cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entophysalis samoensis Wille 1913
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Chroococcales
Entophysalidaceae
Entophysalis
Entophysalis samoensis

description: Entophysalis cf. samoensis Wille (1913: 144) (Figs. 12D–12E).
Polarized, fasciculate colonies, 21.0–115.3 × 8.4–85.1 µm. Sheath firm, hyaline to slightly yellow, conspicuous, nonlamellate, smooth. Cells elliptical, hemispherical, rarely spherical, 2.4–3.4 × 1.0–2.5 µm. Cell content homogenous to granulated, intensely blue-green.
 Habitat: —Dry concrete.
 Notes: — Entophysalis samoensis and the material found in the Atlantic Rainforest are similar in color and in the ‘coral shape’ of colonies. However, they differ by E. samoensis having a larger cell diameter (3–4 µm) and lamellate sheaths.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cananéia, State Park of “Ilha do Cardoso” (Perequê), 25º 4’ 8” S, 47º 55’ 12.24” W, 29 June 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 401437).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Probing the Electronic Structure of Graphene Near and Far from the Fermi Level via Planar Tunneling Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Davenport, John L.
name: Ge, Zhehao
name: Liu, Junyan
name: Nuñez-Lobato, Carlos
name: Moon, Seongphill
name: Lu, Zhengguang
name: Quezada, Eberth A.
name: Hellier, Kaitlin
name: LaBarre, Patrick G.
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Carter, Sue
name: Ramirez, Arthur P.
name: Smirnov, Dmitry
name: Velasco, Jairo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) has yielded significant insight on the electronic structure of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials. STS directly measures a fundamental and directly calculable quantity: the single particle density of states (SPDOS). Due to experimental setup limitations, however, STS has been unable to explore 2D materials in ultra-high magnetic fields where electron-electron interactions can drastically change the SPDOS. Recent developments in the assembly of heterostructures composed of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride have enabled a device-based alternative to potentially overcome these roadblocks. Thus far, however, these nascent efforts are incomplete in analyzing and understanding tunneling spectra and have yet to explore graphene at high magnetic fields. Here we report an experiment at magnetic fields up to 18 T that uses graphene tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) to establish a clear benchmark for measurement and analysis of graphene planar tunneling spectroscopy. We acquire gate tunable tunneling spectra of graphene and then use these data and electrostatic arguments to develop a systematic analysis scheme. This analysis reveals that TFET devices directly probe electronic structure features near and far from the Fermi level. In particular, our study yields identification of the Dirac point and numerous Landau levels as they fill and empty with charge via application of a gate voltage. Our work demonstrates that TFET devices are a viable platform for directly probing the electronic structure of graphene and other 2D materials in high magnetic fields, where novel electronic states emerge.
Association of congestive heart failure with hospital outcomes among renal cancer patients in the United States: analysis of nationwide inpatient sample
Creators: name: Sun-Kyeong Park
name: Park, Lindsay
name: Silverman, Ciara
name: Ji-Haeng Heo
name: Chanhyun Park
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Patients with renal cancer are at increased risk of comorbid congestive heart failure (CHF) due to several shared risk factors and the cardiotoxicity of some medications used for renal cancer treatment. We aimed to examine the relationship between CHF and hospital outcomes among renal cancer patients in the U.S. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we identified hospitalizations of renal cancer patients using the 2015–2017 National Inpatient Sample. We assessed the relationship between CHF and hospital outcomes in this patient population, including in-hospital mortality, length-of-stay (LoS), and hospital costs. Results: Among the 20,321 hospitalizations of renal cancer patients identified, 6.1% involved patients with comorbid CHF (n = 1,231). The odds of in-hospital mortality did not differ based on CHF presence (odds ratio = 1.21; p = 0.354). Hospitalizations of renal cancer patients with CHF were associated with a greater LoS (incidence rate ratio = 1.44; p Conclusions: CHF in renal cancer patients is associated with increased LoS and higher hospital costs. These findings suggest that optimal management of comorbid CHF may improve hospital outcomes in patients with renal cancer and provides evidence to support the emerging field of cardio-oncology.
Towards a Template for Benchmarking the International Competitiveness of Australia’s Agri-Food Industries
Creators: name: Ronan, Glenn
name: Sinnadurai, Evelyn
name: Taylor, Philip J.
name: Ronan, Glenn
name: Sinnadurai, Evelyn
name: Taylor, Philip J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization
International Relations/Trade

description: The mutual interest of industry and government to improve the competitiveness of agri-food industries presents an information management challenge for leaders and policy makers. The paper examines the case for a template for benchmarking economic, environmental and social indicators along agri-food chains as an aid to strategic planning and policy. Porter’s competitiveness ‘diamond’ is the structural framework for identifying relevant indicators. The paper identifies desirable features for the template, including: a mix of lagged or outcome measures and lead indicators or drivers; a mix of quantitative and qualitative indicators; bias to graphical illustration of trends and interpretation oriented to planning and policy issues and implications. The paper identifies benchmarking of best practice firm and chain case studies against industry survey data as the micro-macro linkage critical to appreciation of industry competitiveness. Some dairy industry indicators and data are used to illustrate the scope, content and style of a competitiveness template to meet the needs of the target clientele.
An analysis of Cross-correlations in South African Market data
Creators: name: Wilcox, Diane
name: Gebbie, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We apply random matrix theory to compare correlation matrix estimators C obtained from emerging market data. The correlation matrices are constructed from 10 years of daily data for stocks listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from January 1993 to December 2002. We test the spectral properties of C against random matrix predictions and find some agreement between the distributions of eigenvalues, nearest neighbour spacings, distributions of eigenvector components and the inverse participation ratios for eigenvectors. We show that interpolating both missing data and illiquid trading days with a zero-order hold increases agreement with RMT predictions. For the more realistic estimation of correlations in an emerging market, we suggest a pairwise measured-data correlation matrix. For the data set used, this approach suggests greater temporal stability for the leading eigenvectors. An interpretation of eigenvectors in terms of trading strategies is given in lieu of classification by economic sectors.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures, additional figures, discussion and references
Common-Envelope Episodes that lead to Double Neutron Star formation
Creators: name: Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro
name: MacLeod, Morgan
name: Neijssel, Coenraad J.
name: Broekgaarden, Floor S.
name: Justham, Stephen
name: Howitt, George
name: de Mink, Selma E.
name: Vinciguerra, Serena
name: Mandel, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Close double neutron stars have been observed as Galactic radio pulsars, while their mergers have been detected as gamma-ray bursts and gravitational-wave sources. They are believed to have experienced at least one common-envelope episode during their evolution prior to double neutron star formation. In the last decades there have been numerous efforts to understand the details of the common-envelope phase, but its computational modelling remains challenging. We present and discuss the properties of the donor and the binary at the onset of the Roche-lobe overflow leading to these common-envelope episodes as predicted by rapid binary population synthesis models. These properties can be used as initial conditions for detailed simulations of the common-envelope phase. There are three distinctive populations, classified by the evolutionary stage of the donor at the moment of the onset of the Roche-lobe overflow: giant donors with fully-convective envelopes, cool donors with partially-convective envelopes, and hot donors with radiative envelopes. We also estimate that, for standard assumptions, tides would not circularise a large fraction of these systems by the onset of Roche-lobe overflow. This makes the study and understanding of eccentric mass-transferring systems relevant for double neutron star populations.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures. Includes bug fix. Two new figures and an appendix added
Unification for the Darkly Charged Dark Matter
Creators: name: Kamada, Ayuki
name: Yamada, Masaki
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a simple UV theory for a Dirac dark matter with a massless Abelian gauge boson. We introduce a single fermion transforming as the $\bf{16}$ representation in the SO(10)$'$ gauge group, which is assumed to be spontaneously broken to SU(5)$'\times$U(1)$'$. The SU(5)$'$ gauge interaction becomes strong at an intermediate scale and then we obtain a light composite Dirac fermion with U(1)$'$ gauge interaction at the low-energy scale. Its thermal relic can explain the observed amount of dark matter consistently with other cosmological and astrophysical constraints. We discuss that a nonzero kinetic mixing between the U(1)$'$ gauge boson and the Hypercharge gauge boson is allowed and the temperature of the visible sector and the dark matter sector can be equal to each other.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid and serum-isolated extracellular vesicles for glioblastoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Davod Jafari
name: Tiyuri, Amir
name: Elmnaz Rezaei
name: Moradi, Yousef
name: Rasool Jafari
name: Shoorijeh, Farzaneh Jokar
name: Barati, Mahmood
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant brain cancer because there are no available biopsy-free methods for the diagnosis or the preoperative early detection. In this regard, the development of a non- or minimally invasive methods for early detection could increase the survival rate of GBM patients. The present study aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived RNAs, isolated from patients’ CSF or serum for GBM diagnosis. For this purpose, we searched all literature databases and performed a backward and forward reference checking procedure to retrieve appropriate studies. We conducted a meta-analysis on EVs derived biomarkers as well as sensitivity analysis and meta-regression. We identified EVs-derived 24 RNAs, which can diagnose GBM. The analyzed pooled data showed 76% sensitivity, 80% specificity, and 0.85 AUC, for 16 biomarkers. Besides, the pooled PLR, NLR, and DOR were 3.7, 0.30, and 12, respectively. Subgroup analysis did not show a significant difference between serum and CSF. According to the pooled sensitivity, specificity, and AUC for EVs derived biomarkers, we suggest that EVs-derived biomarkers might serve as a high potential and noninvasive diagnostic tool for GBM detection using serum and CSF samples.
Modelling the implications for New Zealand trade and producer returns from different scenarios relating to the demand and supply of organic products
Creators: name: Saunders, Caroline M.
name: Emanuelsson, Martin
name: Saunders, Caroline M.
name: Emanuelsson, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trade Modelling
subject: New Zealand
subject: Organic Markets

description: This paper describes historical, current and potential market opportunities for organic produce in New Zealand and overseas. New Zealand is unique as a developing country relying on agricultural production and trade for most of its foreign exchange earnings. The challenge for the NZ agricultural sector is to access high value markets, as consumer demand changes, away from price, to a greater focus on food safety and concern over the environment. We assess potential scenarios of development in the sector, using the Lincoln Trade and Environment Model (LTEM), a partial equilibrium trade model that differentiates between organic and conventional production methods.
Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Hyperledger Fabric: An Analysis Based on Transaction Flow and Endorsement Policies
Creators: name: Melo, Carlos
name: Gonçalves, Glauber
name: Silva, Francisco A.
name: Soares, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blockchain is a paradigm derived from distributed systems, protocols, and security concepts. However, can blockchain applications provide services in industrial environments, especially concerning performance issues? In blockchains, long response times can impair both user and service experience, and intensive resource use may increase the costs of service provision. The proposed paper tries to answer this question by evaluating the performance of one of the most popular permissioned blockchain platforms, the Hyperledger Fabric (HLF). We provide a framework for performance evaluation based on modeling and experimentation. The results indicate that block size and arrival rate can compromise throughput (by -70%), latency (by +1,500%), and environment utilization (by +28%) and that multiple gateways can reduce latency (by -75%), and throughput (by -60%)
description: 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
Deconstructing the Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Jejjala, Vishnu
name: Leigh, Robert G.
name: Minic, Djordje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deconstruction provides a novel way of dealing with the notoriously difficult ultraviolet problems of four-dimensional gravity. This approach also naturally leads to a new perspective on the holographic principle, tying it to the fundamental requirements of unitarity and diffeomorphism invariance, as well as to a new viewpoint on the cosmological constant problem. The numerical smallness of the cosmological constant is implied by a unique combination of holography and supersymmetry, opening a new window into the fundamental physics of the vacuum.
description: Fourth Prize, 2003 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest; 7 pages, LaTeX
Can a simple model predict complex bidding behaviour? Repeated multi-unit conservation auctions.
Creators: name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe
name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Auctions
subject: procurement
subject: conservation
subject: learning
subject: economic experiments

description: Buying environmental services from private landholders using auction mechanisms often involves repeated multi-unit procurement-type auctions. These can either be target-constrained or budget-constrained. Most of the theoretical literature has focused on the former, whereas government agencies have, for conservation purposes, mainly implemented the latter. This paper examines the predictive power of a simple model previously developed for budget-constrained auctions, in comparison to that of the more standard and more complex target-constrained auction model. Experiments carried out in Germany and Australia lend credibility to the nonstandard and simpler budget-constrained model.
Hyella caespitosa var. arbuscula Al-Thukair & Golubic 1996
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Pleurocapsales
Hyellaceae
Hyella
Hyella caespitosa
Hyella cf. caespitosa var. arbuscula al-Thukair & golubić (1996: 84)

description: Hyella cf. caespitosa var. arbuscula Al-Thukair & Golubić (1996: 84) (Figs. 14C–14D).
Main thallus with polygonal cells, 4.4–5.2 µm diam. Pseudofilaments radiating into substrate, 30.8–78.0 µm length, branched, uniseriate. Sheath firm, hyaline, conspicuous, non-lamellate, smooth. Middle cells of pseudofilaments quadratic to rectangular, 1.9–3.6 × 3.3–9.0 µm. Apical cells of pseudofilaments tortuous, round ends, 1.9–2.8 × 10.6– 17.0 µm. Baeocytes produced by the main thallus, more than 20 per cell, 1.2–1.6 µm diam. Cell content homogenous, rosy to purple-brown.
 Habitat: —Rocks in tidal zone.
 Notes: —The habitat and morphology of the colonies and cells of the Brazilian population are similar to those described for Hyella caespitosa var. arbuscula Al-Thukair & Golubić (1996: 84). However, the dimensions of all structures were smaller.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Peruíbe, Ecological Station “Juréia-Itatins”, 24° 23.368’ S, 47° 0.671’ W, 16 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427318).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Economic Evaluations of Production Technologies in the Australian Sheep Industry
Creators: name: Silvester, Luke T.
name: Vere, David T.
name: Silvester, Luke T.
name: Vere, David T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC) commenced operations in February 2002 and will receive federal funding of $19.8 million over its seven-year grant period. As well, the sheep industry is expected to invest over $10 million in Sheep CRC activities over this period, while core and supporting parties will make in-kind contributions totalling about $60 million. The main objective of the Sheep CRC is to develop new technologies that will increase the productivity and profitability of sheep meat and wool production and provide the skills and knowledge needed to fully utilise the available technologies. The Sheep CRC will be considered to have been successful if its outcomes have delivered measurable economic benefits to the sheep industry and to the rural communities. Accordingly, the Sheep CRC has placed a high priority on the rigorous economic evaluation of its research activities. With a focus on the production technology programs, that requirement has included the preliminary economic evaluation of a large number of individual projects. The more comprehensive evaluation of groups of projects is now being attempted. This paper describes the procedures that have been adopted in making those evaluations and presents some preliminary results.
All Participant Data from Estimation of absolute states of human skeletal muscle via standard B-mode ultrasound imaging and deep convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Cunningham, Ryan J.
name: Loram, Ian D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111602 Human Biophysics
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Output from the neural network for all participants, plus coherence and zoom figures
INFLUENCE OF CAP ON SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN GREEK AND BULGARIAN RURAL AREAS
Creators: name: Nikolov, Dimitre
name: Manos, Basil D.
name: Chatzinikolaou, N.
name: Bournaris, Thomas
name: Kiomourtzi, Fedra
name: Nikolov, Dimitre
name: Manos, Basil D.
name: Chatzinikolaou, N.
name: Bournaris, Thomas
name: Kiomourtzi, Fedra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: social sustainability indicators
subject: rural areas

description: This paper aims to make a comparison between Greek and Bulgarian rural areas, in terms of social sustainability indicators. Social sustainability is related to social capital, social inclusion, social exclusion and social cohesion in rural economies, terms that can be measured by relevant social indicators. The paper focuses on the effects of farm household behaviour on social sustainability in regard to changes in employment, gender, migration and social capital. To this end two case study areas were selected; Macedonia and Thrace in Greece and South east Planning Region in Bulgaria. The data were collected by a survey carried out in the context of the European FP7 project entitled CAP-IRE (Assessing the multiple Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy on Rural Economies). The survey included eleven case study areas in nine case study areas of the European Union. The paper also compares the results from the Greek and Bulgarian case study areas with the average results of the eleven European case study areas.
Tuning the electronic structures and transport coefficients of Janus PtSSe monolayer with biaxial strain
Creators: name: Guo, San-Dong
name: Guo, Xiao-Shu
name: Deng, Ye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their great potential in electronics, optoelectronics and piezoelectronics, Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers have attracted increasing research interest, the MoSSe of which with sandwiched S-Mo-Se structure has been synthesized experimentally. In this work, the biaxial strain dependence of electronic structures and transport properties of Janus PtSSe monolayer is systematically investigated by using generalized gradient approximation (GGA) plus spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Calculated results show that SOC has a detrimental effect on power factor of PtSSe monolayer, which can be understood by considering SOC effects on energy bands near the Fermi level. With $a/a_0$ from 0.94 to 1.06, the energy band gap firstly increases, and then decreases, which is due to the position change of conduction band minimum (CBM). It is found that compressive strain can increase the strength of conduction bands convergence by changing relative position of conduction band extrema (CBE), which can enhance n-type $ZT_e$ values. Calculated results show that compressive strain can also induce the flat valence bands around the $Γ$ point near the Fermi level, which can lead to high Seebeck coefficient due to large effective masses, giving rise to better p-type $ZT_e$ values. The calculated elastic constants with $a/a_0$ from 0.94 to 1.06 all satisfy the mechanical stability criteria, which proves that the PtSSe monolayer is mechanically stable in the considered strain range. Our works further enrich studies of Janus TMD monolayers, and can motivate farther experimental works.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
POLICY INTERVENTION EFFECTS ON LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT IN BULGARIA
Creators: name: Nikolov, Dimitre
name: Radev, Teodor
name: Borisov, Petar
name: Nikolov, Dimitre
name: Radev, Teodor
name: Borisov, Petar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This paper aims to make an evaluation of CAP contribution to landscape management in Bulgarian economy of rural areas. To sum up, landscape is a non-commodity output produced as direct or indirect outcome of the activities operating in a particular area and it is valued by society for its functions (use and non use values, ecological, recreational, cultural etc). Due to this complex nature, it produces second-order effects that are captured by the stakeholders in rural areas (farmers or others), and that generate potential markets for new activities. Therefore, through the generation of these effects, landscape contributes to boosting the economy of rural areas and is an important driver for the whole regional economy. The research reported in this paper was funded by the European Commission within the project “ Supporting the role of the Common agricultural policy in Landscape valorisation: Improving the knowledge base of the contribution of landscape Management to the rural economy” (CLAIM), 7th Framework Programme, contract n. 222738 (www.claimproject.eu). The Rural Development Programmes of the current period (2007-2013) support measures that can have an added value for this new perspective of the policy. Some of them such as the agrienvironmental payments and the measures designed for less favoured areas can have direct and indirect effects in the provision of landscape. Additionally they have effects in delivering landscape as environmental public good, playing also an important role in terms of financial allocation in the current Rural Development Programme. The analysis of existing specific measures targeted at local level connected to the landscape allow to distinguish supporting potential landscape-related activities and it’s role at the economy of rural areas.
title: Μελέτη της επιρροής των μεταβολών της τιμής του λιθίου στις τιμές των μετοχών μεγάλων αυτοκινητοβιομηχανιών που κατασκευάζουν ηλεκτρικά αυτοκίνητα
title: A study of the impact of lithium price changes of stock prices of major electric car vehicles
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Υφαντόπουλος, Αναστάσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ηλεκτρικά αυτοκίνητα
subject: Λίθιο
subject: Παλινδρόμηση
subject: Υβριδικά αυτοκίνητα
subject: Αυτοκινητοβιομηχανία
subject: Μετοχές
subject: Συσχέτιση

description: Η ανάγκη που έχει προκύψει τα τελευταία χρόνια για τη μείωση των εκπομπών αερίου διοξειδίου του άνθρακα στον πλανήτη έχει οδηγήσει όλες τις αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίες παγκοσμίως να επαναπροσδιορίσουν τη στρατηγική τους. Η χρήση ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας για την κίνηση των αυτοκινήτων έχει κερδίσει έδαφος τα τελευταία χρόνια, ενώ η χρήση του λιθίου διαδραματίζει καθοριστικό ρόλο στη μεταστροφή αυτή καθώς είναι το κυρίαρχο στοιχείο σε ένα ηλεκτρικό όχημα. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο της παρούσας εργασίας παρουσιάζονται ορισμένες πληροφορίες για τις αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίες, όπως κάποια καθοριστικά γεγονότα κατά τη διάρκεια της εξέλιξης των αυτοκινήτων, ενώ παρουσιάζονται εν συντομία και κάποιες πολύ σημαντικές αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίες του παγκόσμιου χάρτη. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο δίνονται ορισμένες πληροφορίες για το λίθιο, όπως τη διαδικασία εξόρυξής του, τα πλεονεκτήματα που παρέχει αλλά και τους σημαντικότερους προμηθευτές της παγκόσμιας αγοράς. Το 3ο κεφάλαιο αποτελεί το κεφάλαιο της έρευνας, όπου πραγματοποιείται παλινδρόμηση μεταξύ των τιμών του λιθίου και των τιμών των μετοχών επιλεγμένων αυτοκινητοβιομηχανιών. Μέσα από την ανάλυση αυτή εξάγονται κάποια χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα για το αν οι τιμές του λιθίου έχουν τελικά τη δυνατότητα να επηρεάσουν αλλά και σε τι βαθμό τις τιμές των μετοχών των αυτοκινητοβιομηχανιών.
Non-tachyonic brane inflation
Creators: name: Matsuda, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider non-tachyonic hybrid inflation in the context of the braneworld cosmology. When one considers models for brane inflation, hybrid inflation is a natural consequence of the tachyon condensation if it appears at the end of inflation. In this case, however, reheating is a difficult problem due to the peculiar properties of the tachyon. In this paper we show some models for brane inflation where a new type of hybrid inflation is realized due to the localized matter fields. The obvious advantage of our scenario is successful reheating, which is due to the potential that is localized on the brane. The serious problem of the loop correction is also avoided.
description: 14pages, latex2e, references added, final version to appear in PRD
Electronic supplementary materials; Movie captions, figures, appendix, and detailed methods from Mechanisms of endothelial cell coverage by pericytes: computational modelling of cell wrapping and in vitro experiments
Creators: name: Sugihara, Kei
name: Sasaki, Saori
name: Uemura, Akiyoshi
name: Kidoaki, Satoru
name: Miura, Takashi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Pericytes (PCs) wrap around endothelial cells (ECs) and perform diverse functions in physiological and pathological processes. Although molecular interactions between ECs and PCs have been extensively studied, the morphological processes at the cellular level and their underlying mechanisms have remained elusive. In this study, using a simple cellular Potts model, we explored the mechanisms for EC wrapping by PCs. Based on the observed in vitro cell wrapping in 3D PC–EC coculture, the model identified four putative contributing factors: preferential adhesion of PCs to the extracellular matrix (ECM), strong cell–cell adhesion, PC surface softness and larger PC size. While cell–cell adhesion can contribute to the prevention of cell segregation and the degree of cell wrapping, it cannot determine the orientation of cell wrapping alone. While atomic force microscopy revealed that PCs have a larger Young’s modulus than ECs, the experimental analyses supported preferential ECM adhesion and size asymmetry. We also formulated the corresponding energy minimization problem and numerically solved this problem for specific cases. These results give biological insights into the role of PC–ECM adhesion in PC coverage. The modelling framework presented here should also be applicable to other cell wrapping phenomena observed in vivo.
Lygosoma albopunctatum
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Lygosoma
Lygosoma albopunctatum

description: Lygosoma albopunctatum (Gray, 1846) — Erroneous.
White-spotted Supple Skink
Singapore records.
Eumeces punctatus — Cantor, 1847a: 651.
Lygosoma albopunctatum — Flower, 1896: 875.—Ridley, 1899: 207.
Remarks. The only record of L. albopunctatum in Singapore comes from Cantor (1847a) who also listed Penang and Malay Peninsula as localities. However, he did not provide any specifics regarding its occurrence in these places. Lygosoma albopunctatum ranges from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, northeastern Thailand, Vietnam, and is known from two specimens taken in Penang in 1956 (Grismer 2011b). Since there is doubt concerning some of Cantor’s records, and no specimens exist for Singapore and the rest of Peninsular Malaysia, we exclude L. albopunctatum from Singapore’s herpetofauna checklist.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (2 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 284-285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Deligne's integrality theorem in unequal characteristic and rational points over finite fields; and Appendix (w/Pierre Deligne)
Creators: name: Esnault, Hélène
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: If $V$ is a smooth projective variety defined over a local field $K$ with finite residue field, so that its étale cohomology over the algebraic closure $\bar{K}$ is supported in codimension 1, then the mod $p$ reduction of a projective regular model carries a rational point. As a consequence, if the Chow group of 0-cycles of $V$ over a large algebraically closed field is trivial, then the mod $p$ reduction of a projective regular model carries a rational point.
description: 16 pages
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES OF DAIRY INDUSTRY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN TRANSITION
Creators: name: Ognjenovic, Dragana
name: Bajramović, Sabahudin
name: Nikolic, Aleksandra
name: Ognjenovic, Dragana
name: Bajramović, Sabahudin
name: Nikolic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: economic performance
subject: dairy industry
subject: Bosnia and Herzegovina

description: Research within this paper was aimed to give picture of economic performance of the dairy industry based upon commonly used indicators calculated for each dairy plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina.In order to understand state of sector transition micro-level analysis was conducted on the basis of balance sheet and income statement, two main financial records, of all dairies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Documents were obtained from agencies in charge of collecting annual financial reports of both entities in order to assure reliable data for analysis. Research was conducted for three years period (2009-2011). Analysis encompassed horizontal and vertical analysis of balance sheet and income statement. Indicators of financial stability (liquidity and indebtedness ration) and operating successfulness (efficiency, activity, productivity and profitability ratios) we calculated as well. All diaries were classified and analysed by entity and size. The analysis shown that BH dairies operate under very hard circumstances that negatively affects their operating performances. Low liquidity and profitability indicates both financial instability and poor business success. Situation is unsatisfactory in the whole countries, although slightly better in FBH than in RS. So, sector transition is far from completion, and its future characteristic will strongly depend on entrepreneurship (spirit and skills) as well as on ability to change and re-develop institutions both formal and informal (values, culture etc).
Cervical cancer risk profiling: molecular biomarkers predicting the outcome of hrHPV infection
Creators: name: Molina, Mariano A
name: Diatricch, Ludovica Carosi
name: Quintana, Marina Castany
name: Melchers, Willem JG
name: Andralojc, Karolina M
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cervical cancer affects half a million women worldwide annually. Given the association between high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection and carcinogenesis, hrHPV DNA testing became an essential diagnostic tool. However, hrHPV alone does not cause the disease, and, most importantly, many cervical lesions regress to normal in a year because of the host immune system. Hence, the low specificity of hrHPV DNA tests and their inability to predict the outcome of infections have triggered a further search for biomarkers. We evaluated the latest viral and cellular biomarkers validated for clinical use as primary screening or triage for cervical cancer and assessed their promise for prevention as well as potential use in the future. The literature search focused on effective biomarkers for different stages of the disease, aiming to determine their significance in predicting the outcome of hrHPV infections. Biomarkers such as p16/Ki-67, hrHPV genotyping, hrHPV transcriptional status, and methylation patterns have demonstrated promising results. Their eventual implementation in the screening programs may support the prompt diagnosis of hrHPV infection and its progression to cancer. These biomarkers will help in making clinical management decisions on time, thus, saving the lives of hrHPV-infected women, particularly in developing countries.
Have the Elusive Progenitors of Supernovae Type Ia Been Discovered?
Creators: name: Livio, Mario
name: Riess, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent detection of H-alpha emission in the supernova Type Ia SN 2002ic could be taken to mean that the elusive progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae have finally been identified. At first glance, the observation appears to support a single-degenerate scenario, in which the white dwarf accretes from a normal companion. In this Letter we show that the opposite may be true, and the observations may support the merger of two white dwarfs as the cause for Type Ia supernovae.
description: 5 pages, no figures or tables
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF MACEDONIAN PIG FARMS
Creators: name: Petrovska, Marina
name: Martinovska-Stojcheska, Aleksandra
name: Ohlmer, Bo
name: Kotevska, Ana
name: Petrovska, Marina
name: Martinovska-Stojcheska, Aleksandra
name: Ohlmer, Bo
name: Kotevska, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: Macedonian pig farms

description: The economic transition and market globalization processes has triggered structural changes in the Macedonian agriculture. Pig producers face challenges to meet the new market requirements and regulations which cause inefficient and less competitive production compared to foreign markets. This paper aims to identify the level of technical efficiency on pig farms in the Republic of Macedonia. Data Envelopment Analysis approach is used to measure the exact quantity of inputs used in the production in relation to a given quantity of output. Furthermore, the data are analysed by making comparative analyses of the managerial behaviour and other non-measurable variables that influence the efficiency. The results determine what managerial activities influence on the efficiency. They indicate the type and level of inputs that need to change and the quantity of output that need to increase for the farms to reach the same technical efficiency as the most successful farmers.
Isospectral scattering for relativistic equivalent Hamiltonians on a coarse momentum grid
Creators: name: Gómez-Rocha, María
name: Arriola, Enrique Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering phase-shifts are invariant under unitary transformations of the Hamiltonian. However, the numerical solution of the scattering problem that requires to discretize the continuum violates this phase-shift invariance among unitarily equivalent Hamiltonians. We extend a newly found prescription for the calculation of phase shifts which relies only on the eigenvalues of a relativistic Hamiltonian and its corresponding Chebyshev angle shift. We illustrate this procedure numerically considering $ππ$, $πN$ and $NN$ elastic interactions which turns out to be competitive even for small number of grid points.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures
On-axis spectroscopy of the z=0.144 radio-loud quasar HE 1434-1600: an elliptical host with a highly ionized ISM
Creators: name: Letawe, G.
name: Courbin, F.
name: Magain, P.
name: Hilker, M.
name: Jablonka, P.
name: Jahnke, K.
name: Wisotzki, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: VLT on-axis optical spectroscopy of the z=0.144 radio-loud quasar HE 1434-1600 is presented. The spatially resolved spectra of the host galaxy are deconvolved and separated from those of the central quasar in order to study the dynamics of the stars and gas as well as the physical conditions of the ISM. We find that the host of HE 1434-1600 is an elliptical galaxy that resides in a group of at least 5 member galaxies, and that most likely experienced a recent collision with its nearest companion. Compared with other quasar host galaxies, HE 1434-1600 has a highly ionized ISM. The ionization state corresponds to that of typical Seyferts, but the ionized regions are not distributed in a homogeneous way around the QSO, and are located preferentially several kiloparsecs away from it. While the stellar absorption lines do not show any significant velocity field, the gas emission lines do. The observed gas velocity field is hard to reconcile with dynamical models involving rotating disk, modified Hubble laws or power laws, that all require extreme central masses (M > 10^9 M_sun) to provide only poor fit to the data. Power law models, which best fit the data, provide a total mass of M(< 10 kpc)=9.2 10^10 M_sun. We conclude that the recent interaction between HE 1434-1600 and its closest companion has strongly affected the gas velocity and ionization state, from the center of the galaxy to its most external parts.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pleurocapsa aurantiaca Geitler 1932
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Pleurocapsales
Pleurocapsaceae
Pleurocapsa
Pleurocapsa aurantiaca

description: Pleurocapsa cf. aurantiaca Geitler (1932: 354) (Figs. 14E–14G).
Polarized, fasciculate colonies, with cells densely packed. Cells hemispherical to elliptical, 3.8–6.8 µm diam. Pseudofilaments dichotomous, biseriate, 5–17 celled, 20.2–59.2 × 8.4–13.4 µm. Sheath firm, yellow to dark brown, conspicuous, non-lamellate, smooth. Baeocytes not observed. Cell content homogenous, blue-green to green brownish.
 Habitat: —Rocks covered by a water slide.
 Notes: —Despite baeocytes not being found, colonial arrangement was typical of Pleurocapsa. The population described resembles Pleurocapsa aurantiaca in relation to habitat and colonial morphology. However, this species has larger cell diameter and orange/red sheaths.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Peruíbe, Ecological Station “Juréia-Itatins”, 24° 22.783’ S, 47° 1.287’ W, 16 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427312).
 FIGURES 14E–14G. Pleurocapsa cf. aurantiaca
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on pages 89-90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
IBADAH DAN KESEHATAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF ISLAM DAN SAINS
Creators: name: Warto A.S
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 111710 Health Counselling
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110707 Innate Immunity

description: Worship does not only have a ritual function. Apart from being an obligation, a necessity and a means of establishing a connection with the Creator, worship has many other benefits for humans. Based on this reason scientific research is carried out on the practice of worship. The results showed that the implementation of worship can bring various benefits and positive effects for the implementer. Factually, modern science has proven that worship is beneficial for health therapy and physical and spiritual medicine.
Ibadah tidak hanya memiliki fungsi ritual an sich. Selain sebagai kewajiban, kebutuhan dan sarana membangun koneksi dengan Sang Pencipta, ibadah memiliki banyak manfaat lain bagi manusia. Berdasarkan alasan ini penelitian secara ilmiah dilakukan terhadap praktek ibadah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan ibadah dapat mendatangkan berbagai manfaat dan pengaruh positif bagi pelaksananya. Secara faktual, sains modern telah membuktikan bahwa ibadah bermanfaat untuk terapi kesehatan dan obat jasmani maupun rohani.
The Pauli Exclusion Principle and SU(2) vs. SO(3) in Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Swain, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent attempts to resolve the ambiguity in the loop quantum gravity description of the quantization of area has led to the idea that j=1 edges of spin-networks dominate in their contribution to black hole areas as opposed to j=1/2 which would naively be expected. This suggests that the true gauge group involved might be SO(3) rather than SU(2) with attendant difficulties. We argue that the assumption that a version of the Pauli principle is present in loop quantum gravity allows one to maintain SU(2) as the gauge group while still naturally achieving the desired suppression of spin-1/2 punctures. Areas come from j=1 punctures rather than j=1/2 punctures for much the same reason that photons lead to macroscopic classically observable fields while electrons do not.
description: This paper received an "honorable mention" in the 2003 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation and should be appearing in a special issue of Int. J. Mod. Phys. D