cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shrimps and leaf decomposition: Effect on macroinvertebrates and meiofaunal assemblages
Creators: name: Santiago-Vera, Josué D.
name: Gutiérrez-Fonseca, Pablo
name: Ramírez, Alonso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Macroconsumers are known to be critical structuring lower trophic levels and therefore regulating leaf decomposition. In freshwater, shrimps can affect the decomposition of organic matter. For instance, atyid shrimps brush the substrate with their modified chelae to feed, removing and resuspending sediments into the water column. This action removes meiofauna but enhances the presence of some macroinvertebrates, such as mayflies (Ephemeroptera) that feed by scraping on rocks. We assessed how the meiofaunal and macroinvertebrate assemblage respond to the presence or absence of shrimps in decomposing leaves. Prieta stream in Puerto Rico is a second order headwater stream dominated by shrimps. We used an electric exclusion technique to create two treatments: Shrimp presence and shrimp exclusion in pools. Each treatment included packs of 5 gram of leaves (Dacryodes excelsa) that were collected over time and replicated in 6 pools over 49 days. At each sampling date, we randomly selected one pack and collect the sediment for meiofauna and macroinvertebrates. Packs were dried and weighted to determine the percent mass loss. No significant differences were detected in the decomposition rate with or without shrimps. In contrast, significant differences were detected in macroinvertebrates richness and abundances, and meiofaunal assemblages when the shrimps were excluded. Shrimps are crucial organisms in streams, especially in small short streams, typical of oceanic islands. Even when decomposition rate was not affected, macro and meiofaunal assemblages were. These differences could overshadow the decomposition effect since macroinvertebrates and meiofaunal groups are known to feed on bacteria, fungi and organic matter. Indeed, macroconsumers can regulate lower trophic levels than could affect decomposition. Nevertheless, this effect can be overshadowed by higher abundances on lower trophic levels when macroconsumers are excluded.
NPR - MAKING DOLLARS AND SENSE: CREATING A RECIPE FOR FARM MANAGEMENT SUCCESS
Creators: name: Watson, Heather
name: Honsberger, Ashley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: farm business management
subject: skills development
subject: Canada

description: For many years, farm business management enthusiasts have believed the success of any farm is directly related to the business management skills and practices of the farm manager. However, research has largely been based on anecdotal evidence, or small study samples. There has been a lack of convincing evidence regarding the value of adopting farm business management practices, making it difficult to convey the value, and increase the adoption of business management practices by Canadaâ€™s farmers. Until now. A new ground-breaking study, Dollars and Sense: Measuring the Tangible Impacts of Beneficial Business Practices on Canadian Farms, goes beyond existing research and is the first to establish a measurable link between beneficial management practices and farm financial success. The Baseline Update: Farm Business Management Planning in Ontario study goes one step further to understand business planning activities, including the drivers, barriers and attitudes affecting implementation on farms. This paper focuses on three recent initiatives: the Dollars and Sense study, Baseline Update, and the Pledge to Plan: A Business Plan on Every Farm campaign to demonstrate how Canada is creating a recipe for farm management success.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - FINANCING RURAL AMERICA: CHALLENGES IN ACCESS TO CAPITAL
Creators: name: Durand, Amy Pint
name: Breza-Berndt, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Finance
subject: Capital
subject: Rural

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
D1.5 "Update 1: Data and Research data Management Plan (DMP/RDMP)"_approved by the EC
Creators: name: Mounier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the transition towards Open Access (OA), institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation and varying service quality, visibility, and sustainability. To address this issue, DIAMAS gathers 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. The project will: 1. Map the current landscape of Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs) in 25 countries of the ERA with special attention for IPSPs that do not charge fees for publishing or reading. This will yield a taxonomy of IPSPs and an IPSP landscape report, a basis for the rest of the project. 2. Coordinate and improve the efficiency and quality of IPSPs by developing a European Quality Standard for Institutional Publishing (EQSIP). This quality seal will professionalise, strengthen and reduce the fragmentation of institutional publishing in Europe. EQSIP will serve as a benchmark for a gap analysis of the data.  
The DMP/RDMP outlines how data are to be handled (secured, stored, accessed, preserved) both during the project, and after the project is completed.
description: Deliverable approved by the European Commission
PO - CONSIDERATIONS WHEN ADDING A COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) VENTURE
Creators: name: Ehmke, Cole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: community supported agriculture
subject: CSA
subject: value added

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - COMMUNICATION PRODUCTION RISKS TO NON-TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE PRODUCERS AND VALUE ADDED PRODUCERS
Creators: name: Goeringer, Paul
name: Suri, Mayhah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: community supported agriculture
subject: agricultural law
subject: local food movement

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
A computerized valuation model for minig companies
Creators: name: Wright, James Kirkland
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The most meaningful way to estimate the current value and the future value of a mining company is to consider the cash flow of the company through time. This is the case since the reported earnings of a mining company are highly sensitive to the accounting practices followed and to changes in metal prices. The valuation of a mining company is strongly dependent on the forecasting of the expected net cash flows of the company. The computer model presented herein has been designed to assemble all of the pertinent variables relating to a mining operation and to calculate the net cash flow for a mining company. The diversity of the operations in the mining industry has necessitated the development of a general model which can be applied to a number of different situations. The model has been developed for base metal mining operations which, produce any combination of the following seven metals: copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, cadmium and molybdenum. The model has been divided into thirteen subroutines and a main programme. Each of the subroutines corresponds to a particular phase of the mining operation. In this way, the critical variables in the operation can be isolated and examined in detail. Although the model is complex and requires a large amount of data, it is hoped that its use will be straightforward and that it will be of assistance to those persons interested in the valuation of a mining company.
D1.5 "Update 1: Data and Research data Management Plan (DMP/RDMP)"
Creators: name: Mounier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the transition towards Open Access (OA), institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation and varying service quality, visibility, and sustainability. To address this issue, DIAMAS gathers 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. The project will: 1. Map the current landscape of Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs) in 25 countries of the ERA with special attention for IPSPs that do not charge fees for publishing or reading. This will yield a taxonomy of IPSPs and an IPSP landscape report, a basis for the rest of the project. 2. Coordinate and improve the efficiency and quality of IPSPs by developing a European Quality Standard for Institutional Publishing (EQSIP). This quality seal will professionalise, strengthen and reduce the fragmentation of institutional publishing in Europe. EQSIP will serve as a benchmark for a gap analysis of the data.  
The DMP/RDMP outlines how data are to be handled (secured, stored, accessed, preserved) both during the project, and after the project is completed.
description: Under EC review
Dark Matter with Time-Varying Leptophilic Couplings
Creators: name: Davoudiasl, Hooman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two general problems arise when interpreting the recent cosmic ray data as signals of Dark Matter (DM) annihilation: (i) the required cross section is too large by O(100), and (ii) the annihilation products seem to be mostly leptonic. We propose to address these two problems by assuming that the couplings of DM to leptons grow with time. This can be achieved by a dynamic localization of DM in extra dimensions. A possible outcome of this proposal is a time (red-shift) dependent annihilation signal, in terms of strength and dominant final states.
description: 5 pages, Revtex 4. Estimates of possible gamma ray signals, a note regarding the recent Fermi-LAT results, and several new references added in this version
PO - LAW FAILS TO KEEP UP WITH TECHNOLOGY - SOLUTIONS TO HELPING PRODUCERS MAINTAIN FARM DATA OWNERSHIP
Creators: name: Goeringer, Paul
name: Suri, Mayhah
name: Ellixson, Ashley
name: Griffin, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: ag data
subject: precision agriculture
subject: agricultural law

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Bounties on Agricultural Products: A Selected Bibliography
Creators: name: Hannay, A. M.
name: Hannay, A. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1927
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Excerpts from the Introduction: This bibliography has been limited as far as possible to references to direct bounties, except in the case of the indirect sugar bounties granted by various European countries in the eighteenth century, and the import certificate system which has recently been adopted or reintroduced by several countries. General references to the granting of bounties on sugar and to the various international conferences relating to the question of the sugar bounty are grouped together under the heading "sugar”. Legislation having the effect of granting a bounty, including government loans, tariff concessions, grants of statutory privileges, of patents of monopoly, of letters of protection, of privileges to medieval boroughs and gilds, exemption from taxation, reduced freight rates, free distribution of seeds, has not been taken into account. Bounties for the killing of wild and predatory animals granted by many of the American states in their early days have been omitted. Salt and a few commodities manufactured from agricultural products are included. The arrangement is alphabetical by country, and by author and title under the country.
Ancylolomia westwoodi Zeller 1863
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Ancylolomia
Ancylolomia westwoodi

description: Ancylolomia westwoodi Zeller, 1863
Figs. 34, 94, 152.
Ancylolomia westwoodi Zeller, 1863 b: 11. Type locality: Australia [Terra Vandiemenii]
= Ancylolomia westwoodi bitubirosella Amsel, 1959 d: 11, text-fig. 2, pl. 1 fig. 1, pl. 3 fig. 4. Type locality: Iran, Balochistan, Iranshar, 800 m
MATERIAL
2 ♂, 1 ♀ (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/ 10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
SIMILAR SPECIES
Ancylolomia orchidea Bleszynski, 1970.
DIAGNOSIS
Characters of the male genitalia (Fig. 94) and female genitalia (Fig. 152) separate this species from A. orchidea. See diagnosis of A. orchidea.
DISTRIBUTION
AFGHANISTAN; AUSTRALIA; INDIA; INDONESIA: Java, Sumatra; MALAYSIA; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES: Luzon; SRI LANKA (Bleszynski, 1970b). Collected at an altitude of 250 m on the Philippines.
DNA BARCODING
The two specimens with sample numbers MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-E08 and MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL08-C12, both from Luzon, Zambales, diverge by p-dist=1.1% from each other. These two specimens show a divergence 7-9% with specimens of A. westwoodi on BOLD collected in Australia (see Fig. S2a), which is the type locality of the species.
REMARKS
Ancylolomia westwoodi is widespread all over the Oriental and Australasian regions (Bleszynski, 1970b) and probably represent a species complex rather than one single homogeneous species, as attested by analyses of the COI barcodes. This is the first record for the Philippines.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 48, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Unified Brane Gravity: Cosmological Dark Matter from Scale Dependent Newton Constant
Creators: name: Gurwich, Ilya
name: Davidson, Aharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze, within the framework of unified brane gravity, the weak-field perturbations caused by the presence of matter on a 3-brane. Although deviating from the Randall-Sundrum approach, the masslessness of the graviton is still preserved. In particular, the four-dimensional Newton force law is recovered, but serendipitously, the corresponding Newton constant is shown to be necessarily lower than the one which governs FRW cosmology. This has the potential to puzzle out cosmological dark matter. A subsequent conjecture concerning galactic dark matter follows.
description: 6 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev. D
The relationship between the law of the European Union and the law of its Member States – a norm-based conceptual framework
Creators: name: Burchardt, Dana
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 342 Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht

description: Interrelations between EU law and domestic law – Concept of a norm-based compound structure – Intertwinement of legal norms and legal orders – Combined normativity – Multi-level structure within the legal norms – Primacy, supremacy and ranking of EU law and domestic law – Structural principles guiding the relationship between EU law and domestic law – Principles of uniformity and constitutional identity
Role of the Wilson mass parameter in the overlap Dirac topological charge density
Creators: name: Moran, Peter J.
name: Leinweber, Derek B.
name: Zhang, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The negative Wilson mass parameter is an input parameter to the overlap Dirac operator. We examine the extent to which the topological charge density, revealed by the overlap definition, depends on the value of the negative Wilson mass. A strong dependence is observed, which can be correlated with the topological charge density obtained from the gluonic definition, with a variable number of stout-link smearing sweeps. The results indicate that the freedom typically associated with fat-link fermion actions, through the number of smearing sweeps, is also present in the overlap formalism, through the freedom in the Wilson mass parameter.
description: (v2) Minor changes to the introductory text. Added a Ref. (v1) 7 pages, 4 figures, presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LAT2009, July 26-31 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Stationary conditions for excited states: the surprising impact of density-driven correlations
Creators: name: Gould, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization conditions that allow iteration (i.e. self-consistency) to the optimal energy and density. Ensembles of ground and excited states can also benefit from similar minimization conditions [see in source]. This work reveals that individual excited states also have state-specific stationary conditions, that can be deduced from the ensemble solution and apply to DFT and its interacting potential functional theory (PFT) counterpart. However, the state-specific stationary condition for the non-interacting Kohn-Sham PFT is revealed to be more complicated than the ground state problem, due in part to a contribution from density-driven correlations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 016401 (2019); 124, 243001 (2020); 125, 233001 (2020)] that are neglected in ``$Δ$SCF'' approaches. Some implications for self-consistency in exact theory and approximations are discussed.
B -> chi_cJ K decays revisited
Creators: name: Beneke, M.
name: Vernazza, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that exclusive B decays to P-wave charmonium factorize in the non-relativistic limit provided that colour-octet contributions are taken into account, and estimate the branching fractions. Although there are very large uncertainties, we find reasonable parameter choices, where the main features of the data -- large corrections to (naive) factorization and suppression of the chi_{c2} and h_c final states -- are reproduced though the suppression of chi_{c2} is not as strong as seen in the data. Our results also provide an example, where an endpoint divergence in hard spectator-scattering factorizes and is absorbed into colour-octet operator matrix elements.
description: 32 pages, LaTeX
PO - ARE EMERGING FARMING CORPORATIONS FROM NON-AGRICULTURAL SECTOR SUPERIOR IN MANAGEMENT TO CONVENTIONAL FARMERS IN JAPAN?
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: farming corporations
subject: entry of non-agricultural corporations
subject: farm management styles

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - ECONOMIC VALUE OF PASTURE PRODUCTION IN SE AUSTRALIAN DAIRY SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Leddin, Clare
name: Ho, Christie
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: dairy
subject: pastures
subject: economic values

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - ECONOMICS OF USING COVER CROPS IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Lucas, Donna
name: Blaesing, Doris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Australia
subject: cover crops
subject: economics

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Entanglement and fidelity across quantum phase transitions in locally perturbed topological codes with open boundaries
Creators: name: J, Harikrishnan K
name: Pal, Amit Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological-to-non-topological quantum phase transitions (QPTs) occurring in the Kitaev code under local perturbations in the form of local magnetic field and spin-spin interactions of the Ising-type using fidelity susceptibility (FS) and entanglement as the probes. We assume the code to be embedded on the surface of a wide cylinder of height $M$ and circumference $D$ with $M\ll D$. We demonstrate a power-law divergence of FS across the QPT, and determine the quantum critical points (QCPs) via a finite-size scaling analysis. We verify these results by mapping the perturbed Kitaev code to the 2D Ising model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, and computing the single-site magnetization as order parameter using quantum Monte-Carlo technique. We also point out an odd-even dichotomy in the occurrence of the QPT in the Kitaev ladder with respect to the odd and even values of $D$, when the system is perturbed with only Ising interaction. Our results also indicate a higher robustness of the topological phase of the Kitaev code against local perturbations if the boundary is made open along one direction. We further consider a local entanglement witness operator designed specifically to capture a lower bound to the localizable entanglement on the vertical non-trivial loop of the code. We show that the first derivative of the expectation value of the witness operator exhibits a logarithmic divergence across the QPT, and perform the finite-size scaling analysis. We demonstrate similar behaviour of the expectation value of the appropriately constructed witness operator also in the case of locally perturbed color code with open boundaries.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Microscopic description of 2d topological phases, duality and 3d state sums
Creators: name: Kadar, Zoltan
name: Marzuoli, Annalisa
name: Rasetti, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Doubled topological phases introduced by Kitaev, Levin and Wen supported on two dimensional lattices are Hamiltonian versions of three dimensional topological quantum field theories described by the Turaev-Viro state sum models. We introduce the latter with an emphasis on obtaining them from theories in the continuum. Equivalence of the previous models in the ground state are shown in case of the honeycomb lattice and the gauge group being a finite group by means of the well-known duality transformation between the group algebra and the spin network basis of lattice gauge theory. An analysis of the ribbon operators describing excitations in both types of models and the three dimensional geometrical interpretation are given.
description: 19 pages, typos corrected, style improved, a final paragraph added
PO - IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF GOVERNMENT ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EXTERNAL EVALUATIONS IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Creators: name: Mandondo, Shelton Kaba
name: Troskie, Dirk Pieter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Evaluations
subject: Policy planning
subject: Agricultural Sector

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Some behavioral aspects of eliciting utility (using the MacCrimmon-Toda method for ordinal utility and the standard gamble method for cardinal utility)
Creators: name: Wong, Eugene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study investigates some behavioral aspects and properties of eliciting utility. Previous investigations devoted to empirical utility measurement have stemmed from the work of experimentalists who have applied various utility models in an effort to measure utility. However, empirical studies devoted to investigation into behavioral factors which may bias the measurement are lacking and it is this gap in the utility literature that prompted our empirical study. We chose to examine the standard gamble method for deriving von Heumann-Morgenstern cardinal utility and the MacCrimmon-Toda method for deriving indifference curves. The domain of choice involved hospital days in bed with risk of additional days. The analysis consisted of identifying relationships between behavioral factors and properties of choice predictions obtained by the methods. Furthermore, the study also provided a means for comparing properties of the two methods for eliciting utility. Among other findings, the results show that not all subjects expressed agreement with the appropriateness of specific axioms of behavior which underly some methods for eliciting utility and that not all people express constant sensitivity over all stimuli levels. The two results in themselves suggest that a priori assumptions regarding "rationality" and infinite sensitivity may have to be reexamined. The preferences elicited by both methods seem to suggest that the subjects follow a linear rule to trade-off sure outcome and risk. Although correspondence between test-retest preferences predicted by the standard gamble was generally closer than that for the MacCrimmon-Toda method, the MacCrimmon-Toda method had generally better predictive ability. Our results also indicate that certain behavioral factors seem to affect preferences predicted by the methods as we hypothesized. This observation has implications for practical measurement of utility since "successful" application of methods for eliciting preferences depends upon our awareness of which behavioral factors may bias the measurement.
Stochastic perturbation of sweeping process and a convergence result for an associated numerical scheme
Creators: name: Bernicot, Frederic
name: Venel, Juliette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A60, 65L20, 60H10

description: Here we present well-posedness results for first order stochastic differential inclusions, more precisely for sweeping process with a stochastic perturbation. These results are provided in combining both deterministic sweeping process theory and methods concerning the reflection of a Brownian motion. In addition, we prove convergence results for a Euler scheme, discretizing theses stochastic differential inclusions.
description: 30 pages
Chilo ZINCKEN 1817
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Chilo

description: CHILO ZINCKEN, 1817
Chilo Zincken, 1817: 33.
Type species: Tinea phragmitella Hübner, 1810
= Borer * Guenée, 1862: 68-70. Type species: Phalaena saccharalis Fabricius sensu Guenée, 1862. Tams 1942: 67 (syn.)
= Chilona Sodoffsky, 1837: 94
= Chilotraea Kapur, 1950: 402, 403. Type species: Chilo infuscatellus Snellen, 1890. Błeszyński 1962 d: 1 (syn.)
= Diphryx Grote, 1881 d: 273. Type species: Diphryx prolatella Grote, 1881. Hampson 1896: 954 (syn.)
= Hypiesta Hampson, 1919 a: 538. Type species: Hypiesta argyrogramma Hampson, 1919. Błeszyński, 1965, p. 102 (syn.)
= Nephalia Turner, 1911: 113. Type species: Nephalia crypsimetalla Turner, 1911. Błeszyński 1966: 478 (syn.)
= Silveria Dyar, 1925: 10. Type species: Silveria hexhex Dyar, 1925.
DIAGNOSIS
Błeszyński provided a world revision for the genus (Bleszynski, 1970), and Landry provides a redescription of the genus (Landry, 1995). Species of Chilo have yellow to brown forewings with subterminal line, devoid of longitudinal lines, with many species having metallic scales, which are hypothesized as the apomorphy for the genus by Landry (Bleszynski, 1970c; Landry, 1995). Male genitalia have the following characters: uncus short and stout; gnathos as long as uncus; valva rather simple; vinculum conspicuously projected; pseudosaccus present; juxta usually with long arms, sometimes assymetrical (Bleszynski, 1970c). Female genitalia with papillae anales coalesced dorsally and ventrally; posterior apophyses roughly the length of tergite VIII; anterior apophyses 2-3 X tergite length; sterigma absent; antrum sclerotized; ductus bursae often with longitudinal sclerotized ridges; corpus bursae variable in shape, with or without cornuti.
DISTRIBUTION
Known from all continents except Antarctica (Bleszynski, 1970c; Nuss et al., 2003 –2023). The genus shows its highest diversity in the Afrotropics (Bleszynski, 1970c). Some pest species show wide distributions. Seven species are reported from the Philippines: Chilo auricilius Dudgeon, 1905, Chilo infuscatellus Snellen, 1890, Chilo luteellus (Motschulsky, 1866), Chilo pulverata (Wileman & South, 1917), Chilo polychrysus (Meyrick, 1932), Chilo sacchariphagus (Bojer, 1856), and Chilo suppressalis (Walker, 1863).
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
The genus Chilo is part of the Chiloini (Léger et al., 2019).
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 48, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
PO - THE USE OF AN APPLIED STUDENT COMPETITION TO ENHANCE CEREAL CROP MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR THE ARABLE FARMERS AND AGRONOMISTS OF THE FUTURE
Creators: name: Mandondo, Shelton Kaba
name: Troskie, Dirk Pieter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Crop Management
subject: Applied Competition
subject: Farm Management Skills

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
The End of Nucleosynthesis: Production of Lead and Thorium in the Early Galaxy
Creators: name: Roederer, Ian U.
name: Kratz, Karl-Ludwig
name: Frebel, Anna
name: Christlieb, Norbert
name: Pfeiffer, Bernd
name: Cowan, John J.
name: Sneden, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the Pb and Th abundances in 27 metal-poor stars (-3.1 < [Fe/H] < -1.4) whose very heavy metal (Z > 56) enrichment was produced only by the rapid (r-) nucleosynthesis process. New abundances are derived from HST/STIS, Keck/HIRES, and VLT/UVES spectra and combined with other measurements from the literature to form a more complete picture of nucleosynthesis of the heaviest elements produced in the r-process. In all cases, the abundance ratios among the rare earth elements and the 3rd r-process peak elements considered (La, Eu, Er, Hf, and Ir) are constant and equivalent to the scaled solar system r-process abundance distribution. We compare the stellar observations with r-process calculations within the classical "waiting-point" approximation. In these computations a superposition of 15 weighted neutron-density components in the range 23 < log(n_n) < 30 is fit to the r-process abundance peaks to successfully reproduce both the stable solar system isotopic distribution and the stable heavy element abundance pattern between Ba and U in low-metallicity stars. Under these astrophysical conditions, which are typical of the "main" r-process, we find very good agreement between the stellar Pb r-process abundances and those predicted by our model. For stars with anomalously high Th/Eu ratios (the so-called actinide boost), our observations demonstrate that any nucleosynthetic deviations from the main r-process affect--at most--only the elements beyond the 3rd r-process peak, namely Pb, Th, and U. Our theoretical calculations also indicate that possible r-process abundance "losses" by nuclear fission are negligible for isotopes along the r-process path between Pb and the long-lived radioactive isotopes of Th and U.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 22 pages, 10 figures
Taxation and the Farmer: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
Creators: name: Olcott, Margaret T.
name: Olcott, Margaret T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1928
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Land Economics/Use
Public Economics

description: Excerpts from the Preface: The more important references to publications on taxation and the farmer issued during the period January 1, 1900, to March 31, 1928, have been included in this bibliography. Every tax affects the farmer either directly or indirectly. This bibliography deals only with those which affect him directly or as a class. For the United States the field has been limited to state and local taxation. References to state income and inheritance taxes have been omitted. In many foreign countries the national taxes affect the farmer more directly than they do in the United States, and references to such taxes have been included. Annotations have been made for most of the entries to indicate the character and scope of the publication.
PO - CREATING NEW VENTURES, VALUE AND FUTURES ON FAMILY-OWNED FARMS IN NEW ZEALAND
Creators: name: Nelson, Tracy
name: Mackay, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: New Zealand
subject: entrepreneurial family farmers
subject: diversification

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - BENCHMARK FOR SUCCESSFUL AGRIBUSINESS - INTRODUCING THE
Creators: name: Nybom, Jozefine
name: Hunter, Erik
name: Melin, Martin
name: Karlsson, Ove
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Benchmark in farming
subject: Knowledge Transformation
subject: Agribusiness Management

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Impact of stout-link smearing in lattice fermion actions
Creators: name: Moran, Peter J.
name: Bowman, Patrick O.
name: Leinweber, Derek B.
name: Williams, Anthony G.
name: Zhang, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of stout-link smearing in lattice fermion actions is examined through the consideration of the mass and renormalization functions of the overlap quark propagator over a variety of smeared configurations. Up to six sweeps of stout-link smearing are investigated. For heavy quark masses, the quark propagator is strongly affected by the smearing procedure. For moderate masses, the effect appears to be negligible. A small effect is seen for light quark masses, where dynamical mass generation is suppressed through the smearing procedure.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LAT2009, July 26-31 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
PO - ASSESSING BEEF FARMING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INDEX: A CASE STUDY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTED AREA OF
Creators: name: Pereira, Mariana De AragÃ£O
name: Mauro, Rodiney
name: Queiroz, Haroldo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: sustainability assessment
subject: sustainable farming systems
subject: sustainable beef production

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - UTILIZING LIQUID LIVESTOCK MANURE AS A NITROGEN SOURCE ON GROWING CORN IN THE U.S. GREAT LAKES REGION
Creators: name: Richer, Eric
name: Custer, Sam
name: Noggle, Sarah
name: Shoemaker, Diane
name: Arnold, Glen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: animal manure
subject: sidedress nitrogen
subject: sidedress manure in corn

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Lathrobium baishanzuense Peng & Li 2012
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium baishanzuense

description: Lathrobium baishanzuense Peng & Li, 2012
(Figs 1 A–C)
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Qingyuan County, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'14''N 119°11'55''E, 1560–1750 m, 01.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC); 3 ♀♀, Qingyuan County, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'26''N 119°12'08''E, 1730 m, 02.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. The original description is based on two males. The previously unknown female sexual characters are as follows: posterior margin of tergite VIII (Fig. 1 A) convex; posterior margin of sternite VIII (Fig. 1 B) convex; female tergite IX (Fig. 1 C) with long antero-median portion and slender postero-lateral processes; female tergite X approximately 0.6 times as long as antero-median portion of tergite IX. For illustrations of the habitus and the male sexual characters see Peng et al. (2012a).
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on page 246, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
High Frequency Peakers: The Faint Sample
Creators: name: Stanghellini, Carlo
name: Dallacasa, Daniele
name: Orienti, Monica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of sources with convex radio spectra peaking at frequencies above a few GHz, known as "High Frequency Peakers" (HFPs). A "bright" sample with a flux density limit of 300 mJy at 5 GHz has been presented by Dallacasa et al. (2000). Here we present the "faint" sample with flux density between 50 and 300 mJy at 5GHz, restricted to the area around the North Galactic Cap, where the FIRST catalogue is available. The candidates have been observed with the VLA at several frequencies ranging from 1.4 to 22 GHz, in order to derive a simultaneous radio spectrum. The final list of confirmed HFP sources consists of 61 objects.
description: 3 pages. Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
High domain wall velocity at zero magnetic field induced by low current densities in spin-valve nanostripes
Creators: name: Pizzini, Stefania
name: Uhlir, Vojtech
name: Vogel, Jan
name: Rougemaille, Nicolas
name: Laribi, Sana
name: Cros, Vincent
name: Jimenez, Erika
name: Camarero, Julio
name: Tieg, Carsten
name: Bonet, Edgar
name: Bonfim, Marlio
name: Mattana, Richard
name: Deranlot, Cyrile
name: Petroff, Frédric
name: Ulysse, Christian
name: Faini, Giancarlo
name: Fert, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current-induced magnetic domain wall motion at zero magnetic field is observed in the permalloy layer of a spin-valve-based nanostripe using photoemission electron microscopy. The domain wall movement is hampered by pinning sites, but in between them high domain wall velocities (exceeding 150 m/s) are obtained for current densities well below $10^{12} \unit{A/m^2}$, suggesting that these trilayer systems are promising for applications in domain wall devices in case of well controlled pinning positions. Vertical spin currents in these structures provide a potential explanation for the increase in domain wall velocity at low current densities.
description: Published version, Applied Physics Express 2, 023003 (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/APEX.2.023003
A repulsive atomic gas in a harmonic trap on the border of itinerant ferromagnetism
Creators: name: Conduit, G. J.
name: Simons, B. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alongside superfluidity, itinerant (Stoner) ferromagnetism remains one of the most well-characterized phases of correlated Fermi systems. A recent experiment has reported the first evidence for novel phase behavior on the repulsive side of the Feshbach resonance in a two-component ultracold Fermi gas. By adapting recent theoretical studies to the atomic trap geometry, we show that an adiabatic ferromagnetic transition would take place at a weaker interaction strength than is observed in experiment. This discrepancy motivates a simple non-equilibrium theory that takes account of the dynamics of magnetic defects and three-body losses. The formalism developed displays good quantitative agreement with experiment.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Canadian hospital admissions systems : a simulation approach
Creators: name: Lim, Timothy Warren
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study attempts to improve the delivery of health services by applying operations research techniques to hospital admission systems. Although this study applies to hospital admissions systems in general, the admission system of one ward of one hospital was chosen to be the central object in the study. A computer simulation model was formulated to examine the -results of various policies. In the model, the admission of patients is determined primarily by the scheduling of the operating theatre and secondarily by the availability of beds. The three standard priorities for hospital admissions (elective, urgent and emergent) are given separate considerations as would be the case in real life; because scheduling can be much more flexible for elective patients, while time must be set aside for emergent patients although the hospital has no advance information about them. The general results of this study led to two suggestions that would improve most existing admission systems. The first requires that the hospital set up a special class of patients, the "quickcall patients," who would be willing to be admitted for surgery on short notice. It was shown that this procedure significantly reduced the waiting time for elective surgery. The second requires that the hospital limit each physician to a fixed number of requests for elective surgery at any given time, so that the hospital need not keep extensive files. The model could be extended to examine (1) the sensitivity of the schedule to referral patients, (2) the higher utilization of the operating theatre and (3) waiting priority based on patient need and/or utility. In conclusion the simulation study indicated that these policies if implemented would significantly reduce the waiting time (29% in the model), and increase the hospital's effectiveness in assessing the order of admission for patients.
Quantum Tunneling in Flux Compactifications
Creators: name: Blanco-Pillado, Jose J.
name: Schwartz-Perlov, Delia
name: Vilenkin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify instantons representing vacuum decay in a 6-dimensional toy model for string theory flux compactifications, with the two extra dimensions compactified on a sphere. We evaluate the instanton action for tunneling between different flux vacua, as well as for the decompactification decay channel. The bubbles resulting from flux tunneling have an unusual structure. They are bounded by two-dimensional branes, which are localized in the extra dimensions. This has important implications for bubble collisions.
description: 40 pages, 8 figures
Percolation with excluded small clusters and Coulomb blockade in a granular system
Creators: name: Ioselevich, A. S.
name: Lyubshin, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider dc-conductivity $σ$ of a mixture of small conducting and insulating grains slightly below the percolation threshold, where finite clusters of conducting grains are characterized by a wide spectrum of sizes. The charge transport is controlled by tunneling of carriers between neighboring conducting clusters via short ``links'' consisting of one insulating grain. Upon lowering temperature small clusters (up to some $T$-dependent size) become Coulomb blockaded, and are avoided, if possible, by relevant hopping paths. We introduce a relevant percolational problem of next-nearest-neighbors (NNN) conductivity with excluded small clusters and demonstrate (both numerically and analytically) that $σ$ decreases as power law of the size of excluded clusters. As a physical consequence, the conductivity is a power-law function of temperature in a wide intermediate temperature range. We express the corresponding index through known critical indices of the percolation theory and confirm this relation numerically.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Early embryonic surgical bursectomy : an investigation of some aspects of the avian immune system
Creators: name: Sparks, Esta Madeleine Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Surgical removal of presumptive bursal tissue at 72 hr in ovo results in high mortality before hatching and low survival in the first week thereafter. The viable chicks are underweight and usually remain so. Both the spleen and thymus of the bursectomized (Bx) chicks are reduced in size and lymphoid population. The effect on the thymus may be related to stress and subsequent adrenal cortical activity or may reflect some endocrine function of the bursa necessary for the maturation of thymic lymphoid tissue. The effect on the spleen seems to be more direct. In the absence of the primary level organ which induces maturation of the stem cells, the number of germinal centres in the secondary level organ is reduced. Some of the remaining germinal centres may be of T-cell origin, although these cells are more commonly found in diffuse lymphoid areas. The bulk of the germinal centres found in the Bx spleen must be of B-cell origin. Repeated stimulation of the humoral immune system with antigens and mitogens elicits a response in some Bx birds. The response is generally not found in the primary stimulation and is rarely of the magnitude of a normal response even after several stimulations. Antibody production may be limited to IgM type immunoglobulin; further studies are necessary to verify this. Autopsy and histological examination of the tissues of the responsive birds failed to show any evidence of residual bursal tissue. Whether these findings constitute proof of the role of the bursa in the humoral immune response or whether they reflect the broader consequences of bursectomy in the development of the bird requires further study. The inductive capacities of the bursa and the source and autonomous capacity of the stem cells thought to be induced in the bursa should also be investigated. The effects of early hormonal and late surgical bursectomy are similar to those found in this study, where an early embryonic surgical technique was used to avoid the possible complications of these other methods.