cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Short-Term Outcome in Patients with Heart Failure and Cancer.
Creators: name: Piotrowski, Jędrzej
name: Timler, Małgorzata
name: Kozłowski, Remigiusz
name: Stasiak, Arkadiusz
name: Stasiak, Joanna
name: Bissinger, Andrzej
name: Timler, Dariusz
name: Timler, Wojciech
name: Marczak, Michał
name: Załuska, Roman
name: Piotrowski, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: cancer
heart failure
treatment
short-term outcome

description: (1) Our study aimed to look at the clinical characteristics, treatment and short-term outcomes of patients hospitalized due to heart failure with coexisting cancer. (2) Methods: Seventy one cancer (Ca) patients and a randomly selected 70 patients without Ca, hospitalized due to heart failure exacerbation in the same time period constituted the study group (Ca patient group) and controls (non-Ca group), respectively. Data on clinical characteristics were collected retrospectively for both groups. (3) Results: Cancer patients presented with a less advanced NYHA class, had more frequent HFpEF, a higher peak troponin T level, and smaller left atrium size, as compared with controls. The in-hospital deaths of Ca patients were associated with: a higher New York Heart Association (NYHA) class, lower HgB level, worse renal function, higher K and AST levels, presence of diabetes mellitus, and HFpEF. By multivariate logistic regression analysis, impaired renal function was the only independent predictor of in-hospital death in Ca patients (OR-1.15; CI 1.05; 1.27); p = 0.017). The following covariates entered the regression: NYHA class, HgB, GFR, K+, AST, diabetes mellitus t.2, and HFpEF. (4) Conclusions: The clinical picture and the course of heart failure in patients with and without cancer are different.
Classification of the Weyl Tensor in Higher Dimensions
Creators: name: Coley, A.
name: Milson, R.
name: Pravda, V.
name: Pravdova, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is done by characterizing algebraically special Weyl tensors by means of the existence of aligned null vectors of various orders of alignment. Further classification is obtained by specifying the alignment type and utilizing the notion of reducibility. For a complete classification it is then necessary to count aligned directions, the dimension of the alignment variety, and the multiplicity of principal directions. The present classification reduces to the classical Petrov classification in four dimensions. Some applications are briefly discussed.
description: 5 pages; submitted to Class Quant Grav. References updated
The Clown Who Lost His Memory: The Life and times of Irving Pollard
Creators: name: Talbot, Richard James
Publisher: name: University of Salford
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Irving Pollard was an amateur variety entertainer who lived in Primrose Hill Street in the Hillfields area of Coventry. The Clown Who Lost His Memory is a multimedia monograph, created on Microsoft Sway. It is inspired by the museum collection of Irving Pollard (1898-1975), known as Chicot the Clown. The project first took place in 2006-8 in partnership with The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry, Arts Council England and the AHRB (now AHRC). This story of recuperation through creativity suddenly seems apt in our current situation during the Coronavirus Pandemic so I have revived it. It is presented in fond memory of friends in Coventry who contributed and wishing them well as they think ahead to the 2021 UK City of Culture.
Objectives’ alignment between members and agricultural cooperatives
Creators: name: Bareille, François
name: Bonnet-Beaugrand, Florence
name: Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine
name: Bareille, François
name: Bonnet-Beaugrand, Florence
name: Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: agricultural cooperatives
subject: member commitment
subject: farm innovation
subject: economic involvement

description: Members’ commitment lessens when agricultural cooperatives grow larger. Their organization becomes more complex and their membership more heterogeneous, which threatens their sustainability and leads them to implement specific mechanisms for collective decisions. We explore how the alignment of objectives between a multi-purpose cooperative and its members influences member commitment. We estimate a multinomial probit model on a cross-section sample of 3,205 members from a large agricultural cooperative in France. We assess the determinants of member commitment through four factors: the offer of new agricultural practices, the availability of outlets and supplies to members, the farm distance to the cooperative headquarters and the farm governance. We show that the adoption of new agricultural practices has a small but significant effect. The availability of outlets and supplies has the strongest effect on the economic involvement of the farmers. Other determinants, such as farm governance or geographical distance to the cooperative headquarters, also reinforce member commitment.
title: How efficient are Kenyan hospitals? : an application of frontier analysis techniques
Creators: name: Kiprono, Julie Jemutai
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: Efficiency is an important concern for health systems. This includes delivery of the health care, health financing, and investment on hospital facilities and the management of health facilities. Measurement of efficiency in health facilities is important to ensure maximum allocation and utilization of limited resources. The aim of this study was to estimate efficiency in level IV Kenyan hospitals using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Panel data were collected from 27 public and faith-based hospitals between 2008 and 2012. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric approach and stochastic frontier analysis (SF A) a parametric approach were applied to the data. Ownership as a factor of efficiency was assessed from the collected samples. The results show evidence of technical inefficiencies across the hospitals. Based on DEA bootstrapped model, the efficiency scores was 0.7597 and 0.7751 for 2011 and 2012 data respectively. Using the cross sectional data set, SFA values were comparable to DEA with an average of 0.7919 and 0.7701 for the 2011 and 2012 data sets respectively. Based on the panel data, the SF A model gave a range of scores that were between 0.62 (Pitt and Lee and Battese and Coelli) and 0.85 (true effect models). There was no evidence of patterns in efficiency scores over time based on both DEA and SF A approaches. This data did not suggest a significant effect on efficiency based on hospital ownership. In conclusion, this study shows presence of technical inefficiencies in Kenyan hospitals. It also provides a platform in exploring further the frontier techniques and incorporating ownership when measuring efficiency in Kenyan hospitals.
Polyandrocarpa glandulosa Monniot C. 1987
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Styelidae
Polyandrocarpa
Polyandrocarpa glandulosa

description: Polyandrocarpa glandulosa Monniot C., 1987
 Polyandrocarpa glandulosa Monniot C., 1987b: 306, fig. 13 (Nouvelle-Calédonie).
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Îles Tonga. 18°41’S, 174°03’W, 80 m, 13.VI.2000, 2 spécimens.
DESCRIPTION
Les deux individus sont fixés par toute la face ventrale sur des débris divers et une éponge. Le corps est allongé. L’anatomie interne est semblable à celle des spécimens de Nouvelle-Calédonie. La formule branchiale d’un spécimen est:
D.E. 4 (8) 6 (9) 5 (10) 6 (8) 3 R. 3 (8) 5 (10) 6 (10) 6 (9) 3 E.G.
Il n’y a pas de sinus parastigmatiques. Le tube digestif est de petite taille en position très postérieure avec un estomac à plis peu visibles et un anus lobé. Il n’y a que cinq gonades à gauche et quatre à droite. Elles sont allongées et à leur extrémité ventrale se trouve une structure globuleuse comme chez les individus calédoniens. Le manteau est couvert d’endocarpes et trois d’entre eux se situent dans la boucle digestive.
Il n’y a pas de tentacules cloacaux.
REMARQUES
La structure très particulière des gonades confirme la validité de l’espèce, retrouvée ici pour la première fois.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 694, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
title: AI3SD intern project: Reaction condition optimisation
Creators: name: Khondaker, Rubaiyat
name: Gow, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2021

description: Optimisation problems are common throughout chemistry, for example optimising the yield of a chemical reaction. Since chemical reactions can take hours or days to complete, it is infeasible
to search through the entire set of possible conditions. Instead, a small subset of the search space is tested, with Design of Experiments (DOE) and Generalised Subset Design being two common techniques used to determine such a subset. Bayesian optimisation, an iterative global optimisation algorithm, has found success in hyperparameter tuning for machine learning models, where researchers face a similar issue of long model evaluation times. As a result, it has been recently applied to problems in chemistry, including the development of the EDBO (Experimental Design for Baysian Optimisation) optimiser, which was used throughout the project. We aimed at verifying the results obtained from the EDBO paper, and then testing the robustness of the optimiser by applying it to other datasets, including one outside the scope of its original domain of reaction yield optimisation.

NB: This report was formalised into a journal paper which has been published in the Journal of Cheminformatics: Robustness under parameter and problem domain alterations of Bayesian optimization methods for chemical reactions. This report serves as a preprint of that paper.
Local Entanglement and quantum phase transition in spin models
Creators: name: Gu, Shi-Jian
name: Tian, Guang-Shan
name: Lin, Hai-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the phase interference of electromagnetic wave, one can recover the total image of one object from a small piece of holograph, which records the interference pattern of two laser light reflected from it. Similarly, the quantum superposition principle allows us to derive the global phase diagram of quantum spin models by investigating a proper local measurement. In the present paper, we study the two-site entanglement in the antifferomagnetic spin models with both spin-1/2 and 1. We show that its behaviors reveal some important information on the global properties and the quantum phase transition of these systems.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Electronic supplementary material for Large mesopelagic fish biomass in the Southern Ocean resolved by acoustic properties
Creators: name: Dornan, Tracey
name: Fielding, Sophie
name: Saunders, Ryan A.
name: Genner, Martin J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: PDF file includes: Supplementary text, Figures S1 to S6, Tables S1 to S11, SI References. Here we provide additional detail on methodology, results and sensitivity analyses for modelling fish biomass for the Southern Ocean from active acoustic data.
Hepatitis C virus infection in injection drug users
Creators: name: Grebely, Jason Steven
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Injection drug users (IDUs) represent the core of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic, but little is known about the natural history and treatment of HCV in IDUs. This thesis characterizes spontaneous clearance of HCV, investigates HCV re-infection following clearance and evaluates novel models for improving uptake and treatment responses among IDUs. To better understand characteristics associated with HCV clearance in IDUs, data from a community-based cohort study were linked with longitudinal laboratory databases to compare individuals with HCV clearance to those with HCV persistence to evaluate factors associated with clearance of HCV infection. Aboriginal ethnicity and female gender were associated with increased rates of HCV clearance, while HIV co-infection and illicit drug use were associated with increased HCV persistence. To further investigate the impact of illicit drug use on HCV persistence, we compared the rate of re-infection in individuals with HCV clearance to the rate of infection observed in previously uninfected individuals to evaluate whether previous clearance of HCV infection is protective against re-infection. Those with viral clearance were about 4 times less likely to become re-infected than those infected for the first time, suggesting that individuals with HCV clearance have a lower risk of acquiring HCV than individuals who have never been infected, despite ongoing exposure to HCV. Lastly, we sought to evaluate novel models for improving uptake of and response rates to the treatment of HCV among current and former IDUs. First, we demonstrated that within a prospective, multidisciplinary, directly observed therapy program for the treatment of HCV infection of IDUs, overall response rates parallel results from large, randomized controlled trials, despite ongoing illicit drug use during treatment. Second, we demonstrated a high uptake of and response to therapy among IDUs infected with HCV attending a weekly support group. Taken together, these data demonstrate that IDUs can be safely and successfully treated for HCV infection within a multidisciplinary program integrating HCV, addiction and primary care. Given the considerable burden of HCV infection in IDUs, this data contributes significantly to the field by providing a greater understanding of the natural history and treatment of HCV in this setting.
title: Material flow accounting and the efficient use of resources
Creators: name: Onachenko, Karyna
Year: 2024

description: Diese Studie bietet eine umfassende theoretische Analyse der Materialflusskostenrechnung (MFCA) und illustriert ihre Anwendung anhand eines Modellbeispiels aus der Bergbauindustrie. Das Hauptziel besteht darin, die konzeptionellen Grundlagen und das Potenzial von MFCA als Instrument zur Analyse und Optimierung von Ressourceneffizienz in industriellen Prozessen aufzuzeigen. Bei der Analyse werden wissenschaftliche Methoden wie Abstraktion, Analyse und Synthese sowie mathematische Techniken wie Matrix- und Vektormathematik zur Modellierung von Materialflüssen eingesetzt. Im Anschluss an die theoretische Diskussion wird ein praxisorientiertes Beispiel aus der Bergbauindustrie vorgestellt, um zu veranschaulichen, wie MFCA bei der Identifizierung von Ineffizienzen, wie z. B. Abfallentstehung und Kostensteigerung, unterstützen kann. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass MFCA durch die strukturierte Analyse von Material- und Energieflüssen eine fundierte Grundlage für technologische Entscheidungen bietet, welche die Ineffizienzen verringern und die Ressourcennutzung verbessern können. Ein spezifisches Beispiel ist die Nutzung von Wärmepumpen zur Rückgewinnung thermischer Energie aus Abwasser, die zur Beheizung nahe gelegener Bergarbeitersiedlungen genutzt werden könnte.
description: This study presents a comprehensive theoretical analysis of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and demonstrates its application within the mining industry. The primary objective is to reveal the conceptual foundations and potential of MFCA and demonstrate its value as a tool for enhancing resource efficiency in industrial operations. The analysis uses scientific methods, including abstraction, analysis, synthesis, and mathematical techniques, such as matrix and vector mathematics, for modelling material flows. Following the theoretical discussion, a practical example from the mining industry is presented to illustrate how MFCA can be applied in identifying inefficiencies, such as waste generation and cost accumulation. The results show that MFCA, through structured analysis of material and energy flows, offers a solid framework for technological decisions, that are aimed to reduce inefficiencies and improving resource utilisation. One specific application discussed is the use of heat pumps to recover thermal energy from wastewater, which could be repurposed to heat nearby mining settlements.
Polycarpa aurita
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Styelidae
Polycarpa
Polycarpa aurita

description: Polycarpa aurita (Sluiter, 1890)
 Styela aurita Sluiter, 1890: 338.
Synonymie: voir Monniot C. 1987b: 294, fig. 8.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Nouvelle-Calédonie. 22°37.79’S, 167°09.71’E, 124 m, 10.V.1993, 1 spécimen.
Cette espèce, à large répartition tropicale, avait déjà été trouvée en Nouvelle-Calédonie; elle est cette fois présente a une profondeur nettement plus grande.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 699, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Additional file 1 of Breast edema, from diagnosis to treatment: state of the art
Creators: name: Verbelen, Hanne
name: Tjalma, Wiebren
name: Dombrecht, Dorien
name: Gebruers, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Breast edema questionnaire (BrEQ) – English version. Note: The English translation of the BreQ has not yet been validated.
Polycarpa cryptocarpa
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Styelidae
Polycarpa
Polycarpa cryptocarpa

description: Polycarpa cryptocarpa (Sluiter, 1885)
 Styela cryptocarpa Sluiter, 1885: 210.
 Polycarpa cryptocarpa – Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 324, figs 93, 128D.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Îles Marquises. Île Ua Pou, 9°20.9’S, 140°02.7’W, 10-60 m, 1997, 2 spécimens. — Île Hiva Oa, 9°56.6’S, 139°03.2’W, 60 m, 1997, 4 spécimens. Cette espèce littorale Indo-Pacifique était déjà connue dans de nombreux sites.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 701, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Spark Framework for Streaming and Generating Predictive Business Intelligence
Creators: name: M Vijayakamal
name: Dr. D Vasumathi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Apache Spark is one of the stream processing frameworks that can be associated with cloud computing. Real time streaming data is processed with machine learning and natural language processing. Apache Spark is used to explore process mining as well. Process mining is for discovering business processes and diagnose the difference between real processes and processes discovered from event logs. This kind of business intelligence can help improve business processes in real world applications. In presence of very huge number of business processes, usage Spark provides scalability and performance in real time. The data given as input is divided into batches with a time window for processing. In the process, the framework discovers business intelligence as per the algorithms defined. An empirical study made with Spark and its performance is compared with that of Apache Flink. The empirical results revealed that the performance of Apache Spark is better than that of Flink.
Protocol for Systematic Review - Ethnic variations in restraints and restrictive practice in inpatient services: a systematic review
Creators: name: O'Collins, Max
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: This is a protocol for a systematic review that will form one component of my doctoral research thesis. Feedback on how this might be adapted would be most welcome
Non linear excess conductivity of Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_{n-1}$Cu$_n$O$_{2n+4+x}$ (n = 1,2), thin films
Creators: name: Fruchter, L.
name: Sfar, I.
name: Bouquet, F.
name: Li, Z. Z.
name: Raffy, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The suppression of excess conductivity with electric field is studied for Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_{n-1}$Cu$_n$O$_{2n+4+x}$ ($n$ = 1, 2) thin films. A pulse-probe technique is used, which allows for an estimate of the sample temperature. The characteristic electric field for fluctuations suppression is found well below the expected value for all samples. For the $n=1$ material, a scaling of the excess conductivity with electric field and temperature is obtained, similar to the scaling under strong magnetic field.
Polycarpa rima Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Styelidae
Polycarpa
Polycarpa rima

description: Polycarpa rima Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996
 Polycarpa rima Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996: 254, fig. 54C-D, pl. 9F (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée); 2001: 330, fig. 96.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Indonésie. Mer d’Arafura, 5°18’S, 133°01’E, 210 m, 24.X.1991, 1 spécimen.
L’espèce est commune dans tout l’océan Pacifique ouest à faible profondeur. Cette nouvelle localité accroît nettement les limites bathymétriques de l’espèce.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 705, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Qualitative aspects of entanglement in the Jaynes-Cummings model with an external quantum field
Creators: name: Marchiolli, Marcelo A.
name: Missori, Ricardo J.
name: Roversi, Jose A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mathematical procedure which leads us to obtain analytical solutions for the atomic inversion and Wigner function in the framework of the Jaynes-Cummings model with an external quantum field, for any kinds of cavity and driving fields. Such solutions are expressed in the integral form, with their integrands having a commom term that describes the product of the Glauber-Sudarshan quasiprobability distribution functions for each field, and a kernel responsible for the entanglement. Considering two specific initial states of the tripartite system, the formalism is then applied to calculate the atomic inversion and Wigner function where, in particular, we show how the detuning and amplitude of the driving field modify the entanglement. In addition, we also obtain the correct
description: 15 pages and 21 figures
The Difficulties in Measuring Individual Utilities of Product Attributes: A Choice Based Experiment
Creators: name: Meixner, Oliver
name: Haas, Rainer
name: Meixner, Oliver
name: Haas, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: discrete choice modeling, choice based conjoint analysis, estimation of utilities, consumer survey

description: The study combines different theoretical approaches in the field of conjoint analysis to estimate the im-portance of product related attributes. This is of major importance in food marketing, where we still try to find a valid answer, in particular, how to measure the real willingness to pay (WTP) for specific product specifica-tions. Based on a comprehensive literature analysis, a common method was used to approximate the im-portance of several product attributes. As usually suggested in literature, we used discrete choice modeling and developed a choice based experimental design considering selected product attributes. The study object was frozen pizza, a convenience good frequently bought by most households. Up to this point, there is nothing special about the choice based experiment in comparison to direct measure-ment of the importance of product attributes. However, one of the core problems of discrete choice modeling – the approximation of individual utility functions – was then addressed by transforming the choices of con-sumers into scores. With these scores traditional conjoint measurement can be used to approximate individual utilities even in choice based experiments. The individual part-worth utilities will be compared with a usual but very complex approach to approximate individual part-worth utilities, the hierarchical Bayes method. Our ap-proach addresses methodological considerations concerning the restrictions of discrete choice modeling, namely the complexity of approximating individual utilities which is of huge importance in particular for market segmentation.
Styela canopus
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Styelidae
Styela
Styela canopus

description: Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816)
 Cynthia canopus Savigny, 1816: 95, pl. VIII, fig. 1.
Synonymie: voir Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 337.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Îles Marquises. Île Hiva Oa, 9°49.9’S, 139°02.2’W, 50-80 m, VIII.1997, 1 spécimen. — Île Nuku Hiva, 8°56.2’S, 140°06.1’W, 50 m, 24.VIII.1997, 1 spécimen. — Île Ua Huka, 15 m, 1 spécimen.
Cette espèce tropicale et tempérée est répartie dans tous les océans.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 715, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Efficient linear feedback shift registers with maximal period
Creators: name: Tsaban, Boaz
name: Vishne, Uzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11T06, 11T71

description: We introduce and analyze an efficient family of linear feedback shift registers (LFSR's) with maximal period. This family is word-oriented and is suitable for implementation in software, thus provides a solution to a recent challenge posed in FSE '94. The classical theory of LFSR's is extended to provide efficient algorithms for generation of irreducible and primitive LFSR's of this new type.
Pyura irregularis
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Pyuridae
Pyura
Pyura irregularis

description: Pyura irregularis (Herdman, 1882)
(Fig. 42)
 Cynthia irregularis Herdman, 1882: 141.
 Pyura irregularis – Kott 1985: 305 et synonymie.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Vanuatu. 17°43’S, 168°37’E, 130 m, 28.IX.1994, 1 spécimen.
DESCRIPTION
Le spécimen de 11 mm possède une tunique épaisse, nue, marquée de rides délimitant des espaces polygonaux. Les siphons sont écartés, saillants. Le manteau est rendu opaque par une couche de grosses fibres musculaires contiguës issues des deux siphons et régulièrement entrecroisées.
Le siphon buccal contient un vélum à la base duquel sont implantés les tentacules. Ceux-ci n’ont que de courtes et rares ramifications de premier ordre. Le bourrelet péripharyngien en double lame s’incurve dorsalement en un V très étroit et très profond au fond duquel s’ouvre un petit tubercule vibratile. Le ganglion nerveux est très allongé. Le raphé comprend de nombreuses languettes. La branchie possède huit plis de chaque côté selon la formule à droite:
E. (3) 1 (10) 2 (17) 2 (17) 2 (17) 3 (16) 3 (9) 2 (12) 1 R.
Les sinus longitudinaux sont très serrés, ils se terminent postérieurement par une papille. Il y a des sinus parastigmatiques. Le tube digestif décrit une boucle ouverte (Fig. 42). La glande hépatique ramifiée est divisée en deux lobes principaux.L’anus a huit lobes. Les gonades (Fig. 42), une de chaque côté, sont formées de nombreux lobes saillants, inclus dans des endocarpes et régulièrement alternés sur l’axe formé par les gonoductes. La gonade gauche longe la partie ascendante du tube digestif à l’intérieur de la boucle, la gonade droite est un peu sinueuse en position longitudinale. Oviducte et spermiducte s’ouvrent par des papilles jointes.
Il existe un rang d’endocarpes le long de l’endostyle du côté droit, quelques endocarpes sur l’estomac et d’autres plus nombreux sur l’intestin postérieur (Fig. 42).
Un vélum court et fin entoure la base du siphon cloacal, un gros bourrelet ferme le siphon cloacal en position plus apicale.
REMARQUES
Tous les caractères correspondent bien aux descriptions précédentes.
L’espèce était connue dans les zones tempérées du sud de l’Australie jusqu’à 60 m de profondeur. Sa présence en zone tropicale et à plus grande profondeur étend l’aire de répartition de l’espèce.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on pages 734-735, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Food Losses in Supply Chains for Fruits, Vegetables and Potatoes between Field and Retail Shelf in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Creators: name: Meyer, Christian H.
name: Frieling, Dominik
name: Hamer, Martin
name: Oertzen, Gero
name: Meyer, Christian H.
name: Frieling, Dominik
name: Hamer, Martin
name: Oertzen, Gero
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: food losses; supply chain management; sustainable food systems; fruits, vegetables and potatoes

description: Food losses occur for many reasons at all stages of supply chains for fruits, vegetables and potatoes. They cause immense economic, environmental and social costs – not only in developing countries but also in developed countries. According to the European Commission, about 90 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in Europe alone. However, particularly for the early stages of supply chains for fruits, vegetables and potatoes there is still a lack of reliable data. Thus, one objective of this study is to contribute to the quantification of food losses between field and retail, where the main focus is set on potatoes, apples, carrots, strawberries and asparagus. Furthermore, neither reasons why products are removed from the supply chains nor their alternative uses are fully examined yet. This is why, the study takes a look on those issues, too. Results are based on data from an online survey among producers of fruits, vegetables and potatoes in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany and on interviews with producers and other supply chain experts. Findings suggest that the products’ size and form, their storage capabilities and food safety issues have big impacts on food losses. Despite a small sample size, these findings are in line with recent studies.
Soliton mobility in nonlocal optical lattices
Creators: name: Xu, Zhiyong
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the impact of nonlocality in the physical features exhibited by solitons supported by Kerr-type nonlinear media with an imprinted optical lattice. We discover that nonlocality of nonlinear response can profoundly affect the soliton mobility, hence all the related phenomena. Such behavior manifests itself in significant reductions of the Peierls-Nabarro potential with increase of the degree of nonlocality, a result that opens the rare possibility in nature of almost radiationless propagation of highly localized solitons across the lattice.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
31 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18461/pfsd.2017.1705 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON FOOD SYSTEM DYNAMICS A Mixed Methods Approach Towards Mapping and Economic Valuation of the Divici-Pojejena Wetland Ecosystem Services in Romania
Creators: name: Lamprinakis, L.
name: Rodriguez, D. G. P.
name: Prestvik, A.
name: Veidal, A.
name: Klimek, B.
name: Lamprinakis, L.
name: Rodriguez, D. G. P.
name: Prestvik, A.
name: Veidal, A.
name: Klimek, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: mixed methods, wetland, benefit transfer, ecosystem services, Danube

description: Mapping and valuating ecosystem services has gained increasing attention over the last years and remains high in the research agenda. In this paper, a mixed methods approach is used to valuate ecosystem services provided by the Divici-Pojejena wetland in Romania. A qualitative part relied on focus group discussions and interviews to identify key stakeholders and the ecosystem services provided by the wetland site. The benefit transfer (BT) method was used for the monetary valuation of the identified ecosystem services that the wetland provides. Bird watching opportunities, water quality, and flood prevention services are among the highest valued services, while the amenity services are the least valued among all wetland services.
Hydrodynamic stability of rotationally supported flows: Linear and nonlinear 2D shearing box results
Creators: name: Umurhan, O. M.
name: Regev, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here both analytical and numerical results of hydrodynamic stability investigations of rotationally supported circumstellar flows using the shearing box formalism. Asymptotic scaling arguments justifying the shearing box approximation are systematically derived, showing that there exist two limits which we call small shearing box (SSB) and large shearing box (LSB). The physical meaning of these two limits and their relationship to model equations implemented by previous investigators are discussed briefly. Two dimensional (2D) dynamics of the SSB are explored and shown to contain transiently growing (TG) linear modes, whose nature is first discussed within the context of linear theory. The fully nonlinear regime in 2D is investigated numerically for very high Reynolds (Re) numbers. Solutions exhibiting sustained dynamics are found and manifest episodic but recurrent TG behavior and these are associated with the formation and long-term survival of coherent vortices. The life-time of this spatio-temporal complexity depends on the Re number and the strength and nature of the initial disturbance. We show results for a case in which the dynamical activity persists for the entire duration of the simulation (hundreds of box orbits). Some combinations of the Re number and the initial perturbation spectrum (and strength) show the transiently growing phenomenon to ultimately fade away or, in some instances, to be absent altogether. Because the SSB approximation used here is equivalent to a 2D incompressible flow, the dynamics can not depend on the Coriolis force. Therefore, three dimensional (3D) simulations are needed in order to decide if this force indeed suppresses nonlinear hydrodynamical instability in rotationally supported disks in the shearing box.
description: Submitted to A+A on April 1, 2004, Accepted August 3, 2004
Molguloides translucidus Monniot C. & Monniot F. 1991
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Molgulidae
Molguloides
Molguloides translucidus

description: Molguloides translucidus Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1991
 Molguloides translucidus Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1991: 434, figs 31F, 37C, D.
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Nouvelle-Calédonie. Ride des Loyauté, 24°43.49’S, 170°07.07’E, 750-760 m, 24.XI.1993, 1 spécimen.
L’unique exemplaire est très contracté et abîmé, mais on y reconnaît les mêmes dispositions anatomiques que dans les exemplaires précédemment récoltés dans la même région à une profondeur équivalente. La disposition des gonades, très postérieure, est la même, mais celles-ci sont plus développées et saillantes dans la cavité cloacale.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on pages 739-740, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Benchmarking Agri-Food Value Chain Performance Factors in South Mediterranean Countries
Creators: name: Mili, Samir
name: Mili, Samir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Benchmarking; Performance; Agri-food Value Chains; South Mediterranean Countries

description: Fruits and vegetables (F&V) and olive oil are in South Mediterranean Countries (SMCs) two prominent agricultural activities in terms of contribution to national economy and exports. However, both are affected by inefficiencies and poor performance, in particular on the export market. In this paper we assess and compare performance factors between F&V and olive oil value chains (VCs) in Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey, on the one side, and in Spain and Italy taken as benchmarks, on the other side. We propose an adapted Value Chain Maturity Model to benchmark performance factors in these VCs in SMCs. The proposed method could help to identifying poor performing areas in these VCs in order to suggest measures to improve their overall performance in general and export performance in particular. Findings confirm a robust association between VC maturity and performance. VC participants should learn from best practices and incorporate them for improvement, in particular in the areas of VC organization, responsiveness and technology adoption and implementation. In addition, more efficient agri-food exportation from SMCs needs more focus on trade facilitation issues including improvements in administrative procedures, infrastructure and technologies that reduce costs and time to export and facilitate investment. Further challenges outline the need for improvements in the areas of transparency, standards, certification, food safety, traceability and sustainability, taking into consideration that long-term partnerships are desired by international buyers to ensure product supply and quality. Public policies should be refocused towards these new challenges considering not only purely economic performance in these countries but also social development and environmental protection and resource preservation.
Noncommutative Spheres and Instantons
Creators: name: Landi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on some recent work on deformation of spaces, notably deformation of spheres, describing two classes of examples. The first class of examples consists of noncommutative manifolds associated with the so called $θ$-deformations which were introduced out of a simple analysis in terms of cycles in the $(b,B)$-complex of cyclic homology. These examples have non-trivial global features and can be endowed with a structure of noncommutative manifolds, in terms of a spectral triple $(\ca, \ch, D)$. In particular, noncommutative spheres $S^{N}_θ$ are isospectral deformations of usual spherical geometries. For the corresponding spectral triple $(\cinf(S^{N}_θ), \ch, D)$, both the Hilbert space of spinors $\ch= L^2(S^{N},\cs)$ and the Dirac operator $D$ are the usual ones on the commutative $N$-dimensional sphere $S^{N}$ and only the algebra and its action on $\ch$ are deformed. The second class of examples is made of the so called quantum spheres $S^{N}_q$ which are homogeneous spaces of quantum orthogonal and quantum unitary groups. For these spheres, there is a complete description of $K$-theory, in terms of nontrivial self-adjoint idempotents (projections) and unitaries, and of the $K$-homology, in term of nontrivial Fredholm modules, as well as of the corresponding Chern characters in cyclic homology and cohomology.
description: Minor changes, list of references expanded and updated. These notes are based on invited lectures given at the ``International Workshop on Quantum Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry'', November 26-30 2002, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. To be published in the workshop proceedings by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Physics
Granular Matter: a wonderful world of clusters in far-from-equilibrium systems
Creators: name: Ausloos, M.
name: Lambiotte, R.
name: Trojan, K.
name: Koza, Z.
name: Pekala, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we recall various features of non equilibrium granular systems. Clusters with specific properties are found depending on the packing density, going from loose (a granular gas) to sintered (though brittle) polycrystalline materials. The phase space available can be quite different. Unexpected features, with respect to standard or expected ones in classical fluids or solids, are observed, - like slow relaxation processes or anomalous electrical and thermoelectrical transport property dependences. The cases of various pile structures and the interplay between classical phase transitions and self-organized criticality for avalanches are also outlined.
description: 7 figures, 37 refs., to be published in Physica A
Identificación paleopatológica en el Castillo de la Estrella, Teba (Málaga).
Creators: name: Trani Sánchez, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: La Antigua Iglesia de la Santa Cruz, en Teba, ha sido el objeto de investigación y análisis arqueológico principal de la II campaña de excavación del PGI “El Castillo de la Estrella en Teba”, en Málaga. Perteneciente a la villa de Teba, esta iglesia fue símbolo de unas de las primeras fundaciones cristianas en antiguo territorio nazarí, un nuevo espacio de representación que reflejaba un cambio efectivo en el control y la tutela de la población, siendo además centro principal funerario empleado por toda la población.

La intervención arqueológica localizada en distintas zonas de este edificio religioso ha aportado interesantes materiales de estudio cuyo análisis ha desvelado información bastante variada acerca de la población que vivió y utilizó esta construcción como espacio funerario hasta el siglo XVII. Los materiales investigados proceden concretamente de dos sondeos: el sondeo 6-A, específicamente la zona delimitada como primer frente de enterramiento delante del altar, en la cabecera del edificio bajo lo que sería el suelo de la nave de la iglesia en uno de sus últimos momentos de uso, un potencial relleno sobre las sepulturas que incluía gran cantidad de restos en desconexión; y el sondeo 6-D, ubicado en la torre campanario de la iglesia junto a la entrada de la misma, donde se descubrió un gran vertido de huesos humanos que colmataba gran parte de la habitación, relacionado con la fase inicial de amortización del espacio una vez que se abandona el complejo. El registro antropológico de ambas ubicaciones ha desvelado una gran variedad de patologías de diferentes etiologías, tanto de origen traumático como degenerativo o metabólico, un diverso repertorio a mostrar el cual ha sido analizado para ayudar a esbozar una caracterización inicial del índice de salud de la población tebeña hasta los últimos años del siglo XVII.
Asajirus ovirarus Monniot & Monniot 2003, n. comb.
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Pleurogona
Hexacrobylidae
Asajirus
Asajirus ovirarus

description: Asajirus ovirarus (Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1990) n. comb.
 Hexadactylus ovirarus Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1990: 279, fig. 20 (Nouvelle-Calédonie).
 MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Îles Fidji. 17°18’S, 179°33’W, 820-863 m, 5.III.1999, 1 spécimen.
Un seul exemplaire mesurant 2 mm, bien que très jeune, peut être identifié à cette espèce. La profondeur de cette récolte est inférieure à celles des stations proches de la Nouvelle-Calédonie qui étaient de 1400 à 1900 m.
L’espèce est typiquement bathyale.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2003, Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l'ouest Pacifique, pp. 681-749 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 740, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525077
Additional file 1 of Normative beliefs and values that shape care-seeking behaviours for skilled birth attendance (SBA) during birthing by mothers in Africa: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Jacobs, Choolwe
name: Hyder, Adnan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols) 2015 checklist.
The Effect of Type of Trellis and Pruning on Passion Fruit Yields in Dominica
Creators: name: Robin, Gregory
name: Robin, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa
subject: Dominica
subject: West Indies
subject: trellis
subject: pruning

description: The effects of selective pruning and non-pruning on "Fence" and "T" trellis systems, were evaluated over a two year period in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The "T" trellis gave higher fresh weight yields 3,511 and 6,916kg/ha in year I and 2, as compared to the wFence"-trellis which gave yields of I, 170 and 3,830 kg/ha for years 1 and 2 respectively. The nonpruned treatments gave higher yields i.e. 2,660 and 5,958 kg/ha when compared with the pruned treatments 1,596 and 4,682 kg/ha for years one and two respectively. Economic evaluation of the different trellis systems and pruning treatments, indicated that the "T"-trellis with the non-pruned treatments gave the highest returns EC$7 ,235 /ha (US$2,680) and EC$8,913/ha (US$330/ha) when sold to the processor and huckster respectively, over the two year period. Correlations between fresh weight and pulp weight were (r=0.945) in year one.
One-loop calculation of mass dependent ${\cal O}(a)$ improvement coefficients for the relativistic heavy quarks on the lattice
Creators: name: Aoki, Sinya
name: Kayaba, Yasuhisa
name: Kuramashi, Yoshinobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out the one-loop calculation of mass dependent ${\cal O}(a)$ improvement coefficients in the relativistic heavy quark action recently proposed, employing the ordinary perturbation theory with the fictitious gluon mass as an infrared regulator. We also determine renormalization factors and improvement coefficients for the axial-vector current at the one-loop level. It is shown that the improvement coefficients are infrared finite at the one-loop level if and only if the improvement coefficients in the action are properly tuned at the tree level.
description: Lattice2003(improve), 3 pages