cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The potential utility of tourism demand as an indicator of sustainable development in tourism
Creators: name: Clark, Gordon
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sustainable development
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Indicators of the sustainable development of tourism are tools to represent, monitor and manage issues of tourism development. Changes in indicators signal changes in intensity of issues and provide tangible information for the decision-making of destination management as well as assessments of improvements in the sustainable development of tourism. This study explores the potential utility of a single indicator: tourism demand (measured in tourist numbers), which represents the quantitative aspect of the ‘demand side’ of tourism development in a ‘supply and demand’ relationship between destinations and tourists. It does so by firstly, identifying the present ways that tourism demand can indicate sustainable development and secondly, identifying the issues that tourism demand can indicate. This study further considers the potential utility of monitoring tourism demand as an indicator of sustainable development in tourism by comparing tourism demand volatility research with the use of tourism demand as an indicator of sustainable development in tourism. Findings show that tourism demand can be monitored as an indicator of sustainable development in tourism in three ways: as a number of total tourists, to compare changes in tourism volumes over different periods of time, and tourist volumes in relation to attributes of destinations. The study also finds that five sustainability issues can be indicated by tourism demand: 1) transportation of tourists to and from as well as around destinations, 2) crises of shocks to the industry, 3) economic benefits of tourist’s spending, 4) controlling tourism activities, and 5) destination planning. Tourism demand can indicate issues in three ways: as a measure of the severity of issues, as a causal factor of the impacts that tourism demand can cause, but that it itself is not, and as relatable information to issues, but that does not represent issues. In comparing existing research on tourism demand volatility with the present use of tourism demand as an indicator, it is found that additional measurement techniques could illuminate different characteristics and impacts of demand in tourism development. This is discussed further in considering the potential use of monitoring determinants of the sustainable development of tourism. In conclusion, it is found that tourism demand is a valuable indicator to monitor, but that its total potential utility has not been realized in sustainable tourism research.
Do visual aids on medication packages make your drug use safer?
Creators: name: Laasner Vogt, Lea
name: Kühne, Swen J.
name: Reijnen, Ester
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: Visual aid
Medical pictogram
Decision making
Medication safety
150: Psychologie

description: Only 50% of patients take their medication correctly, resulting in increased morbidity, deaths, and health care costs.
One reason is that patients do not read the package inserts (PI) because they are too complex.
Can visual aids such as pictograms substitute the PI information and present it in a simpler, hence more understandable form?
Forschungsbericht FARM TO TABLE : saisonal, regional, nachhaltig - kulinarisches Forschungsprojekt
Research report FARM TO TABLE : seasonal, regional, sustainable - a culinary research project
Creators: name: Bortoluzzi, Francesco
name: Kühne, Swen J.
name: Müller, Claudia
name: Hartmann, Cathérine
name: Wanner, Silvan
name: Krohn, Michael
name: Zindel, Karin
name: Giordano, Milena
name: Dadashzhadeh Ghasabeh, Bamna
name: Tinnirello, Madeleine
name: Voser, Mark
name: Rotschi, Natalie
Publisher: name: ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Year: 2024
Subjects: Sustainable gastronomy
University gastronomy
CO2 emissions reduction
Seasonal ingredients
Culinary research
Behavioral change
150: Psychologie
647: Grosshaushaltsführung

description: Abschlussbericht herausgegeben von der ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften und Genossenschaft ZFV-Unternehmungen.
description: Das Forschungsprojekt "Farm to Table", das von der ZHdK, der ZHAW und der ZFV-Genossenschaft durchgeführt wird, erforscht nachhaltige kulinarische Praktiken in der Hochschulgastronomie. Dieser Bericht dokumentiert die vierwöchige Umsetzung des Projekts in der Mensa Molki auf dem Toni Areal in Zürich mit dem Ziel, die CO2-Emissionen durch die Verwendung saisonaler und regionaler Zutaten zu reduzieren. Das Projekt evaluiert die Umweltauswirkungen, die Ausgewogenheit der Ernährung und die Akzeptanz des neuen Menüangebots bei Studierenden und Mitarbeitern der Hochschulen. Zu den wichtigsten Aspekten gehören interaktive Feedback-Mechanismen, Workshops und Veranstaltungen, die nachhaltige Essgewohnheiten fördern sollen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die CO2-Emissionen deutlich gesenkt und die Ausgewogenheit des Speiseplans verbessert werden konnte. Dies unterstreicht die Machbarkeit der Integration von Nachhaltigkeit in die Hochschulgastronomie. Das Projekt dient als Modell für zukünftige Initiativen zur Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeit in der Hochschulgastronomie.

The “Farm to Table” research project, which was conducted by the ZHdK, the ZHAW and the ZFV cooperative, explores sustainable culinary practices in university catering. This report documents the four-week implementation of the project in the Molki canteen on the Toni Areal in Zurich with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions through the use of seasonal and regional ingredients. The project evaluates the environmental impact, the balance of the diet and the acceptance of the new menu offering among students and university staff. Key aspects include interactive feedback mechanisms, workshops and events to promote sustainable eating habits. The results show that CO2 emissions have been significantly reduced and the balance of the menu has been improved. This underlines the feasibility of integrating sustainability into university catering. The project serves as a model for future initiatives to improve sustainability in university catering.
Introducing CALMED: Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Emotion Detection in Children with Autism
Creators: name: Sousa, Annanda
name: Young, Karen
name: D'aquin, Mathieu
name: Zarrouk, Manel
name: Holloway, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic Emotion Detection (ED) aims to build systems to identify users' emotions automatically. This field has the potential to enhance HCI, creating an individualised experience for the user. However, ED systems tend to perform poorly on people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Hence, the need to create ED systems tailored to how people with autism express emotions. Previous works have created ED systems tailored for children with ASD but did not share the resulting dataset. Sharing annotated datasets is essential to enable the development of more advanced computer models for ED within the research community. In this paper, we describe our experience establishing a process to create a multimodal annotated dataset featuring children with a level 1 diagnosis of autism. In addition, we introduce CALMED (Children, Autism, Multimodal, Emotion, Detection), the resulting multimodal emotion detection dataset featuring children with autism aged 8-12. CALMED includes audio and video features extracted from recording files of study sessions with participants, together with annotations provided by their parents into four target classes. The generated dataset includes a total of 57,012 examples, with each example representing a time window of 200ms (0.2s). Our experience and methods described here, together with the dataset shared, aim to contribute to future research applications of affective computing in ASD, which has the potential to create systems to improve the lives of people with ASD.
Intermediate accelerated solutions as generic late-time attractors in a modified Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory
Creators: name: Cid, Antonella
name: Leon, Genly
name: Leyva, Yoelsy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a Jordan-Brans-Dicke (JBD) scalar field, $Φ$, with power-law potential in the presence of a second scalar field, $ϕ$, with an exponential potential, in both the Jordan and the Einstein frames. We present the relation of our model with the induced gravity model with power-law potential and the integrability of this kind of models is discussed when the quintessence field $ϕ$ is massless, and has a small velocity. We prove that in JBD theory, the de Sitter solution is not a natural attractor but an intermediate accelerated solution of the form $a(t)\simeq e^{α_1 t^{p_1}}$, as $t\rightarrow \infty$ where $α_1>0$ and $00$ and $0
description: 47 pages, no figures. References updated. Matches the published version (abstract shortened, original exceded the size admited by Arxiv rules)
What do we know about software development in startups?
Creators: name: Giardino, Carmine
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Paternoster, Nicolò
name: Gorschek, Tony
name: Abrahamsson, Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An impressive number of new startups are launched every day as a result of growing new markets, accessible technologies, and venture capital. New ventures such as Facebook, Supercell, Linkedin, Spotify, {WhatsApp}, and Dropbox, to name a few, are good examples of startups that evolved into successful businesses. However, despite many successful stories, the great majority of them fail prematurely. Operating in a chaotic and rapidly evolving domain conveys new uncharted challenges for startuppers. In this study, the authors characterize their context and identify common software development startup practices.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2307.13104
A Dynamical Model of Twitter Activity Profiles
Creators: name: Huynh, Hoai Nguyen
name: Legara, Erika Fille
name: Monterola, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2; J.4; I.6

description: The advent of the era of Big Data has allowed many researchers to dig into various socio-technical systems, including social media platforms. In particular, these systems have provided them with certain verifiable means to look into certain aspects of human behavior. In this work, we are specifically interested in the behavior of individuals on social media platforms---how they handle the information they get, and how they share it. We look into Twitter to understand the dynamics behind the users' posting activities---tweets and retweets---zooming in on topics that peaked in popularity. Three mechanisms are considered: endogenous stimuli, exogenous stimuli, and a mechanism that dictates the decay of interest of the population in a topic. We propose a model involving two parameters $η^\star$ and $λ$ describing the tweeting behaviour of users, which allow us to reconstruct the findings of Lehmann et al. (2012) on the temporal profiles of popular Twitter hashtags. With this model, we are able to accurately reproduce the temporal profile of user engagements on Twitter. Furthermore, we introduce an alternative in classifying the collective activities on the socio-technical system based on the model.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: MR enterography in pediatric and adult Crohn’s disease: analyzing the apparent diffusion coefficient to assess active bowel wall inflammation
Creators: name: Bertesso, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Inflammation
subject: Colonography MR
subject: MR
subject: Small bowel
subject: Colon
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory condition potentially affecting any portion of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus, and characterized by a relapsing-remitting clinical behavior. In the past, treatment goals...
Cut-off nonlinearities in the low-temperature vibrations of glasses and crystals
Creators: name: Mizuno, Hideyuki
name: Silbert, Leonardo E.
name: Sperl, Matthias
name: Mossa, Stefano
name: Barrat, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a computer simulation study of glassy and crystalline states using the standard Lennard-Jones interaction potential that is truncated at a finite cut-off distance, as is typical of many computer simulations. We demonstrate that the discontinuity at the cut-off distance in the first derivative of the potential (corresponding to the interparticle force) leads to the appearance of cut-off nonlinearities. These cut-off nonlinearities persist into the very-low-temperature regime thereby affecting low-temperature thermal vibrations, which leads to a breakdown of the harmonic approximation for many eigen modes, particularly for low-frequency vibrational modes. Furthermore, while expansion nonlinearities which are due to higher order terms in the Taylor expansion of the interaction potential are usually ignored at low temperatures and show up as the temperature increases, cut-off nonlinearities can become most significant at the lowest temperatures. Anharmonic effects readily show up in the elastic moduli which not only depend on the eigen frequencies, but are crucially sensitive to the eigen vectors of the normal modes. Whereas, those observables that rely mainly on static structural information or just the eigen frequencies, such as the vibrational density of states, total potential energy, and specific heat, show negligible dependence on the presence of the cut-off. Similar aspects of nonlinear behavior have recently been reported in model granular materials, where the constituent particles interact through finite-range, purely-repulsive potentials. These nonlinearities have been ascribed to the nature of the sudden cut-off at contact in the force-law, thus we demonstrate that cut-off nonlinearities emerge as a general feature of ordered and disordered solid state systems interacting through truncated potentials.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables
The relevance of social relations over course of adulthood among LGBTs
Creators: name: Pfammatter, Pirmin
name: Staedler, Isabelle
name: Schwarz, Beate
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: LGBT+
Social relations
Mental health
305: Personengruppen (Alter, Herkunft, Geschlecht, Einkommen)
613: Persönliche Gesundheit

description: Social relations are a cornerstone for the mental health of humans. Many adults invest time in family and close friends, which is beneficial to their mental health. According to research, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual orientation, or gender identity minorities (LGBT+) tend to experience better relationships with their friends than their family members. Furthermore, friendships seem to be more important for the mental health of LGBT+ adults than family relations in comparison to cis-gender, heterosexual (cis-hetero) adults. However, so far it remains unclear whether these findings are specific to younger LGBT+ or similar across adulthood. We expect (1) that among cis-hetero adults, the most important people will include more family members than among LGBT+ and (2) we predict that among cis-hetero adults’ family are more important while for LGBT+ friends will be more important for the mental health across the lifespan. The measures include scales on the importance of different social contacts, relationship quality, as well as mental health aspects (well-being and perceived stress). The sample includes N = 1083 participants (n = 767 cis-women, n = 280 cis-men) of which n = 858 are cis-hetero and n = 225 are LGBT+ adults. We will answer the research questions with ANOVA and a moderated structural equation model (SEM). The importance of different social relationships over the course of adulthood will be addressed in the discussion.
Progress of seabass, Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1970) culture in Bangladesh: Field-level updates from the Bhola and Satkhira Districts
Creators: name: A M Farhaduzzaman
name: Md Suzan Khan
name: Mahadi Hasan Osman
name: Md Neamul Hasan Shovon
name: Mehedi Azam
name: Niaz Makhdum
name: A M Farhaduzzaman
name: Md Suzan Khan
name: Mahadi Hasan Osman
name: Md Neamul Hasan Shovon
name: Mehedi Azam
name: Niaz Makhdum
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Bangladesh
subject: Coastal waters
subject: Seabass
subject: Farming
subject: Induced breeding

description: Since the high market value of seabass, Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1970), mainly found in Bangladesh's coastal waters and tidal rivers of Bangladesh, farmers in those areas cultivate it alongside carp fish in ponds and shrimp farms. Even though farming began many years ago, progress in overcoming obstacles of only natural sources for hatchlings, supplemental feeding, and knowledge on advanced farming management in seabass farming at the field level has been prolonged. This study discusses the current farming and trading of seabass in Bangladesh's coastal districts. Seabass fry is collected from rivers and estuarine areas, grown in hatcheries or ponds, and sold to farmers in large sizes. Some farmers cultivate this fry in mixed fish culture ponds in the extensive method; some farmers cultivate them with carp fish in a semi-intensive method. Seabass feeds only live feed (Tilapia and carp fishes fry); continuous supply is difficult and expensive. In these ponds, seabass is cultivated in the traditional method in 18–20 months, weighing 7-8 kg, and in the advanced traditional method in 1 year, weighing 2-3 kg. The profit percentage of seabass farming with the semi-intensive method is 77.42%. To expand this profitable fish farming, it is crucial to acclimate the fish to induced breeding and supplemental food. The institutions involved should not work in isolation but rather collaborate on developing induced breeding techniques and expanding seabass farming. In this case, prosperous seabass farming countries' experience can be applied.
(101564) George Pearce
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Manual for the coding of phases in coaching (MaPCo)
Manual für die Kodierung von Phasen im Coaching (MaPCo)
Creators: name: Künzli, Hansjörg
name: Calasso, Lara
name: Hinzmann, Sandra Marie
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: Coaching
Manual
Phases
158: Angewandte Psychologie

description: The manual for coding phases in coaching (MaPCo) is an instrument that can be utilized to describe phases in authentic dyadic coaching sessions or processes involving two participants, namely the coach and the coachee. The coaching processes need to be recorded by means of video or audio recordings, to be linguistically transcribed and to be segmented into turns.
Spatial and epidemiological drivers of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Creators: name: Bailey, J.A.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Parr, J.B.
name: Emch, M.
name: Muwonga, J.
name: Verity, R.
name: Thwai, K.L.
name: Kashamuka, M.
name: Juliano, J.J.
name: Deutsch-Feldman, M.
name: Tshefu Kitoto, A.
name: Meshnick, S.R.
name: Gower, E.W.
name: Aydemir, O.
name: Brazeau, N.F.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2020

description: Background Adults are frequently infected with malaria and may serve as a reservoir for further transmission, yet we know relatively little about risk factors for adult infections. In this study, we assessed malaria risk factors among adults using samples from the nationally representative, cross-sectional 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We further explored differences in risk factors by urbanicity. Methods Plasmodium falciparum infection was determined by PCR. Covariates were drawn from the DHS to model individual, community and environmental-level risk factors for infection. Additionally, we used deep sequencing data to estimate the community-level proportions of drug-resistant infections and included these estimates as potential risk factors. All identified factors were assessed for differences in associations by urbanicity. Results A total of 16 126 adults were included. Overall prevalence of malaria was 30.3% (SE=1.1) by PCR; province-level prevalence ranged from 6.7% to 58.3%. Only 17% of individuals lived in households with at least one bed-net for every two people, as recommended by the WHO. Protective factors included increasing within-household bed-net coverage (Prevalence Ratio=0.85, 95% CI=0.76-0.95) and modern housing (PR=0.58, 95% CI=0.49-0.69). Community-level protective factors included increased median wealth (PR=0.87, 95% CI=0.83-0.92). Education, wealth, and modern housing showed protective associations in cities but not in rural areas. Conclusions The DRC continues to suffer from a high burden of malaria; interventions that target high-risk groups and sustained investment in malaria control are sorely needed. Areas of high prevalence should be prioritised for interventions to target the largest reservoirs for further transmission.
title: Recent updates on pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET)
Creators: name: Irureta, Mayalen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Pancreas
subject: CT
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To provide a review of different types of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours and the role of imaging techniques (CT, US, MRI and Nuclear imaging) in the initial diagnosis and management. To list the imaging features that help characterize pancreatic...
Magnetic and superconducting phase diagram of the half-Heusler topological semimetal HoPdBi
Creators: name: Nikitin, A. M.
name: Pan, Y.
name: Mao, X.
name: Jehee, R.
name: Araizi, G. K.
name: Huang, Y. K.
name: Paulsen, C.
name: Wu, S. C.
name: Yan, B. H.
name: de Visser, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of the magnetic and electronic properties of the non-centrosymmetric half-Heusler antiferromagnet HoPdBi ($T_N = 2.0$ K). Magnetotransport measurements show HoPdBi has a semimetallic behaviour with a carrier concentration $n=3.7 \times 10^{18}$ cm$^{-3}$ extracted from the Shubnikov-de Haas effect. The magnetic phase diagram in the field-temperature plane has been determined by transport, magnetization and thermal expansion measurements: magnetic order is suppressed at $B_M\sim 3.6$ T for $T \rightarrow 0$. Superconductivity with $T_c \sim 1.9$ K is found in the antiferromagnetic phase. Ac-susceptibility measurements provide solid evidence for bulk superconductivity below $T_c = 0.75$ K with a screening signal close to a volume fraction of 100 %. The upper critical field shows an unusual linear temperature variation with $B_{c2}(T \rightarrow 0) = 1.1$ T. We also report electronic structure calculations that classify HoPdBi as a new topological semimetal, with a non-trivial band inversion of 0.25 eV.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Sex work, discrimination, drug use and violence: a pattern for HIV risk among transgender sex workers compared to MSM sex workers and other MSM in Guatemala
Creators: name: Chen, S.Y.
name: Paz-Bailey, G.
name: Emch, M.E.
name: Barrington, C.
name: Pettifor, A.E.
name: Miller, W.C.
name: Miller, W.M.
name: Weir, S.S.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2020

description: The risk of HIV infection is higher among transgender women and cisgender men who have sex with men (MSM) compared to the general population due in part to social and contextual factors. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and association of alcohol and drug abuse, discrimination and violence among transgender sex workers compared to cisgender male sex workers and cisgender men who had not received money for sex in Guatemala City. In 2010, transgender women and cisgender men who had had sex with men or transgender women were recruited into a cross-sectional behavioural survey. Among transgender women, 86% received money for sex in the past year. Transgender sex workers were more likely to use drugs and binge drink, three times as likely to be discriminated against and eight times as likely to be forced to have sex compared to non-sex worker men. Male sex workers were twice as likely to use illicit drugs or experience physical violence and six times as likely to experience forced sex compared to non-sex worker men. Transgender and male sex workers would benefit from harm reduction for substance use, violence prevention, response and strategies to mitigate discrimination.
Groundnut production performance based on chemical fertilizer practices and its profitability conditions
Creators: name: Mashrat Jahan
name: Sarker, Jaba Rani
name: Preetilata Burman
name: Linnet Riya Barman
name: Mashrat Jahan
name: Sarker, Jaba Rani
name: Preetilata Burman
name: Linnet Riya Barman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Fertilizer
subject: Organic
subject: Inorganic
subject: Adoption
subject: MVP

description: From the mid of the 19th-century chemical fertilizers were introduced into Bangladesh as an additional source of plant nutrients. After that the use of fertilizer in crop production increases. However, the extreme use of chemical fertilizers can create hazardous environmental degradation, which in turn can lower yields. So, the optimum level should maintain that can help in turn increase production. In this current study, 150 groundnut farmers in the research areas were taken based on their fertilizer application methods. It shows that the number of chemical fertilizer users constituted a major share of the total almost 44.67%. Among all the farmers, chemical fertilizer users incurred the highest return on investment by 1.48. Land area, cost of irrigation and chemical fertilizer affect the adoption of chemical fertilizer usage positively. The higher cost of production due to the application cost of inorganic fertilizer also increases the yield simultaneously. The study shows that farmers who avoid using fertilizer result in lower production compare to others. In that case, age and education were identified as factors that pushed the farmers towards chemical fertilizer and enjoying higher production.
Quantum Error Correction for State Transfer in Noisy Spin Chains
Creators: name: Kay, Alastair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Can robustness against experimental imperfections and noise be embedded into a quantum simulation? In this paper, we report on a special case in which this is possible. A spin chain can be engineered such that, in the absence of imperfections and noise, an unknown quantum state is transported from one end of the chain to the other, due only to the intrinsic dynamics of the system. We show that an encoding into a standard error correcting code (a Calderbank-Shor-Steane code) can be embedded into this simulation task such that a modified error correction procedure on read-out can recover from sufficiently low rates of noise during transport.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
title: Radiographic Manifestations of Most Common Hip Disorders in Early childhood and Adolescence
Creators: name: Abualruz, Abdulrahman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: eLearning
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To familiarize the radiologist's eye with the: Radiological manifestations of the different stages of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCP) and, Diagnostic radiographic signs and different stages of slipped capital femoral epiphysis...
The Development Of Business Economics Teaching Materials Based On Project Based Learning (PjBL) Vocational School Students
Creators: name: Hariani, Lilik Sri
name: Andayani, Endah
name: Ain, Nurul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: APPI PT PGRI
PGRI
ICDESS2022

description: This material was presented in ACT +1 activities and International Conference on Digital Education and Social Science as a presenter
Environmental modifiers of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine efficacy in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Loop, M.S.
name: Hoffman, I.
name: Emch, M.
name: Mofolo, I.
name: Bailey, J.
name: Kamthunzi, P.
name: Bell, G.J.
name: Juliano, J.J.
name: Tegha, G.
name: Mvalo, T.
name: Lievens, M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2020

description: Background: RTS,S/AS01 is the first vaccine against malaria to undergo pilot implementation, beginning in 2019 and vaccinating 360,000 children per year in Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya. The four-dose vaccine is given as a primary three-dose series with a fourth dose given approximately 18 months later. The efficacy of RTS,S/AS01 was variable among the 11 sites participating in the 2009-2014 phase III trial (MALARIA-055, NCT00866619), possibly due to differences in transmission intensity. However, a within-site examination of environmental factors related to transmission intensity and their impact on vaccine efficacy has yet to be conducted. Methods: We implemented the phase III RTS,S/AS01 trial at the Malawi site, which enrolled 1578 infants (6-12 weeks) and children (5-17 months) living in the Lilongwe District in Central Malawi and followed them for 3 years between 2009 and 2014. A global positioning system survey and an ecological questionnaire were conducted to collect participant household locations and characteristics, while additional data on background malaria prevalence were obtained from a concurrent Malaria Transmission Intensity (MTI) survey. Negative binomial regression models were used to assess whether the efficacy of the vaccine varied by estimated background malaria prevalence, household roof type, or amount of nearby vegetation. Results: Vaccine efficacy did not significantly vary by estimated malaria prevalence or by roof type. However, increased vegetation cover was associated with an increase in the efficacy of the three-dose primary RTS,S/AS01 series in the 18 months before the fourth dose and a decrease in the efficacy of the primary vaccine series in the second 18 months following, if the fourth dose was not given. Vegetation cover did not alter the efficacy of the fourth dose in a statistically or practically significant manner. Conclusions: Vegetation coverage in this study site might be a proxy for nearness to rivers or branching, shallow wetlands called "dambos"which could serve as breeding sites for mosquitoes. We observed statistically significant modification of the efficacy of RTS,S/AS01 by forest cover, suggesting that initial vaccine efficacy and the importance of the fourth dose varies based on ecological context. Trial registration: Efficacy of GSK Biologicals' Candidate Malaria Vaccine (257049) Against Malaria Disease Caused by P. falciparum Infection in Infants and Children in Africa. NCT00866619 prospectively registered 20 March 2009.
Quasi-Spin Correlations in a Frustrated Quantum Spin Ladder
Creators: name: Sugimoto, Takanori
name: Mori, Michiyasu
name: Tohyama, Takami
name: Maekawa, Sadamichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi-spin correlations in a frustrated quantum spin ladder with one-half magnetization are theoretically studied by using the density-matrix renormalization-group method and the quasi-spin transformation. In this model, the frustration induces a gapless-to-gapful phase transition with a strong rung coupling. The gapful state is observed as the one-half magnetization plateau in the magnetization curve. In the magnetization-plateau state, we find that the quasi-spin dimer has a large expectation value with long-ranged correlations. This result does not only comes in useful to clarify the magnetization-plateau state, but gives a crucial information to understand the magnetization curve of the real compound BiCu$_2$PO$_6$, whose effective spin model corresponds to ours.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Segesta. ὁ δᾶμος. 2nd cent. BC. ISegesta G7a
Creators: name: Panciera, Emiliano A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Segesta
Ancient Sicily
Elymians
Western Greeks
Greek epigraphy

description: Publication concerning the Greek inscription IG XIV 288 = ISegesta G7a, with English and Italian translation and bibliography
(101560) Albert J Pavey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Evaluation of efficacy of fungicides against ginger leaf spot (Phyllosticta zingiberi) disease epidemics at Tepi Southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Merga Jibat
name: Abukiya Getu
name: Merga Jibat
name: Abukiya Getu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Epidemics
subject: Fungicide
subject: Ginger
subject: leaf spot
subject: Phyllosticta
subject: Yield

description: The most devastating disease that affects ginger production and productivity in Southwestern Ethiopia and lowers qualitative and quantitative rhizome yields is ginger leaf spot, which is caused by the pathogen Phyllosticta zingiberi. In Tepi, Southwestern Ethiopia, during the main cropping seasons of 2020 and 2021, a field experiment was carried out to assess the efficacy of several fungicides in managing epidemics of ginger leaf spot disease. The fungicides evaluated were Ridomil Gold MZ 68 WG (Metalaxyl-M), Ethiozeb 80% WP (Mancozeb), Shega 50 WP (Copper oxychloride), and Matico (Metalaxyl 8% + Mancozeb 64% WP). While the plot without spray is used as control. The results of the experiment indicated that among the different fungicides tested four times spray of Matico (Metalaxyl 8% + Mancozeb 64% WP) starting from the appearance of the disease on the field within 15 days intervals produced the lowest leaf spot disease severity of 10.2% followed by foliar spray with Mancozeb (Ethiozeb 80% WP) 16.2% first at disease appearance and then 3 times at 15 days intervals. Similarly, the highest yield of 16.3 t ha-1 was also obtained by foliar from the plot foliar spray of Matico (Metalaxyl 8% + Mancozeb 64% WP) which is followed by spraying with Mancozeb (Ethiozeb 80% WP) with a yield of 12.56 t ha-1. Therefore four times foliar spray of Matico @ 2.5 kg ha-1 is highly effective against leaf spot disease of ginger in southwestern Ethiopia.
title: Fluid distribution in Ankle Joint and Midfoot: MRI-findings in Normal Volunteers
Creators: name: De Grove, Veerle
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Normal variants
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Although ultrasound is the most requested study when dealing with acute or chronic ankle pain, it is often followed by an MR of the ankle. When interpreting MR studies of the ankle and midfoot, a common diagnostic pitfall is the presence of fluid in...
Doubly robust estimation in observational studies with partial interference
Creators: name: Saul, B.
name: Ali, M.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Clemens, J.D.
name: Emch, M.E.
name: Liu, L.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2019

description: Interference occurs when the treatment (or exposure) of one individual affects the outcomes of others. In some settings, it may be reasonable to assume that individuals can be partitioned into clusters such that there is no interference between individuals in different clusters, that is, there is partial interference. In observational studies with partial interference, inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators have been something else different possible treatment effects. However, the validity of IPW estimators depends on the propensity score being known or correctly modelled. Alternatively, one can estimate the treatment effect using an outcome regression model. In this paper, we propose doubly robust (DR) estimators that utilize both models and are consistent and asymptotically normal if either model, but not necessarily both, is correctly specified. Empirical results are presented to demonstrate the DR property of the proposed estimators and the efficiency gain of DR over IPW estimators when both models are correctly specified. The different estimators are illustrated using data from a study examining the effects of cholera vaccination in Bangladesh.
Initial PET Performance Evaluation of a Preclinical Insert for PET/MRI with Digital SiPM Technology
Creators: name: Schug, David
name: Lerche, Christoph
name: Weissler, Bjoern
name: Gebhardt, Pierre
name: Goldschmidt, Benjamin
name: Wehner, Jakob
name: Dueppenbecker, Peter Michael
name: Salomon, Andre
name: Hallen, Patrick
name: Kiessling, Fabian
name: Schulz, Volkmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperion-IID is a positron emission tomography (PET) insert which allows simultaneous operation in a clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. To read out the scintillation light of the employed LYSO crystal arrays with a pitch of 1 mm pitch and 12 mm in height, digital silicon photomultipliers (DPC 3200-22, Philips Digital Photon Counting) (DPC) are used. The basic PET performance in terms of energy resolution, coincidence resolution time (CRT) and sensitivity as a function of operating parameters, such as the operating temperature, the applied overvoltage, activity and configuration parameters of the DPCs, were evaluated on system level. The measured energy resolution did not show a large dependency on the selected parameters and is in the range of 12.4-12.9% for low activities and degrades to ~13.6% at activities of ~100 MBq. The CRT strongly depends on the selected trigger scheme (trig) of the DPCs. We measured approximately 260 ps, 440 ps, 540 ps and 1300 ps for trig 1-4, respectively. The trues sensitivity for a NEMA NU 4 mouse-sized scatter phantom with a 70-mm-long tube of activity was dependent on the operating parameters and was determined to be 0.4-1.4% at low activities. The random fraction stayed below 5% at activities up to 100 MBq and the scatter fraction was evaluated as ~6% for an energy window of 411-561 keV and ~16% for 250-625 keV. Furthermore, we performed imaging experiments using a mouse-sized hot-rod phantom and a large rabbit-sized phantom. In 2D slices of the reconstructed mouse-sized hot-rod phantom (Ø = 28 mm), the rods were distinguishable from each other down to a rod size of 0.8 mm. There was no benefit of the better CRT of trig 1 over trig 3, where in the larger rabbit-sized phantom (Ø = 114 mm), we could show a clear improvement of image quality using the time-of-flight information.
description: Final journal version including the supplemntal data. The images in the supplement were compressed to meet the arXiv file size limit
Changing tracks : how visual presentations of travel itineraries impact the choice between plane and train
Creators: name: Catarci, Daniele
name: Laasner Vogt, Lea
name: Reijnen, Ester
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: Climate change
Sustainable mobility
Train
Door to door
Plane
Visual decision making
Travel itinerary
150: Psychologie
380: Verkehr

description: Recognizing the negative environmental impact of air travel highlights the pressing need to reconsider our travel preferences, particularly in scenarios where viable alternatives exist. Every air traveler knows that the total travel time includes more than just the flight time. However, when comparing transport modes (e.g., airplane vs. train) for a journey, these additional times—for security checks and baggage claims—are neglected, leading to an inflated perception of time savings through flying, thus making it seem a more attractive choice than it should be. The question is whether a visualization of the entire travel duration in the form of a comprehensive itinerary at the time of the decision can correct this bias and increase the likelihood of people choosing the train. A first randomized online study (N = 608) showed that a comprehensive travel itinerary increased the likelihood of choosing the train from 66% to 79% compared to a standard itinerary; this result is probably because the visualization emphasized the convenience of traveling by train. The follow-up study (N = 383) examined how various factors—different travel distances, price scenarios and comfort levels (train routes with up to three transfers)—impact the above-observed effect. We found that a comprehensive itinerary consistently increased train preference by an average of 15%, even when flights saved over three hours, across different price conditions, and regardless of train route convenience. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of a simple visual nudge in encouraging sustainable travel choices, suggesting avenues for future research to explore how these strategies can enhance decision-making across domains like Health and sustainability.
title: "Not everything is epitrochleitis". MRI assessment in regional inner elbow pain: The "Black Eye sign" in accessory anconeus epitrochlearis.
Creators: name: Catalá Isla, Andrés
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognize elbow´s anatomy. Identify the injury spectrum causing epitrochlearis painful syndrome. Define the accessory anconeus epitrochlearis importance and eventual complications. Indicate accesory anconeus epitrochlearis diagnosis with...
Determinants of environmental styrene exposure in Gulf coast residents
Creators: name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Richardson, D.B.
name: Emch, M.E.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Werder, E.J.
name: Sandler, D.P.
Publisher: name: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2019

description: Background: In a previous study of exposure to oil-related chemicals in Gulf coast residents, we measured blood levels of volatile organic compounds. Levels of styrene were substantially elevated compared to a nationally representative sample. We sought to identify factors contributing to these levels, given the opportunities for styrene exposure in this community. Methods: We measured blood styrene levels in 667 Gulf coast residents and compared participants’ levels of blood styrene to a nationally representative sample. We assessed personal and environmental predictors of blood styrene levels using linear regression and predicted the risk of elevated blood styrene (defined as above the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 95th percentile) using modified Poisson regression. We assessed exposure to styrene using questionnaire data on recent exposure opportunities and leveraged existing databases to assign ambient styrene exposure based on geocoded residential location. Results: These Gulf coast residents were 4–6 times as likely as the nationally representative sample to have elevated blood styrene levels. The change in styrene (log ng/mL) was 0.42 (95% CI: 0.34, 0.51) for smoking, 0.34 (0.09, 0.59) for time spent in vehicles and 1.10 (0.31, 1.89) for boats, and −0.41 (−0.73, −0.10) for fall/winter blood draws. Residential proximity to industrial styrene emissions did not predict blood styrene levels. Ambient styrene predicted elevated blood styrene in subgroups. Conclusions: Personal predictors of increasing blood styrene levels included smoking, vehicle emissions, and housing characteristics. There was a suggestive association between ambient and blood styrene. Our measures of increased regional exposure opportunity do not fully explain the observed elevated blood styrene levels in this population.
title: Role of Partial Splenic Artery Embolistion as an adjunct to locoregional treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis and Hypersplenism
Creators: name: Kumar, Aman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Spleen
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Embolisation
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Cancer
subject: Blood
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The Purpose of our Educational exhibit is to 1).Discuss the significance of Hypersplenism in treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 2)Discuss the utility of Partial Splenic artery Embolisation in Patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) with...