cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EFFECT OF HALOTOLERANT METHYLOTROPHS ISOLATED FROM SALINE SOIL RHIZOSPHERE ON DIMINUTION OF SALT STRESS IN WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.)
Creators: name: Sharavin, Dmitry
name: Kovalevskaya, Nina
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2017

description: Two aerobic, halotolerant, facultatively methylotrophic strains M1K and M7 were isolated from the Suaeda prostrata Pall. and Plantago maritima L. rhizospheres from saline soils of the Solikamsk technogenic ecosystem. The isolates showed growth at 5–10% NaCl concentration. Based on 16S rRNA and mxaF gene sequence analysis, the obtained strains were classified as Methylophaga nitratireducenticrescens M1K and Paracoccus sp. M7. Within 5 days of the inoculation experiment, the wheat seedlings colonized with the isolated strains under 170 mM of NaCl showed an increase in growth parameters and synthesis of plant pigments over the control samples. The ability of analyzed cultures to influence indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) synthesis from L-tryptophan in the culture medium was found. The obtained data suggest the possibility of using isolated symbiotic bacterial strains for the creation of biofertilizer – plant growth promoter in the salt affected soils.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 3 (4) (2017)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy efficacy via videoconferencing for social (public speaking) anxiety disorder : a single case design
Creators: name: Pelletier, Marie-Helene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Social (public speaking) anxiety disorder is the most prevalent of all anxiety disorders, and it often impairs social and occupational functioning. Intervention studies indicate that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is an efficacious treatment for social anxiety. However, access to therapists skilled in CBT for social anxiety is often difficult. In order to respond to the problem of access, the use of videoconferencing for mental health care has developed. No published study has investigated the efficacy of CBT for social anxiety when provided via videoconferencing. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to determine the efficacy of CBT for social anxiety when provided via videoconferencing. A single-case replication design was employed that included a baseline period of 3 weeks, followed by 12 weeks of . treatment, 1-week post-intervention period, and 3-month follow-up. Five participants completed treatment. It was hypothesized that participants would reduce their social anxiety symptoms (i.e., decrease anxiety during speech task, increase duration of speech task, and decrease public speaking anxiety) assessed on standardized measures of social anxiety. Exploratory analyses of changes in self-monitored social anxiety, negative cognitions (public self-consciousness, fear of negative evaluation, internal attributions), working alliance, client satisfaction with treatment, and client comfort with videoconferencing were also performed. Analyses included visual and statistical significance, as well as clinical significance (i.e., endstate functioning, social phobia diagnostic status). The results indicated that two of three hypotheses were supported (i.e., anxiety during speech task reduced and duration of speech task increased over time). At 3-month follow-up, treatment gains were maintained or improved further; 3 participants no longer met the DSM-IV-TR criteria for social anxiety disorder, and 4 participants met criteria for moderate or high level of endstate functioning (i.e., clinical significance). Exploratory analyses revealed that self-monitored social anxiety decreased for 3 of 5 participants, and that a decrease in negative cognitions was associated with a decrease in social anxiety. Working alliance ratings remained high throughout treatment. Satisfaction with videoconferencing decreased over treatment for the participant who did not improve. Generally, comfort with videoconferencing increased over time. The results offer preliminary support for further research about the efficacy of the intervention.
CALCIUM DEPENDENT RHYTHMIC CHANGES IN THE CONTENT OF NITRIC OXIDE (NO) IN THE ROOTS OF ETIOLATED PEA SEEDLINGS (PISUM SATIVUM L.)
Creators: name: Glyan’ko, Anatolij
name: Ischenko, Aleksej
name: Filinova, Nadezhda
name: Makarova, Ludmila
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2017

description: The temporal dynamics (during 30 and 60 min) of nitric oxide generation (NO) in the roots of 2-day etiolated seedlings of pea seeds has been studied. During the exposure of seedlings on water and CaCl2 solution (100 μM), fluctuations in the level of nitric oxide in the roots (its increase and decrease) have been shown. The physiological role of fluctuations in the level of nitric oxide in the root and the participation of calcium ions in this process are discussed.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 3 (4) (2017)
CONGENITAL DEFECTS OF BEEF CATTLE BREEDS AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THEIR PREVENTION
Creators: name: Konovalova, Elena
name: Gladyr, Elena
name: Kostiunina, Ol'ga
name: Zinovieva, Nataliya
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2017

description: The article has considered the problem of congenital defects of beef cattle. It was analyzed the dynamics of their manifestation in XX-XXI century. There were given the classification of the common genetic diseases. It was justified the necessity of the congenital defects control. There were shown approaches of genetic defects control. Based on the analysis it was proposed the strategy of the genetic defects managing to prevent their spread.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 2 (3) (2017)
Phase transition at finite temperature in one dimension: Adsorbate ordering in Ba/Si(111)3x2
Creators: name: Erwin, Steven C.
name: Hellberg, C. Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the Ba-induced Si(111)3x2 reconstruction is a physical realization of a one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model with long-range Coulomb interactions. Monte Carlo simulations performed on a corresponding Coulomb-gas model, which we construct based on density-functional calculations, reveal an adsorbate-ordering phase transition at finite temperature. We show numerically that this unusual one-dimensional phase transition should be detectable by low-energy electron diffraction.
description: 11 pages + 4 figures. Surf. Sci. Lett. (in press)
Emergence of large cliques in random scale-free network
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
name: Marsili, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a network cliques are fully connected subgraphs that reveal which are the tight communities present in it. Cliques of size c>3 are present in random Erdos and Renyi graphs only in the limit of diverging average connectivity. Starting from the finding that real scale free graphs have large cliques, we study the clique number in uncorrelated scale-free networks finding both upper and lower bounds. Interesting we find that in scale-free networks large cliques appear also when the average degree is finite, i.e. even for networks with power-law degree distribution exponents gamma in the interval (2,3). Moreover as long as gamma<3 scale-free networks have a maximal clique which diverges with the system size.
description: (4 pages, 1 figure)
THE INFLUENCE OF PROPOLIS ON THE NATURAL RESISTANCE OF ORGANISM OF LARGE CATTLE
Creators: name: Ivashchenko, Marina
name: Samodelkin, Aleksandr
name: Deryugina, Anna
name: Guschin, Vasilij
name: Mironov, Andrej
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2017

description: The effectiveness of the use of propolis drug on the state of nonspecific resistance of animals, which was manifested in the restoration of the leukocyte formula, bactericidal and lysozyme activity of the serum to the physiological norm that was significantly altered in cows with purulent-catarrhal postnatal endometritis, is shown in the work. Clinical parameters are confirmed by physiological characteristics.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 2 (3) (2017)
THE IMPORTANCE OF MOBILE APPLICATION FOR REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT
Creators: name: Siu, Michael
name: Abazov, Rafis
name: Babazova, Fatima
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2017

description: Motivation: Nowadays we face a problem of global warming. Global warming does not just mean that the Earth gets hotter, it means that the whole climate is changing. People can help to stop global warming that is why it is very important to know about level of their carbon footprint in order to conserve our nature. The purpose of this research was in collecting data of people’s carbon footprint who are living in Hong Kong and in Almaty. That information helped us to understand how we need to work in order to try to show people their influences to the environment. Results: We have asked through face-to-face survey and with using social network such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Vkontakte in order to get to know people’s knowledge about “carbon footprint” and total annual carbon emissions. After all, we have made diagrams. Survey proved that there is a lack of information about the ways to decreasing carbon footprint. As we expected nobody knows his or her percentage of influence to the nature. It means that we are in necessity of mobile application, which will give us knowledge about “carbon footprint”. Mobile application should contain practical information about carbon footprint and calculator, which will help to people to calculate their carbon footprint. In addition, mobile application should have tips and advises which will help to reduce people’s influence to the nature.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 1 (2) (2017)
SHELF LABELING OF ORGANIC FOODS: CUSTOMER RESPONSE IN MINNESOTA GROCERY STORES
Creators: name: Reicks, Marla
name: Splett, Patricia
name: Fishman, Amy
name: Reicks, Marla
name: Splett, Patricia
name: Fishman, Amy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: In the past 10 years, growth in the organic food industry has been tremendous. Retail grocers and organic food supporters are interested in effective promotion techniques that increase sales of organic food products in mainstream grocery stores. An experimental study was designed to test the effectiveness of two levels of point-of-purchase (POP) signage to influence customer perceptions and to promote sales of organic food products in two grocery store environments in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Minnesota. Customer intercept interviews and sales data showed that POP signage can be effective in promoting organic foods and in influencing sales but may be dependent on store environment/format. Exposure to signage and trial behavior may lead to increased attention to organic food labeling and expanded organic food purchasing.
Additional file 5 of Insulator-based loops mediate the spreading of H3K27me3 over distant micro-domains repressing euchromatin genes
Creators: name: Heurteau, Alexandre
name: Perrois, Charlène
name: Depierre, David
name: Fosseprez, Olivier
name: Humbert, Jonathan
name: Schaak, Stéphane
name: Cuvier, Olivier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5. Review history.
PREDICTING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY A PREMIUM FOR ORGANICALLY GROWN FRESH PRODUCE
Creators: name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
name: Govindasamy, Ramu
name: Italia, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Consumers were surveyed at various grocery retail establishments in New Jersey to provide opinions on organic produce. The objective of this study was to empirically evaluate which demographic characteristics cause consumers to be more likely to pay a premium to obtain organically grown produce. The results indicate that females, those with higher annual incomes, younger individuals, and those who usually or always purchase organic produce are all more likely to pay a premium for organic produce. The results also indicate that the likelihood of paying a premium for organic produce decreases with the number of individuals living in the household.
Universal Properties of 2-Port Scattering, Impedance and Admittance Matrices of Wave Chaotic Systems
Creators: name: Hemmady, Sameer
name: Zheng, Xing
name: Hart, James
name: Antonsen, Thomas M.
name: Ott, Edward
name: Anlage, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistical fluctuations in the eigenvalues of the scattering, impedance and admittance matrices of 2-Port wave-chaotic systems are studied experimentally using a chaotic microwave cavity. These fluctuations are universal in that their properties are dependent only upon the degree of loss in the cavity. We remove the direct processes introduced by the non-ideally coupled driving ports through a matrix-normalization process that involves the radiation-impedance matrix of the two driving ports. We find good agreement between the experimentally obtained marginal probability density functions (PDFs) of the eigenvalues of the normalized impedance, admittance and scattering matrix and those from Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We also experimentally study the evolution of the joint PDF of the eigenphases of the normalized scattering matrix as a function of loss. Experimental agreement with the theory by Brouwer and Beenakker for the joint PDF of the magnitude of the eigenvalues of the normalized scattering matrix is also shown.
description: 12 Pages, 8 Figures, All figures in Color, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E. Updated with Revisions (July 10th, 2006)
FACTORS AFFECTING THE VARIABILITY OF THE HEAD DEPARTMENT MASS OF THE HONEYBEE APIS MELLIFERA L.
Creators: name: Eskov, Evgeniy
name: Eskova, Maya
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2016

description: We studied the age variability of the head department mass and process modification under the influence of physical and chemical environmental factors. The mass of the head departments is steadily decreasing from the beginning of the imaginal stage by the end of the life. This process is intensified by low-concentration carbohydrate forage consumption, content of pollutants or anesthesia in the atmosphere of CO2 or N2.Reducing the mass of the head departments accompanied by decreasing their water content and the temperature of maximum hypothermia lowering.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 1 (1) (2016)
CONSUMER SELECTION OF RETAIL OUTLETS IN BUYING PECANS
Creators: name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: You, Zhikang
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: You, Zhikang
name: Huang, Chung L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: The study identifies differences in consumer characteristics and the selection of the type of a retail outlet in pecan purchases. Within the framework of utility maximization, an empirical model is specified and estimated using multinomial logit. The estimation is based on data collected through a nationwide survey. Calculated marginal probabilities show the importance of age, household income, and household size among the important consumer characteristics that influence the selection of a retail outlet. Employment and the timing of pecan purchases also influence the use of a specific type of retail outlet. In particular, mail-order purchases are made by older persons with higher incomes and larger households in comparison to purchases at grocery stores or other outlets. The study provides knowledge needed to improve marketing strategies for different outlets and suggests that various strategies can be developed to reach different groups of pecan buyers by type of retail outlet.
Two superconducting components with different symmetries in Nd1-xSrxNiO2 films
Creators: name: Gu, Qiangqiang
name: Li, Yueying
name: Wan, Siyuan
name: Li, Huazhou
name: Guo, Wei
name: Yang, Huan
name: Li, Qing
name: Zhu, Xiyu
name: Pan, Xiaoqing
name: Nie, Yuefeng
name: Wen, Hai-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pairing mechanism in cuprates remains as one of the most challenging issues in the field of condensed matter physics. The unique 3d9 electron orbital of the Cu2+ ionic states in cuprates is supposed to be the major player for the occurrence of superconductivity. Recently, superconductivity at about 9-15 K was discovered in infinite layer thin films of nickelate Nd1-xSrxNiO2 (x=0.1-0.2) which is believed to have the similar 3d9 orbital electrons. The key issue concerned here is about the superconducting gap function. Here we report the first set data of single particle tunneling measurements on the superconducting nickelate thin films. We find predominantly two types of tunneling spectra, one shows a V-shape feature which can be fitted very well by a d-wave gap function with gap maximum of about 3.9 meV, another one exhibits a full gap of about 2.35 meV. Some spectra demonstrate mixed contributions of these two components. Our results suggest that the newly found Ni-based superconductors play as close analogs to cuprates, and thus demonstrate the commonality of unconventional superconductivity.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures in Main Text and 7 figures in Supplementary Information
Testing the Color Charge and Mass Dependence of Parton Energy Loss with Heavy-to-light Ratios at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Armesto, Néstor
name: Dainese, Andrea
name: Salgado, Carlos A.
name: Wiedemann, Urs Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratio of nuclear modification factors of high-pT heavy-flavored mesons to light-flavored hadrons (``heavy-to-light ratio'') in nucleus-nucleus collisions tests the partonic mechanism expected to underlie jet quenching. Heavy-to-light ratios are mainly sensitive to the mass and color-charge dependences of medium-induced parton energy loss. Here, we assess the potential for identifying these two effects in D and B meson production at RHIC and at the LHC. To this end, we supplement the perturbative QCD factorized formalism for leading hadron production with radiative parton energy loss. For D meson spectra at high but experimentally accessible transverse momentum (10 < pT < 20 GeV) in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, we find that charm quarks behave essentially like light quarks. However, since light-flavored hadron yields are dominated by gluon parents, the heavy-to-light ratio of D mesons is a sensitive probe of the color charge dependence of parton energy loss. In contrast, due to the larger b quark mass, the medium modification of B mesons in the same kinematical regime provides a sensitive test of the mass dependence of parton energy loss. At RHIC energies, the strategies for identifying and disentangling the color charge and mass dependence of parton energy loss are more involved because of the smaller kinematical range accessible. We argue that at RHIC, the kinematical regime best suited for such an analysis of D mesons is 7 < pT < 12 GeV, whereas the study of lower transverse momenta is further complicated due to the known dominant contribution of additional, particle species dependent, non-perturbative effects.
description: 21 pages RevTex, 9 Figures
Analysis of Methanol Maser Flares in G107.298+5.63 andS255-NIRS3
Creators: name: Gray, M. D.
name: Etoka, S.
name: Pimpanuwat, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 3D maser model has been used to perform an inverse problem on the light curves from three high-amplitude maser flares, selected on the basis of contemporaneous infra-red observations. Plots derived from the model recover the size of the maser cloud, and two parameters linked to saturation, from three observational properties of the light curve. Recovered sizes are consistent with independent interferometric measurements. Maser objects transition between weak and moderate saturation during a flare.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS OF ACCELERATED PEAT-POULTRY COMPOST PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Anisimova, Tatiana
name: Lukin, Sergei
Publisher: name: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2016

description: To decrease the losses of biogenous elements and to produce high-quality organic fertilizers, technological process and technical means for the accelerated composting in special constructions with active aeration (in a fermentative chamber) on the basis of organogenic waste is offered.
description: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT, No. 1 (1) (2016)
The multifractal spectrum of Brownian intersection local times
Creators: name: Klenke, Achim
name: Morters, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J65, 60G17, 60J55. (Primary)

description: Let \ell be the projected intersection local time of two independent Brownian paths in R^d for d=2,3. We determine the lower tail of the random variable \ell(U), where U is the unit ball. The answer is given in terms of intersection exponents, which are explicitly known in the case of planar Brownian motion. We use this result to obtain the multifractal spectrum, or spectrum of thin points, for the intersection local times.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000116 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
THE EUROPEAN UNION-UNITED STATES WHEAT GLUTEN POLICY DISPUTE
Creators: name: Balzer, Brian
name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
name: Balzer, Brian
name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: On June 1, 1998, President Clinton approved a three-year quota on wheat gluten imports from Australia, the European Union, and all other nonexcluded countries. The quota-remedy will be reviewed for possible extension for up to five additional years. The potential for extensions is an important reason to develop a better economic understanding of this industry and the effectiveness of the implemented quotas. The purpose of this paper is to provide background on the gluten trade dispute, to decipher the qualitative impacts of EU policies on world gluten markets, and to evaluate the potential effectiveness of the U.S. quota remedy. The U.S. industry has operated at a low level of capacity utilization, implying high elasticity of supply; demand is inelastic; and Canada, a major producer and exporter of gluten, was excluded from the quota. These factors are likely to significantly limit the quota's effectiveness but may give the industry time to develop value-added products that use their primary outputs.
Optimal and sustainable management of a soilborne banana pest
Creators: name: Chedjou, Israël Tankam
name: Grognard, Frédéric
name: Tewa, Jean Jules
name: Touzeau, Suzanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this paper we propose an eco-friendly optimization of banana or plantain yield by the control of the pest burrowing nematode \textit{Radopholus similis}. This control relies on fallow deployment, with greater respect for the environment than chemical methods. The optimization is based on a multi-seasonal model in which fallow periods follow cropping seasons. The aim is to find the best way, in terms of profit, to allocate the durations of fallow periods between the cropping seasons, over a fixed time horizon spanning several seasons. The existence of an optimal allocation is proven and an adaptive random search algorithm is proposed to solve the optimization problem. For a relatively long time horizon, deploying one season less than the maximum possible number of cropping seasons allows to increase the fallow period durations and results in a better multi-seasonal profit. For regular fallow durations, the profit is lower than the optimal solution, but the final soil infestation is also lower.
description: Manuscript submitted to Applied Mathematics and Computation (Jun 13, 2020), 21 pages with 13 figures
Additional file 1 of Insulator-based loops mediate the spreading of H3K27me3 over distant micro-domains repressing euchromatin genes
Creators: name: Heurteau, Alexandre
name: Perrois, Charlène
name: Depierre, David
name: Fosseprez, Olivier
name: Humbert, Jonathan
name: Schaak, Stéphane
name: Cuvier, Olivier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Genomic contexts of the influence of Beaf32 on H3K27me3 spreading. Figure S2. Validation of micro-domains by quantitative PCR analysis of ChIP. Figure S3. Regulation of H3K27me3 spreading by Beaf32 and CP190 and depending on genomic contexts. Figure S4. Regulation of long-range interactions by insulator proteins. Figure S5. Beaf32 depletion affects specific insulator-based LRIs by Beaf32, GAF, dCTCF and CP190. Figure S6. Beaf32 looping mutants alter H3K27me3 levels in micro-domains involving regulation of CP190 recruitment. Figure S7. Regulation of H3K27me3 trans-spreading may contribute to co-regulate specific gene functions through development.
Stoichiometry control of magnetron sputtered Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_{1-x}$Y$_x$Cu$_2$O$_y$ (0$\le$x$\le$0.5) thin film, composition spread libraries: Substrate bias and gas density factors
Creators: name: Sanderson, R. J.
name: Hewitt, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnetron sputtering method for the production of thin-film libraries with a spatially varying composition, x, in Bi2Sr2Ca1-xYxCu2Oy (0<=x<=0.5) has been developed. Two targets with a composition of Bi2Sr2YCu2O_{8.5 + δ} and Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8 + δ} are co-sputtered with appropriate masks. The target masks produce a linear variation in opposite, but co-linear radial direction, and the rotation speed of the substrate table is sufficient to intimately mix the atoms. EDS/WDS composition studies of the films show a depletion of Sr and Bi that is due to oxygen anion resputtering. The depletion is most pronounced at the centre of the film (i.e. on-axis with the target) and falls off symmetrically to either side of the 75 mm substrate. At either edge of the film the stoichiometry matches the desired ratios. Using a 12 mTorr process gas of argon and oxygen in a 2:1 ratio, the strontium depletion is corrected. The bismuth depletion is eliminated by employing a rotating carbon brush apparatus which supplies a -20 V DC bias to the sample substrate. The negative substrate bias has been used successfully with an increased chamber pressure to eliminate the resputtering effect across the film. The result is a thin film composition spread library with the desired stoichiometry.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, submitted to Physica C - Superconductivity (April 15, 2005), elsart.sty
IDAHO'S CHEESE INDUSTRY: THE COMPETITIVE SITUATION
Creators: name: Werner, Chris
name: Foltz, John C.
name: Wu, Shunxiang
name: Werner, Chris
name: Foltz, John C.
name: Wu, Shunxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: As the fifth largest U.S. cheese-producing state, Idaho increased cheese production by 182 percent (390 million pounds) between 1992 and 1995. Idaho's competitiveness in the cheese industry is important not only to processors but also to dairy farmers since approximately 85 percent of the milk produced in Idaho is processed into cheese. Idaho was found to be competitive with other major cheese-producing states, including California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New York. Among the study states, Idaho was the second lowest-cost provider, behind California, to selected cities across the United States. Idaho's advantage was the lowest production costs, excluding milk cost, due in large part to lower labor and utility rates.
A proper scalar product for tachyon representations in configuration space
Creators: name: López-Ruiz, Francisco F.
name: Guerrero, Julio
name: Aldaya, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new inner product for scalar fields that are solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation with $m^2<0$. This inner product is non-local, bearing an integral kernel including Bessel functions of the second kind, and the associated norm proves to be positive definite in the subspace of oscillatory solutions, as opposed to the conventional one. Poincaré transformations are unitarily implemented on this subspace, which is the support of a unitary and irreducible representation of the proper orthochronous Poincaré group. We also provide a new Fourier Transform between configuration and momentum spaces which is unitary, and recover the projection onto the representation space. This new scenario suggests a revision of the corresponding quantum field theory.
description: 2 figures
Local thermalization in d + Au collisions
Creators: name: Wolschin, G.
name: Biyajima, M.
name: Mizoguchi, T.
name: Suzuki, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extent of a locally equilibrated parton plasma in d + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV is investigated as a function of centrality in a nonequilibrium-statistical framework. Based on a three-sources model, analytical solutions of a relativistic diffusion equation are in precise agreement with recent data for charged-particle pseudorapidity distributions. The moving midrapidity source indicates the size of the local thermal equilibrium region after hadronization. In central d + Au collisions it contains 19% of the produced particles.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Proc. QM2005 Budapest
Additional file 1 of Predictive values of ANGPTL8 on risk of all-cause mortality in diabetic patients: results from the REACTION Study
Creators: name: Huajie Zou
name: Yongping Xu
name: Chen, Xi
name: Yin, Ping
name: Danpei Li
name: Wenjun Li
name: Junhui Xie
name: Shiying Shao
name: Liegang Liu
name: Yu, Xuefeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Predictor variables for QFrailty score. Table S1. Characteristics of patients with diabetes. Table S2. Metabolic parameters and outcomes for control subjects and diabetic patients. Table S3. Partial correlations between ANGPTL8 levels and clinical variables in control subjects and diabetic patients. Table S4. Predictive values for all-cause mortality in combination with ANGPTL8 in QFrailty score. Figure S1. Flow diagram for the study population selection.
Optical spectroscopic classification of 35 hard X-ray sources from the Swift-BAT 70-month catalogue
Creators: name: Marchesini, E. J.
name: Masetti, N.
name: Palazzi, E.
name: Chavushyan, V.
name: Jiménez-Bailón, E.
name: Patiño-Alvarez, V. M.
name: Reynaldi, V.
name: Rojas, A. F.
name: Saviane, I.
name: Andruchow, I.
name: Bassani, L.
name: Bazzano, A.
name: Bird, A. J.
name: Malizia, A.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Monaco, L.
name: Stephen, J. B.
name: Ubertini, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of a substantial percentage (about one fifth) of hard X-ray sources discovered with the BAT instrument onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (hereafter Swift) is unknown because of the lack of an identified longer-wavelength counterpart. Without such follow-up, an X-ray catalogue is of limited astrophysical value: we therefore embarked, since 2009, on a long-term project to uncover the optical properties of sources identified by Swift by using a large suite of ground-based telescopes and instruments. In this work, we continue our programme of characterization of unidentified or poorly studied hard X-ray sources by presenting the results of an optical spectroscopic campaign aimed at pinpointing and classifying the optical counterparts of 35 hard X-ray sources taken from the 70-month BAT catalogue. (...) With the use of optical spectra taken at six different telescopes we were able to identify the main spectral characteristics (continuum type, redshift, and emission or absorption lines) of the observed objects, and determined their nature. We identify and characterize a total of 41 optical candidate counterparts corresponding to 35 hard X-ray sources given that, because of positional uncertainties, multiple lower energy counterparts can sometimes be associated with higher energy detections. We discuss which ones are the actual (or at least most likely) counterparts based on our observational results. In particular, 31 sources in our sample are active galactic nuclei: 16 are classified as Type 1 (with broad and narrow emission lines) and 13 are classified as Type 2 (with narrow emission lines only); two more are BL Lac-type objects. We also identify one LINER, one starburst, and 3 elliptical galaxies. The remaining 5 objects are galactic sources: we identify 4 of them as cataclysmic variables, whereas one is a low mass X-ray binary.
description: Last draft version before referee's approval. Closest to the final published article
Fähnrich, Heinz. Grammatik der altgeorgischen Sprache
Creators: name: Esbroeck, Michel Van
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 79 (1995): Oriens christianus, Band 79
A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG
Creators: name: Piacentini, F
name: Ade, P
name: Bock, J
name: Bond, J
name: Borrill, J
name: Boscaleri, A
name: Cabella, P
name: Contaldi, C
name: Crill, B
name: de Bernardis, P
name: De Gasperis, G
name: de Oliveira-Costa, A
name: De Troia, G
name: Di Stefano, G
name: Hivon, E
name: Jaffe, A
name: Kisner, T
name: Jones, W
name: Lange, A
name: Masi, S
name: Mauskopf, P
name: MacTavish, C
name: Melchiorri, A
name: Montroy, T
name: Natoli, P
name: Netterfield, C
name: Pascale, E
name: Pogosyan, D
name: Polenta, G
name: Prunet, S
name: Ricciardi, S
name: Romeo, G
name: Ruhl, J
name: Santini, P
name: Tegmark, M
name: Veneziani, M
name: Vittorio, N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the temperature-polarization angular cross power spectrum, , of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The result is based on $\sim 200$ hours of data from 8 polarization sensitive bolometers operating at 145 GHz during the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG. We detect a significant correlation in the $\ell$-range between 50 and 950 with a statistical significance > 3.5 sigma. Contamination by polarized foreground emission and systematic effects are negligible in comparison with statistical uncertainty. The spectrum is consistent with previous detections and with the "concordance model" that assumes adiabatic initial conditions. This is the first measurement of using bolometric detectors.
description: Submitted to Ap.J.; Version with high resolution figures will be available at: http://oberon.roma1.infn.it/boomerang/b2k and http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/boomerang/
On Counterfactual Explanations under Predictive Multiplicity
Creators: name: Pawelczyk, Martin
name: Broelemann, Klaus
name: Kasneci, Gjergji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Counterfactual explanations are usually obtained by identifying the smallest change made to an input to change a prediction made by a fixed model (hereafter called sparse methods). Recent work, however, has revitalized an old insight: there often does not exist one superior solution to a prediction problem with respect to commonly used measures of interest (e.g. error rate). In fact, often multiple different classifiers give almost equal solutions. This phenomenon is known as predictive multiplicity (Breiman, 2001; Marx et al., 2019). In this work, we derive a general upper bound for the costs of counterfactual explanations under predictive multiplicity. Most notably, it depends on a discrepancy notion between two classifiers, which describes how differently they treat negatively predicted individuals. We then compare sparse and data support approaches empirically on real-world data. The results show that data support methods are more robust to multiplicity of different models. At the same time, we show that those methods have provably higher cost of generating counterfactual explanations under one fixed model. In summary, our theoretical and empiricaln results challenge the commonly held view that counterfactual recommendations should be sparse in general.
THE VALUE OF IMPROVED WATER QUALITY TO CHESAPEAKE BAY BOATERS
Creators: name: Lipton, Douglas W.
name: Lipton, Douglas W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: As part of an economic survey of Maryland registered boat owners, an open ended contingent valuation question was posed regarding willingness to pay for an improvement in water quality in Chesapeake Bay. The boaters ranked their perception of water quality on a scale of one to five, and the payment was for an improvement of one unit. Boaters also indicated the type of concern poor water quality raised, ranging from no concern to concern about long term effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Median willingness to pay for a one step improvement in water quality was $17.50 per year and the mean was $63, with 38% expressing a zero willingness-to-pay. A tobit model was estimated to determine what factors influenced willingness to pay amounts. Sailboaters and boats that were kept in the water rather than trailered were willing to pay more for water quality improvements. Additionally, the lower the individual ranked water quality and the greater concern for the health effects from water quality, the more the willingness to pay for a water quality improvement. In aggregate, Chesapeake Bay boaters in Maryland were willing to pay approximately $7.3 million per year to achieve the stated water quality improvement. The present value of this improvement, at a 5% discount rate is a $146 million.
Klimov, Georgij, A.: Einführungen in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft
Creators: name: Esbroeck, Michel Van
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 79 (1995): Oriens christianus, Band 79
Additional file 1 of No room to roam: King Cobras reduce movement in agriculture
Creators: name: Marshall, Benjamin Michael
name: Crane, Matt
name: Silva, Inês
name: Strine, Colin Thomas
name: Jones, Max Dolton
name: Hodges, Cameron Wesley
name: Pongthep Suwanwaree
name: Taksin Artchawakom
name: Surachit Waengsothorn
name: Goode, Matt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Distribution of time lags between radio tracking fixes. Dashed lines indicate the mean time lag. X scale is log transformed and clipped at 96 h for ease of visualisation. Supplementary Figure 2. Motion variance values in each habitat type displayed as box and violin plots. Circles are the mean motion variance values for each habitat. Y-axis scale is log. Supplementary Figure 3. Bi-plot of NMDS results. Motion variance values are reflected by the colour of the points, we have rooted these values so value differences are easier to distinguish. Supplementary Figure 4. Distribution of sheltering periods. To help distinguish individual lines the plots has been split in two. The top plot shows the results from the adult males: AM006, AM007, AM015 and AM018. The lower plot shows AF017, JM013 and JM019. Supplementary Figure 5. Coefficient point estimates and 95% credible intervals from Bayesian regression models. Each point and line denote an individual’s point estimate and credible intervals for the impact of distance to landscape feature on residency time and revisit number. Supplementary Table 1. All co-efficient results from Bayesian logistic regression models. Supplementary Table 2. Full ISSF results for all models and individuals.
Additional file 1 of Higher toenail selenium is associated with increased insulin resistance risk in omnivores, but not in vegetarians
Creators: name: Qiuyun Gu
name: Xueying Cui
name: Du, Kun
name: Wang, Bian
name: Cai, Wei
name: Qingya Tang
name: Shen, Xiuhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Multiple regression analysis for associations between toenail Se levels and glucose metabolic indexes according to sex in omnivores. Table S2. Multiple regression analysis for associations between toenail Se levels and glucose metabolic indexes according to sex and vegetarian type in vegetarians. Table S3. Multiple regression analysis for associations between dietary selenium intake and glucose metabolic indexes in omnivores. Table S4. Multiple regression analysis for associations between dietary selenium intake and glucose metabolic indexes in vegetarians. Table S5. β value and 95% confidence interval for glucose metabolic indexes according to tertiles of nail selenium in omnivores. Table S6. β value and 95% confidence interval for glucose metabolic indexes according to tertiles of nail selenium in vegetarians. Table S7. Pearson correlation analysis between dietary Se intake and toenail Se level.
Very Small-Scale Clustering and Merger Rate of Luminous Red Galaxies
Creators: name: Masjedi, Morad
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Cool, Richard J.
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Zehavi, Idit
name: Berlind, Andreas A.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Warren, Michael S.
name: Brinkmann, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the small-scale (0.01
description: Submitted to ApJ
Additional file 1 of Further development in the assessment of psychological flexibility: validation of the German committed action questionnaire
Creators: name: Terhorst, Yannik
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: McCracken, Lance M.
name: Jiaxi Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Committed Action Questionnaire.
Exploring classical correlations in noise to recover quantum information using local filtering
Creators: name: Jones, Daniel E.
name: Kirby, Brian T.
name: Riccardi, Gabriele
name: Antonelli, Cristian
name: Brodsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general quantum channel consisting of a decohering and a filtering element carries one qubit of an entangled photon pair. As we apply a local filter to the other qubit, some mutual quantum information between the two qubits is restored depending on the properties of the noise mixed into the signal. We demonstrate a drastic difference between channels with bit-flip and phase-flip noise and further suggest a scheme for maximal recovery of the quantum information.
The efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy to treat driving phobia
Creators: name: Wald, Jaye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of the study was to examine the efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) to treat driving phobia using a multiple baseline across-subjects design. The sequence of events included a pre-treatment assessment, a baseline phase, 8 weekly VRET sessions using a standardized treatment protocol, a post-treatment assessment, and 1- and 3-month follow-up assessments. A sample of seven treatment seeking adults with a primary diagnosis of specific phobia (driving) was recruited. Five completed the treatment and follow-up phases. One individual withdrew after the pre-treatment assessment, and the other, after the first treatment session. It was hypothesized that VRET would reduce driving anxiety and avoidance symptoms between pre- and post-treatment assessments using several outcome measures. Visual and statistical analysis methods were used to assess treatment outcome. Three participants showed clear improvement in driving anxiety and avoidance symptoms between pre- and post-treatment assessments. There was a marginal improvement in these symptoms for one participant. The remaining participant showed very little improvement, and some outcome measures revealed slight deterioration in some of her symptoms. There was negligible change in actual driving frequency in any participant. Some gains were lost at the 1- and 3-month follow-up assessments, but symptoms remained far below pre-treatment results. Possibilities for future research and practice implications are discussed.
Relativistic velocity space, Wigner rotation and Thomas precession
Creators: name: Rhodes, John A.
name: Semon, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a relativistic velocity space called \emph{rapidity space} from the single assumption of Lorentz invariance, and use it to visualize and calculate effects resulting from the successive application of non-colinear Lorentz boosts. In particular, we show how rapidity space provides a geometric approach to Wigner rotation and Thomas precession in the same way that spacetime provides a geometrical approach to kinematic effects in special relativity.
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