cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Causalities of the Taiwan Stock Market
Creators: name: Ting, Juhi-Lian Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Volatility, fitting with first order Landau expansion, stationarity, and causality of the Taiwan stock market (TAIEX) are investigated based on daily records. Instead of consensuses that consider stock market index change as a random time series we propose the market change as a dual time series consists of the index and the corresponding volume. Therefore, causalities between these two time series are investigated.
description: 8 pages, 15 figures
Epoca y Severidad de la Poda Radicular en el Crecimiento y Relación Agua/Planta del Melocotón "Bellaire" (Prunus persica L. batsch)
Creators: name: Santos, Roberto
name: Santos, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Poda radicular fue realizada a árboles de melocotón "Bellaire" /Lovell (Prunus persica L. Batsch) sin frutificación, de 4 años de edad a 0.40 ó 0.80 m distante del tronco y ambos lados paralelo a las hileras. Los tratamientos fueron aplicados el 25 de: abril, 25 de mayo y 23 de junio respectivamente a una profundidad de 0.35 m en 1990. La conducción estomática, crecimiento de las ramas, floración y frutificación (1991) fueron evaluadas durante la ejecución del experimento. Reducción en la actividad estomática, crecimiento de las ramas y tamaño del fruto fue observado en los árboles tratados. La floración, número de frutos y eficiencia de la producción resultaron mayores en los árboles podados radiculannente comparado con los controles.
Pressure and linear heat capacity in the superconducting state of thoriated UBe13
Creators: name: Zieve, R. J.
name: Duke, R.
name: Smith, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Even well below Tc, the heavy-fermion superconductor (U,Th)Be13 has a large linear term in its specific heat. We show that under uniaxial pressure, the linear heat capacity increases in magnitude by more than a factor of two. The change is reversible and suggests that the linear term is an intrinsic property of the material. In addition, we find no evidence of hysteresis or of latent heat in the low-temperature and low-pressure portion of the phase diagram, showing that all transitions in this region are second order.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Large $m$ asymptotics for minimal partitions of the Dirichlet eigenvalue
Creators: name: Geng, Zhiyuan
name: Lin, Fanghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49R05, 35P05, 47A75

description: In this paper, we study large $m$ asymptotics of the $l^1$ minimal $m$-partition problem for Dirichlet eigenvalue. For any smooth domain $Ω\in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that $|Ω|=1$, we prove that the limit $\lim\limits_{m\rightarrow\infty}l_m^1(Ω)=c_0$ exists, and the constant $c_0$ is independent of the shape of $Ω$. Here $l_m^1(Ω)$ denotes the minimal value of the normalized sum of the first Laplacian eigenvalues for any $m$-partition of $Ω$.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics
Spontaneous-emission rates in finite photonic crystals of plane scatterers
Creators: name: Wubs, M.
name: Suttorp, L. G.
name: Lagendijk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of a plane scatterer that was developed earlier for scalar waves is generalized so that polarization of light is included. Starting from a Lippmann-Schwinger formalism for vector waves, we show that the Green function has to be regularized before T-matrices can be defined in a consistent way. After the regularization, optical modes and Green functions are determined exactly for finite structures built up of an arbitrary number of parallel planes, at arbitrary positions, and where each plane can have different optical properties. The model is applied to the special case of finite crystals consisting of regularly spaced identical planes, where analytical methods can be taken further and only light numerical tasks remain. The formalism is used to calculate position- and orientation-dependent spontaneous-emission rates inside and near the finite photonic crystals. The results show that emission rates and reflection properties can differ strongly for scalar and for vector waves. The finite size of the crystal influences the emission rates. For parallel dipoles close to a plane, emission into guided modes gives rise to a peak in the frequency-dependent emission rate.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E
DETAILED CROP SUITABILITY MAPS AND AN AGRICULTURAL ZONATION SCHEME FOR MALAWI Spatial information for agricultural planning purposes
Creators: name: Benson, Todd
name: Mabiso, Athur
name: Nankhuni, Flora
name: Benson, Todd
name: Mabiso, Athur
name: Nankhuni, Flora
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Malawi
subject: Spatial information
subject: Crop Suitability maps

description: Although relatively small, Malawi is a country with significant agro-ecological diversity reflecting the diverse landforms associated with the Great Rift Valley that runs the length of the country. The effects of those landforms on soil formation processes, local climates, the distribution of water resources, and vegetation patterns results in a variety of quite complex farming systems across Malawi that farmers have developed to exploit distinct combinations of local agricultural resources. One important implication of this variety of farming systems is that the comparative advantage of different areas of Malawi for the production of different crops, livestock, and other agricultural products, whether for commercial purposes or for household food security, will differ significantly from place to place. In consequence, any agriculture plans that assume that a single technical approach to improving agricultural productivity and increasing the economic returns that households receive from their agricultural livelihoods will fail in many places. In designing agricultural development policies for the country, the geographic diversity of Malawian agriculture needs to be considered.
Quark mass dependence of baryon properties
Creators: name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss the quark mass dependence of various baryon properties derived from chiral perturbation theory. Such representations can eventually be used as chiral extrapolation functions when lattice data at sufficiently small quark masses become available. The quark mass dependence is encoded in loop and contact term contributions, the latter given in terms of low-energy constants. I stress the importance of utilizing phenomenological input to constrain a certain class of low-energy constants and discuss the ensuing theoretical uncertainty for various baryon observables, like the nucleon and the baryon octet masses, the nucleon isovector anomalous magnetic moment and the axial-vector coupling of the nucleon. I stress the role of resonance decoupling and present first results for the delta mass based on an effective field theory in which the nucleon-delta mass splitting is counted as a small parameter. I also discuss briefly the pion mass dependence of the nuclear force as derived from chiral nuclear effective field theory.
description: 21 pp, PoS style, plenary talk at Lattice 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Irland, 25th-30th July 2005
Dissertation planning tool at department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University
Creators: name: Skånes, Helle
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized
Physical Geography

description: This is a spread sheet to guide PhD students at the department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University in their final preparations before dissertation. It delineates the most important deadlines and tasks that have to be under taken before the public defense.
It is also useful for supervisors and administrative staff of the department to plan upcoming dissertations.
Note that the documents may be used by other departments, but the soft deadlines before the printing process, nailing period and official rules are tailored for our department and might not apply to other departments.
Also note that there might be unforeseen effects in relation to specific holidays that might influence the time frame. So each user of this spreadsheet is responsible for ensuring that everything happens in time.
The document has been developed in collaboration with Avhandlingssupport at Stockholm University
New versions will be uploaded and old versions are then obsolete.

For questions, please contact helle.skanes@natgeo.su.se
Transmission- to reflection-dominated transition in Seyfert 2 galaxies: the XMM-Newton view
Creators: name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Rodriguez-Pascual, P.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Matt, G.
name: Fiore, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the current status of a XMM-Newton program to observe an optically-defined, complete and unbiased sample of Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxies. The main goal of this project is the measurement of the occurrence rate of transition between transmission- (i.e.: Compton-thin), and reflection-dominated spectral states. These transitions potentially provide information on the distribution of the obscuring matter surrounding the nucleus, and on the duty-cycle of the AGN activity. With about 2/3 of the whole sample being observed, we detected 1 further transition out of 8 observed objects, confirming previous suggestions that these transitions occur on time-scales ~50-100 years.
description: 4 Latex pages, 5 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the Conference "Multiwavelength AGN Surveys", Mujica R. and Maiolino R. Eds
Estimates for the single-spin asymmetries in $p^{\uparrow}p \to J/ψX$ process at PHENIX RHIC and SPD NICA
Creators: name: Karpishkov, Anton
name: Nefedov, Maxim
name: Saleev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transverse single-spin asymmetry (TSSA) in $p^{\uparrow}p \to J/ψX$ reaction, incorporating both transverse-momentum and spin effects. To predict production cross section of prompt $J/ψ$ we use two different approaches, the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization approach and the Improved Color Evaporation Model (ICEM), and show how the predicted results for TSSAs depend on choice of hadronization model. For initial-state factorization we consider two models: the standard Generalized Parton Model (GPM) and the Colour Gauge-Invariant version of it (CGI-GPM). We demonstrate that PHENIX collaboration data on TSSA in the process $p^{\uparrow}p \to J/ψX$ constrain the gluon Sivers function of the proton and rule-out one of existing parameterizations. Estimates for the TSSAs in $p^{\uparrow}p \to J/ψX$ process for the conditions of the future SPD NICA experiment are presented for the first time.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
title: Children's Awareness of Structural Relationships Embedded in Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Creators: name: Butlin, John Stanley
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: A common practice in primary schools is the use of tasks that involve children solving word problems. A great deal of research has focused on improving children's performance in these tasks by various forms of instruction. This study aims to reveal transitions in children's thinking about; and awareness of structural relationships embedded in word problems by involving children in tasks focused on word problems, but getting them to sort, and match problems,and to construct their own similar problems. The intention was to investigate the nature of the activity that learners engage in when working on these tasks with a view to informing discussion about the role of word problems in the mathematics curriculum.

A small group of Year 4 children worked on solving, sorting, matching and constructing tasks approximately once every four weeks over a several month period. Data was collected in the form of written recordings made by the children, transcripts of dialogue and field notes. The approach taken to the study was broadly in the spirit of grounded theory and drew heavily on the Discipline of Noticing (Mason, 2002). Using aspects of this framework,accounts-of the data were constructed and these were carefully analysed with the intention of providing accounts-for the phenomena that were observed.Two main themes emerged from the analysis. The first I describe as persistent behaviour. This is the tendency for children to display similar behaviour and attend to similar foci across tasks and over time, despite this behaviour, on occasion, being inappropriate. The second theme, in contrast, was unstable behaviour. This is the tendency for children to display variation in behaviour when responding to tasks that might be expected to produce similar responses.Attempts are made to account-for these phenomena and implications for teaching and learning are discussed. It is concluded that the potential of word problems as a pedagogical tool might be better exploited if learners experienced long term immersion in sorting, matching and constructing tasks in addition to the more common focus on solving.
Open hearts and open access for immigrant professionals [microform] : a case study of Chinese immigrant engineers in the Greater Vancouver region, British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Bai, Lian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Successful economic integration benefits both recent skilled immigrants and Canada. Researchers have indicated that human capital, social capital and gender all affect the economic integration of skilled immigrants. Few studies, however, examine the association between post-immigration human capital development and occupational attainment. Little is known about how professional regulatory bodies, immigration services agencies and educational institutions affect the development of social capital once individuals have arrived at their immigration destination. There is also limited knowledge about how female skilled immigrants overcome dual barriers as "immigrants" and "females" to achieve occupational attainment. In this dissertation I draw on data collected through interviews on the employment experiences of 23 Chinese-Canadian immigrant engineers who live in Vancouver, Canada. My findings indicate that human capital is not static; rather it undergoes continuous development in response to changes in the skills deemed important from one labor market to another. Financial support from Canadian governments is needed in order to raise the economic returns of post-immigration human capital. I also find that institutional involvement helps Chinese-Canadian immigrant engineers acquire social capital. The coordination between key stakeholders will facilitate economic integration of skilled immigrants. Finally, my study indicates that female Chinese-Canadian immigrant engineers actively forge and mobilize social resources in order to successfully develop their careers in Canada.
Action Plans
Creators: name: Fahimeh Mousavi, Serena Dentoni, Yishak Fentamarya, Ralitsa Zhekoa, Irina Kircheva
Publisher: name: EMPOWEREDbyNEIA
Year: 2025

description: This deliverable, “D.4.3 Action Plans Dissemination Report,” presents the key outputs of Task 4.3 – Communication and dissemination of the joint programme plans under Work Package 4 (WP4) of the EMPOWEREDbyNEIA project. Thisreport illustrates the key content and proposed actions from the Action Plans, providing a comprehensive summary of the Joint Action Plans developed under the initiative. It offers detailed insights into the strategies, actions, and proposed project ideas necessary for the effective implementation of these plans. The Action Plans aim to address regional challenges in the Green/Cleantech sector by fostering strategic cross-border collaborations, promoting innovation, and enabling sustainable growth. This report highlights how the Joint Action Plans will serve as a roadmap to enhance interconnected innovation ecosystems across European regions, aligning with the goals of the European Green Deal and the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA). The project focuses on seven regions: Austria (Lower Austria), Bulgaria (Varna District), Croatia (Pannonian Croatia), Estonia (nationwide), Italy (Lazio Region), Poland (Małopolska), and Romania (North-West Region). By building synergies between stakeholders and aligning with funding opportunities, the project envisions a transformative impact on Cleantech innovation and sustainability.
Rapidity equilibration in d + Au and Au + Au systems
Creators: name: Wolschin, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a Relativistic Diffusion Model (RDM), the evolution of net-proton rapidity spectra with sqrt(s_NN) in heavy systems is proposed as an indicator for local equilibration and longitudinal expansion. The broad midrapidity valley recently discovered at RHIC in central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV suggests rapid local equilibration which is most likely due to deconfinement, and fast longitudinal expansion. Rapidity spectra of produced charged hadrons in d + Au and Au + Au systems at RHIC energies and their centrality dependence are well described in a three-sources RDM. In central collisions, about 19 % of the produced particles are in the equilibrated midrapidity region for d + Au.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; QGPTH05 Vienna; references updated
Additional file 1 of “Determining the efficacy of a machine learning model for measuring periodontal bone loss”
Creators: name: Cerda Mardini, Diego
name: Cerda Mardini, Patricio
name: Vicuña Iturriaga, Daniela Paz
name: Ortuño Borroto, Duniel Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Years of Experience of Human Participants from Standardized Test.
Neural Generators of Sparse Local Linear Models for Achieving both Accuracy and Interpretability
Creators: name: Yoshikawa, Yuya
name: Iwata, Tomoharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For reliability, it is important that the predictions made by machine learning methods are interpretable by human. In general, deep neural networks (DNNs) can provide accurate predictions, although it is difficult to interpret why such predictions are obtained by DNNs. On the other hand, interpretation of linear models is easy, although their predictive performance would be low since real-world data is often intrinsically non-linear. To combine both the benefits of the high predictive performance of DNNs and high interpretability of linear models into a single model, we propose neural generators of sparse local linear models (NGSLLs). The sparse local linear models have high flexibility as they can approximate non-linear functions. The NGSLL generates sparse linear weights for each sample using DNNs that take original representations of each sample (e.g., word sequence) and their simplified representations (e.g., bag-of-words) as input. By extracting features from the original representations, the weights can contain rich information to achieve high predictive performance. Additionally, the prediction is interpretable because it is obtained by the inner product between the simplified representations and the sparse weights, where only a small number of weights are selected by our gate module in the NGSLL. In experiments with real-world datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the NGSLL quantitatively and qualitatively by evaluating prediction performance and visualizing generated weights on image and text classification tasks.
description: 11 pages
Jessenia bataua: A Unique Oil-Palm With Potential for Commercial Cultivation in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Joyner, M.E.B.
name: Joyner, M.E.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Jessenia bataua (Mart.) Burrett is an oil palm with great commercial potential. Its preponderance of unsaturated oils, produced in abundance and virtually identical to olive oil, makes it desirable for cooking purposes and for health reasons. Its natural, but by no means exclusive, market would be those parts of Europe and North America where olive oil is valued and used. As a plantation crop, jessenia is well suited to those areas of the Caribbean with well drained, fertile soils and reliable tropical rainfall patterns. Selected areas of the Caribbean would be good choices for cultivation of J. bataua for several reasons. First, the Caribbean has well established trading ties with North America, Britain, and France and, potentially, the rest of the European Economic Community. Second, as a specialty crop of perhaps limited production potential by the standards of larger, more developed nations, it is admirably suited to relatively small, intensively cultivated areas and to governments small enough and concerned enough that they could take sufficient interest in its successful cultivation and promotion to ensure its commercial success. Next to grasses, [the palms] are the most generally useful of all plants .... Among the products yielded by palms are sugar, "milk," fat, wax, textile fabrics, wood for building, and leaves for making thatch, baskets, mats, and the like. E.W. Eckey, p.302 Many species of palm are potentially valuable for commercial oil extraction. M.J. Balick, p.11; emphasis added.
Deliverable D4.1: Plan for Dissemination and Communication
Creators: name: European Organisation for Security
name: Reuge, Elodie
name: Bianchi, Giacomo
name: Brumter, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: By describing the basis of the dissemination and communication activities, the Plan for Dissemination and Communication (D4.1) creates the overall engagement approach that TRANSCEND will follow and respect during the project implementation, keeping an eye on the key pillars to be added to D4.1:

Integrating the project into the EU and Global Security ecosystem;

Providing reports and insights to the funding authority;

Engaging with relevant stakeholders in the scope of the project’s innovation support and validation services; and

Disseminating value-added outputs to the relevant stakeholders.

To that purpose, the objectives were firstly defined as well as the expected impact and level of engagement to reach these goals. Secondly, the Plan for Dissemination and Communication needs to identify the targeted audience. In order to maximise the impact of the dissemination and communication activities, the audience was divided into target groups and their needs were defined. Such approach, building on the previous work consisting of defining suitable stakeholders for the TRANSCEND Network, enables the effective awareness campaign and involvement of key stakeholders needed for the success of the action. 

Moreover, Dissemination and Communication should take into consideration a tailored approach only, as mentioned above, to be successful. Indeed, key messages have been developed in order to determine the content to be communicated per Work Package and target group. This way, the right message will be shared to the right audience at the right moment.

Finally, the Communication materials, visual identity and vector of communication such as social media have been designed and produced to support the above-mentioned strategy to ensure the TRANSCEND project is recognizable by the target audience.
Least-Squared Optimized Polynomials for Smeared Link Actions
Creators: name: Katz, S. D.
name: Toth, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a numerical method for generating the approximating polynomials used in fermionic calculations with smeared link actions. We investigate the stability of the algorithm and determine the optimal weight function and the optimal type of discretization. The achievable order of polynomial approximation reaches several thousands allowing fermionic calculations using the Hypercubic Smeared Link action even with physical quark masses.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, Final version appeared in Comp.Phys.Comm
Additional file 1 of Barriers and facilitators to reducing low-value care for the management of low back pain in Iran: a qualitative multi-professional study
Creators: name: Parvar, Seyedeh Yasamin
name: Mojgani, Parviz
name: Lankarani, Kamran Bagheri
name: Poursaeed, Fereshteh
name: Mohamadi Jahromi, Leila Sadat
name: Mishra, Vinaytosh
name: Abbasi, Alireza
name: Shahabi, Saeed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
A thermodynamic approach to measuring entropy in a few-electron nanodevice
Creators: name: Pyurbeeva, E.
name: Mol, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy of a system gives a powerful insight into its microscopic degrees of freedom, however standard experimental ways of measuring entropy through heat capacity are hard to apply in mesoscale and nanoscale systems, as they require the measurement of increasingly small amounts of heat. This problem calls for radically different measurement methods that do not suffer from decreasing accuracy with the decreasing size of the system. For nanoelectric devices in the state of Coulomb blockade, with only two energetically accessible charge states, two purely electric, size-independent methods of measuring the entropy difference between the charge states have been proposed: through transport properties and charge balance measurements. We suggest a self-consistent thermodynamic framework for the treatment of entropy in Coulomb-blocked electric nanodevices which incorporates both existing entropy measurement methods, generalises them, and expands to systems with arbitrarily complex microstates corresponding to each charge state.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
MICRONUTRIENT POLICY CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE KALEIDOSCOPE MODEL FOR FOOD SECURITY POLICY CHANGE
Creators: name: Hendriks, Sheryl L.
name: Mkwandawire, Elizabeth
name: Hall, Nicolette
name: Olivier, Nic JJ
name: Schönfeldt, Hettie C
name: Randall, Phillip
name: Morgan, Stephen
name: Olivier, Nico JJ
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Babu, Suresh C
name: Hendriks, Sheryl L.
name: Mkwandawire, Elizabeth
name: Hall, Nicolette
name: Olivier, Nic JJ
name: Schönfeldt, Hettie C
name: Randall, Phillip
name: Morgan, Stephen
name: Olivier, Nico JJ
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Babu, Suresh C
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: South Africa
subject: Micronutrient policy change

description: This review of micronutrient policy processes in South Africa serves as a companion piece to two parallel studies in Malawi and Zambia. All three studies employ the Kaleidoscope Model of policy change to trace the causal forces leading to key micronutrient policy decisions in each of the three countries. After outlining the overall micronutrient policy process in South Africa, the study focuses on policy decisions regarding vitamin A supplementation, fortification with iodine, iron and multinutrient fortificant, and the reduction of sodium in foods.
EFFET FERTILISANT DU COMPOST D'ORDURES MENAGERES EN MILIEU TROPICAL SUR TROIS TERRES (plante-tests : aubergine, laitue)
FERTILIZING EFFECT OF GARBAGE COMPOST IN TROPICAL AREA ON THREE SOILS UNDER GLASS-HOUSE CONDITIONS (test-plants : eggplant, lettuce)
Creators: name: Clairon, Maurice
name: Picard, Didier
name: Nagou, Daniel
name: Sobesky, Odette
name: Clairon, Maurice
name: Picard, Didier
name: Nagou, Daniel
name: Sobesky, Odette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: matière organique
subject: compost d'ordures ménagères (C.O.M.)
subject: sols tropicaux
subject: serre
subject: cultures maraîchères
subject: aubergine
subject: laitue
subject: organic matter
subject: garbage compost (G.C.)
subject: tropical soils
subject: glass
subject: house experiment
subject: vegetable crops
subject: eggplant
subject: lettuce

description: En vases de végétations sous serre un essai a été conduit sur trois terres (ferrallitique, vertique, etàhalloysite) avec des doses croissantes de C.O.M. (60,240 et 480 t/ha) et sous deux cultures successives. Les productions de matières sèches des parties aériennes des plantes sont comparées à celles obtenues avec un témoin et avec un fumier de chèvre (60 t/ha). Les apports équivalents à 480 t/ha de C.O.M. n'entraînent pas d'action toxique traduite par une baisse de production de matière sèche pour aubergine et laitue. Quel que soit le type de substrat, pour la culture d'aubergine, l'accumulation de matière sèche obtenue avec fumier est significativement supérieure à celle obtenue avec 480 t/ha de C.O.M. Pour les trois substrats l'apport de 240 t/ha de C.O.M. fournit une production de matière sèche équivalente à celle de 60 t/ha de fumier pour la culture suivante de laitue. Les effets les plus spectaculaires sont enregistrés sur les plantes ayant poussé sur des traitements comportant la terre ferrallitique. Pots experiments under glass-house conditions were carried out on three tropical soils (oxisol, vertisol and halloysitic clay soil) with increasing amounts of garbage compost (G.C) 60,240 and 480 t/ha, and two successive test-crops. Dry matter productions of the aerial parts of the plants were compared with a control and with goat manure (60 t/ha). 480 t/ha G.C. did not caused any toxic action characterized by a decrease of dry matter production in eggplant and lettuce. Whatever the substrate type, dry matter accumulation in eggplant, was significantly more important with goat manure than with G.G. Following lettuce on these soils with 240 t/ha G.C. and 60 t/ha goat manure gave an equivalent dry matter production. The effects the most spectacular of G.C. had been obtained with plants growing on oxisol.
Design Guidelines for Landmarks to Support Navigation in Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Vinson, Norman G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.4; I.6

description: Unfamiliar, large-scale virtual environments are difficult to navigate. This paper presents design guidelines to ease navigation in such virtual environments. The guidelines presented here focus on the design and placement of landmarks in virtual environments. Moreover, the guidelines are based primarily on the extensive empirical literature on navigation in the real world. A rationale for this approach is provided by the similarities between navigational behavior in real and virtual environments.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Enhancing Accessibility Through Translation and Localisation
Creators: name: Batool Almarzouq
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PPIE
Translation
Localisation
communities
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement

description: This talk was delivered as part of the PPIE Community of Pracitse Session on the 6th of Sept 2023.

 

This work was part of the AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (link to the same archived website). More information on the AIM RSF's Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) work is available on our wesite - https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/ai-for-multiple-long-term-conditions-research-support-facility/theme-4-public-and-patient-involvement-and-engagement . The AIM RSF funded by the NIHR [Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme (NIHR202647).
Star formation law in the EoR from [CII] and CIII] lines
Creators: name: Vallini, L.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Pallottini, A.
name: Carniani, S.
name: Gallerani, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel method to simultaneously characterise the star formation law and the interstellar medium properties of galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through the combination of [CII] 158$μ$m (and its known relation with star formation rate) and CIII]$λ$1909Å emission line data. The method, based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, allows to determine the target galaxy average density, $n$, gas metallicity, $Z$, and burstiness parameter, $κ_s$, quantifying deviations from the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation. As an application, we consider COS-3018 (z=6.854), the only EoR Lyman Break Galaxy so far detected in both [CII] and CIII]. We show that COS-3018 is a moderate starburst ($κ_s \approx 3$), with $Z\approx 0.4\, Z_{\odot}$, and $n \approx 500\, {\rm cm^{-3}}$. Our method will be optimally applied to joint ALMA and JWST targets.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Testing the Standard Model with Bs-> K^+ K^- Decays
Creators: name: London, David
name: Matias, Joaquim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the limit of flavor SU(3) symmetry, the amplitudes for Bd->pi^+π^- and Bs-> K^+ K^- are related to one another. Taking the values of the weak phases beta and gamma from independent measurements, the ratio Rds=BR(Bs-> K^+K^-)/BR(Bd->pi^+ pi^-) and the two Bd->pi^+pi^- CP asymmetries Adir and Amix depend on only two quantities. By measuring these three observables, one can test for the presence of physics beyond the standard model. In this paper, using present data, and including theoretical uncertainties due to SU(3) breaking, we perform such an analysis. The experimental errors are still very large, but with improved measurements from Babar, Belle and CDF this will be a useful method to search for new physics.
description: 4 pages with 5 figures. Introduction modified; brief discussion about SU(3) breaking added; references changed. Conclusions unchanged. To be published in PRD: Rapid Communications
EFFETS D'APPORTS DE BOUES ACTIVEES SUR MAIS ET SUR SOL FERRALITIQUE
ACTIVATED SEWAGE SLUDGE EFFECTS ON DRY MATTER PRODUCTION OF MAIZE AND ON OXISOL
Creators: name: Clairon, Maurice
name: Giboulot, Marie-Christine
name: Sobesky, Odette
name: Clairon, Maurice
name: Giboulot, Marie-Christine
name: Sobesky, Odette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Les apports annuels de 10 t.ha-1 matière sèche de boues activées de la station d'épuration de Jarry (Guadeloupe F.W.I.) entraînent des productions de matières sèches de Maïs Eto Amarillo (grains et pailles) supérieures au témoin avec fertilisations minérales. Il n'y a pas de modification du statut chimique du sol. Les apports biennaux de 100 t.ha-1 permettent d'obtenir des augmentations significatives de production de Maïs grains secs (55 à 65 qx.ha-1). Les teneurs en C, N, et Ρ du sol sont significativement augmentées ainsi que la C.E.C. (16 mèq pour le témoin à 24 mèq pour 100 g de sol avec 100 t.ha- 1). ----- Annual fertilizing of 10 t.ha-1 dry matter (d.m.) of activated sewage sludge from Jarry's station (Guadeloupe F.W.I.) induced dry matters productions of maize Eto Amarillo (grains and straws) upper the control with mineral fertilizers. There was no modification of the chemical status of the soil. Biennial fertilizing of 100 t.ha-1 d.m. gave significant increasing of grains dry matter production (55 - 65 qx.ha-1) compared with the control (40 qx.ha-1). N, C and Ρ content of the soil with 100 t.ha-1 activated sludge increased significantly ; C.E.C. level increased from 16 mèq (control) to 24 mèq/100 g dry soil (100 t.ha sewage sludge d.m.).
Additional file 1 of Induction of antimicrobial, antioxidant metabolites production by co-cultivation of two red-sea-sponge-associated Aspergillus sp. CO2 and Bacillus sp. COBZ21
Creators: name: Hamed, Ahmed A.
name: Ghareeb, Mosad A.
name: Kelany, Ayda K.
name: Abdelraof, Mohamed
name: Kabary, Hoda A.
name: Soliman, Nariman R.
name: Elawady, Mohamed E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Nonlinear screening and percolative transition in a two-dimensional electron liquid
Creators: name: Fogler, Michael M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel variational method is proposed for calculating the percolation threshold, the real-space structure, and the thermodynamical compressibility of a disordered two-dimensional electron liquid. Its high accuracy is verified against prior numerical results and newly derived exact asymptotics. The inverse compressibility is shown to have a strongly asymmetric minimum at a density that is approximately the triple of the percolation threshold. This implies that the experimentally observed metal-insulator transition takes place well before the percolation point is reached.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. (v2) minor changes (v3) reference added (v4) few more references added
title: FN-EDA domain knock-in and knock-out mice, as a model for the study of the hepatic fibronectin (FN) functions
Creators: name: Moretti, Federico Andrea
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Fibronectin (FN) is a multidomain glycoprotein found in plasma and tissue extracellular matrices (ECM). Plasma FN (pFN) is produced and secreted into the bloodstream by the liver. Liver ECM-FN and pFN are characte,rized by the absence of the EDA domain, one of the three FN exons undergoing alternative splicing. However, in pathological situations such as wound healing, the liver produces and accumulates huge amounts of EDA+FN in sinusoidal ECM. In order to study the functions of the FN isoforms produced by the liver, we used two mouse strains devoid of EDA-exon alternative splicing, which constitutively include (EDA+/+ strain) or exclude (EDA-/- strain) the EDA domain. The EDA+/+ strain is characterized by an important decrease of FN levels both in plasma and tissues. Here, we show that the atypycal presence of the EDA domain in hepatocytes affects pFN secretion into the bloodstream and we demonstrate that a high proportion of tissue ECM-FN is supplied by plasma. In fact, removal of the EDA exon only from the liver, by hepatocyt'-specific deletion of the EDA exon, restores normal levels of FN in both plasma and tissues of the EDA+/+ animals. This finding not only suggests that plasma behaves as a sort of FN reservoir for tissue maintenance but also shows for the first time that the pFN contribution to the ECM of tissues is roughly equal to that produced locally. The EDA-/- strain was used to study the role of the EDA domain in the onset of liver fibrosis. In two different liver fibrosis models, we observed that EDA-/- animals develop attenuated fibrosis in comparison to control mice. The important role of the EDA domain in the activation and proliferation of the hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), these are the key cells responsible for the ECM protein overproduction in the fibrotic processes, is demonstrated for the first time in vivo. EDA-/- livers treated to induce fibrosis, present a striking reduction in the number of myofibroblasts or activated HSCs, suggesting that the EDA domain could be a potential target for the treatment of liver fibrosis.
STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR SWEET POTATO WEEVIL COMPLEX IN THE CARIBBEAN
STRATEGIES DE LUTTE INTEGREE CONTRE LES CHARANCONS DE LA PATATE DOUCE DANS LA CARAÏBE
Creators: name: Malamud, Oscar
name: Raman, K.V.
name: Malamud, Oscar
name: Raman, K.V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The most serious insect pests damaging sweet potatoes in the Caribbean region are a complex of weevils, commonly called «Sweet Potato Weevils» which attack the stems and storage roots. Losses due to sweet potato weevils usually range from 50-80 %, depending on the time during which the crop remains in the ground. Several weevil species are reported to damage sweet potato roots and stems ; in the Caribbean two species, +12*Cylas formicarius elegantulus and Euscepes posfasciatus are significant in terms of their damage over wide areas. Recently, the International Potato Center (CIP), in collaboration with national programs of the Caribbean Region have identified research priorities for integrated pest management (IPM) of sweet potato weevils. These include farmer interviews, testing germplasmfor resistance utilizing sex pheromones Z3-1,2 : E2 Butenoate for monitoring and mass trapping ; biological control using entomophilic nematodes and the use of agronomic practices. Dominican Republic has taken a lead in testing these control components. Brief details of these projects and the implementation of projects related to IPM of sweet potato weevils in other countries of Caribbean are discussed. ----- Les ravageurs les plus importants sont des charançons qui s'attaquent aux tiges et aux tubercules stockés. Les pertes causées par ces insectes atteignent 50 à 80 % et sont fonction du temps passé par le légume dans le sol. Plusieurs espèces ont été recensées comme dommageable dont deux dans les Caraïbes : Cylas formicarius eiegantuluset Euscepespostfaciatus.. Récemment, le CIP (International Potato Center) a dégagé des priorités de recherche en lutte intégrée, en collaboration avec les programmes nationaux de la zone Caraïbe. Ces priorités sont les suivantes : tests précoces de résistance ; piégeage de masse et avertissement agricole par l'utilisation de la phéromone sexuelle (Z3-1,2 : E2 Butenoate) ; lutte biologique à l'aide de nématodes entomoparasites ; techniques culturales. La République Domicaine est engagée dans ces différents programmes. Le détail de ces projets ainsi que leurs relations avec les programmes de lutte intégrée contre les charançons de la patate douce dans les autres pays de la Caraïbe sont discutés dans ce travail.
Weyl approach to representation theory of reflection equation algebra
Creators: name: Saponov, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present paper deals with the representation theory of the reflection equation algebra, connected with a Hecke type R-matrix. Up to some reasonable additional conditions the R-matrix is arbitrary (not necessary originated from quantum groups). We suggest a universal method of constructing finite dimensional irreducible non-commutative representations in the framework of the Weyl approach well known in the representation theory of classical Lie groups and algebras. With this method a series of irreducible modules is constructed which are parametrized by Young diagrams. The spectrum of central elements s(k)=Tr_q(L^k) is calculated in the single-row and single-column representations. A rule for the decomposition of the tensor product of modules into the direct sum of irreducible components is also suggested.
description: LaTeX2e file, 27 pages, no figures
Stationary black holes and light rings
Creators: name: Cunha, Pedro V. P.
name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ringdown and shadow of the astrophysically significant Kerr Black Hole (BH) are both intimately connected to a special set of bound null orbits known as Light Rings (LRs). Does it hold that a generic equilibrium BH must possess such orbits? In this letter we prove the following theorem. A stationary, axi-symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole spacetime in 1+3 dimensions, with a non-extremal, topologically spherical, Killing horizon admits, at least, one standard LR outside the horizon for each rotation sense. The proof relies on a topological argument and assumes $C^2$-smoothness and circularity, but makes no use of the field equations. The argument is also adapted to recover a previous theorem establishing that a horizonless ultra-compact object must admit an even number of non-degenerate LRs, one of which is stable.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures