cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Polocies for the Management of Weeds in Natural Ecosystems: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Creators: name: Odom, Doreen I.S.
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
name: Sinden, Jack A.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Odom, Doreen I.S.
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
name: Sinden, Jack A.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: environmental weeds
subject: scotch broom
subject: policies
subject: weed management
subject: dynamic programming

description: Environmental weeds are plants that invade natural ecosystems and are considered to be a serious threat to nature conservation. Environmental weeds have been implicated in the extinction of several indigenous plant species, and they also threaten ecosystem stability and functional complexity. Historically, emphasis has been placed on chemical control, manual pulling of small plants, excluding tourists and feral pig control measures. Recently, biological control has been introduced to control weed infestations. These methods of control have been applied alternatively, with little consideration of the long- term effectiveness. As the threat from environmental weeds is becoming more fully recognised, an integrated, strategic, ecological and economical approach to weed management is needed. A deterministic dynamic programming model is developed for this purpose in this paper. A case study for the environmental weed scotch broom is presented, to assess the ways in which this approach can address the policy issues that face the community in the management of an environmental weed. The model takes account of the weed population dynamics and thirty-two combinations of control developed from the five basic control measures. The dynamic programming model is developed for three different cases, first with weed density as the state variable, second, with weed density and seed bank as state variables and third, with weed density and seed bank as state variables and with a budget constraint for the control variables. Results are
Instability of dilute granular flow on rough slope
Creators: name: Mitarai, Namiko
name: Nakanishi, Hiizu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically the stability of granular flow on a rough slope in collisional flow regime in the two-dimension. We examine the density dependence of the flowing behavior in low density region, and demonstrate that the particle collisions stabilize the flow above a certain density in the parameter region where a single particle shows an accelerated behavior. Within this parameter regime, however, the uniform flow is only metastable and is shown to be unstable against clustering when the particle density is not high enough.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.; Fig. 2 replaced; references added; comments added; misprints corrected
Pristaulacus tria Smith 2008, new species
Creators: name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulacidae
Pristaulacus
Pristaulacus tria

description: Pristaulacus tria SMITH, new species
(Figs 49-52)
 Diagnosis:
Entirely black; ovipositor sheath black. Pronotum with three anteriorly projecting teeth. Hind coxa shining.
 Female:
 Length, 11.5 mm; forewing length 10.0 mm; ovipositor length 12.5 mm. Color: Black; foretibia and tarsus brownish. Wings hyaline except apex of forewing black; veins and stigma black. Head: Antennal length 2.5X head width. Lower interocular distance subequal to eye height; malar space 0.3X eye height (Fig. 49). Occipital carina distinct, flangelike, half or more diameter of an ocellus. From above, head long behind eyes, only gradually narrowing, head behind eyes subequal to eye length (Fig. 50). Gena and vertex smooth and shining, almost impunctate; frons with large scattered punctures, farther apart than several times puncture diameters; with fine white pubescence, densest and longest on malar area, interantennal area, and clypeus (Figs 49, 50). Mesosoma: Mesoscutum with two acute anterolateral teeth. Mesoscutum with large, indistinct reticulations, with indistinct transverse scrobiculate area posteriorly; axilla and lateral areas of mesoscutellum reticulate, center of mesoscutellum with several transverse carinae; propleuron smooth, shiny; pronotum with three anteriorly projecting teeth, a row of diagonal carinae posteriorly, and mostly shining anteriorly; mesopleuron coarsely reticulate; metapleuron reticulate with narrow scrobiculate band posteriorly; propodeum reticulate (Figs 51, 52). Hind coxa smooth, shining, 2.5X longer than broad; diagonal ovipositor groove near apex on inner surface. Tarsal claws with 3 teeth and small basal lobe. Hind basitarsus 1.6X longer than length of remaining tarsal segments combined. Forewing with cells 1M and 1Rs separated by long vein Rs+M. Hind wing with veins absent (as in Fig. 157). Metasoma: Segment 5 with fine white pubescence, segments 6 to apex densely pubescent. Ovipositor length about 1.3X forewing length.
 Male: Unknown.
 Holotype: Female, labeled “ Costa Rica: CATIE, 3 km SE Turrialba, 600 m, Cartago Prov., V-16-85, J. Chemsak ” (UCB).
 Etymology: From the Latin tria, meaning three, referring to the three anteriorly projecting teeth of the pronotum.
 Remarks:
 Two species from South America have three anteriorly projecting teeth on the pronotum, P. decemdentatus KIEFFER from Brazil and P. tridentatus SMITH from Colombia. Pristaulacus decemdentatus has a red head, mostly reddish legs, and a central white band on the ovipositor sheath. Pristaulacus tridentatus has the metasoma red.
description: Published as part of Smith, David R., 2008, Aulacidae of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Hymenoptera), pp. 267-355 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on pages 296-297, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.267-355, http://zenodo.org/record/5364480
The Political Economy of Funding Agricultural R&D in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study
Creators: name: Omuru, Eric
name: Kingwell, Ross S.
name: Omuru, Eric
name: Kingwell, Ross S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: political influence
subject: funding agricultural R&D
subject: cocoa and coconut.

description: Adequate and reliable funding of agricultural R&D is critical for sustaining research activities. A breakdown in funding arrangements can be detrimental to the long-term existence of R&D organisation/systems. This paper first, reviews the trends in funding arrangements for agricultural R&D in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in recent years. Second, the paper explores the extent to which political influence affects funding arrangements for agricultural R&D in PNG in terms of a case study. Third, with insights from the case study, which are alleged to reflect the general nature of the way agricultural R&D has been funded in PNG, implications are assessed and suggestions are made about the need to diversify funding sources away from avenues that are dependent directly on political influence. The paper concludes with a brief summary.
Additional file of Pre-inhalation of hydrogen-rich gases protect against caerulein-induced mouse acute pancreatitis while enhance the pancreatic Hsp60 protein expression
Creators: name: Li, Kun
name: Hongling Yin
name: Duan, Yi
name: Peizhen Lai
name: Yancheng Cai
name: Youzhen Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file of Pre-inhalation of hydrogen-rich gases protect against caerulein-induced mouse acute pancreatitis while enhance the pancreatic Hsp60 protein expression
Additional file 1: of Supporting elderly people with cognitive impairment during and after hospital stays with intersectoral care management: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Nikelski, Angela
name: Keller, Armin
name: Schumacher-SchĂśnert, Fanny
name: Dehl, Terese
name: Laufer, Jessica
name: Sauerbrey, Ulf
name: Wucherer, Diana
name: Dreier-Wolfgramm, Adina
name: Michalowsky, Bernhard
name: Zwingmann, Ina
name: Vollmar, Horst
name: Hoffmann, Wolfgang
name: Kreisel, Stefan
name: Thyrian, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SPIRIT 2013 checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents. (DOC 121 kb)
Transport coefficients for multi-component gas of hadrons using Chapman Enskog method
Creators: name: Dash, Ashutosh
name: Samanta, Subhasis
name: Mohanty, Bedangadas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport coefficients of a multi-component hadronic gas at zero and non-zero baryon chemical potential are calculated using the Chapman-Enskog method. The calculations are done within the framework of an $S$-matrix based interacting hadron resonance gas model. In this model, the phase-shifts and cross-sections are calculated using $K$-matrix formalism and where required, by parameterizing the experimental phase-shifts. Using the energy dependence of cross-section, we find the temperature dependence of various transport coefficients such as shear viscosity, bulk viscosity, heat conductivity and diffusion coefficient. We finally compare our results regarding various transport coefficients with previous results in the literature.
Vibrational properties of photochromic yttrium oxyhydride and oxydeuteride thin films
Creators: name: Zubkins, Martins
name: Gabrusenoks, Jevgenijs
name: Aleksis, Rihards
name: Chikvaidze, George
name: Strods, Edvards
name: Vibornijs, Viktors
name: Lends, Alons
name: Kundzins, Karlis
name: Purans, Juris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comprehensive study of the vibrational properties of photochromic yttrium oxyhydride (YHO) and oxydeuteride (YDO) thin films is presented. These films are deposited using reactive magnetron sputtering, followed by post-oxidation. Our investigation employs vibrational Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, in conjunction with first-principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. The FTIR spectra of the films reveal broad vibrational bands, primarily attributed to the disordered structure containing small crystallites (<10 nm), as confirmed by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and X-ray diffraction measurements. An isotopic shift from approximately 900 to 745 cm-1 is observed in the hydrogen/deuterium-related vibration band, while the lower frequency bands (< 600 cm-1) remain unaffected upon replacement of hydrogen with deuterium. These experimental observations are consistent with the DFT theoretical calculations for various stable YHO lattices reported in the literature. Illumination of the films with ultraviolet light at 3.3 eV leads to additional absorption not only in the visible light range but also up to approximately 2000 cm-1 in the mid-infrared region. However, no phase transformation change or formation of hydroxyl (OH) groups are observed following illumination. Our findings provide valuable insight into the vibrational and photochromic properties of YH(D)O thin films.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Prose, psychopaths and persistence: Personal perspectives on publishing
Creators: name: Pannell, David J.
name: Pannell, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The process of attempting to publish a paper in a refereed journal can be rather stressful. This paper presents a number of personal reflections on the publishing process, with the aim of helping aspiring journal authors to appreciate the nature of the challenge, and some of the requisites for success. The challenges in dealing with referees include the element of luck involved in securing sympathetic referees, the poor quality of the reports prepared by some referees, and the slowness of the review and editorial process. A number of examples from my experiences in agricultural economics journals are presented. These reveal that one of the most important characteristics which a journal author needs is persistence.
D-brane Bound States from Charged Macroscopic Strings
Creators: name: Kumar, Alok
name: Mukherji, Sudipta
name: Panigrahi, Kamal L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct new D-brane bound states using charged macroscopic type IIB string solutions.A generic bound state solution, when dimensionally reduced, carries multiple gauge charges. Starting with D=9 charged macroscopic strings, we obtain solutions in D=10, which are interpreted as carrying (F, D0, D2) charges as well as nonzero momenta. The masses and charges are also explicitly shown to satisfy the non-threshold bound of 1/2 BPS objects. Our solutions reduce to the known D-brane bound state solutions with appropriate restrictions in the parameter space. We further generalize the results to (Dp- D(p+2)) bound state in IIA/B theories, giving an explicit example with p=1.
description: 21 pages, latex, few references added: minor modifications
Inside the Black Box: the Price Linkage and Transmission between Energy and Agricultural Markets
Creators: name: Du, Xiaodong
name: Du, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: identification through heteroscedasticity
subject: structural change
subject: SVAR
subject: variance decomposition

description: Despite a growing literature on the integration of energy and agriculture, few have rigorously examined structural changes in the evolution of related energy and agricultural prices. Motivated by strong comovement and increasing volatility of energy and agricultural prices, we examine dynamic evolutions of ethanol, gasoline, and corn prices over the period of March 2005 – March 2011. A structural change is found around March 2008 in the pairwise dynamic correlations between the prices in a multivariate GARCH model. A structural VAR (SVAR) model is then estimated on two subsamples, one before and one after the identified change point. Using the novel method of “identification through heteroscedasticity”, we exploit the time-varying price volatilities to fully identify the SVAR model. In the more recent period, ethanol, gasoline, and corn prices are found to be more closely linked. Specifically, ethanol (corn) shocks have the largest impact on corn (ethanol) price. The strengthened corn-ethanol relation can be largely explained by the new developments of the biofuel industry and related policy instruments. Variance decomposition shows that for each market a significant and relatively large share of the price variation could be explained by the price changes in the other two markets. For example, corn price changes explain 27% of the variation of ethanol prices, and shocks to ethanol price account for 23% of the variance of corn prices. The results are robust to the inclusion of seasonal dummies, and various representative macroeconomic and financial indicators.
A Performance Perspective on Web Optimized Protocol Stacks: TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 vs. QUIC
Creators: name: Wolsing, Konrad
name: Rüth, Jan
name: Wehrle, Klaus
name: Hohlfeld, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing performance comparisons of QUIC and TCP compared an optimized QUIC to an unoptimized TCP stack. By neglecting available TCP improvements inherently included in QUIC, comparisons do not shed light on the performance of current web stacks. In this paper, we can show that tuning TCP parameters is not negligible and directly yields significant improvements. Nevertheless, QUIC still outperforms even our tuned variant of TCP. This performance advantage is mostly caused by QUIC's reduced RTT design during connection establishment, and, in case of lossy networks due to its ability to circumvent head-of-line blocking.
Neutrino oscillations and decoherence in short-GRB progenitors
Creators: name: Penacchioni, A. V.
name: Civitarese, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinos are produced in cosmic accelerators, like active galactic nuclei (AGNs), blazars, supernova (SN) remnants and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). On their way to the Earth they experience flavor-oscillations. The interactions of the neutrinos coming from the source with other particles, e.g. intergalactic primordial neutrinos or heavy-mass right-handed neutrinos, in their way to the detector may transform the original wave packet in pointer states. This phenomenon, known as decoherence, becomes important in the reconstruction of processes at the source. In this work we study neutrino emission in short GRBs by adopting the Fireshell Model. We consider $e^{-}e^{+}$-pair annihilation as the main channel for neutrino production. We compare the properties of the neutrino-flux with the characteristic photon-signal produced once the transparency condition is reached. We study the effects of flavor-oscillations and decoherence as neutrinos travel from the region near the black-hole (BH) event-horizon outwards. We consider the source to be in thermal equilibrium, and calculate energy distribution functions for electrons and neutrinos. To compute the effects of decoherence we use a Gaussian model. In this scenario the emitted electron-neutrinos transform into pointer states consisting of $67.8\%$ electron-neutrinos and $32.2\%$ as a combination of mu and tau neutrinos. We found that decoherence plays an important role in the evolution of the neutrino wave packet, leading to the detected pointer states on Earth.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 23 references
An economic assessment of the role of commercial tree crops to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality in predominantly grazing systems of south-western Australia
Creators: name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Bennett, David
name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Bennett, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Greenhouse gas abatement
subject: whole-farm modelling
subject: commercial trees

description: The results of this analysis show that a long-term tree crop plantation is effective at reducing carbon emissions from a predominantly grazing farming system. However, if the plantations are destumped, much of the carbon will be returned to the atmosphere in time, in which case benefits are confined to their ability to ‘buy time’ for the development of less-polluting technologies. The accreditation of commercial tree crops may provide a socially and politically feasible solution for medium-term environmental policy. The benefits of the policy would be strengthened if implemented in conjunction with salinity abatement policy.
Additional file 4 of Correction to: Aging progression of human gut microbiota
Creators: name: Congmin Xu
name: Huaiqiu Zhu
name: Qiu, Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Figure 1. The relative abundance of all the 35 critical genera across different age groups.
Tsutsumiothrips Masumoto & Okajima 2013, gen. n.
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Tsutsumiothrips

description: Tsutsumiothrips gen. n.
 Type species: Tsutsumiothrips ryukyuensis sp. n.
 Female. Wings fully developed. Ocellar setae I absent, setae II distinctly longer than setae III (Fig. 267). Postocular setae six pairs. Compound eyes without pigmented ommatidia. Maxillary palpi 3-segmented. Antennae (Fig. 268) 7-segmented, segment I without median dorsal apical setae, III and IV with sensoria forked, III to VI with some rows microtrichia on both dorsal and ventral surfaces. Pronotum (Fig. 267) with 2 pairs of posteroangular setae well developed. Mesonotum with median pair of setae far from posterior margin. Metascutum sculptured with longitudinal striae except median anterior third; median pair of setae behind anterior margin. Metaepimeron with two setae. Metaepisternum with setae. Metapre-episternum developed with two setae. Prosternal ferna weakly connected at middle; basantra membranous, without setae; prospinasternum broad and transverse. Mesosternum with sternopleural sutures complete; endofurca with spinula weak; metasternal endofurca without spinula. Fore wing first vein with long gap in setal row, second vein with many setae evenly spaced; clavus with five veinal and one discal seta; posteromarginal fringe cilia wavy. Tarsi 2-segmented. Abdominal tergites I to VIII (Fig. 269) with large dentate posteromarginal craspeda except middle of tergite I; tergites V to VIII with paired ctenidia, each ctenidium mesad of spiracles on tergite VIII; tergite X with longitudinal median split almost complete; sternites (Fig. 270) without discal setae, II to VII with large dentate posteromarginal craspeda except middle of sternite VII; sternites III to VII with 3 pairs of posteromarginal setae, but II with 2 pairs; sternite VII with S1 and S2 setae in front of posterior margin; pleurotergites without discal setae, and with posteromarginal craspeda as tergites and sternites. Ovipositor developed.
 Male. General structure same as female. Abdominal sternites III to VII (Fig. 271) each with a large oblong pore plate; sternites VII with posteromarginal craspeda throughout.
 Comments. This genus is has intermediate character states between Fulmekiola and Stenchaetothrips but there are some differences among these genera discussed above.
 Etymology. In reference to Dr. Tsutsumi Tadaaki who collected the species for the first time.
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Casimir Forces between Nanoparticles and Substrates
Creators: name: Roman-Velazquez, C. E.
name: Noguez, Cecilia
name: Villarreal, C.
name: Esquivel-Sirvent, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Casimir force between a nanoparticle and a substrate. We consider the interaction of metal nanoparticles with different substrates within the dipolar approximation. We study the force as a function of the distance for gold and potassium spheres, which are over a substrate of titanium dioxide, sapphire and a perfect conductor. We show that Casimir force is important in systems at the nanometer scale. We study the force as a function of the material properties, radii of the spheres, and the distance between the sphere and the substrate.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures. Submitted to MRS Fall Meeting 2002, Symposium Proceedings (SymposiumG)
Additional file 3: of Implementing a survey for patients to provide safety experience feedback following a care transition: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Scott, Jason
name: Heavey, Emily
name: Waring, Justin
name: BrĂşn, Aoife
name: Dawson, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Staff Interview Topic Guide. This file contains the interview topic guide used with staff members. (DOCX 72 kb)
Dynamics of household edible oil consumption in rural and urban Tamil Nadu (India)
Creators: name: Govindaraj, Gurrappa Naidu
name: Suryaprakash, Satrasala
name: Sivaramane, Nilakantan
name: Sundaramoorthy, Chandrasekaran
name: Murali, Palanichamy
name: Govindaraj, Gurrappa Naidu
name: Suryaprakash, Satrasala
name: Sivaramane, Nilakantan
name: Sundaramoorthy, Chandrasekaran
name: Murali, Palanichamy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: dynamics
subject: consumption
subject: edible oils
subject: households

description: Till 1990’s the dominant edible oil produced and consumed in India were rapeseed-mustard and groundnut. The technological, economic and policy changes thereafter induced dynamics in consumer demand for food, including edible oils. The markov chain analysis for rural and urban Tamil Nadu state revealed that there is perceptible shift in edible oil consumption from traditional groundnut oil to Other Edible Oils (OEO). The possible reason for these shifts are increased urbanization (changing lifestyles), increased awareness, availability of oils in packet form in varied quantities even in remote rural areas, change in relative prices of oils, and increased income levels of rural and urban households. The secondary data published by National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) did not clearly disintegrate the OEO's, hence the primary data was employed to determine the current status of edible oil consumption. The results revealed that presently, the dominant edible oil consumed is sunflower oil in both the rural and urban regions of Tamil Nadu. The groundnut oil, which was traditionally consumed by households, has been replaced by sunflower oil, implying the need for appropriate changes in the production front.
Additional file 6 of Cost of illness for childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of evidence and modelled estimates
Creators: name: Baral, Ranju
name: Nonvignon, Justice
name: Debellut, Frédéric
name: Agyemang, Samuel Agyei
name: Clark, Andrew
name: Pecenka, Clint
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Comparison of modelled and empirical estimates of direct medical costs across countries.
Scalable Distributed Subtrajectory Clustering
Creators: name: Tampakis, Panagiotis
name: Pelekis, Nikos
name: Doulkeridis, Christos
name: Theodoridis, Yannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trajectory clustering is an important operation of knowledge discovery from mobility data. Especially nowadays, the need for performing advanced analytic operations over massively produced data, such as mobility traces, in efficient and scalable ways is imperative. However, discovering clusters of complete trajectories can overlook significant patterns that exist only for a small portion of their lifespan. In this paper, we address the problem of Distributed Subtrajectory Clustering in an efficient and highly scalable way. The problem is challenging because the subtrajectories to be clustered are not known in advance, but they need to be discovered dynamically based on adjacent subtrajectories in space and time. Towards this objective, we split the original problem to three sub-problems, namely Subtrajectory Join, Trajectory Segmentation and Clustering and Outlier Detection, and deal with each one in a distributed fashion by utilizing the MapReduce programming model. The efficiency and the effectiveness of our solution is demonstrated experimentally over a synthetic and two large real datasets from the maritime and urban domains and through comparison with two state of the art subtrajectory clustering algorithms.
Forest Management Decentralization in Kenya: Effects on Household Farm Forestry Decisions in Kakamega
Creators: name: Ogada, Maurice Juma
name: Ogada, Maurice Juma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Participatory Forest Management
subject: Selection Bias
subject: Farm Forestry Development
subject: Kenya

description: This study investigates the factors that influence participation of households in devolved system of forest management by joining community forest associations (CFA). It further employs Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to measure the impact of household’s participation in CFA on farm forestry decisions. The analysis uses cross-sectional data from a survey of Kakamega forest communities in Kenya in 2010. Generally, our findings reveal that participation in CFA by households is influenced broadly by socio-economic and institutional factors, and that participation in CFA has a positive impact on farm forestry development. Policy makers and development practitioners, therefore, need to devise, implement and sufficient fund interventions that would promote development of community forest associations with the ultimate goal of increasing forest cover in the country.
title: Thoracic ganglioneuroma
Creators: name: Hoste, xavier
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 4-year-old girl was admitted for fever and vomiting. Because of persisting fever and inflammation in the blood tests, a thoracic-abdominal X-ray was taken in another hospital, illustrating a retrocardiac mass with pleural fluid at the right lung base. Diagnostic refinement was obtained with CT and complementary 123 I-mIBG and MRI.

description: 4 years, female
ReP2P Matrix: Decentralized Relays to Improve Reliability and Performance of Peer-to-Peer Matrix
Creators: name: Schichtholz, Benjamin David
name: Bless, Roland
name: Jacob, Florian
name: Hartenstein, Hannes
name: Zitterbart, Martina
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Matrix
Decentralized Systems
Reliability
Asynchronous Delivery
Instant Messaging
Overlay Networks

description: Matrix is a decentralized middleware for low-latency group communication, most renowned for its use in the Element instant messenger. Proposals for peer-to-peer (P2P) Matrix architectures aim to decentralize the current architecture further, which is based on federated servers. These proposals require that the receiver and the originator, or another peer that already successfully received the message, are simultaneously online. We introduce relay-enhanced P2P Matrix (ReP2P Matrix) in order to improve message delivery between peers that are online at different times. The design maintains the advantages of P2P Matrix and integrates well into it, e.g., it reuses existing mechanisms for authentication and authorization. Using an extended real-world group messaging traffic dataset, we evaluate ReP2P Matrix by comparing it to P2P Matrix without relays. The results show that relays do not only improve reliability in message delivery, but also increase the share of low delivery latencies by 50 % points in groups with up to 30 members.
Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Creators: name: Hoang Dinh, Quoc
name: Dufhues, Thomas
name: Buchenrieder, Gertrud
name: Hoang Dinh, Quoc
name: Dufhues, Thomas
name: Buchenrieder, Gertrud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: rural services
subject: social capital
subject: rural households
subject: Vietnam

description: This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field of sociology and entails a personal network survey. We define four social capital variables according to tie strength (bonding/bridging) and social distance (bondinglink/bridginglink) between the respondent and his/her network member. The econometric results suggest that social capital with weaker ties in combination with socially distant ties bridginglink social capital) can potentially improve households’ access to rural services.
Ab-initio transport theory for digital ferromagnetic heterostructures
Creators: name: Sanvito, Stefano
name: Hill, Nicola A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MnAs/GaAs superlattices, made by $δ$-doping GaAs with Mn, are known as digital ferromagnetic heterostructures. Here we present a theoretical density functional study of the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of such heterostructures. In the absence of intrinsic donors these systems show an half metallic density of states, with an exchange interaction much stronger than that of a random alloy with the same Mn concentration. {\it Ab initio} ballistic transport calculations show that the carriers with energies close to the Fermi energy are strongly confined within a few monolayers around the MnAs plane. This strong confinement is responsible for the large exchange coupling. Therefore the system can be described as a two dimensional half metal with large conductance in the MnAs plane and small conductance in the perpendicular direction.
Additional file 2: of Implementing a survey for patients to provide safety experience feedback following a care transition: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Scott, Jason
name: Heavey, Emily
name: Waring, Justin
name: BrĂşn, Aoife
name: Dawson, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Patient Interview Topic Guide. This file contains the interview topic guide used with patients. (DOCX 79 kb)
Table S9
Creators: name: Ilott, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Transcription factor enrichment results of genes that belong to cluster 3
Irrigation water productivity in Cambodian rice systems
Creators: name: Wokker, Chris
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Ros, Bansok
name: Wokker, Chris
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Ros, Bansok
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Water productivity Cambodia rice

description: In the context of increasing competition for water, knowledge of the marginal productivity of water is crucial in determining its optimal allocation between users. Using primary, plot level panel data, this paper estimates the marginal productivity of water from supple- mentary irrigation in lowland rice systems in Cambodia, taking into account farmer and plot heterogeneity as well as self-selection of sup- plementary irrigation. Our estimates indicate a range of elasticity for rice output with respect to water inputs between 0.057 and 0.069 for wet season production, and an estimate of 0.125 in the dry season, sub- stantially lower than previous estimates based on either aggregate or trial data. We discuss the policy implications of these results, in par- ticular with respect to the utility of demand management policies and the challenges they pose to the decentralization of water management to Water Users Groups that are meant to be financially independent.
Additional file 1: of Implementing a survey for patients to provide safety experience feedback following a care transition: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Scott, Jason
name: Heavey, Emily
name: Waring, Justin
name: BrĂşn, Aoife
name: Dawson, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Safety Survey. This file contains the final version of the safety survey distributed to patients as part of the limited efficacy testing (PDF 423 kb)
Exciton-exciton annihilation in hBN
Creators: name: Plaud, Alexandre
name: Schué, Léonard
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Loiseau, Annick
name: Barjon, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Known as a prominent recombination path at high excitation densities, exciton-exciton annihilation (EEA) is evidenced in bulk hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by cathodoluminescence at low temperature. Thanks to a careful tune of the the exciton density by varying either the current or the focus of the incident electron beam, we could estimate an EEA rate of 2$\times$10$^{-6}$ cm$^{3}$.s$^{-1}$ at $T=10$ K, the highest reported so far for a bulk semiconductor. Expected to be even stronger in nanotubes or atomic layers, EEA probablly contributes to the luminescence quenching observed in low-dimensionality BN materials.
Discreteness and entropic fluctuations in GREM-like systems
Creators: name: Sasaki, M.
name: Martin, O. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within generalized random energy models, we study the effects of energy discreteness and of entropy extensivity in the low temperature phase. At zero temperature, discreteness of the energy induces replica symmetry breaking, in contrast to the continuous case where the ground state is unique. However, when the ground state energy has an extensive entropy, the distribution of overlaps P(q) instead tends towards a single delta function in the large volume limit. Considering now the whole frozen phase, we find that P(q) varies continuously with temperature, and that state-to-state fluctuations of entropy wash out the differences between the discrete and continuous energy models.
description: 7 pages, 3 figure, 2 figures are added, the volume changes from 4 pages to 7 pages
Target Encirclement with any Smooth Pattern Using Range-only Measurements
Creators: name: Dong, Fei
name: You, Keyou
name: Song, Shiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a coordinate-free controller to drive a mobile robot to encircle a target at unknown position by only using range measurements. Different from the existing works, a backstepping based controller is proposed to encircle the target with zero steady-state error for any desired smooth pattern. Moreover, we show its asymptotic exponential convergence under a fixed set of control parameters, which are independent of the initial distance to the target. The effectiveness and advantages of the proposed controller are validated via simulations.
The Impact of Emissions Trading on Rice Production of India
Creators: name: Phani, Gayatri Yammanuru
name: Jose, Monish
name: Phani, Gayatri Yammanuru
name: Jose, Monish
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agriculture
subject: Emissions Trading and Methane emissions

description: Emissions trading is a market-based Kyoto mechanism that is aimed to assist the nations in achieving emission reduction targets in a cost effective manner. However, it is least explored in the agricultural sector though 15 percent of the global GHG emissions are from agriculture. Thus, the paper attempts to study the effect of emissions trading as a greenhouse gas mitigation mechanism in order to reduce methane emissions from paddy cultivation.
Robust propagation direction of stresses in a minimal granular packing
Creators: name: Head, D. A.
name: Tkachenko, A. V.
name: Witten, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By employing the adaptive network simulation method, we demonstrate that the ensemble-averaged stress caused by a local force for packings of frictionless rigid beads is concentrated along rays whose slope is consistent with unity: forces propagate along lines at 45 degrees to the horizontal or vertical. This slope is shown to be independent of polydispersity or the degree to which the system is sheared. Further confirmation of this result comes from fitting the components of the stress tensor to the null stress constitutive equation. The magnitude of the response is also shown to fall off with the -1/2 power of distance. We argue that our findings are a natural consequence of a system that preserves its volume under small perturbations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. Some extra clarification and minor improvements. To appear in EPJ-E
Additional file 3: of Association of TGF-ß1 polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis C infection: a Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pengfei Guo
name: Shuangyin Liu
name: Xiangru Sun
name: Longqin Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S3. Detailed information of the TGF-ß1 codon 25 G/C in the studies associated with the chronic HCV infection included in the meta-analysis. (DOC 45 kb)
Ischyropsalididae Simon 1879
Creators: name: SCHÖNHOFER, AXEL L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Ischyropsalididae

description: Family Ischyropsalididae Simon, 1879a   Ischyropsalidae Simon, 1879a: 265 (compr. Ischyropsalis, Sabacon, Taracus); type genus Ischyropsalis C.L. Koch, 1839b as inferable from the stem of the family name (ICZN 11.7.1.1);— Roewer 1914: 100 (compr. Ischyropsalis, Sabacon, Taracus, Tomicomerus), 1923: 680, 1950: 11; Dresco 1970: 1212 (compr. Ischyropsalis, Nipponopsalis, Taracus, Tomicomerus); Shear 1975: 11; Gruber 1978: 105.
 Ischyropsalididae — Martens 1969: 184–186 (compr. Ceratolasma, Nipponopsalis, Ischyropsalis, Sabacon, Taracus); new composition (compr. Acuclavella, Ceratolasma, Ischyropsalis).
 Diagnosis. Dyspnoi of the superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea with a western Palearctic and western Nearctic distribution. Defined by peculiarities of glans penis morphology, composition of the sternal region, and supported by molecular phylogenetic evidence. Palps without bottlebrush-shaped hairs, distal articles with dense cover of microtrichia, claw rudiment present. Chelicerae of moderate size, enlarged in Ischyropsalis. Except for few cavespecies in Ischyropsalis males with glandular fields on the dorsal cheliceral segment, these partly associated with apophyses. Truncus penis simple, filled up to two thirds with a single muscle; muscular tendon short; base of truncus divided into two short root-like structures.
 Glans penis simple and conical, separated into two sclerotised areas: dorsally the continuously sclerotised portion of the truncus and ventrally an isolated sclerotised plate set with uniform spines of variable length; both sclerotised portions gradually tapering into and joined at the long stylus. Stylus simple, long and tapering, either bent at the base (Ischyropsalis) or set with indistinct hook-like structures. Ovipositor short and stout, without large papillae, opening cleft of vagina bordered by a seam of microspinules, medium-sized setae on apical part only, arranged into rows and clusters. Frontal margin of opisthosoma without a median furrow. Coxae II to IV with sternal apophyses, labium large. Two or more bump- or spine-like metapeltidial structures present, the median ones largest.
description: Published as part of SCHÖNHOFER, AXEL L., 2013, Axel L. Schönhofer, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3679 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098415