cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: MANAGING PLANT INVASIONS USING LEGISLATION TOOLS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL REGULATIONS FOR NON-NATIVE PLANTS IN ITALY
Creators: name: Brundu, G.
name: Armeli Minicante, S.
name: Barni, E.
name: Bolpagni, R.
name: Caddeo, A.
name: Celesti-Grapow, L.
name: Cogoni, A.
name: Galasso, G.
name: Iiriti, G.
name: Lazzaro, L.
name: Loi, M. Cecilia
name: Lozano, V.
name: Marignani, M.
name: Montagnani, C.
name: Siniscalco, C.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: black lists; Invasive Alien Species (IAS); European regulation on IAS; environmental legislation; introduced flora

description: The integration of international, national and local regulations is one of the fundamental steps for preventing, controlling and managing biological invasions. The aim of the present study is to present and analyse, for the first time, the list of all non-native plant species that are regulated in Italy by the European, Italian and regional legislation in force. To date, there are 147 non-native plant taxa regulated. This number includes the 36 invasive alien plants of European Union concern and additional 111 taxa (95 species and 16 collective taxa) that have been listed at the regional level alone. A total of 19 plants of European Union concern and 95 regulated plants are present in the wild in at least one administrative region. The majority of the 95 species that are listed at the regional level alone are woody species (23 trees, 9 shrubs, 6 woody vines), followed by 29 herbs (19 annual herbs, 10 perennial herbs) and 11 aquatic plants. By presenting the regulated species and by identifying the most relevant species, the present study will provide an important tool to support plant invasion research and management and for the application of Regulation (EU) no. 1143/2014 on invasive alien species.
description: Annali di Botanica, VOL 10 (2020)
Relationship of Grain Stocks and Marketing Behavior
Creators: name: Holmquist, Tyler
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Klein, Nicole
name: Holmquist, Tyler
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Klein, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Farmers, merchandisers and end-users are faced with the challenge of allocating stocks of grains and oilseeds throughout the marketing year. Farmers want to obtain the best price subject to storage costs and storage constraints. Merchandisers want to assemble crops, provide storage services and supply end-users with steady quantities. Storage is available and reported at the farm level and across off-farm locations. Percentages marketed by farmers are also reported, but not until the end of the marketing year. Thus, there is information about the physical location of crops and its ownership by farmers. Factors are examined that explain the storage and marketing behavior of farmers and by the entire supply chain. Price expectations are examined, but are dominated by strong seasonal patterns in disappearance and marketings. A disparity between on-farm and off-farm disappearance is identified, the latter being intractable to quantify. A disparity between marketings and on-farm disappearance suggests a large portion of off-farm stocks are owned by farmers, potentially creating storage constraints at off-farm locations.
Chionaspis acer
Creators: name: Suh, Soo-Jung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Diaspididae
Chionaspis
Chionaspis acer

description: Chionaspis acer (Takagi and Kawai) (Figures 1–3)
 Phenacaspis acer Takagi and Kawai, 1966: 112. Type data: Japan, on Acer palmatum Thunb.
 Field Characters. Adult female cover white, flattened, oyster-shell shaped; shed skins marginal, yellow to brown. Male not collected by author.
 Slide-mounted Characters. Adult female with 3 pairs of lobes, median lobes lacking a pair of setae between them. Median lobes in the bark-infesting form closely appressed medially from base to one-half of length of lobes, with inverse U-shaped yoke, protruding beyond the second lobes, medial margins parallel basally, diverging apically, lateral margins diverging, with 2-3 lateral notches, with 2 medial notches; in the leaf-infesting form (not examined by author) deeply sunken into the apex of the pygidium, usually not protruding beyond the second lobes (Takagi and Kawai 1966); second lobes with paraphysis on mesial margin of medial lobule, usually with small paraphysis on lateral margin of medial lobule. Macroducts on pygidium about same size, with 5-6 macroducts on each side of body on abdominal segment 5; with 7 to 9 macroducts on submedial area of segments 3 to 5 each; with 8 to 10 macroducts on submarginal area of segments 3 to 5 each. Gland spines absent on thorax, with 8 to 24 on abdominal segments 1 to 4 each. Perivulvar pores in 5 groups, about 85 pores. Perispiracular pores with 3 loculi, anterior spiracles each with 12 to 14 pores, posterior spiracles each with 3 to 5 pores. Anal opening located at upper of pygidium. Antennae each with 1 conspicuous seta. Body elongated fusiform with prepygidial segments each slightly convex laterally. Only found on Acer L. plants.
 Material Examined. Korea. GG: 476, Dongtanjiseong-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, 2 adult females, on Acer negundo (Sapindaceae) bark, 22-iv-2006 (S.J. Suh). JB: Jeonju Arboretum (30-11, Wonbanworangil, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si), 7 adult females, on Acer sp. (Sapindaceae) bark, 16-iii-2006 (S.J. Suh).
 Distribution. Japan (García et al. 2015), * Korea.
description: Published as part of Suh, Soo-Jung, 2016, New records of Chionaspis armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Korea, pp. 1-5 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (489) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5183122
title: MORPHOMETRIC SURVEYS ON ELEOCHARIS PALUSTRIS (L.) ROEM. ET SCHULT. (CYPERACEAE). THE CONTRIBUTION OF HERBARIUM INVESTIGATIONS TO THE DELIMITATION OF ITS SUBSPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION IN ITALY
Creators: name: Lastrucci, L.
name: Lazzaro, L.
name: Lunardi, L.
name: Fiorini, G.
name: Viciani, D.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cyperaceae; distribution; herbarium collections; systematics; univariate classification tree analysis

description: According to the most recent floristic and taxonomic works, Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. et Schult. is present in Europe with two subspecies: E. palustris subsp. palustris and E. palustris subsp. waltersii Bureš et Danihelka. Up to now in Italy only the first taxon has been reported in literature, and no specific study was recently carried out to assess the presence of both subspecies on the Italian territory. Accordingly, we conducted a comprehensive analyses of Italian herbarium specimens of E. palustris in order to verify presence and distribution of its subspecies in Italy. Towards these aims we collected a wide set of morphological (glume length and number per cm; spikelet length, culm width, achene length and width, stylopode length and width) and anatomical characters (stomata length) and evaluated their contribution to the differentiation of the two subspecies adopting a classification tree analyses. The analyses lead us to report for the first time in Italy E. palustris subsp. waltersii. This taxon was found to be present in 9 northern and central Italian regions. Our contribution allowed to confirm the presence of E. palustris subsp. palustris in almost all the Italian regions.
description: Annali di Botanica, VOL 10 (2020)
Multi-phonon interactions between nitrogen-vacancy centers and nanomechanical resonators
Creators: name: Dong, Xing-Liang
name: Li, Peng-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the multi-phonon interactions in a hybrid system composed of a nitrogen-vacancy center and a mechanical resonator.We show that, through appropriate sideband engineering analogy to the Mollow or Lamb-Dicke dynamics, the enhanced nonlinear interactions can dominate the coupled system. As an example, we show the preparation of nonclassical states of the mechanical motion and explore the quantum correlation of $n$-phonon with the engineered dissipation,based on the large multi-phonon coupling strength attainable in this sideband structure. This work takes full advantage of the structure and coherence features of defect centers in diamond, and may be useful for quantum information processing.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Risk Management: Hedging Potential for U.S. Breweries
Creators: name: Prera, Alejandro
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
name: Prera, Alejandro
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: In this paper we investigate the potential to develop hedging strategies for firms in the U.S. brewing sector. The primary ingredients for beer are hops (grown in many different varieties), grain malt (mostly malted barley but also other grains), wheat, yeast, and water. We test for statistical relationships between hop and barley prices and futures prices wheat, and corn to determine whether price relationships are such that cross hedging hops and barley with existing futures contracts appears feasible. If hops and barley can be effectively hedged then most of the primary inputs used by brewers can be hedged. Using standard multivariate time seriesmodels, we test for stationarity in prices, test for co-integration relationships between the various brewers’ inputs, and report the statistical results. We find the existence of a structural break in the prices associated with beginning of the most recent recession. This created greater instability in commodity prices and a change in their inter-relationships. Insight into these relationships provides relevant information concerning hedging and cross-hedging opportunities for small breweries.
Options for cosmology at redshifts above one
Creators: name: Mannheim, Philip D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that detailed exploration of the $11$ region, one is thus currently unable to ascertain whether the universe is accelerating or decelerating between $z=1$ and $z=2$. To be able to visualize the supernovae and radio galaxy data simultaneously, we present a representation of the radio galaxy data in terms of an equivalent apparent magnitude Hubble diagram. We discuss briefly some implications of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background for the conformal theory, and show that in that theory fluctuations which set in at around nucleosynthesis can readily generate the first peak in the anisotropy data.
description: aipproc latex, 15 pages, 2 figures. To appear in proceedings of "Short distance behavior of fundamental interactions", Coral Gables Conference, December 2002, B. N. Kursunoglu (Ed.), American Institute of Physics, NY (2003)
title: EFFECTS OF ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA COVERAGE ON DIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL-NORTHERN ITALIAN QUERCUS PUBESCENS SUB-MEDITERRANEAN FORESTS (HABITAT CODE 91AA*): A THRESHOLD ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: Montecchiari, S.
name: Tesei, G.
name: Allegrezza, M.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: alien species; black locust; plant invasion; EU Habitat Directive; sub-Mediterranean; oak forest; Braun-Blanquet cover-abundance scale

description: The invasive alien species Robinia pseudoacacia may lead to species homogenization in high invaded forest ecosystems. Its invasive behaviour is poorly known in dry forest habitats and low cover-abundance conditions. We have investigated central-northern Italian Quercus pubescens forest habitats (code 91AA* - EU Habitat Directive) without and with the presence of R. pseudoacacia and in respect of R. pseudoacacia dominant communities that are present in the same forest potential areas. Using levels of R. pseudoacacia cover-abundance values (Braun-Blanquet scale) we classified the vegetation relevés in five groups: from 0 (total absence) to 4 (dominant conditions). Through the calculation of some indices, we highlighted the relations between groups of relevés and the variation in term of ecological features. A threshold has been identified at low coverage values of R. pseudoacacia. We detected a significant difference in the lower invaded sites in term of presence of nitrophilous and alien species, Shannon diversity index and changes in nutrient, moisture, light and reaction Ellenberg indicator values. These results inform about the early alarm level to set in monitoring Q. pubescens forest habitats in sub-Mediterranean areas.
description: Annali di Botanica, VOL 10 (2020)
title: INVASION OF RIPARIAN HABITATS BY BUDDLEJA DAVIDII: A CASE STUDY FROM THE NORTHERN APENNINES
Creators: name: Gasperini, C.
name: Carrari, E.
name: Selvi, F.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Plant diversity; invasive species; riparian forests; vegetation dynamics, succession

description: Buddleja davidii Franch. is one of the most aggressive invasive plants across the world, especially in riparian ecosystems. However, the invasion processes and the impacts of this species are still poorly known. Here we report a case of massive invasion in the valley of a montane stream of the Tusco-Emilian Apennines, started around the year 1990. In this study, the species was recorded along a corridor of 4.3 km, representing 60% of the total streambed length. Invasion intensity was low in the early herbaceous stage of the succession, while it was highest in the woody pre-forest stage with Salix eleagnos and S. purpurea. Intermediate intensity occurred in the riparian forest with Alnus incana. Plot-level Shannon diversity and evenness of these plant communities were negatively related to B. davidii cover, as well as abundance of woody and herbaceous species. Hence, our findings indicate a negative impact on the diversity of local riparian vegetation. Minimizing the human-mediated disturb to the riparian habitat may help to limit the spread of this alien species in similar habitats of the area.
description: Annali di Botanica, Volume 10, 2020 Online preprint
MOESM3 of Transcriptional induction of capsidiol synthesis genes by wounding can promote pathogen signal-induced capsidiol synthesis
Creators: name: Kojima, Tomoya
name: Nobuhide Asakura
name: Hasegawa, Shiori
name: Taishi Hirasawa
name: Mizuno, Yuri
name: Daigo Takemoto
name: Katou, Shinpei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. BLASTX analysis of transcripts down-regulated in WS3
Extended BMS Algebra of Celestial CFT
Creators: name: Fotopoulos, Angelos
name: Stieberger, Stephan
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
name: Zhu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate on the proposal of flat holography in which four-dimensional physics is encoded in two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The symmetry underlying CCFT is the extended BMS symmetry of (asymptotically) flat spacetime. We use soft and collinear theorems of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory to derive the OPEs of BMS field operators generating superrotations and supertranslations. The energy-momentum tensor, given by a shadow transform of a soft graviton operator, implements superrotations in the Virasoro subalgebra of $\mathfrak{bms_4}$. Supertranslations can be obtained from a single translation generator along the light-cone direction by commuting it with the energy-momentum tensor. This operator also originates from a soft graviton and generates a flow of conformal dimensions. All supertranslations can be assembled into a single primary conformal field operator on celestial sphere.
description: 25 pages
Valuing Public Information in Agricultural Commodity Markets:WASDE Corn Reports
Creators: name: Abbott, Philip
name: Boussios, David
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, Jess Lowenberg-
name: Abbott, Philip
name: Boussios, David
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, Jess Lowenberg-
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Monthly WASDE reports by USDA estimate current and future global supply-utilization balances for various commodities, including corn. Existing literature has shown that markets respond to WASDE releases (news effects) but has not quantified the value or distribution of benefits from those reports. We use Monte Carlo simulations of a quarterly model of the U.S. Corn market to estimate the value of the WASDE forecast and its components. Our results show significant value to market participants from the WASDE reports, roughly $301 million or 0.55% of overall corn market value. The results also show significant value for each forecasted component of the reports: area ($145 million), yield ($188 million), production ($299 million), demand/stocks ($300 million) and exports ($320 million). The benefits of each component do not strictly sum when new information is added because substantial redistribution of benefits occurs, since specific information components help specific interest groups. The expected benefits or losses realized by consumers, producers or traders is often nearly as large as (and sometimes larger than) the net benefits to society from better information. In the base case benefits from WASDE information largely accrues to producers ($153 million) and consumers ($341 million). Traders lose $192 million, as they are presumed to buy at harvest, before valuable demand, stocks and export data is known. Farmers behave as traders when they choose to store, sell forward, or participate directly in futures markets. Thus, the net trader benefit or loss accrues measured.
MOESM1 of Arenobufagin induces MCF-7 cell apoptosis by promoting JNK-mediated multisite phosphorylation of Yes-associated protein
Creators: name: Deng, Li-Juan
name: Qi, Ming
name: Peng, Qun-Long
name: Chen, Min-Feng
name: Qi, Qi
name: Zhang, Jia-Yan
name: Yao, Nan
name: Huang, Mao-Hua
name: Li, Xiao-Bo
name: Peng, Yin-Hui
name: Liu, Jun-Shan
name: Fu, Deng-Rui
name: Chen, Jia-Xu
name: Ye, Wen-Cai
name: Zhang, Dong-Mei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The sequence-specific oligonucleotide primers. Table S2. The target siRNA duplexes. Figure S1. Representative data from the Annexin V/PI apoptosis assay. Following ABF treatment, MCF-7 cells were subjected to Annexin V/PI staining and analyzed by flow cytometry, nâ =â 3. Figure S2. Distribution of YAP in the nuclei and cytoplasm of ABF-treated MCF-7 cells. Nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions were collected and evaluated by Western blotting. Lamin B1 was used as the nuclear protein control, while GAPDH was used as the cytoplasmic protein control.
Diplocladus oculicollis
Creators: name: John M. Leavengood, Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Diplocladus
Diplocladus oculicollis

description: Diplocladus oculicollis (Fairmaire, 1885)
  Distribution Records for Diplocladus oculicollis (Fairmaire).  Botswana (Afr.), Gabarone, 22-28 Jan. 1988, R. D. Ward, Coll., Robert D. Ward Collection, donated 1989 (CMNH; 1); Kenya, SE 12.12 VOI 2007, S Foot Sagala Mts., lgt. Snizek. (IRSNB; 1).
  Discussion of Diplocladus oculicollis.  Botswana and Kenya, new country records, are included in the distribution of D. oculicollis.
description: Published as part of John M. Leavengood, Jr., 2015, On the distribution of some African species of Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), pp. 1-3 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (411) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5181577
title: REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF THE INVASIVE SPECIES ACACIA DEALBATA LINK. IN THE NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
Creators: name: Minuto, L.
name: Casazza, G.
name: Dagnino, D.
name: Guerrina, M.
name: Macrì, C.
name: Zappa, E.
name: Mariotti, M. Giorgio
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: NW Italy; alien species; Acacia dealbata Link.; fruit and seed sets; seed germination

description: Among the many exotic plants introduced in the last two centuries in Northern Mediterranean Basin Acacia dealbata Link. is one of the most invasive. Despite its presence in the region since many years, it has not yet been investigated how the species has established itself and has formed small forests. In this study, we aimed to gather data on reproductive trait of the invasive species A. dealbata at the northern limit of the Mediterranean bioclimatic region. In six naturalized populations, fruit and seed set were estimated and seed germination was tested in laboratory. Two out of the six populations failed to set fruits, and the fruit set was always low as observed in other invaded areas of the world. Only three populations produced germinating seeds whose rates were comparable to other invasive areas. The seeds may constitute a long-lasting seed bank that may favour the colonization of the species in areas disturbed by external factors. In conclusion, the reproductive system may contributes only partially to the spread and invasiveness of the species in the Northern Mediterranean basin, while the plant to spread itself adopts also other vegetative strategies.
description: Annali di Botanica, VOL 10 (2020)
Euselates (Euselates) moupinensis
Creators: name: Ziani, Stefano
name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Branco, Tristão
name: Hillert, Oliver
name: Jákl, Stanislav
name: Král, David
name: Mantič, Marion
name: Rössner, Eckehard
name: Sehnal, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Euselates
Euselates moupinensis

description: Euselates (Euselates) moupinensis (Fairmaire, 1891)
 Material examined. CHINA (GANSU): Liupan Mts., 10 km W of Shangguan, 35°03’N 106°29’E, V Sinaev leg. (2 ♂♂ and 1 ♀). CHINA (HUNAN): Zhang Jia Jie National park, 1400-1600 m, 15.-17.vii.1992, C. Holzchuh leg. (1 ♂ and 1 ♀ in SJCP).
 Distribution. The species is known from central and southeastern China (Mikšić 1976). Recently, Krajčík (2011) recorded it from Henan and Shaanxi Provinces. First records from Gansu and Hunan Provinces.
description: Published as part of Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (409) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5181742
The Effect of Pit Closure on Futures Trading
Creators: name: Gousgounis, Eleni
name: Onur, Esen
name: Gousgounis, Eleni
name: Onur, Esen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Motivated by CME’s decision to close down most of the futures pits in July of 2015, we analyze the changes in a number of important CME futures markets between 2012 and 2016. We find that although futures pit trading has been diminished to very low levels, it has not completely disappeared. While we do not have evidence of futures pit traders transitioning to the electronic market, we see that some futures pit traders are still active in options pit markets. When we explore the changes in daily trading patterns, we observe a shift in the timing of trading hours for a few select markets. In terms of execution costs, we do not observe any definitive effect of the pit closures on execution costs for most commodities in the electronic market. However, effective spreads for random length lumber futures appear to increase around the time of the announcement of the pit closures. A similar effect is observed for trading strategies in treasury futures during the roll periods.
MOESM2 of Transcriptional induction of capsidiol synthesis genes by wounding can promote pathogen signal-induced capsidiol synthesis
Creators: name: Kojima, Tomoya
name: Nobuhide Asakura
name: Hasegawa, Shiori
name: Taishi Hirasawa
name: Mizuno, Yuri
name: Daigo Takemoto
name: Katou, Shinpei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. List of transcripts down-regulated in WS3
Market Concentration in the Wheat Merchandizing Industry
Creators: name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Taylor, Mykel
name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Taylor, Mykel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Prices offered to farmers by grain handling facilities have been shown to be affected by the spatial competition structure of the market within which these facilities operate. However, little information exists about how elevators' technological and ownership type characteristics, differences in the demand for grain handling services, and volatility in railcar costs alter grain elevators' pricing behaviors within alternative spatially competitive market structures. This work combines several unique datasets—restricted-access rail waybill sample, daily basis bid information, and elevator-level technological and ownership structure characteristics—to provide an exploratory analysis of the specific factors that can help explain basis bid behaviors across 267 Kansas wheat handling facilities. We provide preliminary evidence that these factors could include variation in the final destination of shipped wheat, increased price variability and uncertainty in secondary railcar markets, differences in the capacity and loading speed, and the business structure (cooperative or investor-owned firm) of the elevator.
Noise and spectral stability of deep-UV gas-filled fiber-based supercontinuum sources driven by ultrafast mid-IR pulses
Creators: name: Adamu, Abubakar I.
name: Habib, Md. Selim
name: Lopez, J. Enrique Antonio
name: Jepsen, Peter Uhd
name: Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo
name: Bang, Ole
name: Markos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep-UV (DUV) supercontinuum (SC) sources based on gas-filled hollow-core fibers constitute perhaps the most viable solution towards ultrafast, compact, and tunable lasers in the UV spectral region. Noise and spectral stability of such broadband sources are key parameters that define their true potential and suitability towards real-world applications. In order to investigate the spectral stability and noise levels in these fiber-based DUV sources, we generate an SC spectrum that extends from 180 nm (through phase-matched dispersive waves - DWs) to 4 μm by pumping an argon-filled hollow-core anti-resonant fiber at a wavelength of 2.45 μm. We characterize the long-term stability of the source over several days and the pulse-to-pulse relative intensity (RIN) noise of the strongest DW at 275 nm. The results indicate no sign of spectral degradation over 110 hours, but the RIN of the DW pulses at 275 nm is found to be as high as 33.3%. Numerical simulations were carried out to investigate the spectral distribution of the RIN and the results confirm the experimental measurements and that the poor noise performance is due to the RIN of the pump laser, which was hitherto not considered in numerical modelling of these sources. The results presented herein provide an important step towards an understanding of the noise mechanism underlying such complex light-gas nonlinear interactions and demonstrate the need for pump laser stabilization.
title: FLORISTIC DIVERSITY, ECOLOGY AND HABITAT CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITIES WITH BRASSICA TOURNEFORTII GOUAN IN NORTHERN OF SAUDI ARABIA
Creators: name: Naghmouchi, S.
name: Alsubeie, M.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Brassica tournefortii, flora, diversity, phytosociology, ecology, soil, correlation

description: The present study aimed to identify the communities with Brassica tournefortii Gouan in Al-Jouf areas in northern Saudi Arabia, to determine the ecological amplitude of this species and soil factors controlling its distribution. The plant communities dominated by B. tournefortii were investigated in fifteen localities through 15 plots. In each plot the present species were recorded. Data were treated by multivariate analyses. Soils of each community were analyzed using eleven physico-chemical parameters. Analysis of variance and correlation coefficient were performed based on R software package. Three vegetation types have been recognized by the applications of Past program classification. 83 species have been observed. Canonical correspondence analysis demonstrated that soil parameters contributed significantly to the distribution of species. B. tournefortii dominated the communities in newly reclaimed lands, where it survived in sandy habitats. It is characterized by high competition with both cultivated plants and associated weeds. This paper represents a study of the diversity of B. tournefortii communities in Arabia Saudi.
description: Annali di Botanica, Volume 10, 2020 Online preprint
title: Social Elections
Creators: name: Schürmann, Carsten
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: E-Voting
subject: Sozialwahl

description: In 2023, Germany, for the first time in history, offered online voting over the Internet in form of a pilot project as an alternative to postal voting for the 2023 social elections (in German 'Sozialwahl'). In this paper, we describe intentions, political processes, implementation, and also the lessons learned from this pilot project, which might be of interest for other election management bodies wishing to offer Internet Voting as an alternative voting channel.
title: THE LOPHIRIS ALSO NEED MORE ATTENTION
Creators: name: BLANCO WHITE, A.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2019

description: Section Lophiris (Evansias) are fairly easy plants for the gardener because they can be grown in the open, either in the ground or in pots, under conditions indicated by their natural habitats which are widely dispersed through the northern hemisphere. Many new forms have been found in recent years. Ten species are presently recognised and it is possible to divide them into two main groups: evergreen and herbaceous. One form, wrongly known in Britain as Iris wattii Baker, considered an hybrid, similar to /. confusa Sealy and often mixed up with it, is almost certainly a true species, but needs to be properly investigated. Although there is a general idea that all the larger Lophiris species will interbreed across the genus Iris, in practice only I. tectorum Maxim, will do so. Unfortunately this species is very susceptible to virus infection which, given suitable conditions, it can survive indefinitely. However, it passes this characteristic on to its hybrids so that the presence of the virus is a fairly reliable indicator where the breeding of such a hybrid is in doubt. I. gracilipes A.Gray, I. latistyla Y.T. Zhao and I. tenuis Watson have totally different leaf morphology and cultural requirements from the other Lophiris and seem to need serious consideration as possibly belonging to some different category in spite of the crests on their falls. In fact, all the members of the section seem to need extensive reconsideration.
description: Annali di Botanica, Vol 58 (2000)
The Value of USDA Information in a Big Data Era
Creators: name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga Isengildina-
name: Karali, Berna
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Adjemian, Michael K.
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga Isengildina-
name: Karali, Berna
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Adjemian, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The goal of this study is to determine how big data and access to information affects the role and impact of USDA’s situation and outlook programs. Changes in market reaction to various USDA reports including WASDE, Crop Production, Grain Stocks, Prospective Plantings, Acreage, Hogs and Pigs and Cattle on Feed reports over 1970-2016 study period were analyzed. Market reaction was measured as a change in volatility of corn, soybean, wheat, lean hogs, live cattle, cotton and frozen concentrated orange juice returns on report release days. Our findings demonstrate that the impact of USDA reports has not diminished and often increased in crops during the recent decade. On the other hand, the value of USDA reports in livestock markets appears to be decreasing.
title: ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRIS GERMANICA L.
Creators: name: SERVICE, N.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2019

description: In the course of a wider study of the species, it has been found that many of the forms of I. germanica L. previously assumed to be near-sterile clones are, in fact, groups of more or less closely related plants, appearing similar only in a very superficial sense and often much more fertile than has been realised. Apart from the blurring effects of its widespread use as a cultivated decorative plant, I. germanica on examination in its naturalized habitats and in old established cultivations in France and Spain has proved to consist, predominantly or solely of one or another of these groups of closely similar variants, often over an extended range. From observation it appears that a similar pattern, with one group dominating an often large region - perhaps hundreds of kilometres square - to vanish entirely in an adjoining area, replaced by another group, totally distinct in vegetative and flora characteristics, is likely to be continued throughout southern Europe and western Asia. The situation is complicated though by pronounced genetic instability in at least some groups.
description: Annali di Botanica, Vol 58 (2000)
title: ON THE APPLICATION OF CHAOS THEORY TO ANALYSE FLUCTUATIONS IN WET MEADOWS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Creators: name: WALTHER, G.
name: KLÖTZLI, F.
name: GASSMANN, F.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2019

description: The very complex behaviour of non-linear systems can make any predictability in the longer term extremely difficult if not impossible. Chaotic dynamics is likely to be the rule rather than the exception in natural ecosystems. In this context, new possibilities are offered by tools of chaos theory with the application of simple but non-linear mathematical models that might be able to describe a major part of the dynamics of the level of aggregation we are observing. The authors present preliminary results based on the application of an interacting particle system (IPS) model to analyse long-term investigations of vegetation dynamics in permanent plots.
description: Annali di Botanica, Vol 57 (1999)
Additional file 10 of Transcriptomic analysis of the temporal host response to skin infestation with the ectoparasitic mite Psoroptes ovis
Creators: name: Burgess, Stewart TG
name: Frew, David
name: Nunn, Francesca
name: Watkins, Craig A
name: McNeilly, Tom N
name: Nisbet, Alasdair J
name: Huntley, John F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Authors’ original file for figure 8
Radiation and evolution of small relativistic dipole in QED
Creators: name: Blok, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in the quasiclassical approximation the radiation reaction and its influence on the space-time evolution for the small relativistic dipole moving in a constant external electromagnetic field in QED.
description: 41 pages, 20 eps figures
title: Improving the Observation of ICT in Elections - Widening the Methodological Scope
Creators: name: Misev, Vladimir
name: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata
name: Past, Liisa
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ICT
subject: elections
subject: cybersecurity
subject: elections ancillary systems
subject: OSCE/ODIHR

description: A growing number of countries use ICT-enabled solutions for their elections. Some of the most discussed are those related to voting, counting and tabulation of election results. Many other aspects of the election process, however, from voter and candidate registration to election campaigning, political and campaign finance as well as results management and publication systems have become ICT-based. Unfortunately, they are also increasingly becoming the targets of a number of malicious actors intending to disrupt electoral processes and undermine public trust. The authors showcase the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe‘s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) recently updated methodology, which they worked to update, including increased attention to cybersecurity in elections and auxiliary systems. They also apply this new framework to the specific case of Estonia,which has substantial experience and comparatively long history of conducting online elections supported by various ICT-based ancillary systems and as such has been at the forefront of facing cybersecurity challenges across its governance systems. This advancement should help observers to better assess whether states are conducting elections that are genuine and democratic in order to better protect integrity and potentially strengthen public confidence.
A map of OMC-1 in CO 9-8
Creators: name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Battat, J.
name: Bensch, F.
name: Blundell, R.
name: Diaz, M.
name: Gibson, H.
name: Hunter, T.
name: Meledin, D.
name: Paine, S.
name: Papa, D. C.
name: Radford, S. J. E.
name: Smith, M.
name: Tong, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of 12C16O J=9-8 (1.037 THz) emission has been mapped in OMC-1 at 35 points with 84" resolution. This is the first map of this source in this transition and only the second velocity-resolved ground-based observation of a line in the terahertz frequency band. There is emission present at all points in the map, a region roughly 4' by 6' in size, with peak antenna temperature dropping only near the edges. Away from the Orion KL outflow, the velocity structure suggests that most of the emission comes from the OMC-1 photon-dominated region, with a typical linewidthof 3-6 km/s. Large velocity gradient modeling of the emission in J=9-8 and six lower transitions suggests that the lines originate in regions with temperatures around 120 K and densities of at least 10^(3.5) cm^(-3) near theta^(1) C Ori and at the Orion Bar, and from 70 K gas at around 10^(4) cm^(-3) southeast and west of the bar. These observations are among the first made with the 0.8 m Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Receiver Lab Telescope, a new instrument designed to observe at frequencies above 1 THz from an extremely high and dry site in northern Chile.
description: Minor changes to references, text to match ApJ version
title: How Leader and Follower Mindfulness Relate to Performance and OCB through Conversation Quality and Empathy: A Moderated Mediation Model
Creators: name: White-Levatich, Arianna
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Interest within the organizational research community regarding mindfulness has recently surged. Little research, however, has examined how employees’ mindfulness may influence interactions between leaders and followers. This study examined how followers’ trait mindfulness related to two specific aspects of dyadic interactions: leader – member conversational quality (LMCQ) and follower empathy toward a leader. Further, the study examined how this influence extended (via LMCQ and leader-oriented empathy) to task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), two important workplace outcomes for followers. Leader mindfulness was also expected to have a significant influence on the relationships, in that it was expected to strengthen the expected positive relationships between follower mindfulness and outcomes. Survey data were collected from 105 white-collar employees and 40 leaders (N = 105). Path-analytic results indicated a positive relation between follower trait mindfulness and both LMCQ and empathy for leaders. LMCQ was also significantly related to employee task performance, as was empathy for the leader with OCB. Follower trait mindfulness was significantly indirectly related to task performance and OCB via the mediators, as hypothesized. The moderating influence of leader mindfulness on relationships between follower trait mindfulness and LMCQ/empathy for the leader was not significant. The implications of these results for theory and practice are discussed.
title: MODULATION IN LEVELS OF INORGANIC IONS, DRY MATTER, AND NITROGEN FRACTIONS IN MULBERRY UNDER DIFFERENT MOISTURE REGIMES
Creators: name: RANJITHA KUMARI, B.D.
name: VEERANJANEYULU, A.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2019

description: Influence of moisture stress on the levels of soil moisture (%) water potential, inorganic ions, dry matter and nitrogen fractions was studied in mulberry. Leaf water potential decreased with decrease in soil moisture level. Inorganic ions, calcium, potassium and sodium increased in roots and leaves with increasing intensity of stress. The reduction in dry matter of roots and leaves was higher in severe and very severe stress than in mild and moderate stress. The root and leaf total and protein nitrogen content decreased over control in all stress treatments. In contrast soluble nitrogen content increased with increase in stress treatments.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 54 (1996)
Additional file 11 of Transcriptomic analysis of the temporal host response to skin infestation with the ectoparasitic mite Psoroptes ovis
Creators: name: Burgess, Stewart TG
name: Frew, David
name: Nunn, Francesca
name: Watkins, Craig A
name: McNeilly, Tom N
name: Nisbet, Alasdair J
name: Huntley, John F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Authors’ original file for figure 9
A Note on Doubly-Charged Higgs Pair Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Mühlleitner, Margarete
name: Spira, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of doubly-charged Higgs particles at hadron colliders in extensions of the SM with Higgs isospin triplets. At both the Tevatron and the LHC, these corrections are found to be moderate in size increasing the cross sections by about 20--30%. The residual theoretical uncertainties are of the order of 10--15% which is sufficient for experimental searches for these particles at the Tevatron and LHC.
description: 5 pages, latex, 2 figures
Hospital Sizes for Rural Areas When Patient Arrivals Are Poisson Distributed
Creators: name: Edwards, Clark
name: Doherty, Neville
name: Edwards, Clark
name: Doherty, Neville
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Rural development
subject: rural and health services
subject: heal til facilities
subject: statistical methods

description: This study applies the logic of queuing thcory to the availability of hospital services in a ruraloriented. multicounty planning district in northwestern lower Michigan. The seven hospitals in the area had 611 beds and provided services for 489 patient-days in 1 year. The study found that the seven hospitals apparently cooperate with one another. at least partially. in providing services. because if they operated independently they would not have sufficient capacity for peak loads. The observed number of beds. which is about 5.5 standard deviations above the expected number of arrivals. is almost certainly adequate for peak loads if the hospitals cooperate fully.
Calodia sichuanensis Nielson 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Calodia
Calodia sichuanensis

description: Calodia sichuanensis, sp. nov.
(Plate 1B, Fig. 20-27)
 Description. Length. Male 7.70 mm., female unknown.
 External morphology. Moderate size, slightly robust species. General color black throughout with numerous, small, tannish specks dorsally, except eyes, eyes nearly transparent; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely rounded; crown very narrow, narrower than width of eyes, slightly produced anteriorly, lateral margins convergent basally; eyes large, elongate ovoid; pronotum moderately large, about ½ longer medially than crown, surface bullated, mesonotum large, nearly twice as long medially as pronotum; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus narrow, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, apex flared.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view triangulate, with small lobe apically, sparsely setose apically (Fig. 20); aedeagus asymmetrical, slightly broad, tubular in dorsal and lateral views, with 2 long, subapical processes, 1 very narrow, glabrous, 1 broad, with few spines apically in ventral view, 2 spines subapically in lateral view, shaft toothed on dorsal margin between apex and base of subapical process, gonopore near base of processes (Fig. 21, 22); style long and narrow, apex tapered (Fig. 23, 24); dorsal connective long, broad basally, tapered apically (Fig. 25); connective large, membranous arms broad, tapered distally, stem oval (Fig. 26) subgenital plate long, sparsely setose apically (Fig. 27).
 Material examined. Holotype male. CHINA: Sichuan, Mt. Emei, 1050 m., 18.VII.1990, L. and M. Bocák, leg. (NHMB).
 Etymology. The name of the species is geographical for province of Sichuan, China.
 Remarks. From C. bicompressa, sp. nov. to which it is similar in aedeagal and stylar features, C. sichuanensis, sp. nov. can be distinguished by the aedeagal processes, both of which are glabrous and by the tapered apex of the style.
description: Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2015, A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), pp. 1-202 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (410) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5181587