cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genetic parameters, inter-relationship and path-coefficient analysis in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill)
Creators: name: Datta, A. K.
name: Hossain, M. A.
name: Rahman, L.
name: Datta, A. K.
name: Hossain, M. A.
name: Rahman, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Soybean
subject: Glycine max
subject: Genetic parameters
subject: Correlation
subject: Path analysis

description: An experiment was conducted to study the components of phenotypic variation for yield and yield contributing characters and relationship between them in 21 genotypes of soybean. Significant variations were observed among the genotypes for all the characters studied. The highest genotypic and phenotypic co-efficient of variation was observed in pod/plant followed by leaf area, yield/plant, 100 seed weight and yield/plant. High heritability (broad sense) was observed for all the characters except seeds/pod. Higher level of heritability, genetic advance and genetic advance in percentage of mean was found in leaf area, plant height and pods/plant. In most of the cases genotypic correlations were higher than the phenotypic ones. Pods/plant, seeds/pod and 100 seed weight showed significant and positive correlation with yield/plant at phenotypic level. The number of pods/plant had higher direct effects on yield. These results suggest that number of pods/plant, number of seeds/pod and 100 seed weight were the most important characters in yield determination and could be used for future yield improvement programmes in soybean.
An assessment with morphine of the relation between reward sensitization and the development of the UCS preexposure effect in aversion learning
Creators: name: Simpson, Gregory Rand
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Conditioned Taste Aversion (CTA) is thought to be a behavioral index of toxicity. After pairings of a distinctive solution and a drug (unconditioned stimulus; UCS) injection, animals will avoid consumption of the solution, and this avoidance is thought to reflect the aversive effects of this compound. Preexposure to this compound can result in an attenuation of CTA, referred to as the UCS preexposure effect in taste aversion learning. Although CTA can occur with a variety of unconditioned stimuli (UCS), it has been argued that reward sensitization may best explain the UCS preexposure effect with morphine given that morphine preexposure enhances morphine conditioned place preferences (CPP) (i.e., measure of drug reward). To address this possibility, the present study was designed to provide a comprehensive empirical examination of whether enhanced morphine-CPP developed concurrently with the UCS preexposure effect with morphine. This may be best accomplished using a combined CTA/CPP procedure, to assess these effects within the same animals under identical preexposure conditions. In Experiment 1, the simultaneous development of CTAs and CPPs in this combined procedure was assessed, where subjects received saccharin or water followed by morphine-injection (5 mg/kg; subcutaneous) and were then placed into one of two distinctive CPP compartments. The following day they received the other solution followed by drug vehicle-injection and then placed into the other CPP compartment. This two-day cycle was repeated four times after which a CPP test and CTA test revealed place preferences and taste aversions conditioned from the same morphine injection within the same animals. In Experiment 2, the effects of morphine preexposure (0 or 5 mg/kg; 5 subcutaneous injections every second day) on CTA and CPP (conditioned with 1 or 5 mg/kg; subcuntaneous) were assessed. There were four conditioning cycles (see Experiment 1), each followed by a CTA and CPP test. Morphine conditioned both a CTA and a CPP in a dose-related manner. Interestingly, morphine preexposure both attenuated CTAs (UCS preexposure effect) and enhanced CPPs in a parallel fashion. These results are consistent with a reward sensitization interpretation of the UCS preexposure effect with CTA; however, alternate interpretations are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Recommended procedures for the management of early childhood caries lesions – a scoping review by the Children Experiencing Dental Anxiety: Collaboration on Research and Education (CEDACORE)
Creators: name: Corrêa-Faria, Patrícia
name: Karolline Alves Viana
name: Raggio, Daniela Prócida
name: Hosey, Marie Therese
name: Costa, Luciane Rezende
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Molecular Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist
Tetragonality of Fe-C martensite -- a pattern matching electron backscatter diffraction analysis compared to X-ray diffraction
Creators: name: Tanaka, Tomohito
name: Maruyama, Naoki
name: Nakamura, Nozomu
name: Wilkinson, Angus J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the local tetragonality in Fe-C martensite at microstructural length-scale through pattern matching of electron backscatter diffraction patterns (EBSPs) and careful calibration of detector geometry are presented. It is found that the local tetragonality varies within the complex microstructure by several per cent at largest and that the scatter in the axial ratio is increased at higher nominal carbon content. At some analysis points the local crystal structure can be regarded as lower symmetry than simple body centred tetragonal. A linear relation between the nominal carbon content and averaged local tetragonality measured by EBSD is also obtained, although the averaged axial ratio is slightly below that obtained from more classical X-ray diffraction measurements.
description: 33 pages, 12 figures, 2 Tables
Price discovery: Electronic versus floor trading in the equity index futures market
Creators: name: Ates, Aysegul
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The objective of this research is to examine how electronic trading affects the intraday price discovery process in the equity index futures market. At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), exchange floor and electronic trading mechanisms exist side-by-side, offering essentially identical equity index futures contracts. E-mini index futures are traded in an electronic trading system and the standard index futures are traded in an open-outcry trading system at the CME. This research aims to see where price determination occurs and how the price discovery process differs over time in S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 index futures markets. In this study intraday data on the spot index, index futures, and E-mini index futures are used. Three time series techniques (vector error correction model (VECM), the common long memory component weight (Gonzalo and Granger 1995) and the information shares (Hasbrouck 1995)) are employed to measure the contribution of information transmission process by each of these three indices. The results of the Granger causality tests under VECM suggest that E-mini index futures lead the standard index futures and the standard index futures lead the spot index and there are feedback effects among them. The results of both the information shares (Hasbrouck 1995) and the common long memory component weight (Gonzalo and Granger 1995) analyses also suggest that each of these three indices contribute to the price discovery process but, since the middle of 1999 E-mini index futures contracts have dominated the price discovery in comparison either to the standard index futures or the spot index in these two equity index derivatives markets. All three techniques produce consistent results, indicating the robustness of our empirical results. We then present the hypotheses regarding the factors that could affect the extent of price discovery in the E-mini futures relative to the standard futures. Our pooled regression model results support the hypotheses that price discovery is (a) positively related to the relative market share of E-mini futures trading and also (b) positively related to the spread difference between the standard futures and E-mini futures trading.
Eucera (Synhalonia) lunata
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Eucera (Synhalonia) lunata (Timberlake, 1969)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Riverside, California, USA; March 1, 1934]
This species is distributed in the southwestern USA and BC, Mexico. Timberlake (1969) reported this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in March 1941 and the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1960. See fig. 104.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Cropping systems dynamics in greater Kushtia
Creators: name: Rashid, M. H.
name: Khan, A. H.
name: Alam, M. M.
name: Rashid, M. H.
name: Khan, A. H.
name: Alam, M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Cropping systems
subject: Dynamics
subject: Greater Kushtia

description: Understanding in changes of cropping systems over time and seasons related to the shifting of cropping patterns of a particular area is of importance for guiding policy makers, researchers and extension personnel for future research and development planning. The diagnostic sample survey was conducted in five Blocks under five upazilas of greater Kushtia district during 2004 using pre designed and pretested questionnaire with a view to documenting the changes in cropping patterns and the reasons for the shift therein. About 80 % of the net cropped area were found under rice based cropping patterns Which was increased at about 89 % during 1998-99 to 2002-03. A total of 14 rice based cropping Patterns were identified in greater Kushtia district which was decreased and resulted in decreasing tendency in crop diversity. Lion's share of the cropped area was covered by Born-Fallow Transplanted Aman, which was remarkably increased in all Blocks over time. The pulses and spices are replaced by Bore rice, tobacco, maize, aroid and potato. Increased irrigation facilities, lack of appropriate marketing channel and increased insect and disease pressure in pulses and other minor crops are the main reasons for the shifting of cropping patterns. The farmers demanded improved varieties of Aus and Transplanted ,4man rices like BR11 and Swarna, suitable for this drought prone area. Research and development activities for non-rice crops in this area might get priority for sustainable crop diversity.
Price discovery: Electronic versus floor trading in the equity index futures market
Creators: name: Ates, Aysegul
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this research is to examine how electronic trading affects the intraday price discovery process in the equity index futures market. At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), exchange floor and electronic trading mechanisms exist side-by-side, offering essentially identical equity index futures contracts. E-mini index futures are traded in an electronic trading system and the standard index futures are traded in an open-outcry trading system at the CME. This research aims to see where price determination occurs and how the price discovery process differs over time in S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 index futures markets. In this study intraday data on the spot index, index futures, and E-mini index futures are used. Three time series techniques (vector error correction model (VECM), the common long memory component weight (Gonzalo and Granger 1995) and the information shares (Hasbrouck 1995)) are employed to measure the contribution of information transmission process by each of these three indices. The results of the Granger causality tests under VECM suggest that E-mini index futures lead the standard index futures and the standard index futures lead the spot index and there are feedback effects among them. The results of both the information shares (Hasbrouck 1995) and the common long memory component weight (Gonzalo and Granger 1995) analyses also suggest that each of these three indices contribute to the price discovery process but, since the middle of 1999 E-mini index futures contracts have dominated the price discovery in comparison either to the standard index futures or the spot index in these two equity index derivatives markets. All three techniques produce consistent results, indicating the robustness of our empirical results. We then present the hypotheses regarding the factors that could affect the extent of price discovery in the E-mini futures relative to the standard futures. Our pooled regression model results support the hypotheses that price discovery is (a) positively related to the relative market share of E-mini futures trading and also (b) positively related to the spread difference between the standard futures and E-mini futures trading.
Critical properties of a comb lattice
Creators: name: Chepiga, Natalia
name: White, Steven R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the critical properties of the Heisenberg spin-1/2 model on a comb lattice -- a 1D backbone decorated with finite 1D chains -- the teeth. We address the problem numerically by a comb tensor network that duplicates the geometry of a lattice. We observe a fundamental difference between the states on a comb with even and odd number of sites per tooth, which resembles an even-odd effect in spin-1/2 ladders. The comb with odd teeth is always critical, not only along the teeth, but also along the backbone, which leads to a competition between two critical regimes in orthogonal directions. In addition, we show that in a weak-backbone limit the excitation energy scales as $1/(NL)$, and not as $1/N$ or $1/L$ typical for 1D systems. For even teeth in the weak backbone limit the system corresponds to a collection of decoupled critical chains of length $L$, while in the strong backbone limit, one spin from each tooth forms the backbone, so the effective length of a critical tooth is one site shorter, $L-1$. Surprisingly, these two regimes are connected via a state where a critical chain spans over two nearest neighbor teeth, with an effective length $2L$.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures
Whose discretion is this anyway? Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations in federal courts of appeals: A comparative analysis
Creators: name: Buzdugan, Maria
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The U.S. federal courts review on appeal actions of federal regulatory agencies. This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the approaches to judicial review of agency statutory interpretation in all thirteen federal courts of appeals. Using a database of 1,360 cases decided by these courts over a period of time of 10 years, I verified the validity of previous models proposed in the literature for explaining judicial behavior, while proposing my own set of hypotheses. Whether a court will reject (i.e., reverse or remand) an agency statutory interpretation is a function of: (1) political factors---political convergence between the ideology of the panel and the political direction of agency's interpretation, and political salience of the issue; (2) legal precedent---Supreme Court's caseow, i.e., Chevron and recent cases, such as Christensen and Mead; (3) factors related to the courts---annual overall caseload per judge, annual administrative caseload, panel's previous work experience with a federal agency; (4) factors related to the agency---type of agency and the frequency of that agency's presence before federal courts of appeals; (5) factors related to the case before the court---the technicality of the issue, the divisiveness of the court's opinion, the type of party challenging the agency interpretation, presence of amicus briefs; (6) factors related to the district court's decision in the case. A Probit analysis tests a multivariate model of impact of these factors on the courts' decisions to reverse or affirm an agency interpretation. The results of the study support to a certain degree the findings of previous studies that stressed the role of political ideology and legal precedent in judicial decision-makings, but point out the significant influence of other factors as well. More specifically, my findings show that the success of an agency before the courts is influenced by political factors, Supreme Court's precedent, as well as by factors characterizing the courts, the agency, the case, and the district court's decision.
Astroconformer: The Prospects of Analyzing Stellar Light Curves with Transformer-Based Deep Learning Models
Creators: name: Pan, Jia-Shu
name: Ting, Yuan-Sen
name: Yu, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stellar light curves contain valuable information about oscillations and granulation, offering insights into stars' internal structures and evolutionary states. Traditional asteroseismic techniques, primarily focused on power spectral analysis, often overlook the crucial phase information in these light curves. Addressing this gap, recent machine learning applications, particularly those using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have made strides in inferring stellar properties from light curves. However, CNNs are limited by their localized feature extraction capabilities. In response, we introduce $\textit{Astroconformer}$, a Transformer-based deep learning framework, specifically designed to capture long-range dependencies in stellar light curves. Our empirical analysis centers on estimating surface gravity ($\log g$), using a dataset derived from single-quarter Kepler light curves with $\log g$ values ranging from 0.2 to 4.4. $\textit{Astroconformer}$ demonstrates superior performance, achieving a root-mean-square-error (RMSE) of 0.017 dex at $\log g\approx3$ in data-rich regimes and up to 0.1 dex in sparser areas. This performance surpasses both K-nearest neighbor models and advanced CNNs. Ablation studies highlight the influence of receptive field size on model effectiveness, with larger fields correlating to improved results. $\textit{Astroconformer}$ also excels in extracting $ν_{\max}$ with high precision. It achieves less than 2% relative median absolute error for 90-day red giant light curves. Notably, the error remains under 3% for 30-day light curves, whose oscillations are undetectable by a conventional pipeline in 30% cases. Furthermore, the attention mechanisms in $\textit{Astroconformer}$ align closely with the characteristics of stellar oscillations and granulation observed in light curves.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
Whose discretion is this anyway? Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations in federal courts of appeals: A comparative analysis
Creators: name: Buzdugan, Maria
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The U.S. federal courts review on appeal actions of federal regulatory agencies. This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the approaches to judicial review of agency statutory interpretation in all thirteen federal courts of appeals. Using a database of 1,360 cases decided by these courts over a period of time of 10 years, I verified the validity of previous models proposed in the literature for explaining judicial behavior, while proposing my own set of hypotheses. Whether a court will reject (i.e., reverse or remand) an agency statutory interpretation is a function of: (1) political factors---political convergence between the ideology of the panel and the political direction of agency's interpretation, and political salience of the issue; (2) legal precedent---Supreme Court's caseow, i.e., Chevron and recent cases, such as Christensen and Mead; (3) factors related to the courts---annual overall caseload per judge, annual administrative caseload, panel's previous work experience with a federal agency; (4) factors related to the agency---type of agency and the frequency of that agency's presence before federal courts of appeals; (5) factors related to the case before the court---the technicality of the issue, the divisiveness of the court's opinion, the type of party challenging the agency interpretation, presence of amicus briefs; (6) factors related to the district court's decision in the case. A Probit analysis tests a multivariate model of impact of these factors on the courts' decisions to reverse or affirm an agency interpretation. The results of the study support to a certain degree the findings of previous studies that stressed the role of political ideology and legal precedent in judicial decision-makings, but point out the significant influence of other factors as well. More specifically, my findings show that the success of an agency before the courts is influenced by political factors, Supreme Court's precedent, as well as by factors characterizing the courts, the agency, the case, and the district court's decision.
Cyanobacterial metabolites as promising drug leads against the Mpro and PLpro of SARS-CoV-2: an in silico analysis
Creators: name: Naidoo, Devashan
name: Roy, Ayan
name: Kar, Pallab
name: Mutanda, Taurai
name: Anandraj, Akash
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biotechnology

description: A novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged as the causative agent behind the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Treatment efforts have been severely impeded due to the lack of specific effective antiviral drugs for the treatment of COVID-asso?ciated pathologies. In the present research endeavour the inhibitory prospects of cyanobacterial metabolites were assessed at the active binding pockets of the two vital SARS-CoV-2 proteases namely, main protease (Mpro) and the papain-like protease (PLpro) that proteolytically process viral pol?yproteins and facilitate viral replication, employing an in silico molecular interaction-based approach. It was evident from our analysis based on the binding energy scores that the metabolites cylindrosper?mopsin, deoxycylindrospermopsin, carrageenan, cryptophycin 52, eucapsitrione, tjipanazole, tolypor?phin and apratoxin A exhibited promising inhibitory potential against the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro. The compounds cryptophycin 1, cryptophycin 52 and deoxycylindrospermopsin were observed to display encouraging binding energy scores with the PLpro of SARS-CoV-2. Subsequent estimation of physico?chemical properties and potential toxicity of the metabolites followed by robust molecular dynamics simulations and analysis of MM-PBSA energy scoring function established deoxycylindrospermopsin as the most promising inhibitory candidate against both SARS-CoV-2 proteases. Present research findings bestow ample scopes to further exploit the potential of deoxycylindrospermopsin as a successful inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro and in vivo and pave the foundation for the development of novel effective therapeutics against COVID-19.
Time-reversal versus chiral symmetry breaking in twisted bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Gonzalez, J.
name: Stauber, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By applying a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, we show that the mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking can account for the insulating phase that develops about the charge neutrality point of twisted bilayer graphene around the magic angle. ($i$) If the Coulomb interaction is screened by metallic gates, the opening of a gap between the lowest-energy valence and conduction bands proceeds through the breakdown of chiral symmetry at strong coupling. Increasing the dielectric screening, however, we find a critical coupling at which chiral symmetry breaking is suppressed, triggering a very strong signal for time-reversal symmetry breaking with Haldane mass. ($ii$) If the long-range tail of the Coulomb interaction is not screened, we see the appearance of yet a different dominant pattern at strong coupling, which is characterized by breaking the time-reversal invariance but with opposite flux in the two sublattices of each carbon layer, with the consequent valley symmetry breaking. In this case a gap is also opened in the Dirac cones, but superposed to the splitting of the degeneracy of the low-energy bands at the $K$ points of the moiré Brillouin zone.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
The stress process and chronic illness: Sickle cell disease and its impact on the performance of social roles and mental health among black women
Creators: name: Cole, Portia Lynne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The literature suggests that a significant number of patients with Sickle Cell disease (SCD) experience social and psychiatric impairment. This research explores the manifestations of stress on the mental health of black women affected by a genetic blood disorder known as Sickle Cell disease (SCD). The hallmark of SCD is unpredictable painful episodes. Disease-related stress is conceptualized as an ongoing process that may impact women's performance of valued social roles and their sense of mastery (control). Stress was considered as a risk factor for poor mental health outcomes. The research study was divided into two phases. The snowball method was utilized to construct a sample of 30 women between the ages of 23 and 66. Survey instruments were administered in Phase 1 (N = 30) to explore the relationship between disease severity, role strain, mastery, depressive symptomatology and anxiety. Cross-tabulations and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. In Phase 2, participants (N = 10) were selected from Phase 1 for in-depth interviews to explicate the meaning of stress and its role in the occurrence of painful episodes, ways of coping, the impact of social support networks, and ways to alleviate stress. In Phase 1, a significant relationship existed between mastery and anxiety. Low anxiety scores were associated with high mastery. In Phase 2, the healthcare system, was perceived as a major source of stress for eight of the women interviewed. Stress tended to precede painful episodes for eight of the women interviewed. Ways of coping such as emotion-focused and problem-focused were identified. All of the women relied on family, friends, and co-workers for social support. Suggestions for interventions to alleviate stress were also provided. Findings suggest that definitions of stress may influence black women's perceptions of SCD which might impact their performance of social roles. In addition, the study highlights the role of mastery, social support, and coping as risk factors for anxiety.
Robust cosmological constraints on axion-like particles
Creators: name: Depta, Paul Frederik
name: Hufnagel, Marco
name: Schmidt-Hoberg, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axion-like particles with masses in the keV-GeV range have a profound impact on the cosmological evolution of our Universe, in particular on the abundance of light elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The resulting limits are complementary to searches in the laboratory and provide valuable additional information regarding the validity of a given point in parameter space. A potential drawback is that altering the cosmological history may potentially weaken or even fully invalidate these bounds. The main objective of this article is therefore to evaluate the robustness of cosmological constraints on axion-like particles in the keV-GeV region, allowing for various additional effects which may weaken the bounds of the standard scenario. Employing the latest determinations of the primordial abundances as well as information from the cosmic microwave background we find that while bounds can indeed be weakened, very relevant robust constraints remain.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures; v2: matches published version
Effect of IAA on yield and yield contributing characters of aman rice under irrigated and moisture stress conditions
Creators: name: Razzaque, A. H. M.
name: Rahman, M. S.
name: Razzaque, A. H. M.
name: Rahman, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: IAA
subject: Yield
subject: Irrigation
subject: Moisture stress

description: A pot experiment was carried out at the experimental site of Crop Physiology Division of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh during August to November 2003 to study the effects of IAA (Ind°le acetic acid) on yield and yield attributes of aman rice var. Binashail grown under irrigated and moisture stress conditions. The experiment comprised of four levels of IAA viz. 0, 25, 50 and 75 Ppm and two levels of irrigation viz, continuous irrigation and moisture stress for 7 days at booting stage. Results revealed that most of the yield contributing characters had better performance under irrigated condition compared to the water stress. The application of 50 ppm IAA produced the maximum grain yield/hill as a consequence of higher number of tillers/hill, longer panicle length and higher number of filled grains/panicle. The interaction effects of irrigation and IAA showed that application of 50 ppm IAA in continuously irrigated plants had resulted in the highest grain yield. The application of the same dose also produced the highest grain yield/hill even in seven days stress at the booting stage.
Factors influencing the intensity of use of ICT tools by youth along agricultural value chains: Evidence from Busia County, Kenya
Creators: name: Katunyo, P.N.
name: Otieno, D.J.
name: Oluoch-Kosura, W.
name: Okello, J.J.
name: Katunyo, P.N.
name: Otieno, D.J.
name: Oluoch-Kosura, W.
name: Okello, J.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research and Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Focus on youth has considerably increased in the developing countries, especially within Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in recent times. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is one of the rapidly developing sectors in the developing world, with the young generation being presently engaged in use of new technologies. The ICTs are beneficial in agriculture, but there is less evidence of their use for agricultural purposes particularly by the youth. The desire to change the face of agriculture for youth to find it appealing has seen the need to assess the relevance of youth participation in agriculture and integration of ICTs into the sector as a solution to youth migration and unemployment. This study analyzed the determinants of ICT usage in agricultural value chains among rural youth in Busia County, Kenya. A total of 213 young farmers were randomly selected and interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and Poisson regression model were applied in data analysis. Findings showed youth participation using ICTs was concentrated at the marketing level of the agricultural chain activities. Age, marital status, transport cost, distance to market, land size and extension services were significant in explaining the intensity of use of ICTs for agriculture. Key Words: Youth, ICTs, Agricultural value chains, Western Kenya Acknowledgement : We thank the ValueSec project for providing funding that facilitated successful completion of this study.
The stress process and chronic illness: Sickle cell disease and its impact on the performance of social roles and mental health among black women
Creators: name: Cole, Portia Lynne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The literature suggests that a significant number of patients with Sickle Cell disease (SCD) experience social and psychiatric impairment. This research explores the manifestations of stress on the mental health of black women affected by a genetic blood disorder known as Sickle Cell disease (SCD). The hallmark of SCD is unpredictable painful episodes. Disease-related stress is conceptualized as an ongoing process that may impact women's performance of valued social roles and their sense of mastery (control). Stress was considered as a risk factor for poor mental health outcomes. The research study was divided into two phases. The snowball method was utilized to construct a sample of 30 women between the ages of 23 and 66. Survey instruments were administered in Phase 1 (N = 30) to explore the relationship between disease severity, role strain, mastery, depressive symptomatology and anxiety. Cross-tabulations and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. In Phase 2, participants (N = 10) were selected from Phase 1 for in-depth interviews to explicate the meaning of stress and its role in the occurrence of painful episodes, ways of coping, the impact of social support networks, and ways to alleviate stress. In Phase 1, a significant relationship existed between mastery and anxiety. Low anxiety scores were associated with high mastery. In Phase 2, the healthcare system, was perceived as a major source of stress for eight of the women interviewed. Stress tended to precede painful episodes for eight of the women interviewed. Ways of coping such as emotion-focused and problem-focused were identified. All of the women relied on family, friends, and co-workers for social support. Suggestions for interventions to alleviate stress were also provided. Findings suggest that definitions of stress may influence black women's perceptions of SCD which might impact their performance of social roles. In addition, the study highlights the role of mastery, social support, and coping as risk factors for anxiety.
The growth effects of the socio-economic status of women in developing countries: A panel data VAR approach
Creators: name: Creppy, Edward Gbago Ekue
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates the empirical relationship among four major indicators of the socio-economic status of women in developing countries and how these measures have affected their reproductive behavior as well as the economic performance of these countries, during the period from 1960 to 2000. In a departure from conventional practice, this study analyzes the relationship among these variables in a PVAR framework; a technique which takes into account the potential endogeneity of these variables, which are often assumed to be exogenous in typical cross-country econometric methods. Analyzing this relationship in a PVAR framework creates the possibility to conduct this research in an environment where the potential feedback effects which may exist among the variables of interest, are properly accounted for. The results indicate that the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime seems to have a two-way negative relationship with all other variables in the model. That is, a decrease in the growth rate of fertility, increases the labor force participation of women, raises the average number of years of female education, and promotes the growth rate of GDP per capita. In return, all these variables have a diminishing effect on the growth rate of fertility. Moreover, there also appears to be a positive feedback loop between the growth rate of GDP per capita, female employment, and the growth rate of female schooling. However, the study does not find any evidence to support the notion that an increase in female education will increase the labor force participation of women. The bi-directional relationship observed between most of the variables in the system has important policy implications. Particularly, this econometric methodology presents policy-makers with a variety of policy options in dealing with issues related to female education, female employment and fertility. For example, if the desired policy objective is raising the average level of female educational attainment, policy planners would know that policy-induced changes in education promotes as virtuous cycle of cumulative causation in which other variables like fertility and employment can interact with female education to in a mutually reinforcing way.
Additional file 2 of Recommended procedures for the management of early childhood caries lesions – a scoping review by the Children Experiencing Dental Anxiety: Collaboration on Research and Education (CEDACORE)
Creators: name: Corrêa-Faria, Patrícia
name: Karolline Alves Viana
name: Raggio, Daniela Prócida
name: Hosey, Marie Therese
name: Costa, Luciane Rezende
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Molecular Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Characteristics of replaced studies and recommended procedures for ECC management.
The growth effects of the socio-economic status of women in developing countries: A panel data VAR approach
Creators: name: Creppy, Edward Gbago Ekue
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation investigates the empirical relationship among four major indicators of the socio-economic status of women in developing countries and how these measures have affected their reproductive behavior as well as the economic performance of these countries, during the period from 1960 to 2000. In a departure from conventional practice, this study analyzes the relationship among these variables in a PVAR framework; a technique which takes into account the potential endogeneity of these variables, which are often assumed to be exogenous in typical cross-country econometric methods. Analyzing this relationship in a PVAR framework creates the possibility to conduct this research in an environment where the potential feedback effects which may exist among the variables of interest, are properly accounted for. The results indicate that the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime seems to have a two-way negative relationship with all other variables in the model. That is, a decrease in the growth rate of fertility, increases the labor force participation of women, raises the average number of years of female education, and promotes the growth rate of GDP per capita. In return, all these variables have a diminishing effect on the growth rate of fertility. Moreover, there also appears to be a positive feedback loop between the growth rate of GDP per capita, female employment, and the growth rate of female schooling. However, the study does not find any evidence to support the notion that an increase in female education will increase the labor force participation of women. The bi-directional relationship observed between most of the variables in the system has important policy implications. Particularly, this econometric methodology presents policy-makers with a variety of policy options in dealing with issues related to female education, female employment and fertility. For example, if the desired policy objective is raising the average level of female educational attainment, policy planners would know that policy-induced changes in education promotes as virtuous cycle of cumulative causation in which other variables like fertility and employment can interact with female education to in a mutually reinforcing way.
Eucera (Synhalonia) mohavensis
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Eucera
Eucera mohavensis

description: Eucera (Synhalonia) mohavensis (Timberlake, 1969)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Indian Canyon, near Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Co., California, USA; March 27, 1947]
Eucera mohavensis is found almost exclusively in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. In BC, eight males were collected in San Felipe in 1963 (Timberlake 1969). Additionally, there are recent records from Mexico in the San Bernardino Valley, Sonora (Minckley & Radke 2021). See fig. 105.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Record Photon Information Efficiency with Optical Clock Transmission and Recovery of 12.5 bits/photon over an Optical Channel with 77 dB Loss
Creators: name: Essiambre, René-Jean
name: Guo, Cheng
name: Dacha, Sai Kanth
name: Ashikhmin, Alexei
name: Blanco-Redondo, Andrea
name: Kschischang, Frank R.
name: Banaszek, Konrad
name: Weiner, Matthew
name: Kopf, Rose
name: Crawley, Ian
name: Idjadi, Mohamad H.
name: Sayem, Ayed A.
name: Zhao, Jie
name: Sandoz, James D.
name: Fontaine, Nicolas
name: Menkart, Nicole
name: Ryf, Roland
name: Cloonan, John
name: Vasilyev, Michael
name: Murphy, Thomas E.
name: Burrows, Ellsworth C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate optical detection at 12.5~bits per incident photon, 9.4~dB higher than the theoretical limit of conventional coherent detection. A single laser transmits both data and optical clock, undergoes 77~dB of attenuation before quantum detection followed by optical clock and data recovery.
Spatial Market Integration and Price Transmission of Meat in Indonesia
Creators: name: Suharno, S.
name: Suharno, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Food balance in the country tend to be deficit for main food staples as well luxurious foods like red meat. Food deficit has been prevailing until currently. Being the net importer of meat products, Indonesia is challenged to meet two pressing goals, first to protect farmers and secondly to secure meat availability. Trade flows between regions and access to information are challenging becuase Indonesia is an archipelagic country with high economic dispersion and inequality. This study aims to analyze spatial integration and price transmission of meat market in Indonesia. The data is a monthly prise series of meat from 7 provinces containing 50 observations. The data was analyzed using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). This study reveals that there is a long run relationship among market price in seven provinces and the high long run relationship was found among provinces in Java island. The short run was also found among provinces. This findings represents that meat market in Indonesia was spatially integrated. This study recommends the goverment to formulate policies which providing infrastructure to avoid market exploitation and spread price information along provinces in Indonesia. This will help in enhancing efficiency of the marketing system in agricultural commodities and reduce market distortions. Acknowledgement : I would thank to my younger colleg Ahmad Syariful Jamil for co-authoring this paper.
Additional file 1 of Angiopoietin-2 induces angiogenesis via exosomes in human hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Xie, Ji-Yan
name: Wei, Jin-Xing
name: Lv, Li-Hong
name: Han, Qing-Fang
name: Wei-Bang Yang
name: Li, Guo-Lin
name: Pan-Xia Wang
name: Wu, Shao-Bin
name: Duan, Jin-Xin
name: Zhuo, Wen-Feng
name: Liu, Pei-Qing
name: Min, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supporting materials and methods.
Fetal Exposure to Abnormal Rainfall Events and Later-Life Outcomes in Colombia
Creators: name: Carrillo, B.
name: Carrillo, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This paper provides estimates of the long-term impacts of prenatal exposure to rainfall shocks using Colombian data. I find that individuals prenatally exposed to rainfall shocks have fewer years of schooling, display increased rates of illiteracy, are less likely to work in the market, and are more likely to report serious mental and physical illness. This paper then uses historical information on malaria risk and fraction of population depending on farming to analyze the extent to which agricultural income and disease shocks may be the mechanisms driving the results. The patterns I find are generally consistent with these hypotheses Acknowledgement : I appreciate support and helpful comments from Danyelle Branco, Carlos Charris, Micheliana Costa, Wescley Freitas, Wilman Iglesias, Juan Trujillo, Raul Velilla, Ian Trotter, and participants at various seminars. I am grateful to the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and the International Development Research Centre (Ottawa, Canada) for substantial funding for this project.