cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Barriers and enablers to addressing smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical activity and gestational weight gain (SNAP-W) as part of antenatal care: A mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Dilworth, Sophie
name: Doherty, Emma
name: Mallise, Carly
name: Licata, Milly
name: Hollis, Jenna
name: Wynne, Olivia
name: Lane, Cassandra
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Wiggers, John
name: Kingsland, Melanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
A Larger Slice or a Larger Pie? An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining Power in the Distribution Channel
Creators: name: Draganska, Michaela
name: Klapper, Daniel
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
name: Draganska, Michaela
name: Klapper, Daniel
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This research aims to provide insights into the determinants of channel profitability and the relative power in the channel by considering consumer demand and the interactions between manufacturers and retailers in an equilibrium model. In a departure from the standard empirical channel literature, which assumes that manufacturers set wholesale prices unilaterally, we explicitly model the negotiations between manufacturers and retailers. To this end, we formulate a Nash bargaining game to determine wholesale prices and thus how margins are split in the channel. Equilibrium margins are thus a function of demand primitives and of retailer and manufacturer bargaining power. Bargaining power is itself a function of exogenous retail and manufacturer characteristics such as firm size and service level. The parties' bargaining positions are determined endogenously from the estimated substitution patterns on the demand side. Applying our model to the German ground coffee industry, we find that size is a key driver of bargaining power. We conclude that the growth of retailers over the past decade may indeed have strengthened their hand.
High-Throughput Design of Peierls and Charge Density Wave Phases in Q1D Organometallic Materials
Creators: name: Kayastha, Prakriti
name: Ramakrishnan, Raghunathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft-phonon modes of an undistorted phase encode a material's preference for symmetry lowering. However, the evidence is sparse for the relationship between an unstable phonon wavevector's reciprocal and the number of formula units in the stable distorted phase. This "1/q*-criterion" holds great potential for the first-principles design of materials, especially in low-dimension. We validate the approach on the Q1D materials space containing 1199 ring-metal units and identify candidates that are stable in undistorted (1 unit), Peierls (2 units), charge density wave (3-5 units), or long wave (>5 units) phases. We highlight materials exhibiting gap-opening as well as an uncommon gap-closing Peierls transition, and discuss an example case stabilized as a charge density wave insulator. We present the data generated for this study through an interactive publicly accessible Big Data analytics platform (http://moldis.tifrh.res.in/data/rmq1d) facilitating limitless and seamless data-mining explorations.
Grammatical elicitation: Confirmative, completive, selective, and corrective focus
Creators: name: Pablo, Rudy
name: Dos Santos, Wesley
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: Using the verb 'hit' and animate subject ('woman') and object ('man') on the one hand and animate subject ('woman') and inanimate object ('tree') on the other
First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform
Creators: name: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
name: Abbott, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a wide parameter space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method is based on the Hough transform, which is a semi-coherent, computationally efficient, and robust pattern recognition technique. We apply this technique to data from the second science run of the LIGO detectors and our final results are all-sky upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves emitted by unknown isolated spinning neutron stars on a set of narrow frequency bands in the range 200-$400 $Hz. The best upper limit on the gravitational wave strain amplitude that we obtain in this frequency range is $4.43\times 10^{-23}$.
description: 22 pages, 21 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D
The popular religion of female employees in cantonese opera
Creators: name: Yeung, Tuen Wai Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cantonese opera (Yueju) is one of the most common regional operas performed in the Guangdong province. Within Cantonese cultural areas, before the establishment of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, most Cantonese opera actresses had to endure the triple burdens of economic hardship and social immobility as well as religious prejudice. In order to obtain blessing for successful performances and to fight against life uncertainty, they often worshipped patron deities and ancestors, and observed occupational taboos. After the early 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party severely attacked the traditional patriarchal system and the popular religious activities, especially during the 1960s. These policies enabled the actresses to achieve upward social mobility but at the same time, enforced restrictions on their religious practices. However, in Hong Kong and other overseas Cantonese communities, the religious traditions of Cantonese opera are still preserved up to the present time. The overall objective of this thesis is to offer a thorough description and discussion concerning the taboos, beliefs and practices of female Cantonese opera performers. Moreover, based on materials that are obtained through historical analysis, interviews and fieldwork, this research also examines the uniformity and variation between the actresses' popular religious system and that of women in the larger society. In addition, four arguments are put forward in the Conclusion. First, female performers have to observe the gender taboos of the dominant culture and the occupational religious prohibitions of their own profession. Second, their popular religion can be characterized as a polytheistic system. Third, the roles of actresses in performances are clear evidence to show that the boundary between sacred and profane is blurred within the secular world. Finally, the subcultural religious system of the actresses in Cantonese opera contains some of the religious elements of the dominant cultural group but also has beliefs and practices of its own.
Finite-dimensional approximation for the diffusion coefficient in the simple exclusion process
Creators: name: Jara, Milton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35 (Primary)

description: We show that for the mean zero simple exclusion process in $\mathbb {Z}^d$ and for the asymmetric simple exclusion process in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for $d\geq3$, the self-diffusion coefficient of a tagged particle is stable when approximated by simple exclusion processes on large periodic lattices. The proof depends on a similar stability property of the Sobolev inner product associated with the operator.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000449 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Electronic phase diagrams of carriers in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots: violation of Hund's rule and the Aufbau principle for holes
Creators: name: He, Lixin
name: Bester, Gabriel
name: Zunger, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the orbital and spin configurations of up to six electrons or holes charged into self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots via single-particle pseudopotential and many-particle configuration interaction method. We find that while the charging of {\it electrons} follows both Hund's rule and the Aufbau principle, the charging of {\it holes} follows a non-trivial charging pattern which violates both the Aufbau principle and Hund's rule, and is robust against the details of the quantum dot size. The predicted hole charging sequence offers a new interpretation of recent charging experiments.
Speckle nulling with space-based coronagraphs
Creators: name: Borde, Pascal
name: Traub, Wesley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the tracks of Malbet, Yu, & Shao (1995} on dark hole algorithms, we present analytical methods to measure and correct the speckle noise behind an ideal coronagraph. We show that, in a low aberration regime, wavefront sensing can be accomplished with only three images, the next image being fully corrected (no iterative process needed). The only hardware required is the coronagraph deformable mirror and an imaging detector in the focal plane, thus there are no non-common path errors to correct. Our first method, speckle field nulling, is a fast FFT-based algorithm requiring the deformable mirror influence functions to have identical shapes. Our second method, speckle energy minimization is more general and based on matrix inversion. Numerical simulations show that these methods can improve the contrast by several orders of magnitude.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of IAUC 200, Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science & Techniques, October 3-7, 2005, Nice, France
Electric Conductivity of the Zero-gap Semiconducting State in Alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 Salt
Creators: name: Katayama, Shinya
name: Kobayashi, Akito
name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric conductivity which reveals the zero gap semiconducting (ZGS) state has been investigated as the function of temperature $T$ and life time $τ$ in order to understand the ZGS state in quarter-filled $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ salt with four sites in the unit cell. By treating $τ$ as a parameter and making use of the one-loop approximation, it is found that the conductivity is proportional to $T$ and $τ$ for $k_B\gg\hbar/τ$ and independent of $T$ and $τ$ for $k_B T\ll\hbar/τ$. Further the conductivity being independent of $T$ in the ZGS state is examined in terms of Born approximation for the impurity cattering.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
A Tale of Two-U(1) Axion Models
Creators: name: Hu, Dong
name: Jiang, Hao-Ran
name: Li, Hao-Lin
name: Xiao, Ming-Lei
name: Yu, Jiang-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $U(1)$ global symmetry to solve the strong $CP$ problem could be the remnant of multi-$U(1)$ symmetries from QCD and hidden strong dynamics. Both Peccei-Quinn $U(1)$ and dynamical $U(1)$ are described uniformly, based on which we classify various mixed two-$U(1)$ models to solve both strong $CP$ and quality problems. We propose a moose diagram method with different fermion assignments to directly read relations between $CP$ phases, which illustrate how strong $CP$ problem is solved in terms of cancellation between $CP$ phases. In two axion models, we find the lightest axion is still same as QCD axion at infrared region, while one axion model with $Z_2$ symmetry enhances the axion mass spectrum. Our discussions can be extended to multi-axion cases.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures
Expert Opinion and the Demand for Experience Goods: An Experimental Approach
Creators: name: Hilger, James
name: Rafert, Greg
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
name: Hilger, James
name: Rafert, Greg
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: There exist two significant obstacles to analyzing the effect of expert opinion on consumer demand for experience goods: (1) the relationship between good reviews and high product demand may be spurious and driven by high product quality, and (2) even if expert opinion increases consumer demand, it is unclear whether it does so by providing quality information or by alerting consumers to the existence of a particular product. We utilize an experimental approach in a retail grocery chain in which we display expert opinion information for a group of randomly selected wines to overcome these obstacles. We find that although there is no overall consumer response to expert opinion provision, a subset of highly reviewed wines experienced an increase in demand. Results indicate that consumers utilize quality information provided by expert opinion labels, as opposed to solely using the label to learn of a wine's existence.
Additional file 1 of Combining patient reported outcomes and EHR data to understand population level treatment needs: correcting for selection bias in the migraine signature study
Creators: name: Stewart, Walter F.
name: Yan, Xiaowei
name: Pressman, Alice
name: Jacobson, Alice
name: Vaidya, Shruti
name: Chia, Victoria
name: Buse, Dawn C.
name: Lipton, Richard B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Survey data collected from patients in Strata A-D and Stratum E*. Table S2. MIDAS Grade distribution by sampling strata.
Additional file 3 of Barriers and enablers to addressing smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical activity and gestational weight gain (SNAP-W) as part of antenatal care: A mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Dilworth, Sophie
name: Doherty, Emma
name: Mallise, Carly
name: Licata, Milly
name: Hollis, Jenna
name: Wynne, Olivia
name: Lane, Cassandra
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Wiggers, John
name: Kingsland, Melanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3.
A coronal explosion on the flare star CN Leonis
Creators: name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
name: Reale, F.
name: Liefke, C.
name: Wolter, U.
name: Fuhrmeister, B.
name: Reiners, A.
name: Peres, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simultaneous high-temporal and high-spectral resolution observations at optical and soft X-ray wavelengths of the nearby flare star CN Leo. During our observing campaign a major flare occurred, raising the star's instantaneous energy output by almost three orders of magnitude. The flare shows the often observed impulsive behavior, with a rapid rise and slow decay in the optical and a broad soft X-ray maximum about 200 seconds after the optical flare peak. However, in addition to this usually encountered flare phenomenology we find an extremely short (~2 sec) soft X-ray peak, which is very likely of thermal, rather than non-thermal nature and temporally coincides with the optical flare peak. While at hard X-ray energies non-thermal bursts are routinely observed on the Sun at flare onset, thermal soft X-ray bursts on time scales of seconds have never been observed in a solar nor stellar context. Time-dependent, one-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling of this event requires an extremely short energy deposition time scale of a few seconds to reconcile theory with observations, thus suggesting that we are witnessing the results of a coronal explosion on CN Leo. Thus the flare on CN Leo provides the opportunity to observationally study the physics of the long-sought "micro-flares" thought to be responsible for coronal heating.
description: 7 pages, accepted by A&A
Large Deviations Approach to Bayesian Nonparametric Consistency: the Case of Polya Urn Sampling
Creators: name: Grendar, Marian
name: Judge, George G.
name: Niven, R.K.
name: Grendar, Marian
name: Judge, George G.
name: Niven, R.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Polya L-divergence
subject: Bayesian maximum (A posterior)
subject: Probability method
subject: Maximum Non-Parametric Likelihood method
subject: Empirical likelihood method

description: The Bayesian Sanov Theorem (BST) identifies, under both correct and incorrect specification of infinite dimensional model, the points of concentration of the posterior measure. Utilizing this insight in the context of Polya urn sampling, Bayesian nonparametric consistency is established. Polya BST is also used to provide an extension of Maximum Non-parametric Likelihood and Empirical Likelihood methods to the Polya case.
A variational principle for stationary, axisymmetric solutions of Einstein's equations
Creators: name: Dain, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stationary, axisymmetric, vacuum, solutions of Einstein's equations are obtained as critical points of the total mass among all axisymmetric and $(t,ϕ)$ symmetric initial data with fixed angular momentum. In this variational principle the mass is written as a positive definite integral over a spacelike hypersurface. It is also proved that if absolute minimum exists then it is equal to the absolute minimum of the mass among all maximal, axisymmetric, vacuum, initial data with fixed angular momentum. Arguments are given to support the conjecture that this minimum exists and is the extreme Kerr initial data.
description: 21 pages
Probing the curvature and dark energy
Creators: name: Gong, Yungui
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two new one-parameter tracking behavior dark energy representations $ω=ω_0/(1+z)$ and $ω=ω_0 e^{z/(1+z)}/(1+z)$ are used to probe the geometry of the Universe and the property of dark energy. The combined type Ia supernova (SN Ia), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data indicate that the Universe is almost spatially flat and that dark energy contributes about 72% of the matter content of the present universe. The observational data also tell us that $ω(0)\sim -1$. It is argued that the current observational data can hardly distinguish different dark energy models to the zeroth order. The transition redshift when the expansion of the Universe changed from deceleration phase to acceleration phase is around $z_{\rm T}\sim 0.6$ by using our one-parameter dark energy models.
description: v2: two more figures are added, use revtex, main conclusion unchanged, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, v3: some typos corrected v4: correct caculation errors in model 4
Does On-Farm Quality Assurance Pay? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Grainsafe Program
Creators: name: Karaca, Umit
name: Alexander, Corinne E.
name: Maier, Dirk E.
name: Karaca, Umit
name: Alexander, Corinne E.
name: Maier, Dirk E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk
subject: cost-benefit analysis
subject: identity preservation
subject: on-farm quality assurance

description: Since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops, the commodity grain system has been under pressure to segregate GM and non-GM crops. Starting at the level of the grain handler, members of the grain supply chain have successfully used quality assurance and identity preservation programs to segregate non GM crops. Producers delivering high-value, identity-preserved crops have become interested in implementing these quality management systems at the farm level. We conduct a cost-benefit analysis that shows that quality assurance program may be profitable for producers, depending on their farm size and equipment management strategy.
Demand Versus Supply of Foodgrains in India: Implications to Food Security
Creators: name: Goyal, S.K.
name: Singh, J.P.
name: Goyal, S.K.
name: Singh, J.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Productivity Analysis

description: The present paper addresses the issues namely (i) the present food supply and the trend for future, (ii) shift in food consumption pattern over years and (iii) food demand projection for the next three decades in the context of food security. The analysis reveals that increase in cereal production (mainly rice and wheat) but decline in the percentage share of coarse grains and pulses in total foodgrains production is witnessed since 1960s. India’s total foodgrain production has increased at an annual growth rate of 2.68 per cent since 1960-61. The increase in foodgrain production is mainly due to increase in yield (growth rate being 2.44 per cent as against growth rate of area being 0.17 per cent per annum during 1960-61 to 1998-99). To project the future foodgrains supply, past growth trend has been extrapolated. Based on this assumption, the foodgrain supply is expected to be about 245, 291 and 342 million tonnes by 2010, 2020 and 2030 AD, respectively. Shift in consumption pattern and future demand for food is analyzed for both rural and urban India. Per capita cereal consumption exhibited a declining trend over years in both rural and urban India. This decline is larger in rural India (12.19 %) than in urban India (5.43%) during the period under study. Increase in per capita income and urbanization has led to changes in the composition of the food basket, with consumers moving from coarse cereals to superior cereals (rice and wheat). The allocation of monthly per capita expenditure on food items showed structural shift in dietary pattern in favour of non-cereal food items such as fruits, vegetables, milk, meat, eggs and fish in both the areas. Future food demand is also projected which is based on factors such as growth in population, growth in per capita income, urbanization and consumption behaviour. For projecting population, it is assumed that the growth in population will decline by 0.05 per cent per year in future and urbanization will increase by 0.3 per cent per annum. However, production at the assumed growth rate may not increase in future because the past production growth factors in future may not work well in future also. Hence, in the absence of favorable past growth factors, the food supply to match the demand in future may be a matter of great concern for food security. To meet the demand, the increased production will have to be brought about mainly through increases in productivity as the possibility of area expansion is very minimal.
Strategic Thinking and Opportunities
Creators: name: Loree, J. Wilson
name: Loree, J. Wilson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Agriculture and rural communities are in a major period of transition created by a confluence of major drivers of change seemingly happening all at the same time. Major drivers include shifting from supply push to demand pull, greater market volatility, farm/food industry restructuring and concentration, biotechnology revolution, e-commerce, international trade policy, and national policies of varying support for agriculture. Continually decreasing margins across agricultural production accentuate the drive to bigger size in an attempt to capture economies of scale to maintain living standards. Concentration of farm output by the larger farms is evident in the analysis of farm typology statistics for Alberta, Canada. Smaller farms sustain living standards with significant off farm incomes. Responding to the evolving situation, firms generally employ one of three strategies: • attempt to be low cost producer of the commodity. • attempt to employ a differentiation strategy • a focus strategy directed to a narrow market may contain components of either low cost or product differentiation The ability to decide which of these themes to implement and then implement successfully will be key to the viability of many businesses and farms in these times of major change. We see the strategy in the retail markets as ‘big box’ or ‘boutique’ operations. Probably the toughest position to be in is to get caught without striving toward any of the three options.
Assisting Whole-Farm Decision-Making through Stochastic Budgeting
Creators: name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Stochastic budgeting is used to simulate the business and financial risk and the performance over a six-year planning horizon on a Norwegian dairy farm. A major difficulty with stochastic whole-farm budgeting lies in identifying and measuring dependency relationships between stochastic variables. Some methods to account for these stochastic dependencies are illustrated. The financial feasibility of different investment and management strategies is evaluated. In contrast with earlier studies with stochastic farm budgeting, the option aspect is included in the analysis.
Directions and projective shapes
Creators: name: Mardia, Kanti V.
name: Patrangenaru, Vic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H11 (Primary) 62H10, 62H35 (Secondary)

description: This paper deals with projective shape analysis, which is a study of finite configurations of points modulo projective transformations. The topic has various applications in machine vision. We introduce a convenient projective shape space, as well as an appropriate coordinate system for this shape space. For generic configurations of k points in m dimensions, the resulting projective shape space is identified as a product of k-m-2 copies of axial spaces RP^m. This identification leads to the need for developing multivariate directional and multivariate axial analysis and we propose parametric models, as well as nonparametric methods, for these areas. In particular, we investigate the Frechet extrinsic mean for the multivariate axial case. Asymptotic distributions of the appropriate parametric and nonparametric tests are derived. We illustrate our methodology with examples from machine vision.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000273 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 1 of Sex differences in children's health status as measured by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL)™: cross-sectional findings from a large school-based sample in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Hijkoop, Annelieke
name: ten Kate, Chantal A.
name: Madderom, Marlous J.
name: IJsselstijn, Hanneke
name: Reuser, Julie A.
name: Koopman, Hendrik
name: van Rosmalen, Joost
name: Rietman, André B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Parent proxy-reports: Normative data, including medians and interquartile ranges.
On multipartite invariant states I. Unitary symmetry
Creators: name: Chruscinski, Dariusz
name: Kossakowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a natural generalization of bipartite Werner and isotropic states to multipartite systems consisting of an arbitrary even number of d-dimensional subsystems (qudits). These generalized states are invariant under the action of local unitary operations. We study basic properties of multipartite invariant states: separability criteria and multi-PPT conditions.
description: 9 pages; slight corrections
A variable ionized disk wind in the black-hole candidate EXO 1846-031
Creators: name: Wang, Yanan
name: Ji, Long
name: Garcia, Javier A.
name: Dauser, Thomas
name: Mendez, Mariano
name: Mao, Junjie
name: Tao, L.
name: Altamirano, Diego
name: Maggi, Pierre
name: Zhang, S. N.
name: Ge, M. Y.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Qu, J. L.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Ma, X.
name: Lu, F. J.
name: Li, T. P.
name: Huang, Y.
name: Zheng, S. J.
name: Chang, Z.
name: Tuo, Y. L.
name: Song, L. M.
name: Xu, Y. P.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Liu, C. Z.
name: Bu, Q. C.
name: Cai, C.
name: Cao, X. L.
name: Chen, L.
name: Chen, T. X.
name: Chen, Y. P.
name: Cui, W. W.
name: Du, Y. Y.
name: Gao, G. H.
name: Gu, Y. D.
name: Guan, J.
name: Guo, C. C.
name: Han, D. W.
name: Huo, J.
name: Jia, S. M.
name: Jiang, W. C.
name: Jin, J.
name: Kong, L. D.
name: Li, B.
name: Li, C. K.
name: Li, G.
name: Li, W.
name: Li, X.
name: Li, X. B.
name: Li, X. F.
name: Li, Z. W.
name: Liang, X. H.
name: Liao, J. Y.
name: Liu, H. W.
name: Liu, X. J.
name: Lu, X. F.
name: Luo, Q.
name: Luo, T.
name: Meng, B.
name: Nang, Y.
name: Nie, J. Y.
name: Ou, G.
name: Sai, N.
name: Shang, R. C.
name: Song, X. Y.
name: Sun, L.
name: Tan, Y.
name: Wang, W. S.
name: Wang, Y. D.
name: Wang, Y. S.
name: Wen, X. Y.
name: Wu, B. B.
name: Wu, B. Y.
name: Wu, M.
name: Xiao, G. C.
name: Xiao, S.
name: Xiong, S. L.
name: Yang, S.
name: Yang, Y. J.
name: Yi, Q. B.
name: Yin, Q. Q.
name: You, Y.
name: Zhang, F.
name: Zhang, H. M.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Zhang, W. C.
name: Zhang, W.
name: Zhang, Y. F.
name: Zhao, H. S.
name: Zhao, X. F.
name: Zhou, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After 34 years, the black-hole candidate EXO 1846-031 went into outburst again in 2019. We investigate its spectral properties in the hard intermediate and the soft states with NuSTAR and Insight-HXMT. A reflection component has been detected in the two spectral states but possibly originating from different illumination spectra: in the intermediate state, the illuminating source is attributed to a hard coronal component, which has been commonly observed in other X-ray binaries, whereas in the soft state the reflection is probably produced by the disk self-irradiation. Both cases support EXO 1846-031 as a low inclination system of ~40 degrees. An absorption line is clearly detected at ~7.2 keV in the hard intermediate state, corresponding to a highly ionized disk wind (log ξ > 6.1) with a velocity up to 0.06c. Meanwhile, quasi-simultaneous radio emissions have been detected before and after the X-rays, implying the co-existence of disk winds and jets in this system. Additionally, the observed wind in this source is potentially driven by magnetic forces. The absorption line disappeared in the soft state and a narrow emission line appeared at ~6.7 keV on top of the reflection component, which may be evidence for disk winds, but data with the higher spectral resolution are required to examine this.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Supply Chain Design for High Quality Products: Economic Concepts and Examples form the United States
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: King, Robert P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The food system is undergoing significant structural change at local, national, and international levels. As the food system evolves, some segments along the chain between producers and consumers are disappearing. Others are being transformed. Supply chain concepts are useful for identifying and assessing alternative designs for the reconfiguration of food product production systems. Changes in the food system will require farm managers to adopt new ways of thinking and new perspectives on collaboration with trading partners. They also will require farm management economists to draw on a wider set of economic theories and concepts than we have in the past. This paper begins with brief descriptions of emerging supply chains for high quality food products in the U.S.: (i) a branded product chain, (ii) a genetics-based chain, and (iii) a production-practice based chain. These illustrate the variety of emerging supply chain structures and the challenges firms face in designing new supply chains. The next section presents an overview of key elements of four theoretical frameworks that are helpful in supply chain analysis and design : (i) transaction cost economics, (ii) agency theory, (iii) property rights theory, and (iv) the resource based view of the firm. Concepts from these theories are used to explain structural differences in the three illustrative cases. Looking to the future, key challenges include improving system-wide efficiency through information sharing and logistics management, promoting transparency and trust among trading partners, and designing incentive systems that ensure an equitable distribution of costs and returns.
The massive binary HD 152218 revisited: A new colliding wind system in NGC 6231
Creators: name: Sana, H.
name: Nazé, Y.
name: O'Donnell, B.
name: Rauw, G.
name: Gosset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of an optical and X-ray monitoring campaign on the short-period massive SB2 binary HD 152218. Combining our HiRes spectroscopic data with previous observations, we unveil the contradictions between the published orbital solutions. In particular, we solve the aliasing on the period and derive a value close to 5.604 d. Our eccentricity e = 0.259 +/- 0.006 is slightly lower than previously admitted. We show that HD 152218 is probably undergoing a relatively rapid apsidal motion of about 3deg/yr and we confirm the O9IV + O9.7V classification. We derive minimal masses of 15.82 +/- 0.26 Msol operator and 12.00 +/- 0.19 Msol operator and constrain the radius of the components to R1 = 10.3 +/- 1.3 Rsol and R2 = 7.8 +/- 1.7 Rsol. We also report the results of an XMM-Newton monitoring of the HD 152218 X-ray emission throughout its orbital motion. The averaged X-ray spectrum is relatively soft and it is well reproduced by a 2-T optically thin thermal plasma model with component temperatures about 0.3 and 0.7 keV. The system presents an increase of its X-ray flux by about 30% near apastron compared to periastron, which is interpreted as the signature of an ongoing wind-wind interaction process occurring within the wind acceleration region.
description: published by New Astronomy, 13, 202
Additional file 2 of Sex differences in children's health status as measured by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL)™: cross-sectional findings from a large school-based sample in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Hijkoop, Annelieke
name: ten Kate, Chantal A.
name: Madderom, Marlous J.
name: IJsselstijn, Hanneke
name: Reuser, Julie A.
name: Koopman, Hendrik
name: van Rosmalen, Joost
name: Rietman, André B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Child self-reports: Normative data, including medians and interquartile ranges.
Measurement of upper extremity volume in women following axillary dissection for breast cancer
Creators: name: Megens, Antoinette Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Women who have been treated for breast cancer with axillary surgery and/or radiation are at an increased risk of developing lymphedema in the ipsilateral upper extremity. In order to ensure accuracy in the measurement of upper extremity volume, and thus provide appropriate treatment options for lymphedema, a reliable and valid measurement method must be determined. The gold standard for clinical measurement of limb volume is water displacement volumetry, which can be time-consuming and unhygienic. The purpose of this research project was to determine if two methods of calculated upper extremity volume (using arm circumferences) could be substituted for measured water displacement volume in women after treatment for breast cancer. Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of circumferential measurements and water displacement volumetry were also examined. The subjects were 23 women who were at risk for lymphedema, having undergone axillary lymph node dissection surgery for breast cancer. Seventeen of the women had additional radiation therapy. Subjects had circumference and volume measurements taken of bilateral upper extremities by two physical therapists on the first day, and one week later by one of the physical therapists. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated to analyze circumferential and volume measurement reliability. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (Pearson r) was used to evaluate the correlation between volumetry measurements and calculated volumes. Limits of agreement were calculated in order to determine the amount of agreement between the measurement methods. Upper extremities ipsilateral to the breast surgery were compared separately to contralateral upper extremities. Inter-rater and test-retest reliability ICCs for circumferential data were 0.99 and 0.99, for surgical upper extremities and contralateral upper extremities. Inter-rater and test-retest reliability ICCs for volumetric data were 0.99 and 0.99, for surgical upper extremities and contralateral upper extremities. Pearson-r values were 0.93 and 0.97 for the single truncated cone volume calculation and the summed truncated cone volume calculation respectively. Limits of agreement were (mean +/- 2sd) -52 +/- 334 mL, and -40 +/- 234 mL for single truncated cone calculation and summed truncated cone calculation respectively. The results of this investigation suggest that calculated and volumetric measurements in this population are both reliable and closely related, but do not agree with each other, and thus can not be used interchangeably.
A Multicriteria Evaluation by the Public Approval of Pesticides – A Case with the Plant-Growth Regulators in Grain
Creators: name: Refsgaard, Karen
name: Flaten, Ola
name: Gudem, Runchild
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Refsgaard, Karen
name: Flaten, Ola
name: Gudem, Runchild
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Our object is to develop a method for the public approval and re-evaluation of pesticides that emphasises a wide evaluation of social benefits. This is done through the case for the three plant-growth regulators approved for use in Norwegian grain production at present: chlormequat chloride, ethephon and trinexapacethyl. A multicriteria method is founded on the premises for an expert based model as opposed to e.g. a market based model. It seems to be a possible method that allows for the use of several incommensurable criteria in the approval process by National Agricultural Inspection Service (NAIS). Furthermore, it results in greater transparency, which may be an important quality in a public decision process. However, there are problems connected to a social benefit evaluation like this, some of these are: • There may be other criteria that also should be included • Effects outside the agricultural sector are not considered The environmental effect and the health effect are estimated by NAIS, while a model for estimation of the economic margin is developed in this project. The economic margin for a specific strategy is calculated for a specific species in a specific region and a specific lodging category. Afterwards the economic margin for each lodging category is multiplied with the probability of having that lodging category and finally the lodging categories are summarised. This leaves then together with the other evaluated criteria a multicriteria basis on a ha-basis. The modelled economic benefits and usage of growth regulators are the aggregated due to the registrered acreage of the different crops to a regional and national level corrected to absolute numbers by the total registered use of every growth regulator. A general problem is that such an approval has to be based on future behaviour and effects where the trial data is relatively scarce when it comes to the agronomic effect. The environmental and health effects are even less well documented and only the direct effects on health and the environment are considered by NAIS.
Additional file 5 of Barriers and enablers to addressing smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical activity and gestational weight gain (SNAP-W) as part of antenatal care: A mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Dilworth, Sophie
name: Doherty, Emma
name: Mallise, Carly
name: Licata, Milly
name: Hollis, Jenna
name: Wynne, Olivia
name: Lane, Cassandra
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Wiggers, John
name: Kingsland, Melanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 5.
Sustainability Profitability and Australian Landcare
Creators: name: Polkinghorne, Lachlan
name: Polkinghorne, Lachlan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management

description: The landcare movement in Australia has contributed towards a significant change in environmental awareness, and understanding of the immediate and real issues that face landholders. Consequently, many are now questioning the very farming systems that they implement and are keenly aware of the fragility of the environment around them. The long-term future for Australia's agriculture depends on linking environmental management with sound commercial food and fibre production. Sustainable and profitable farm systems are the key to achieving this future. The farming community is faced with increasing calls for the farming community to be more sustainable. Unfortunately, while most farmers accept this, they do not have access to regional indicators for the measurement of sustainability. Therefore, there is an immediate need to develop further some of the work that has been completed nationally into regional models, where farmers reliably adapt the sustainability indicators to on farm applications. To achieve this, national leadership and cooperation between government, industry and research organisations is required. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are receiving close scrutiny as a means of measuring the impact of a business on the environment. There are many perceived advantages of EMS. These include achieving market access, protection and enhancement of the environment, provision of better management information, and providing a positive image for agriculture. Equally, the farming community is wary of yet more administration and bureaucracy, and would like to be convinced of the positive cost benefits from EMS before embracing EMS as a concept. In comparison to many overseas countries, Australian agriculture is relatively unregulated in an environmental sense. The need to address the challenging question of sustainability, and the potential of EMS as a tool of measurement, provide grounds for strong debate within the country. There is no question that Australia must establish credible systems that are profitable and sustainable. To achieve this, both national leadership and a commitment from the farming community are required.
Prevalence and Predictors of Hyper-Homocysteinemia among Ischemic Stroke Patients – A Hospital Based Prospective Observational Study
Creators: name: Thomas, Cherian
Publisher: name: International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: The objectives were to estimate the prevalence of hyper-homocysteinemia in patients with ischemicstroke presenting to a tertiary care hospital in south India; to assess the correlation between levels of hyperhomocysteinemia and carotid intima media thickness in these patients.Methods: This was a hospital based prospective observational study conducted in the outpatient department and inpatient wards of the Department of General Medicine between January 2021 and December 2021.Results: The results showed that the levels of homocysteine was raised in 69.0% of the patients – >15μmol/L;however, the levels of <15μmol/L, that is normal in 31.0% of the patients with ischaemic stroke. Male gender(72.5% vs 32.3%), smoking (60.9% vs 9.7%), alcohol intake (62.3% vs 9.7%), presence of hemiplegia orhemiparesis (63.8% vs 32.3%), and infarct site being carotid artery (88.4% vs 61.3%) was significantlyassociated with raised levels of homocysteine is patients with ischemic stroke (p<0.05), in comparison withfemale gender, nonsmokers, patients without alcohol intake, without hemiparesis or hemiplegia and involvement of vertebral artery, respectively. Majority (80.6%) of the patients with homocysteine levels <15μmol/L had carotid intimal thickness <0.75; however, among 66.7% patients with homocysteine levels >15μmol/L, the carotid intimal thickness was >0.90mm – this difference was found to be statistically significant. The results of correlation analysis showed the Pearson’s correlation coefficient to be 0.628 – significant positive moderate correlation (p<0.05) between carotid intimal thickness and homocysteine levels.Conclusion: Monitoring both homocysteine levels and carotid intimal thickness could offer a morecomprehensive assessment of vascular risk, allowing for timely and tailored preventive measures.