cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Footing The Bill: an Empirical Look at the Correlation Between Campaign Contributions and Councilor Votes on Split Tax Rates in Massachusetts
Creators: name: LaLiberte, Tristan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The current literature regarding the relationship between campaign contributions and roll call voting by elected officials has primarily focused on the congressional level. This study begins to fill the holes in this topic by utilizing city councilor contributions from likely business owners and their stance on tax classification in their respective communities. In this study, I examine contribution data from municipal officials in fourteen communities in Massachusetts as well as the expressed opinions made by city councilors in the 2018 tax classification hearings in order to test the theories that (1) there is a correlation between the actions of political elites and the interests of campaign contributors at the municipal level and (2) that municipal candidates heavily rely on contributions from the business community to finance their campaigns. Though the results are limited, the evidence suggests that if any relationship exists it is negligible and unlikely to exist at any level that would validate concern. The findings also suggest that candidates for office in smaller municipalities are not as dependent on contributions from the business community as those in large cities or at the congressional level.
Keywords: Massachusetts, tax classification, municipal, campaign contributions, municipal campaign donations, special interest contributions.
The benefits and beneficiaries of “public” investment in herbicide use research and development.
Creators: name: Crowe, Bronwyn
name: Lindner, Bob
name: Llewellyn, Rick
name: Crowe, Bronwyn
name: Lindner, Bob
name: Llewellyn, Rick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research and Development
subject: Evaluation
subject: Herbicide
subject: Patent

description: Australian research and development organizations invest substantial grower and/ or taxpayer (public) funds, on the control of weeds in broad-acre cropping using herbicide. Benefits from this research are distributed between growers, consumers and the agrichemical industry depending on the patent status of the technology adopted or discarded due to the research. The size and allocation of the benefits from “public” R&D affecting on-patent and off-patent herbicide use is analysed using economic surplus techniques. The results indicate that herbicide patent status does not have important implications for “public” R&D investment decisions.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of the self-mutual-group model targeting quality of life improvement among empty-nest older adults in Taiyuan, China: an intervention study
Creators: name: Zhang, Chichen
name: Xue, Yaqing
name: Cai, Yuan
name: Lu, Jiao
name: Zheng, Xiao
name: Yuan, Wenpei
name: Qian, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. A Study on Quality of Life of the Empty-nest Older adults.
Proto-Féminisme dans l'Epistre Othéa de Christine de Pizan: Appropriation et Réinterprétation de Deux Figures Mythologiques, Minerve et Médée.
Creators: name: Lacarriere, Nathalie D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: This thesis focuses on Christine de Pizan’s mythological allegoric work entitled Epistre Othéa, written around 1400. True to the beliefs she portrays in many of her later seminal works, such as The Book of the City of Ladies, or The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Christine displays in this piece a strong didactic vision. The crucial pairing of text and image in the two manuscripts that I chose to focus on prove the power she exerted as a woman and as an artist but also mark her intention to strengthen her moral and political message through the use of different media.
The purpose of this thesis will be to analyze the polyphonic voice that emerges from both the textual and pictorial elements of the Epistre in order to decipher Christine de Pizan’s distinctive ideology. I propose to examine the re-interpretation of two mythological figures, Medea and Minerva, in the Epistre and investigate the impact of this conscious manipulation of sources on Christine de Pizan’s overall works. Furthermore, the comparison between the figures of Othea and Christine herself is analyzed as a way to affirm the author’s idiosyncratic stance and delineate the scope of her proto-feminist views.
Cosmological Instabilities and the Role of Matter Interactions in Dynamical Dark Energy Models
Creators: name: Wolf, William J.
name: Lagos, Macarena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider cosmological models with a dynamical dark energy field, and study the presence of three types of commonly found instabilities, namely ghost (when fields have negative kinetic energy), gradient (negative momentum squared) and tachyon (negative mass squared). In particular, we study the linear scalar perturbations of theories with two interacting scalar fields as a proxy for a dark energy and matter fields, and explicitly show how canonical transformations relate these three types of instabilities with each other. We generically show that low-energy ghosts are equivalent to tachyonic instabilities, and that high-energy ghosts are equivalent to gradient instabilities. Via examples we make evident the fact that whenever one of these fields exhibits an instability then the entire physical system becomes unstable, with an unbounded Hamiltonian. Finally, we discuss the role of interactions between the two fields, and show that whereas most of the time interactions will not determine whether an instability is present or not, they may affect the timescale of the instability. We also find exceptional cases in which the two fields are ghosts and hence the physical system is seemingly unstable, but the presence of interactions actually lead to stable solutions. These results are very important for assessing the viability of dark energy models that may exhibit ghost, gradient or tachyonic modes.
description: 11 pages. Updated to match published version
Ensemble asteroseismology of pulsating B-type stars in NGC 6910
Creators: name: Moździerski, D.
name: Pigulski, A.
name: Kołaczkowski, Z.
name: Michalska, G.
name: Kopacki, G.
name: Carrier, F.
name: Walczak, P.
name: Narwid, A.
name: Stęślicki, M.
name: Fu, J. -N.
name: Jiang, X. -J.
name: Zhang, Ch.
name: Jackiewicz, J.
name: Telting, J.
name: Morel, T.
name: Saesen, S.
name: Zahajkiewicz, E.
name: Bruś, P.
name: Śródka, P.
name: Vučković, M.
name: Verhoelst, T.
name: Van Helshoecht, V.
name: Lefever, K.
name: Gielen, C.
name: Decin, L.
name: Vanautgaerden, J.
name: Aerts, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology offers the possibility of probing stellar interiors and testing evolutionary and seismic models. Precise photometry and spectroscopy obtained during multi-site campaigns on young open clusters allows discovering rich samples of pulsating stars and using them in a simultaneous seismic modelling called ensemble asteroseismology. The aim of this study is to obtain the age of the open cluster NGC 6910 by means of ensemble asteroseismology of the early-type pulsating members, to derive their stellar parameters, and to classify the excited modes. We used time-series analysis, performed photometric and spectroscopic mode identification, and calculated grids of evolutionary and seismic models to apply the procedure of ensemble asteroseismology for nine pulsating members of NGC 6910. With two iterations of the procedure of ensemble asteroseismology applied to nine pulsating stars we derived an age of 10.6$^{+0.9}_{-0.8}$ Myr for NGC 6910. Of the nine pulsating stars examined in the paper, eight are $β$ Cep stars, including three that are hybrid $β$ Cep and slowly pulsating B-type (SPB) pulsators, and one is an SPB star. Interestingly, the least massive $β$ Cep star, NGC 6910-38, has a mass of about 5.6 M$_\odot$. The present theory does not predict unstable $p$ modes in B-type stars with such a low mass. The $g$ modes with relatively high frequencies ($>3.5$ d$^{-1}$), observed in three members of the cluster, are also stable according to seismic modelling. Both findings pose a challenge for theoretical calculations and prompt a revision of the opacities. The procedure of ensemble asteroseismology was found to be successful for NGC 6910 and $χ$ Per on the basis of pulsating B-type stars and can therefore be applied to other young open clusters that are rich in such stars.
description: 22 pages, 24 figures. Caution: arXiv abstract is shorter than in the article
Seas of Sorrow, Lakes of Heaven: Community and Ishimure Michiko
Creators: name: Kaufman, Brett
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The goal of this thesis is to examine the theme of community in two translated works, Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease and Lake of Heaven, by Ishimure Michiko. I analyze how Ishimure defines a community, and I also look at the tension between insiders of the community with outsiders. Next, I look at Ishimure’s use of genre in Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow; she blends autofiction, autobiography, and illness narratives to give different perspectives to reflect on the Minamata disease health crisis. Through this analysis, I also look at the shift in Ishimure’s tone toward outsiders, moving from anger to reconciliation between the texts in question. Lastly, I comment on the change in Ishimure’s public image and discuss a story where she is the outsider experiencing Tokyo.
Sp(4) gauge theories on the lattice: Quenched fundamental and antisymmetric fermions
Creators: name: Bennett, Ed
name: Hong, Deog Ki
name: Lee, Jong-Wan
name: Lin, C. -J. David
name: Lucini, Biagio
name: Mesiti, Michele
name: Piai, Maurizio
name: Rantaharju, Jarno
name: Vadacchino, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform lattice studies of meson mass spectra and decay constants of the $Sp(4)$ gauge theory in the quenched approximation. We consider two species of (Dirac) fermions as matter field content, transforming in the 2-index antisymmetric and the fundamental representation of the gauge group, respectively. All matter fields are formulated as Wilson fermions. We extrapolate to the continuum and massless limits, and compare to each other the results obtained for the two species of mesons. In the case of two fundamental and three antisymmetric fermions, the long-distance dynamics is relevant for composite Higgs models. This is the first lattice study of this class of theories. The global $SU(4) \times SU(6)$ symmetry is broken to the $Sp(4) \times SO(6)$ subgroup, and the condensates align with the explicit mass terms present in the lattice formulation of the theory. The main results of our quenched calculations are that, with fermions in the 2-index antisymmetric representation of the group, the masses squared and decay constant squared of all the mesons we considered are larger than the corresponding quantities for the fundamental representation, by factors that vary between $\sim$1.2 and $\sim$2.7. We also present technical results that will be useful for future lattice investigations of dynamical simulations, of composite chimera baryons, and of the approach to large $N$ in the $Sp(2N)$ theories considered. We briefly discuss their high-temperature behaviour, where symmetry restoration and enhancement are expected.
description: 49 pages, 11 figures, 20 tables; Version accepted for publication in PRD
The Impact of Technologies in Political Campaigns
Creators: name: Hoferer, Moritz
name: Böttcher, Lucas
name: Herrmann, Hans J.
name: Gersbach, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent political campaigns have demonstrated how technologies are used to boost election outcomes by microtargeting voters. We propose and analyze a framework which analyzes how political activists use technologies to target voters. Voters are represented as nodes of a network. Political activists reach out locally to voters and try to convince them. Depending on their technological advantage and budget, political activists target certain regions in the network where their activities are able to generate the largest vote-share gains. Analytically and numerically, we quantify vote-share gains and savings in terms of budget and number of activists from employing superior targeting technologies compared to traditional campaigns. Moreover, we demonstrate that the technological precision must surpass a certain threshold in order to lead to a vote-share gain or budget advantage. Finally, by calibrating the technology parameters to the recent U.S. presidential election, we show that a pure targeting technology advantage is consistent with Trump winning against Clinton.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures
Constraints on long-lived light scalars with flavor-changing couplings and the KOTO anomaly
Creators: name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
name: Mohapatra, Rabindra N.
name: Zhang, Yongchao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the KOTO experiment at J-PARC has observed three anomalous events in the flavor-changing rare decay $K_L \to π^0 ν\barν$, which indicates that the corresponding branching ratio is almost two orders of magnitude larger than the Standard Model (SM) prediction. Taking this intriguing result at face value, we explore model implications of its viable explanation by a long-lived light SM-singlet scalar ($S$) emission, i.e. $K_L \to π^0 S$, with $S$ decaying outside the KOTO detector. We derive constraints on the parameter space of such a light scalar in the context of three simple models: (i) a real singlet scalar extension of the SM; (ii) a $B-L$ extension where neutrino masses arise via type-I seesaw mechanism from $B-L$ breaking; and (iii) a TeV-scale left-right symmetric model. The flavor-changing couplings needed to explain the KOTO excess in models (i) and (ii) originate from tree-level mixing of the scalar with SM Higgs field ($h$), and in model (iii), from the mixing of $S$ and $h$ with the neutral component of the heavy bidoublet Higgs field. After taking into account the stringent constraints from high-precision searches for flavor-changing charged and neutral kaon decays at NA62, E949, KOTO and CHARM experiments, as well as the astrophysical and cosmological constraints on a light scalar, such as those from supernova energy loss, big bang nucleosynthesis and relativistic degrees of freedom, we find that the light scalar interpretation of the KOTO excess is allowed in all these models. Parts of the parameter range can be tested in future NA62 and DUNE experiments.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, the supernova limit on the singlet model is corrected, version to appear in PRD
VI. THE COLLATZ CONJETURE Order and harmony in the sequence numbers
Creators: name: Bennassar, Miguel Cerdá
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Collatz conjecture
3n+1
digital root

description: All the sequences formed with the Collatz function always reach number 16 and it is after 4 more iterations that they reach number 1. Why do all the sequences reach number 16? This number can result from the number 32 or the number 5. They are both numbers of the form 9n + 5 and both have the same digital root dr(5). The number 16 is of the form 9n + 7 and its digital root is dr(7).
The Effect of Colorblind Racial Ideology on Discussion of Racial Events: An Examination of Responses to the News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Shooting
Creators: name: Lawrence, Stephanie
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: This study explores how participants respond to news coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting based on their colorblind racial attitudes. The purpose of this study is to understand how people’s beliefs about the salience of race and racism, as well as how framing within news coverage, contributes to how people privately respond to racial events and their willingness to publicly express their views in discussions. Participants answered questions about their racial ideology, their views about the role of race in the Trayvon Martin shooting, and whether or not they were willing to express these views in a discussion after reading articles that either promotes an overtly colorblind view of the Trayvon Martin case, a race conscious view of the case, or only states the facts of the case (for the control condition). It was found that there were racial differences in how participants viewed the role of race in the Trayvon Martin shooting, even when controlling for racial ideology, and that beliefs in colorblind ideology impacted views of the Trayvon Martin case and willingness to discuss it, with participants with race conscious views that were shown an article that presented the case from a colorblind perspective reporting being less willing to discuss their views on the case compared to those shown an article that presented the case from a race conscious perspective.
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT: TRANSLATING SHORT STORIES FROM OMEDETŌ BY KAWAKAMI HIROMI
Creators: name: Kirillova, Elena
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis represents a partial translation of the short story collection Omedetō by Kawakami Hiromi. Published in 2000, the collection contains twelve short stories, each narrating an intimate relationship between two people. It was favorably received by the literary world and was republished twice, in 2003 and 2007. My critical introduction provides context to Omedetō by discussing Kawakami’s biography and writing style, and the book’s reception in Japan. I also make note of my translation methods, domestication and dynamic equivalence, and provide examples of how I translated onomatopoeia. Finally, I give historical background to Japanese intimacy at the turn of the millennium and argue that each story serves as a commentary on Japanese modern intimacy, which Kawakami defines as a combination of physical and emotional closeness or a yearning for such.
Statistical hadronisation phenomenology
Creators: name: Becattini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analyses of hadron production in the framework of the statistical hadronisation model are reviewed. The analysis of average multiplicities in collisions at relatively low centre-of-mass energy confirms previous findings, namely the universality of hadronisation temperature and of strange to non-strange quark production rate. The study of transverse momentum spectra of identified hadrons allows a further determination of the hadronisation temperature which is found to be compatible with that obtained from fits to average multiplicities.
description: 5 pages, 4 .eps figures, talk given at Statistical QCD, Bielefeld, August 2001, to appear in the proceedings
MEASURING AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE INDICATORS FOR POLICY APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Lim, Song-Soo
name: Kim, Chang-Gil
name: Lim, Song-Soo
name: Kim, Chang-Gil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agricultural landscape
subject: agri-environmental indicator
subject: OECD
subject: Korea

description: Agricultural landscapes consist of physical, biological and cultural elements and reflect the interaction between farming and the environment. Increasing recognition of landscape services and societal demand for the policy response require monitoring and evaluating the stock and state of agricultural landscapes. This study aims to propose indicators for agricultural landscape and their uses in policy design and implementation. The constructed indicators include terraced paddy fields, levees of environment-friendly paddy fields, stone walls, changes in land-use patterns and their diversification. Estimations of the indicators show mixed results over a span of about 40 years. Gains in lengths of the levees for environment-friendly paddy fields and stone walls contrast with the progress of contraction, intensification, concentration and homogenization in land-use patterns. Additional guidelines are identified for ensuring policy relevance of the indicators.
Kofifi/Covfefe: How the Costumes of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa to Western Massachusetts in 2020
Creators: name: Hollows, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Emma Hollows to produce a realist production of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company’s musical Sophiatown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in May 2020. Sophiatown follows a household forcibly removed from their homes by the Native Resettlement Act of 1954 amid apartheid in South Africa. The paper discusses her attempts as a costume designer to strike a balance between replicating history and making artistic changes for theatre, while always striving to create believable characters.
Resilient Urbanism: Bridging Natural Elements & Sustainable Structures in a Post-Industrial Urban Environment
Creators: name: McGee, Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: How can the revival of nature combined with the introduction of contemporary structures improve a city’s appeal? The goals of this thesis are as follows: 1) To provide a new public space along Hartford’s waterfront, 2) To relieve traffic of those traveling through Hartford, 3) To allow for easier/increased access for local traffic to access the downtown area and central business district, and 4) To create connections across the River at the Human Scale. The relocation of I-91 to the opposite side of the Connecticut River using existing infrastructure is a clean, concise way of achieving these four goals. By having I-91 cross the Connecticut River south of downtown on the existing Charter Oak Bridge, following the Right-of-Way of the current State Route 2, intersecting with Interstate 84 at a four-way, all-access intersection, and traveling back across the Connecticut River north of downtown using an existing Right-of-Way, the Riverfront opens up while allowing for easier traffic flow for both local and through traffic. A new boulevard in the existing highway’s Right-of-Way that starts and ends at exits off of the new configuration of I-91 allows for local traffic to access all parts of downtown, while having through traffic avoid the commuters and bypass the city completely. The new intersection of I-91 and I-84 across the River in East Hartford would allow all users access to all points, no matter what direction they're traveling; something the current intersection in downtown does not offer. Using existing bridges and Rights-of-Way also does the least amount of damage to current residents of East Hartford and its own waterfront, as there would be no new land needed for this new configuration. The following thesis attempts to bring life back into the downtown area of Hartford, Connecticut through various means that have been proven to work well in other cities throughout the United States.
MULTIFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE, PROTECTIONISM, AND PROSPECT OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION
Creators: name: Moon, Wanki
name: Moon, Wanki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural protectionism
subject: multifunctional agriculture
subject: WTO
subject: trade liberalization
subject: Green Box
subject: Uruguay Round
subject: Doha Development Round

description: The concept of multifunctional agriculture has been suspected of 'disguised' or 'veiled' protectionism by proponents of market-oriented reforms since the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture(URAA). In this article, I review the history and nature of agricultural protectionism and probe the concept of multifunctional agriculture from economics and broader social science perspectives. Then, I contend that agricultural protectionism in the second half of the 20th century was, in fact, a revelation of the demand for the multifunctional roles of agriculture, heightened by industrial policies designed by developed countries to secure the survival and growth of agriculture to a socially acceptable point. An implication of this contention is that we are not likely to have a trading system in agriculture as liberalized as manufacturing/industrial sectors. The frame of debate for agricultural trade is neither protectionism vs. trade liberalization nor market vs. government any longer. I propose that the relevant frame should be centered around the question of how to fine-tune government interventions and the WTO’s trade rules to better serve agriculture-related goals unique to each country across the world. The traffic light box system from the Uruguay Round signified a starting point of promising mechanism that could harmonize market rules with the social demand for multifunctional and sustainable agriculture. The negotiators in the WTO multilateral talks should discard the perception that it is always a virtue to liberalize agricultural trade.
A lower bound on the right-handed neutrino mass from leptogenesis
Creators: name: Davidson, Sacha
name: Ibarra, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the seesaw model, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe can be generated by the decay of the lightest right-handed neutrino, nu_R. For a hierarchical spectrum of right-handed neutrinos, we show that there is a model independent upper bound on the CP asymmetry produced in these decays: epsilon < 3 m_{nu_3} M_{nu_R}/(8 pi ^2). This implies that epsilon and the mass M_{nu_R} of the lightest right-handed neutrino are not independent parameters, as is commonly assumed. If m_{nu_3} = sqrt{Delta m^2_{atm}} and the nu_R are produced thermally, then leptogenesis requires a reheat temperature of the Universe T_{reh} > M_{nu_R} > 10^8 GeV. Reasonable estimates of nu_R production and the subsequent washout of the asymmetry, as made by Buchmuller and Plumacher, imply M_{nu_R} > 10^9 GeV, and T_{reh} > 10^{10} GeV. Implications for the gravitino problem are also discussed.
description: 9 pages. References added. Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Irvine’s: Developing Business and Communities in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Murphy, Patrick
name: Aubry, Sarah Gentry
name: Murphy, Patrick
name: Aubry, Sarah Gentry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Irvine’s
subject: Zimbabwe
subject: Sub Saharan Africa
subject: Cobb
subject: poultry

description: If Africa is changing, it is companies such as Irvine’s that have spearheaded that change. Economic growth has led to increased income and the opportunity to feed people like never before. This case study illustrates the success story of a poultry business based in Zimbabwe. It is a business forged out of shortage and need, which reacted wisely and flexibly to adapt to various challenges throughout its 60+ year history to become the industry leader in its sector in Africa. Irvine’s has long maintained its goal of improving animal husbandry practices and providing the genetics to the people they serve with the capability to produce healthy and affordable animal protein. Their determination to achieve their goals, combined with a strategic partnership with Cobb breeding company, has placed them in a unique position, with opportunities to educate and support small-scale African farmers. The story of Irvine’s is one that could be repeated in agriculture across Africa, as the world wakes up to the fact that Africa is no longer a hub of famine and desperation that it once was and can focus instead on Africa’s enormous potential and this continent’s new status as a land of opportunity.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Geometric phase accumulated in a driven quantum system coupled to an structured environment
Creators: name: Villar, Paula I.
name: Soba, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of driving in a two-level system evolving under the presence of a structured environment. We find that adding a periodical modulation to the two-level system can greatly enhance the survival of the geometric phase for many time periods. We show that this effect is mainly important for a markovian regimen but can still be found when the environment exhibits non-markovian behavior as time revivals. This knowledge can aid the search for physical set-ups that best retain quantum properties under dissipative dynamics.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1001.3564 by other authors
The Export Trading Group: Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential
Creators: name: Patel, Disha Maheshkumar
name: Patel, Disha Maheshkumar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agribusiness
subject: trading
subject: small-holder
subject: commodity
subject: Africa

description: Export Trading Group (ETG), is an agricultural supply chain manager with operations along the value chain ranging from procurement of cereals, pulses and oilseeds; storage; processing; transportation, distribution and marketing. ETG is present in 41 countries globally and generated a turnover of $1.8 billion USD in 2012. ETG has built this business by linking small-holder African farmers to a diverse pool of global buyers and efficiently managing this value chain. Their success is also attributed to their ability to adapt themselves and operations to each new country, making the necessary infrastructure and logistics investments to support a commodity trading business and sound financial and risk management.The impact ETG has had in the African agricultural sector is phenomenal. Not only have they created value for farmers by enabling them to earn consistent incomes from agriculture but more importantly, instilled in them, a renewed optimism about the viability of farming and agriculture as a business.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, South Africa: Managing the Export Market Diversification Challenge
Creators: name: Viviers, Wilma
name: Kühn, Marié-Luce
name: Steenkamp, Ermie
name: Berkman, Brian
name: Viviers, Wilma
name: Kühn, Marié-Luce
name: Steenkamp, Ermie
name: Berkman, Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: exports
subject: diversification
subject: internationalization
subject: markets

description: Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing (Tru-Cape), South Africa’s leading apple and pear distributor, has an impressive track record since its inception in 2001, growing its turnover from $50 million USD in its first year to $135 million today. While it focuses on both domestic and international markets, Tru-Cape knew from the onset that the real growth potential lay in exports. Tru-Cape was formed through a merger of two companies already exporting to 20 countries. By 2013, exports had risen to 67 countries, demonstrating the company’s on-going commitment to market diversification. It also reflects the tenacity of management to tackle the many challenges along the way. Tru-Cape has devised a set of strategies to enable it to hold its own, but a fast-changing global environment is forcing management to take a fresh look at the company’s internationalization agenda.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Metastable spin-polarized carbon clusters C_8 and their ensembles
Creators: name: Izmalkov, A. A.
name: Openov, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of tight-binding calculations on metastable spin-polarized carbon clusters C_8 (prismanes) are presented. It is shown that those clusters can form ensembles due to intercluster bonding. The binding energy of a given metastable configuration decreases monotonously with the total spin S, while the activation energy for the decay of a metastable state has distinct maxima as a function of S. For specific values of S, the dynamical stability of spin-polarized ensembles of prismanes appears to be higher than that of an isolated prismane, pointing to a possibility of existence of "cluster matter" composed of spin-polarized clusters C_8
description: 9 ps figures
Search for Single-Top-Quark Production in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
Creators: name: CDF Collaboration
name: Acosta, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for standard model single-top-quark production in the W-gluon fusion and W* channels using 106 pb^-1 of data from p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We set an upper limit at 95% C.L. on the combined W-gluon fusion and W* single-top cross section of 14 pb, roughly six times larger than the standard model prediction. Separate 95% C.L. upper limits in the W-gluon fusion and W* channels are also determined and are found to be 13 and 18 pb, respectively.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Growth in a Globalized Industry: The Case of Hillside Green Growers & Exporters Ltd.
Creators: name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Cramer, Laura
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Cramer, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: horticulture
subject: export
subject: agribusiness
subject: Kenya
subject: out-growers

description: In 1998, Nairobi-based Hillside Green Growers & Exporters Ltd. began with a single shipment of mangoes to Dubai. Today, Hillside has blossomed into a steady exporter with a broad product line of fresh fruits and vegetables sold to buyers in the Middle East and Europe. Attainment of key quality certifications and a recent partnership with an NGO supporting SMEs to provide contracted growers with agricultural inputs has allowed Hillside’s CEO, Eunice Mwongera, to scale up and establish new, bigger contracts with customers in Europe. The Middle East market offers smaller volumes but year-round opportunities, while orders for European markets are larger but are concentrated during certain months. Much bigger players in the horticultural export industry already serve the European markets—the question is whether Hillside can contend at the same level among those competitors. Eunice also is giving thought to Kenya’s own domestic market. With increasing urbanization, Nairobi could be a viable opportunity.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
Soft Supersymmetry Breaking due to Dimensional Reduction over Non-Symmetric Coset Spaces
Creators: name: Manousselis, P.
name: Zoupanos, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A ten-dimensional supersymmetric $E_8$ gauge theory is compactified over six-dimensional coset spaces, establishing further our earlier conjecture that the resulting four dimensional theory is a softly broken supersymmetric gauge theory in the case that the used coset space is non-symmetric. The specific non-symmetric six-dimensional spaces examined in the present study are $Sp(4)/(SU(2) \times U(1))_{non-max.}$ and $ SU(3)/U(1) \times U(1)$.
description: 14 pages, Latex, Comments related to the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and relevant references added
Slow food and its Impact on sustainable Consumption.
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, Ashish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 70108 Sustainable Agricultural Development
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 90803 Food Nutritional Balance
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Pranthiya 2.0 is an annual magazine released by the Department of Hospitality and Event Management under the banner of club called Chef club and The Catalyst.
Online Continual Learning with Maximally Interfered Retrieval
Creators: name: Aljundi, Rahaf
name: Caccia, Lucas
name: Belilovsky, Eugene
name: Caccia, Massimo
name: Lin, Min
name: Charlin, Laurent
name: Tuytelaars, Tinne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continual learning, the setting where a learning agent is faced with a never ending stream of data, continues to be a great challenge for modern machine learning systems. In particular the online or "single-pass through the data" setting has gained attention recently as a natural setting that is difficult to tackle. Methods based on replay, either generative or from a stored memory, have been shown to be effective approaches for continual learning, matching or exceeding the state of the art in a number of standard benchmarks. These approaches typically rely on randomly selecting samples from the replay memory or from a generative model, which is suboptimal. In this work, we consider a controlled sampling of memories for replay. We retrieve the samples which are most interfered, i.e. whose prediction will be most negatively impacted by the foreseen parameters update. We show a formulation for this sampling criterion in both the generative replay and the experience replay setting, producing consistent gains in performance and greatly reduced forgetting. We release an implementation of our method at https://github.com/optimass/Maximally_Interfered_Retrieval.
Estimating the small-x exponent of the nonsinglet structure function g1 from the Bjorken Sum Rule
Creators: name: Knauf, Anke
name: Meyer-Hermann, Michael
name: Soff, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new estimate of the exponent governing the small-x behaviour of the nonsinglet structure function g_1(p-n) derived under the assumption that the Bjorken Sum Rule is valid. We use the world wide average of alpha_s and the NNNLO QCD corrections to the Bjorken Sum Rule. The structure function g_1(NS) is found to be clearly divergent for small x.
description: 10 pages, some typos corrected
HomeVeg Tanzania Managing a New Strategy Amidst GLIMPSE Challenges
Creators: name: Dominic, Theresia
name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
name: Mvungi, Mussa
name: Ufunguo, Ray
name: Dominic, Theresia
name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
name: Mvungi, Mussa
name: Ufunguo, Ray
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farming for the Future
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: farming
subject: environment

description: HomeVeg Tanzania Ltd. is a fresh fruits and vegetables export company in Arusha, Tanzania. Since its inception, five years ago, they’ve recruited 55 employees, working with 1,600 smallholder farmers. They successfully produce high quality products—up to seven tons per week that meet GLOBALG.A.P. and British Retail Consortium standards. Although sales are rising, production rates are affected by an increasing amount of reject due to product handling and strict export standards. Its next strategy is to add outlets in the domestic market. This case discusses its journey towards accomplishing the opportunity, despite obstacles under the acronym GLIMPSE.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org
title: Attestation pour le patient no 25
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Lettre de Jacques Leibowitch résumant l'histoire du traitement anti-vih du patient, ayant pour but, une fois signée et approuvée, de servir d'attestation de leur consentement à emprunter une voie médicamenteuse non validée (allégée).
Before the Flood Washes it Away: The Road Connecting Urban & Regional Planning and Emergency Management Planning
Creators: name: Cyr, Ian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This master’s thesis examines the relationship between emergency management planning and comprehensive land use planning. The incorporation of emergency management practices into the comprehensive planning process allows for a better understanding of the impact of development, zoning, building code, and economic development on the mitigation of hazards that face the community. Academic curricula may provide a brief introduction of the relationship between hazard mitigation and land use; however, a more detailed exploration of how emergency management planning and regional or urban planning are interrelated is needed. The impact of weather-related events, natural disasters, or other human-caused shock or disruption can dramatically impact the physical, social, and psychological structures of a community. This research provides regional planners with the history of emergency management planning in the United States. It examines how cross-sharing of information and process between both planning disciplines can contribute to more robust community development and disaster plans. A case study illustrates the impact of urban development on natural hazard mitigation and the subsequent risks to public safety, which resulted from the planning decisions. Place identity, place dependence, and public participation concerning hazard mitigation and disaster management are explored to provide planners and emergency managers with a context of the psychological influences which may impact a community member’s decisions when faced with significant disruption of place. Best practices that guide the integration of regional planning and emergency management planning are provided to increase the understanding of both planning processes to increase the capacity of a community to absorb and rebound from a natural disaster or sudden shock.
Additional file 2 of Counting on U training to enhance trusting relationships and mental health literacy among business advisors: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Saxon, L.
name: Bromfield, S.
name: Leow-Taylor, S. H.
name: Vega, C. E.
name: Berk, M.
name: LaMontagne, A. D.
name: Martin, A. J.
name: Mohebbi, M.
name: Nielsen, K.
name: Reavley, N. J.
name: Walker, A.
name: Conway, A.
name: de Silva, A.
name: Memish, K.
name: Rossetto, A.
name: Tanewski, G.
name: Noblet, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Plain Language Statement for business advisors.
Assessing Wild Canid Distribution Using Camera Traps in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts
Creators: name: LeFlore, Eric G
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: With the ever-increasing human population, more people reside in urban areas than ever before; this is having marked effects on the landscape and in turn, wildlife. This study uses automatically triggered wildlife cameras to assess the distribution of three carnivore species (coyotes, Canis latrans; red foxes, Vulpes vulpes; and gray foxes, Urocyon cinereoargenteus) around the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts in relation to a gradient of human development. Cameras were placed at 141 locations within the 320-km2 study area over the course of three field seasons (3,052 trap nights). Relative abundances for fourteen other species and site characteristics (e.g., elevation, forest cover type, distance to urban edge) for each camera location were determined to develop a generalized linear model for the distribution of each species across the study area. Coyote distribution was most affected by the relative abundances of their prey species and not by landscape characteristics or sympatric carnivore species. Coyotes are the top predator in the area and therefore their distribution is correlated with the relative abundances of their prey species, unlike other parts of their range where they are controlled by larger carnivores. Red and gray foxes both had negative relationships with the relative abundance of coyotes as coyotes have been shown to adversely impact fox distributions and access to resources. Both red and gray foxes were also negatively or uncorrelated with increased levels of urbanization, which is both supported and refuted by published literature and is likely system specific.
Fractional operators and special functions. II. Legendre functions
Creators: name: Durand, Loyal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C, 33C80

description: Most of the special functions of mathematical physics are connected with the representation of Lie groups. The action of elements $D$ of the associated Lie algebras as linear differential operators gives relations among the functions in a class, for example, their differential recurrence relations. In this paper, we apply the fractional generalizations $D^μ$ of these operators developed in an earlier paper in the context of Lie theory to the group SO(2,1) and its conformal extension. The fractional relations give a variety of interesting relations for the associated Legendre functions. We show that the two-variable fractional operator relations lead directly to integral relations among the Legendre functions and to one- and two-variable integral representations for those functions. Some of the relations reduce to known fractional integrals for the Legendre functions when reduced to one variable. The results enlarge the understanding of many properties of the associated Legendre functions on the basis of the underlying group structure.
description: 26 pages, Latex2e, reference corrected