uma ablação consentida da meação no património comum
Creators: name: Antunes, Ana Filipa Morais
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2013

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 1 n. Especial (2013): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Nuno José Espinosa Gomes da Silva
Bundesrat nimmt die Gefahr der Überidentifikation ernst
Creators: name: Alt, Helen
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft
Year: 2024

description: Nachdem die Schweizer Bevölkerung im März 2021 das Bundesgesetz über elektronische Identifizierungsdienste mit 64% Nein-Stimmen abgelehnt hat, hat der Bundesrat nun im November 2023 die Botschaft zum neuen Bundesgesetz über den elektronischen Identitätsnachweis und andere elektronische Nachweise (E ID-Gesetz, BGEID) verabschiedet. Über den neuen Vorschlag und welche Anpassungen es gibt, sprechen wir mit Michael Schöll, dem Direktor des Bundesamtes für Justiz.
RESCEU microbiome analysis code
Creators: name: de Steenhuijsen Piters, Wouter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: code
microbiome
RSV
respiratory
nasopharyngeal
16S
severity

description: This repository contains the Rmd-scripts (`scripts/` and functions (`src`) used to generate results (`results`). The code below was ran in R (v4.3.3). See https://gitlab.com/bogaert_lab/resceu for more information.
CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDOWNERS MAKING ADDITIONS TO CROPLAND
Creators: name: Daugherty, Arthur B.
name: Daugherty, Arthur B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: cropland
subject: cropland additions
subject: acreage
subject: landownership
subject: landowner characteristics

description: Landowners making additions to cropland in 1975-77 differed little from all owners of farm and ranch land. They were predominantly white, male, and lived in the counties where their land was located. About 89 percent awned their land as sole proprietors or in husband-wife ownership. Over 50 percent owned all the land they operated. Of the owners reporting additions to cropland, 50 percent were 35-54.years of age and 40 percent reported more than a high school education. Over 40 percent also reported their occupation as closely allied to farming.
The Economics of Biomass Energy: A Study of Two Agricultural Wastes
Creators: name: Gopalakrishnan, Chennat
name: Kasturi, Prahlad
name: Gopalakrishnan, Chennat
name: Kasturi, Prahlad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The progressive escalation of energy shortages in recent years has led to an intensified search for viable alternate sources of energy in virtually every part of the United States. This is especially true of Hawaii, whose economic and geographic characteristics have constrained its present source of supply to a single fossil fuel, namely, oil. This monopoly of oil is further enhanced by the crucial role of transportation in the economic life of the islands dominated by tourism, plantation agriculture, .and military services. Viewed in this perspective, the need for exploring and exploiting alternate sources of energy in the Hawaiian islands becomes urgent and compelling.
CONSORTIUM ON TRADE RESEARCH: Agricultural Trade Policy Issues in the Eighties, Current Research, and Long-Term Forecasting.
Creators: name: International Economics Division
name: International Economics Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Trade policy
subject: trade modeling
subject: long-term forecasting
subject: monetary policy
subject: exchange rates

description: Domestic agricultural policy and trade policy are closely linked.. Thus, research, including long-term forecasting activities, must take into account the domestic as well as international implications of trade policy issues. The seventh meeting of the Consortium on Trade Research on June 23-24, 1983, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, focused on the problems facing international agricultural trade in the eighties; current research efforts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretariat; and the status, problems, and applications of long-term forecasting models.
Spectrum of an open disordered quasi-two-dimensional electron system: strong orbital effect of the weak in-plane magnetic field
Creators: name: Tarasov, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of an in-plane magnetic field upon open quasi-two-dimensional electron and hole systems is investigated in terms of the carrier ground-state spectrum. The magnetic field, classified as weak from the viewpoint of correlation between size parameters of classical electron motion and the gate potential spatial profile is shown to efficiently cut off extended modes from the spectrum and to change singularly the mode density of states (MDOS). The reduction in the number of current-carrying modes, right up to zero in magnetic fields of moderate strength, can be viewed as the cause of magnetic-field-driven metal-to-insulator transition widely observed in two-dimensional systems. Both the mode number reduction and the MDOS singularity appear to be most pronounced in the mode states dephasing associated with their scattering by quenched-disorder potential. This sort of dephasing is proven to dominate the dephasing which involves solely the magnetic field whatever level of the disorder.
description: RevTeX-4 class, 12 pages, 5 eps figures
ORPP - An Ontology for Skill-Based Robotic Process Planning in Agile Manufacturing
Creators: name: Zhang Sprenger, Congyu
name: Corrales Ramón, Juan Antonio
name: Baier, Norman Urs
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024
Subjects: ontology
robot process
robot task
robot skill
KPI

description: Ontology plays a significant role in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics by providing structured data, reasoning, action understanding, context awareness, knowledge transfer, and semantic learning. The structured framework created by the ontology for knowledge representation is crucial for enabling intelligent behavior in robots. This paper provides a state-of-the-art analysis on the existing ontology approaches and at the same time consolidates the terms in the robotic task planning domain. The major gap identified in the literature is the need to bridge higher-level robotic process management and lower-level robotic control. This gap makes it difficult for operators/non-robotic experts to integrate robots into their production processes as well as evaluate key performance indicators (KPI) of the processes. To fill the gap, the authors propose an ontology for skill-based robotics process planning (ORPP). ORPP not only provides a standardization in the robotic process planning in the agile manufacturing domain but also enables non-robotic experts to design and plan their production processes using an intuitive Process-Task-Skill-Primitive structure to control low-level robotic actions. On the performance level, this structure provides traceability of the KPIs down to the robot control level.
Tambalagamia Pillai 1961
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Tambalagamia

description: Tambalagamia Pillai, 1961 sinica Shen & Wu, 1993: Nansha Islands, South China Sea. SSBT 31
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482