cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Analytical Lidar Sensor Model Based on Ray Path Information
Creators: name: Schaefer, Alexander
name: Luft, Lukas
name: Burgard, Wolfram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two core competencies of a mobile robot are to build a map of the environment and to estimate its own pose on the basis of this map and incoming sensor readings. To account for the uncertainties in this process, one typically employs probabilistic state estimation approaches combined with a model of the specific sensor. Over the past years, lidar sensors have become a popular choice for mapping and localization. However, many common lidar models perform poorly in unstructured, unpredictable environments, they lack a consistent physical model for both mapping and localization, and they do not exploit all the information the sensor provides, e.g. out-of-range measurements. In this paper, we introduce a consistent physical model that can be applied to mapping as well as to localization. It naturally deals with unstructured environments and makes use of both out-of-range measurements and information about the ray path. The approach can be seen as a generalization of the well-established reflection model, but in addition to counting ray reflections and traversals in a specific map cell, it considers the distances that all rays travel inside this cell. We prove that the resulting map maximizes the data likelihood and demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art sensor models in extensive real-world experiments.
description: 8 pages
Assessment of metal ion accumulation in oral mucosa cells of patients with fixed orthodontic treatment and cellular DNA damage: a systematic review
Creators: name: Piñeda-Zayas, Alejandro
name: Lopez-Mateos, Luisa Menendez
name: Palma-Fernández, Juan Carlos
name: Iglesias-Linares, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Intraoral fixed appliances remain in the potentially corrosive environment of the mouth for an average of two years. Over time, corrosion causes the release of metal ions, such as nickel and chromium. These metals can become allergenic and cytotoxic, causing different conditions in the human body. The aim of this study therefore is to carry out a systematic review of the available scientific evidence on the accumulation of metal ions, and the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects in oral mucosa cells deriving from short- and long-term exposure to them. The systematic review is reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. The primary outcome (quantification of metal ion deposits and assessment of their genotoxic and/or cytotoxic effects) and secondary outcome (complementary analysis of cytotoxic and genotoxic effects) were examined. The Cochrane Collaboration tool and Toxicological data Reliability Assessment Tool (ToxRTool) were used for quality assessment. Once the search was performed, a total of seven articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in this study. Two main techniques were used to assess genotoxic effects: alkaline comet assay (6/7) and micronucleus method (1/7). Cytotoxicity was evaluated (4/7) using the trypan blue dye test. Accumulations of nickel (7/7), chromium (5/7), and other metals (zinc, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, titanium) were also quantified. The results allowed us to conclude that release of metal ions and acute cell and DNA damage in oral mucosa cells takes place in the early stages of treatment. However, more long-term studies are needed to evaluate chronic exposure to metals and DNA damage, as well as cellular capacity to recover DNA integrity.
title: Zur transformativen Ästhetik des Posthumanen Gothic im Horrorfilm der achtziger Jahre : das AIDS-Monster in HELLRAISER und HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II
Creators: name: Breckwoldt, Maximilian Benedikt
Publisher: name: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Year: 2024

description: Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Arbeit steht das Konzept der Körperfestung, wie von Susan Sontag definiert, das die Stärkung der individuellen Körpergrenzen und die Ausgrenzung von sogenannten „Risikogruppen” aus der Sphäre des politischen Körpers während der AIDS-Krise beschreibt. Es wird argumentiert, dass Horrorfilm als gesellschaftsbildende Instanz dieses Verhältnis metaphorisch ausdrückt. Folgend wird das AIDS-Monster als analytische Kategorie entwickelt, um diesen Sachverhalt hinsichtlich ästhetischer und narrativer Konventionen im Horrorfilm nachzuzeichnen. Körperhorror wird als besonderer ästhetischer Modus hervorgehoben und einer Analyse durch Konzepte der ästhetischen Philosophie geöffnet, um nachzuvollziehen, wie die Dekonstruktion des Körpers im Horrorfilm die Rezipient:innenwahrnehmung affiziert. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass Körperhorror als durchdringende Erfahrung das Sublime beschwört und im begrenzten Zeitraum der Sichtung ein Zusammenbrechen der Strukturen des Sinnschaffens bedingt, auf welches jedoch ihre Reinvigoration folgt. Abschließend wird der Körperhorror der Filme HELLRAISER und HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II durch die Linse des Posthumanen Gothic gelesen. Es wird ersichtlich, dass die menschlichen Figuren nicht nur ein Aufgehen in der Sphäre des Abjekten der Filme begehren, sondern auch dass ihr Selbstverständnis als unabhängige Individuen fehlerhaft ist. Die Perspektive des Posthumanen Gothic erlaubt es die Figuren als auf dem Spektrum Mensch/Monster ambivalent zu verstehen und über die lustvolle Inszenierung von Prozessen des Miteinander-werdens die Legitimation der Körperfestung durch den Horrorfilm zu problematisieren.
Exact $ϕ_{1,3}$ boundary flows in the tricritical Ising model
Creators: name: Feverati, G.
name: Pearce, P. A.
name: Ravanini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the tricritical Ising model on a strip or cylinder under the integrable perturbation by the thermal $ϕ_{1,3}$ boundary field. This perturbation induces five distinct renormalization group (RG) flows between Cardy type boundary conditions labelled by the Kac labels $(r,s)$. We study these boundary RG flows in detail for all excitations. Exact Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA) equations are derived using the lattice approach by considering the continuum scaling limit of the $A_4$ lattice model with integrable boundary conditions. Fixing the bulk weights to their critical values, the integrable boundary weights admit a thermodynamic boundary field $ξ$ which induces the flow and, in the continuum scaling limit, plays the role of the perturbing boundary field $ϕ_{1,3}$. The excitations are completely classified, in terms of string content, by $(m,n)$ systems and quantum numbers but the string content changes by either two or three well-defined mechanisms along the flow. We identify these mechanisms and obtain the induced maps between the relevant finitized Virasoro characters. We also solve the TBA equations numerically to determine the boundary flows for the leading excitations.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures, Latex; v2: some typos corrected and few comments added
MOESM3 of Pan-genome diversification and recombination in Cronobacter sakazakii, an opportunistic pathogen in neonates, and insights to its xerotolerant lifestyle
Creators: name: Lee, Isaiah
name: Andam, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Recombination in the genus Cronobacter. (a) Bar plot of the total length of recombined DNA of core and accessory genes per genome calculated using fastGEAR. (b) A phylogenetic network of the core genome generated using SplitsTree. Scale bar represents nucleotide substitutions per site.
Additional file of A comprehensive research agenda for zero leprosy
Creators: name: Steinmann, Peter
name: Dusenbury, Courtenay
name: Addiss, David
name: Fareed Mirza
name: W. Cairns S. Smith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file of A comprehensive research agenda for zero leprosy
Perturbative Study of Bremsstrahlung and Pair-Production by Spin-1/2 Particles in the Aharonov-Bohm Potential
Creators: name: al-Binni, U. A.
name: Shikakhwa, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of an external Aharonov-Bohm potential, we investigate the two QED processes of the emission of a bremsstrahlung photon by an electron, and the production of an electron-positron pair by a single photon. Calculations are carried out using the Born approximation within the framework of covariant perturbation theory to lowest non-vanishing order in α. The matrix element for each process is derived, and the corresponding differential cross-section is calculated. In the non-relativistic limit, the resulting angular and spectral distributions and some polarization properties are considered, and compared to results of previous works.
description: 15 pages, RevTex 4, 2 figures, submitted for publication
MOESM2 of Pan-genome diversification and recombination in Cronobacter sakazakii, an opportunistic pathogen in neonates, and insights to its xerotolerant lifestyle
Creators: name: Lee, Isaiah
name: Andam, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Genes that are exclusively found in different groups of C. sakazakii. (a) Based on SC (b) Based on ecological source (food, human, environmental).
Type I outbursts in low eccentricity Be/X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Franchini, Alessia
name: Martin, Rebecca G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type I outbursts in Be/X-ray binaries are usually associated with the eccentricity of the binary orbit. The neutron star accretes gas from the outer parts of the decretion disk around the Be star at each periastron passage. However, this mechanism cannot explain type I outbursts that have been observed in nearly circular orbit Be/X-ray binaries. With hydrodynamical simulations and analytic estimates we find that in a circular orbit binary, a nearly coplanar disk around the Be star can become eccentric. The extreme mass ratio of the binary leads to the presence of the 3:1 Lindblad resonance inside the Be star disk and this drives eccentricity growth. Therefore the neutron star can capture material each time it approaches the disk apastron, on a timescale up to a few percent longer than the orbital period. We have found a new application of this mechanism that is able to explain the observed type I outbursts in low eccentricity Be/X-ray binaries.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL
A Monte Carlo study of the effect of design characteristics on the inequality restricted maximum entropy estimator
Creators: name: Campbell, Randall C.
name: Hill, R. Carter
name: Campbell, Randall C.
name: Hill, R. Carter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Maximum Entropy
subject: Generalized Maximum Entropy
subject: Linear Inequality Restrictions

description: In this paper, we conduct a set of Monte Carlo sampling experiments to examine the effect of design characteristics on the inequality restricted maximum entropy (RME) estimator. We generate data under varying design characteristics, and estimate the parameters using maximum entropy and least squares estimation, both with and without parameter inequality restrictions. As part of the experimental design we vary the sample size, the distribution of the regressors, the distribution of the errors, the degree of collinearity, the signal-to-noise ratio, and the specification error. We compare the alternative estimators on the basis of mean square error.
The K20 survey. V The evolution of the near-IR Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Pozzetti, L.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Menci, N.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Mignoli, M.
name: Poli, F.
name: Saracco, P.
name: Broadhurst, T.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: D'Odorico, S.
name: Giallongo, E.
name: Gilmozzi, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the galaxy rest-frame near-IR Luminosity Function (LF) and its cosmic evolution to z=1.5 based on a spectroscopic survey of a magnitude limited sample of galaxies with Ks<20 (the K20 survey, Cimatti et al. 2002b). The LFs have been derived in the rest-frame J and Ks bands using 3 z bins (z_mean= 0.5, 1, 1.5) and compared to the local near-IR LF. The faint-end of the LFs is consistent with the local estimates, with no evidence for a change either in the slope or normalization up to z<1.3. Viceversa, the density of luminous galaxies (M_Ks-5logh_70=1, whereas PLE models are more consistent with the data up to z=1.5. The GIF model (Kaufmann et al. 1999) shows a clear deficiency of red luminous galaxies at z=1 compared to our observations and predicts a decrease of luminous galaxies with z not observed in our sample.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures. To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Replaced by the printed version
Additional file of Dietary assessment and patient-perspective reasons for poor adherence to diet and exercise post bariatric surgery
Creators: name: Bandar Saad Assakran
name: Widyan, Adel Mefleh
name: Alhumaidan, Najla Abdulaziz
name: Fadiyah Abdullah Alharbi
name: Alhnaya, Mohammed Abdullah
name: Abdullatif Abdullah Aljabali
name: Aleid, Mohammed Abdulrahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file of Dietary assessment and patient-perspective reasons for poor adherence to diet and exercise post bariatric surgery
Zero loci of Bernstein-Sato ideals -- II
Creators: name: Budur, Nero
name: van der Veer, Robin
name: Wu, Lei
name: Zhou, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We have recently proved a precise relation between Bernstein-Sato ideals of collections of polynomials and monodromy of generalized nearby cycles. In this article we extend this result to other ideals of Bernstein-Sato type.
description: v2: minor changes, to appear in Selecta Math
Cylindera (Ifasina) decempunctata
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cylindera
Cylindera decempunctata

description: 164. Cylindera (Ifasina) decempunctata (Dejean, 1825) (Fig. 164, 355)
 Cicindela decempunctata: Horn 1924: 14.
 Published data. Tonkin (Horn 1924: 14).
 New records. NORTHEAST: Cao Bang, Nguen Binh distr., Quang Rhanh, leg. N.L. Orlov, v.1998, 2 females (ZISP), Phu Tho, ~ 90 km N of Hanoi, Xuan Son National Park, N21 o 07’ 58” 104 o 55’ 45”, 300m, 13.vi.2014, leg. D. Fedorenko, 4 males, 3 males (MPU, SIEE); CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Lam Dong, Nam Cat Tien. leg. Dembicky and Pacholatko, v./ vi.1994, 2 males, 1 female (JWGC).
 Distribution. Vietnam (Cao Bang, Lam Dong, Phu Tho), Laos (Houaphanh, Oudomxay, Vientiane), Cambodia, Thailand (Ubon Ratchathani), Myanmar, Bangladesh (Dacca), India (Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Harryana, Bihar, Western Bengal, Assam, Sikkim), Nepal, Pakistan (NWFP, Punjab, Northern Territories).
 Remarks. New provincial records for Cao Bang, Lam Dong and Phu Tho.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
Macroeconomic Determinants of the Income Shares of the Very Highest Income Groups
Creators: name: DiPietro, William R.
name: Anoruo, Emmanuel
name: Sawhney, Bansi
name: DiPietro, William R.
name: Anoruo, Emmanuel
name: Sawhney, Bansi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Income Inequality
subject: inflation rate
subject: unemployment rate

description: By nature, people are guided by self-interests. Although all income groups have a stake in economic matters, the highest income groups are likely to have a much greater say in affecting the macro economy. Identifying the interests of higher income groups with regard to the economy is, therefore, important. It suggests where the effective energies of these potent groups are likely to be channeled, and allows one to assess the extent to which their objectives are in tune with the agenda of the broader society. This study uses the Phillips-Hansen fully modified OLS procedure to investigate the interrelationship between four key macroeconomic variables and the seven topmost income shares. We find that the extent of trade, inflation rate, unemployment, and real interest rate are highly significant in explaining the shares of the highest income groups in the United States.
Supplementary document for Snapshot compressive structured illumination microscopy - 6768689.pdf
Creators: name: Luo, Runqiu
name: Cao, Miao
name: Liu, Xing
name: Yuan, Xin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image Processing
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: more details
Landau Hydrodynamics and RHIC Phenomena
Creators: name: Steinberg, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic physical assumptions and results of Landau's hydrodynamic model of particle production are reviewed. It is argued that these results have a substantial descriptive and predictive power in strong-interaction phenomenology, including recent RHIC data.
description: 7 Pages, 5 Figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica
Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment: Empirical Evidence from the Euroland
Creators: name: Alexiou, Constantinos
name: Argitis, Georgios
name: Alexiou, Constantinos
name: Argitis, Georgios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Macroeconomic Policy
subject: Capital Stock
subject: Unemployment
subject: Pooled Estimators
subject: Random Coefficients.

description: Τhe emergence of the neo-liberal doctrine in the European Union (EU), as this is reflected by the prevalence of monetarism and market deregulation, has spawned a wave of criticism to be leveled at the way national macroeconomic policies have been conducted, with more emphasis on the unprecedented high level of unemployment experienced by virtually all EU countries. A theoretical exploration of this new policy orientation is being pursued in an attempt to unveil a potential mechanism responsible for the dire employment record. This paper’s primary aim is to gain an empirical insight into, a somehow forgotten, relationship between capital stock and unemployment. The conducted econometric analysis provides useful empirical results, which support the relevant literature and argues in favour of implementing an alternative, macroeconomic policy in the EU.
MOESM2 of Examining the effects of a high-protein total diet replacement on energy metabolism, metabolic blood markers, and appetite sensations in healthy adults: protocol for two complementary, randomized, controlled, crossover trials
Creators: name: Oliveira, Camila
name: BoulÃ©, Normand
name: Arya Sharma
name: Elliott, Sarah
name: Siervo, Mario
name: Ghosh, Sunita
name: Berg, Aloys
name: Prado, Carla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. Schedule of the indirect calorimetry tests.
EFFECTIVENESS OF DEKASAN IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS AND PURULENT CHOLANGITIS
Creators: name: Batirov, D.Yu.
name: Rakhimov, A.P.
name: Yusupov, D.D.
name: Rustamov, M.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The incidence of gallstone disease (GD) worldwide has been steadily increasing in recent years [1]. Accordingly, choledocholithiasis, which is the most common complication of GD, is also frequently observed [5]. It often presents asymptomatically or without jaundice, while in 15%-47.8% of cases, it is accompanied by purulent cholangitis and jaundice [2,4].
Gender, Vocational Education, and Economic Development: The Japanese Experience
Creators: name: Self, Sharmistha
name: Grabowski, Richard
name: Self, Sharmistha
name: Grabowski, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: vocational education
subject: gender
subject: Japanese growth

description: Economic development in Japan prior to World War II involved the expansion of labor intensive manufacturing industries that employed a large proportion of women. This was accompanied by the growth in vocational education for women as well as for men. Was the growth in vocational education, especially of women, a result of the economic expansion or a cause? In the postwar period vocational education for women grew slightly, while that for men declined. Was this caused by continued economic growth or did vocational education, especially for women, play a causal role in postwar economic growth? This paper attempts to address these questions using a recently available data set and utilizing the vector error correction methodology. The results indicate that vocational education, especially of females, played a causal role. Thus vocational education may be important in the early stages of growth for today’s developing nations.
Size Distribution of Income Among Rice-Based Farming Households in South Eastern States of Nigeria
Creators: name: Chikezie, C.
name: Ibekwe, U.C.
name: Ohajianya, D.O.
name: Orebiyi, J.S.
name: Oguoma, N.N.
name: Obasi, P.C.
name: Henri-Ukoha, A.
name: Emenyonu, C.A.
name: Nwaiwu, I.U.
name: Chikezie, C.
name: Ibekwe, U.C.
name: Ohajianya, D.O.
name: Orebiyi, J.S.
name: Oguoma, N.N.
name: Obasi, P.C.
name: Henri-Ukoha, A.
name: Emenyonu, C.A.
name: Nwaiwu, I.U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Income distribution
subject: Rice-based farmers
subject: Gini coefficient
subject: Sustainable

description: The study was designed to investigate the income distribution among rice-based farming households in Okigwe Agricultural Zone of Imo State, Nigeria. A sample of 120 rice-based farmers was selected by multistage sampling technique. Data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to 120 randomly selected rice farmers. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Gini-coefficient model was also employed. The socio-economic characteristic of the farmers revealed that majority of the farmers were educated. Besides, majority of them also had appreciable experience in rice farming which makes them better rice farmers. It was revealed that income share percentage of the richest households was 17.65% followed by the second richest group with income share percentage of 13.27%. Those in the twelfth decile represented the poorest group with a cumulative share percentage 2.82%. The Gini-coefficient of distribution of 0.32 showed that incomes were not highly concentrated but varied around the low per capita of N1442,859 per household. It becomes imperative therefore to enhance farmers’ income through a sustainable improved technology in rice farming.
A Space Mission to Map the Entire Observable Universe using the CMB as a Backlight
Creators: name: Basu, Kaustuv
name: Remazeilles, Mathieu
name: Melin, Jean-Baptiste
name: Alonso, David
name: Bartlett, James G.
name: Battaglia, Nicholas
name: Chluba, Jens
name: Churazov, Eugene
name: Delabrouille, Jacques
name: Erler, Jens
name: Ferraro, Simone
name: Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos
name: Hill, J. Colin
name: Hotinli, Selim C.
name: Khabibullin, Ildar
name: Madhavacheril, Mathew
name: Mroczkowski, Tony
name: Nagai, Daisuke
name: Raghunathan, Srinivasan
name: Martin, Jose Alberto Rubino
name: Sayers, Jack
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Sugiyama, Naonori
name: Sunyaev, Rashid
name: Zubeldia, Íñigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This Science White Paper, prepared in response to the ESA Voyage 2050 call for long-term mission planning, aims to describe the various science possibilities that can be realized with an L-class space observatory that is dedicated to the study of the interactions of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the cosmic web. Our aim is specifically to use the CMB as a backlight -- and survey the gas, total mass, and stellar content of the entire observable Universe by means of analyzing the spatial and spectral distortions imprinted on it. These distortions result from two major processes that impact on CMB photons: scattering by electrons (Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in diverse forms, Rayleigh scattering, resonant scattering) and deflection by gravitational potential (lensing effect). Even though the list of topics collected in this White Paper is not exhaustive, it helps to illustrate the exceptional diversity of major scientific questions that can be addressed by a space mission that will reach an angular resolution of 1.5 arcmin (goal 1 arcmin), have an average sensitivity better than 1 uK-arcmin, and span the microwave frequency range from roughly 50 GHz to 1 THz. The current paper also highlights the synergy of our BACKLIGHT mission concept with several upcoming and proposed ground-based CMB experiments.
description: Science White Paper submitted in response to the ESA Voyage 2050 call, 20 pages + title page + references
Cylindera (Ifasina) humillima
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cylindera
Cylindera humillima

description: 165. Cylindera (Ifasina) humillima (Gestro, 1893) (Fig. 165, 356)
 Cylindera (Ifasina) cf. decempunctata: Fedorenko and Matalin 2011: 126-128.
 Published data. SOUTHEAST: Dong Nai (Nam Cat Tien) (Fedorenko and Matalin 2011: 126-128, as Cylindera (Ifasina) cf. decempunctata).
 Distribution. Vietnam (Dong Nai), Myanmar.
 Remarks. New state record for Vietnam and new provincial record for Dong Nai.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
Determinants of Deprivation among Part–time Cassava Farming Households in the Humid Tropic
Creators: name: Nsikak-Abasi, A. Etim
name: Okon, Sunday
name: Akpabio, Iniobong A.
name: Nsikak-Abasi, A. Etim
name: Okon, Sunday
name: Akpabio, Iniobong A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: As cost of living rises and people’s wages / salaries do not cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being practiced by different people as a food security strategy from vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing incomes and improving well-being. Understanding the factors underlying their persistent deprivation is imperative when designing policies and programmes to meet their needs and improve their welfare. Farm level survey data collected from 60 households with the aid of questionnaire were used to estimate the determinants of deprivation by Tobit regression model. Using the maximum likelihood approach, asymptotic parameters estimates were evaluated to describe determinants of deprivation. Sex, marital status, household size, education, farm income and labour were significant determinants of deprivation.
The Stochastic Strichartz estimates and stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equations driven by Lévy noise
Creators: name: Brzeźniak, Zdzisław
name: Liu, Wei
name: Zhu, Jiahui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60J75, 35B65, 46B09

description: We establish a new version of the stochastic Strichartz estimate for the stochastic convolution driven by jump noise which we apply to the stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonlinear multiplicative jump noise in the Marcus canonical form. With the help of the deterministic Strichartz estimates, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a global solution to stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in $L^2(\RR^n)$ with either focusing or defocusing nonlinearity in the full subcritical range of exponents as in the deterministic case.
description: 27 pages
Spectator Effects in the Decay B -> K γγ
Creators: name: Ignatiev, A. Yu.
name: Joshi, G. C.
name: McKellar, B. H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of the first computation related to the study of the spectator effects in the rare decay mode $B\to K γγ$ within the framework of Standard Model. It is found that the account of these effects results in the enhancement factor for the short-distance reducible contribution to the branching ratio.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX 4
Forecasting Iran’s Rice Imports Trend During 2009-2013
Creators: name: Pakravan, Mohammad Reza
name: Kavoosi Kalashami, Mohammad
name: Alipour, Hamid Reza
name: Pakravan, Mohammad Reza
name: Kavoosi Kalashami, Mohammad
name: Alipour, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Income distribution
subject: Rice-based farmers
subject: Gini coefficient
subject: Sustainable.

description: In the present study Iran's rice imports trend is forecasted, using artificial neural networks and econometric methods, during 2009 to 2013, and their results are compared. The results showed that feet forward neural network leading with less forecast error and had better performance in comparison to econometric techniques and also, other methods of neural networks, such as Recurrent networks and Multilayer perceptron networks. Moreover, the results showed that the amount of rice import has ascending growth rate in 2009-2013 and maximum growth occurs in 2009-2010 years, which was equal to 25.72 percent. Increasing rice import caused a lot of exchange to exit out of the country and also, irreparable damage in domestic production, both in terms of price and quantity. Considering mentioned conditions, economic policy makers should seek ways to reduce increasing trend of rice import; and more investment and planning for domestic rice producers.
Labour and Poverty: Empirical Relationship Using House Data from South Nigeria
Creators: name: Nsikak-Abasi, A. Etim
name: Okon, Sunday
name: Akpabio, Iniobong A.
name: Nsikak-Abasi, A. Etim
name: Okon, Sunday
name: Akpabio, Iniobong A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Labour
subject: Poverty
subject: Household
subject: Nigeria.

description: In Nigeria, most farming activities rely on family labor. However, rural-urban drift and the movement of young people away from agriculture are making labor increasingly pause. Thus, labor has become a major constraint to expanding the scope of production by small-scale resource poor farmers. This paper provides an empirical relationship between labor and poverty using data from households. Through a multi stage sampling procedure, 150 farming households were selected using questionnaire. Results of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke decomposition show that poverty incidence, depth and severity increase with increase in labor employed in farm operations implying that poverty is directly related to labor. Finding further reveals that the difference in poverty incidence of one of the sub-group (1–50 Vs 50–100) pair is statistically significant at (P< 0.05). Results suggest that the mandays of labor employed significantly affect the poverty incidence of farm households.
Urban Environments and Elderly Depression : Policy Implication from the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Framework
Creators: name: Sung, Ye-seul
name: Shon, Changwoo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health

description: Introduction: This study examines the relationship between age-friendly city environments, as defined by the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Framework, and depression among the elderly, with the aim of providing evidence to guide urban planning for healthy aging.Methods: Data were analyzed from a 2020 national survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, comprising 9,920 participants aged 65 and older. The eight domains of the age-friendly city framework were utilized as independent variables, with sociodemographic characteristics adjusted based on prior research. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed using SPSS Statistics 27.0.Results: Accessibility to parks, housing convenience, participation in leisure activities, positive societal respect, and engagement in volunteer activities were associated with a significantly lower likelihood of depression among the elderly. Conversely, difficulty in accessing life information was associated with an increased risk of depression.Conclusions: Urban planning should prioritize enhancing green spaces and improving their accessibility, supporting senior-specific housing modifications, developing diverse leisure programs, fostering positive perceptions of aging, and creating opportunities for volunteer engagement. Improving access to essential life information for seniors is also critical. These findings underscore the importance of implementing the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Framework to support mental health among the elderly.
Buying Versus Renting a Combine: A Suggested Basis for Decision Making
Creators: name: Smith, Edward J.
name: Smith, Edward J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Public Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: From time to time, many farm operators are faced with a choice between buying one of several types and sizes of combines and hiring a custom machine. Heretofore, research studies designed to aid farmers in making sound decisions of this type have considered primarily the effect of annual use, or acreage harvested, on the costs of the various alternatives. This conventional analysis attempts to determine the annual acreage required to justify, on a cost basis, the purchase of a combine. Below this acreage, the hiring of a custom combine is more economical. Labor is usually valued at the going wage rate paid farm help in the area, and interest on investment is based on rates that local farmers pay for borrowed funds. This article points out why the conventional analysis often proves inadequate, and suggests a simple way in which these difficulties may be overcome by taking other important variables into account. While the suggested procedure is applied here to the problem of choosing the least-cost method of combining grain, it should prove equally useful for other economic problems of this type. The generous assistance of I. R. Starbird and E. L. Langeford, Farm Economics Division, Economic Research Service, who made available to the author data and specialized knowledge of the Mississippi Delta area, is gratefully acknowledged. The article has also benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions of R. V. Baumann, J. J. Csorba, A. S. Fox, M. S. Parsons, and M. L. Upchurch, Farm Economics Division, Economic Research Service.
Multipolar Expansions for Closed and Open Systems of Relativistic Particles
Creators: name: Alba, D.
name: Lusanna, L.
name: Pauri, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dixon's multipoles for a system of N relativistic positive-energy scalar particles are evaluated in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics. The Wigner hyper-planes (intrinsic rest frame of the isolated system) turn out to be the natural framework for describing multipole kinematics. Classical concepts like the {\it barycentric tensor of inertia} turn out to be extensible to special relativity only by means of the quadrupole moments of the isolated system. Two new applications of the multipole technique are worked out for systems of interacting particles and fields. In the rest-frame of the isolated system of either free or interacting positive energy particles it is possible to define a unique world-line which embodies the properties of the most relevant centroids introduced in the literature as candidates for the collective motion of the system. This is no longer true, however, in the case of open subsystems of the isolated system. While effective mass, 3-momentum and angular momentum in the rest frame can be calculated from the definition of the {\it subsystem energy-momentum tensor}, the definitions of effective center of motion and effective intrinsic spin of the subsystem are not unique. Actually, each of the previously considered centroids corresponds to a different world-line in the case of open systems. The pole-dipole description of open subsystems is compared to their description as effective extended objects. Hopefully, the technique developed here could be instrumental for the relativistic treatment of binary star systems in metric gravity.
description: 75 pages, revtex4
Galactic globular clusters: a new catalog of masses, structural parameters, velocity dispersion profiles, proper motions and space orbits
Creators: name: Hilker, Michael
name: Baumgardt, Holger
name: Sollima, Antonio
name: Bellini, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space velocities. By fitting a large set of N-body simulations to their velocity dispersion and surface density profiles, combined with new measurements of their internal radially dependent mass functions, we have determined their present-day masses and structural parameters, and for 144 GGCs their internal kinematics. We also derive the initial cluster masses by calculating the cluster orbits backwards in time applying suitable recipes to account for mass-loss and dynamical friction. The new fundamental parameters of GGCs are publicly available via an online database, which will regularly be updated.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in IAU Symposium No. 351 proceedings - Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe, 2019; MW GC catalog website: https://people.smp.uq.edu.au/HolgerBaumgardt/globular/
The Landscape of Particle Production: Results from PHOBOS
Creators: name: Steinberg, Peter
name: collaboration, PHOBOS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC are presented, both from Au+Au collisions from the 2001 run and p+p and d+Au collisions from 2003. The centrality dependence of the total charged particle multiplicity in p+p and d+Au show features, such as Npart-scaling and limiting fragmentation, similar to p+A collisions at lower energies. Multiparticle physics in Au+Au is found to be local in (pseudo)rapidity, both when observed by HBT correlations and by forward-backward pseudorapidity correlations. The shape of elliptic flow in Au+Au, measured over the full range of pseudorapidity, appears to have a very weak centrality dependence. Identified particle ratios in d+Au reactions show little difference between the shape of proton and anti-proton spectra, while the absolute yields show an approximate m_T scaling.
description: 8 Pages, 11 Figures, Plenary talk at Quark Matter 2004, Oakland, CA, January 11-18, 2004
Cylindera (Eugrapha) elisae subsp. elisae elisae (Motschulsky 1859
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cylindera
Cylindera elisae
Cylindera (eugrapha) elisae elisae (motschulsky, 1859)

description: 167. Cylindera (Eugrapha) elisae elisae (Motschulsky, 1859) (Fig. 167, 358)
 New records. RED RIVER DELTA: Vinh Phuc, Tam Dao Dist., Me Linh Biodiversity Center, N21 o 38’ 74” E105 o 71’ 28”, 70m, E. Orbach, 3.vi.2013, 1 male (EOIC), Vinh Phuc, Tam Dao Dist., lake near Me Linh Biodiversity Center, E. Orbach, 3.vi.2013, 1 female (EOIC).
 Distribution. Vietnam (Vinh Phuc), North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, China (Anhui, Beijing, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan.
 Remarks. New state record for Vietnam and new provincial record for Vinh Phuc.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
Additional file of Small RNA sequencing of extracellular vesicles identifies circulating miRNAs related to inflammation and oxidative stress in HIV patients
Creators: name: Sukrutha Chettimada
name: Lorenz, David R.
name: Misra, Vikas
name: Wolinsky, Steven M.
name: Gabuzda, Dana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file of Small RNA sequencing of extracellular vesicles identifies circulating miRNAs related to inflammation and oxidative stress in HIV patients
MOESM1 of Pan-genome diversification and recombination in Cronobacter sakazakii, an opportunistic pathogen in neonates, and insights to its xerotolerant lifestyle
Creators: name: Lee, Isaiah
name: Andam, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Core genome mutations in C. sakazakii. (a) Pairwise core genome SNP distance within each SC (SCs 3, 6 and 9). (b) Pairwise core genome SNP distance between strains from the same source (food, human, environment). (c) Nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates of each core gene.
Supplementary document for Engineering of energy band and its impact on light transmission in non-reciprocal Hermitian hourglass lattice - 6774473.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Junhao
name: Wang, Yuandan
name: Lin, Yu
name: Zhang, Wenjing
name: Xin, Guoguo
name: Qi, Xinyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement for the main article.