cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Community-based enterprise export strategy success: Thailand’s OTOP branding program
Creators: name: Sitabutr, Vipada
name: Deebhijarn, Samart
name: Sitabutr, Vipada
name: Deebhijarn, Samart
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Microenterprise
subject: OVOP
subject: product quality
subject: satisfaction
subject: trust

description: Thailand's One Tambon One Product (OTOP) branded handicraft and food export program in 2016 reached nearly US$3billion, with products coming from approximately 6,000 community-based enterprises (CBE) and small-medium enterprises (SME) countrywide. The OTOP movement is a global program, with communities in China, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, and the Philippines. This study examined the influences of perceived quality, competitiveness, trust, and distribution satisfaction on entrepreneurial export performance strategy using the OTOP product brand. Structural equation modeling used LISREL Version 9.1 to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis and test the hypothesized inter-relationships on the variables influencing export performance strategy. Results showed that product quality, trust, distribution capability, and competitiveness are important factors influencing export performance strategy. It was also interesting to note that the majority of the 500 entrepreneurs (94.4%) either owned or worked in groups that had 50 or less employees.
title: Promoter and Leader Sequence Effects on Immunological Potency of Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara Delivering Tuberculosis Antigens
Creators: name: Hall, Yper Holly Jeanette
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is a highly attenuated, replication defective strain of Vaccinia virus with the attributes of an optimal viral vaccine delivery system. An improved vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis (TB) is urgently required and until recently, the most advanced clinical candidate under development for use against TB was based on MVA vectoring a single mycobacterial antigen (MVA85A). Unfortunately, pre-clinical efficacy and potent immunogenicity in humans did not lead to improved protection in BCG vaccinated infants. There are a number of design features to consider in the development of a recombinant MVA (rMVA)-based vaccine. The current study undertook to assess how these might impact upon the immunological potency of MVA vectoring TB antigens. Specifically, the influence of vaccinia promoter selection and leader sequences was assessed. Vaccinia promoter selection influences antigen transcription and thereby expression. The relationship between antigen production, murine immunogenicity and protective efficacy was evaluated. The results support the conclusion that vaccinia promoter optimisation can increase immunological potency and efficacy. Virally vectored antigens can be fused to sorting signals for optimised intracellular processing. The immunomodulatory effects of two leader sequences were compared. The results suggest that the sorting signal currently incorporated in virally vectored TB candidates, such as MVA85A, might be subject to further optimisation for the induction of enhanced T cell responses. Overall, the results demonstrate that rMVA immunogenicity is intrinsically linked to the precise nature of transgene insertion. The value of an optimised vaccinia promoter might be to reduce the dose of rMVA required. Leader sequences represent an opportunity to enhance the quality of the antigen-specific response for improved protection. It is concluded that both vaccinia promoter selection and leader sequence optimisation should be a feature of future rMVA TB vaccine development.
Comment on 'Anomalous Conductance Distribution in Q1D Gold Wires: Possible Violation of the One-Parameter Scaling Hypothesis' [PRL 88, 146601 (2002)]
Creators: name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
name: Lerner, Igor V.
name: Tsyplyatyev, Oleksander
name: Aleiner, Igor L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mohanty and Webb [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146601 (2002), cond-mat/0204298] claim that their data on conductance fluctuations in gold wires contradict the one-parameter scaling. We show that flaws in extracting values of the cumulants (irreducible moments) <> of the conductance distribution (for n=3,4) invalidate all the conclusions made there. The actual values of the cumulants determined by us from the published raw data contained in Ref. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146601 (2002)] are orders of magnitude smaller than those claimed. Moreover, the limited applicability of the ergodicity hypothesis makes the higher order cumulants extracted from magnetofingerprints statistically unreliable. Thus, the data of Ref. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146601 (2002)] do not warrant any statement on the violation or validity of the one-parameter scaling.
description: This is a revised version, where a misprint has been corrected and an explicit footnote added, helping the interested reader to make a visual inspection of the data in the commented Letter by P. Mohanty and R.A. Webb, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146601 (2002); cond-mat/0204298
High-spin intruder states in the fp shell nuclei and isoscalar proton-neutron correlations
Creators: name: Stoitcheva, G.
name: Satula, W.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Dean, D. J.
name: Zalewski, M.
name: Zdunczuk, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic shell-model and mean-field study of fully-aligned, high-spin f_{7/2}^{n} seniority isomers and d_{3/2}^{-1} f_{7/2}^{n+1} intruder states in the A~44 nuclei from the lower-fp shell. The shell-model calculations are performed in the full sdfp configuration space allowing 1p-1h cross-shell excitations. The self-consistent mean-field calculations are based on the Hartree-Fock approach with the Skyrme energy density functional that reproduces empirical Landau parameters. While there is a nice agreement between experimental and theoretical relative energies of fully-aligned states in N>Z nuclei, this is no longer the case for the N=Z systems. The remaining deviation from the data is attributed to the isoscalar proton-neutron correlations. It is also demonstrated that the Coulomb corrections at high spins noticeably depend on the choice of the energy density functional.
description: 4 pages. submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
The adoption of mobile payment services by consumers: An empirical analysis results
Creators: name: Trachuk, Arkady
name: Linder, Natalia
name: Trachuk, Arkady
name: Linder, Natalia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Mobile payment service
subject: Models of innovations adoption
subject: Perceived eReadiness model
subject: Perceived external eReadiness

description: This study considers the problems of distribution and adoption of mobile payment services in Russia and the factors of their perception by distribution network companies and consumers. To analyze the adoption of mobile payment services, in this article a model is suggested that includes both process-based and factor-based approaches. The model combines the user behavior analysis at different stages of the technology acceptance process and the analysis of the factors that influence this process. Factors are determined both by the features of the technologies themselves and by the characteristics of consumers. Within the framework of the process approach, the diffusion of innovation theory of Rogers (2003) and the technology acceptance model of Davis (1989) have been used. The factor analysis has been used to analyze the perception of mobile payment services by consumers and by distribution network companies. To analyze the factors influencing the decision-making by distribution network companies, the POER model, which allows analyzing internal factors, and the PEER model, which allows analyzing external factors, are used. The factors of perception of mobile payment services by consumers are analyzed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis, 1989). When testing theoretical positions, the approach that comprises model testing at the qualitative stage of research (16 in-depth interviews with representatives of distribution network companies and 34 in-depth interviews with consumers) and subsequent empirical research (based on a sample of 128 distribution network companies and 429 consumer respondents) were applied. Based on the analysis results, conclusions were made about the impact of various factors on the acceptance of mobile payment services, and recommendations for companies that develop and implement mobile payment services have been worked out.
title: Influence of ApoE on LRP1 Function and Amyloid Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
Creators: name: Shackleton, Ben
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: Alzheimer's disease is a progressive incurable neurological disorder and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. Common symptoms include failure of memory, language and mood disturbances confusion and depression. The clinical duration of Alzheimer's disease is approximately 8-10 years postdiagnosis and patients require increasing assistance throughout its progression. The currently available treatments are palliative, focussing on improving cognition and only result in mild improvements in small subsets of patients for a relatively short period of time. It is therefore clear that new approaches are needed if a therapy is to be developed that has the potential to be disease modifying and slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease. One of the main pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the brain. In particular the soluble Ap species has been linked to neurotoxicity, reductions in long term potentiation, and can induce cognitive deficits in animal models of AD after intracerebral injection. In addition, increased accumulation of Ap in the brain is also associated with the APOE4 allele, which is the strongest genetic factor for developing Alzheimer's disease. APOE exists as three alleles with the two copies of the APOE4 allele conferring a 15-fold increase in the risk of developing AD when compared to APOE3 homozygous individuals. Recently it has been demonstrated that this accumulation occurs as a result of defective clearance mechanisms. One of the main routes of clearance of Aβ is through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) where specialised transporters facilitate its clearance. The Low Density Lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP1) plays a prominent role in the BBB clearance of Aβ and its surface expression is at least in part regulated by ectodomain cleavage by a variety of 'sheddases'. In particular, this thesis focuses on the previously identified LRP1 sheddases ADAM10 and MMP9. The shedding of LRP1 produces a soluble LRPl fragment, which is unable to endocytose and subsequently transcytose bound ligands. In this thesis, I examined the role of apoE in the regulation of LRP1 and the transcytosis and clearance of Aβ through the BBB. I demonstrate that the shedding of LRP1 is modulated by the different apoE isoforms and that inhibition of LRP1 sheddases increases the clearance of Aβ through the BBB. MMP9 is the primary candidate as the main driver of this mechanism due to its apoE isoform dependent activity and increased expression in AD. In summary, I identified a novel target for treatment strategies that facilitates the clearance of Aβ though the BBB. This approach may be particularly effect in individuals with the APOE4 allele, who are in desperate need of viable therapeutics to combat AD.
Embedding spherical spacelike slices in a Schwarzschild solution
Creators: name: Murchadha, Niall Ó
name: Roszkowski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a spherical spacelike three-geometry, there exists a very simple algebraic condition which tells us whether, and in which, Schwarzschild solution this geometry can be smoothly embedded. One can use this result to show that any given Schwarzschild solution covers a significant subset of spherical superspace and these subsets form a sequence of nested domains as the Schwarzschild mass increases. This also demonstrates that spherical data offer an immediate counter example to the thick sandwich `theorem'.
Knife Creek Veneer Business Plan
Creators: name: Bowie, Chris
name: Epp, Kara
name: Ji, Jian
name: Sherban, Daryl
name: Splawski, Dan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Limonia (Libnotes) nesopictaAlexander
Creators: name: Alexander, C. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Limonia

description: 2. Limonia(Libnotes)nesopictaAlexander. TODO Libnotes picta Alexander, Canad. Ent. 47: 80-82, fig., 1915 (name preoccupied in Limonia). Limonia (Libnotes) nesopicta Alexander, Annot. Zool. Jap. 19: 204, 1940. Piti, Nov. 3, at light, Swezey, one specimen. The abdomen shows three intermediate tergites with broad and conspicuous black bands.
description: Published as part of Alexander, C. P., 1942, Diptera, Tipulidae of Guam, pp. 195-198 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu. Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin, 172 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174000
Hydrogen ionization equilibrium in magnetic fields
Creators: name: Rueda, Matías Vera
name: Rohrmann, René D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess the partition function and ionization degree of magnetized hydrogen atoms at thermodynamic equilibrium for a wide range of field intensities, $B\approx 10^5$-$10^{12}$~G. Evaluations include fitting formulae for an arbitrary number of binding energies, the coupling between the internal atomic structure and the center-of-mass motion across the magnetic field, and the formation of the so-called decentered states (bound states with the electron shifted from the Coulomb well). Non-ideal gas effects are treated within the occupational probability method. We also present general mathematical expressions for the bound state correspondence between the limits of zero-field and high-field. This let us evaluate the atomic partition function in a continuous way from the Zeeman perturbative regime to very strong fields. Results are shown for conditions found in atmospheres of magnetic white dwarf stars (MWDs), with temperatures $T\approx 5000$-$80000$~K and densities $ρ\approx 10^{-12}$-$10^{-3}$~g~cm$^3$. Our evaluations show a marked reduction of the gas ionization due to the magnetic field in the atmospheres of strong MWDs. We also found that decentered states could be present in the atmospheres of currently known hot MWDs, giving a significant contribution to the partition function in the strongest magnetized atmospheres.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Real-world 2-year treatment patterns among patients with psoriatic arthritis treated with injectable biologic therapies
Creators: name: Walsh, Jessica A.
name: Cai, Qian
name: Lin, Iris
name: Fitzgerald, Timothy
name: Pericone, Christopher D.
name: Soumya D. Chakravarty
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: To assess long-term (2-year) biologic treatment patterns of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients who initiated adalimumab, certolizumab pegol, etanercept, golimumab, or ustekinumab. Methods: Adult patients with ≥1 pharmacy or medical claim for injectable PsA biologics (index date) were identified from the Optum’s Clinformatics Data Mart (1 January 2013–31 December 2016). Adherence, persistence, post-discontinuation treatment patterns, and addition of adjunctive medications were evaluated by index biologic. Results: Of 996 patients included (mean [SD] age: 51.5 [12.6] years; female: 49.4%), the most common index biologics initiated were adalimumab (47.9%) and etanercept (34.5%). The mean [SD] proportion of days covered was 0.48 [0.32] for the index biologics. During the 24-month follow-up period, 19.7% of patients persisted on their index biologic; ustekinumab had the highest persistence rate (27.2%), followed by adalimumab (22.0%), golimumab (18.4%), certolizumab pegol (15.6%), and etanercept (15.4%). Of the 800 patients (80.3%) who discontinued their index biologic therapy, 35.0% restarted, 40.1% switched to another biologic, and 31.8% did neither during the follow-up period. The most common biologics patients switched to were adalimumab (31.2%) and ustekinumab (18.7%). Among patients who persisted with their index biologic for ≥90 days (n = 753), ≥1 adjunctive medication was added for 50.1% of patients. The most common adjunctive medications included corticosteroids (28.0% of patients), opioids (17.0%), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (13.8%), and conventional synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) (7.3%). Conclusions: In this real-world study of use of biologic PsA therapies, 24-month persistence was low (19.7%), and treatment was frequently supplemented with adjunctive medications.
Universality of Long-Range Correlations in Expansion-Randomization Systems
Creators: name: Messer, Philipp W.
name: Lassig, Michael
name: Arndt, Peter F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the stochastic dynamics of sequences evolving by single site mutations, segmental duplications, deletions, and random insertions. These processes are relevant for the evolution of genomic DNA. They define a universality class of non-equilibrium 1D expansion-randomization systems with generic stationary long-range correlations in a regime of growing sequence length. We obtain explicitly the two-point correlation function of the sequence composition and the distribution function of the composition bias in sequences of finite length. The characteristic exponent $χ$ of these quantities is determined by the ratio of two effective rates, which are explicitly calculated for several specific sequence evolution dynamics of the universality class. Depending on the value of $χ$, we find two different scaling regimes, which are distinguished by the detectability of the initial composition bias. All analytic results are accurately verified by numerical simulations. We also discuss the non-stationary build-up and decay of correlations, as well as more complex evolutionary scenarios, where the rates of the processes vary in time. Our findings provide a possible example for the emergence of universality in molecular biology.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures
US Agricultural Trade with Western Hemisphere Countries and the Effect of the Free Trade Area of the Americas
Creators: name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Free Trade Area of Americas
subject: Trade Liberalization
subject: Western Hemisphere
subject: Agricultural Trade

description: Negotiations to create the largest single market in the world, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), are in progress. Such an agreement could have significant effects on US agriculture; it could create an opportunity to increase US exports of agricultural commodities and products, and could also lead to an increase in imports. The objective of this study is to analyze US agricultural trade with Western Hemisphere countries and to determine the effects of hemisphere-wide trade liberalization. The Western Hemisphere contains important sources for US agricultural imports and important markets for US agricultural exports, though the hemisphere has been more important as a source for imports than as a market for exports. Results suggest that US agricultural exports within the hemisphere are positively influenced by real GDP in the importing country and negatively influenced by the strength of the US dollar and tariffs in importing countries. US agricultural imports are positively affected by the strength of the US dollar and negatively affected by US tariffs. A reduction in tariffs under the FTAA would have a greater effect on US agricultural exports than it would on US agricultural imports because tariffs are generally larger in other countries estimated elasticities show that US agricultural exports are more sensitive than agricultural imports to tariffs. Projections for US agricultural trade in 2010 show that exports to Latin American countries would be 15% higher under a scenario where tariffs are gradually reduced and 32% higher if tariffs are eliminated. Imports would be 2.4% higher under the scenario where tariffs are gradually reduced and 5.2 higher if tariffs are eliminated.
Homoneura (Homoneura) immaculata
Creators: name: Gao, Caixia
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Homoneura
Homoneura immaculata

description: Homoneura (Homoneura) immaculata (de Meijere, 1910)
(Figs. 19-24)
 Lauxania immaculata de Meijere, 1910. Type locality – Java.
 Material examined. – 1 male, Guangxi: Tianlin, Linaoshan (1300m), 14 Aug.2002, coll. Ding Yang (CAU).
 Diagnosis. – Thoracic dorsum black brown, pleuron and venter yellow with brown spots; scutellum black brown with yellow edge. Wing clear, only dark on m-m; surstylus short and winding upward.
 Redescription. – Body length 4.1 mm (male), wing length 3.8 mm (male).
Head yellow, with yellow dust. Frons about as long as wide and slightly converging backward, with 2 brown stripes; ocellar triangle brown; oc developed, and longer than anterior or; face with 2 brown spots at middle; cheek about 1/8 height of eye. Antenna dark brown; 3rd segment pale brown, pale yellow medially, 1.6 times as long as wide; arista brown except yellow brown base, with longest hairs longer than width of 3rd antennal segment. Proboscis yellow, pale yellow apically, with black and yellow hairs; palpus yellow, with black hairs.
Thoracic dorsum black brown, pleuron and venter yellow with brown spots; scutellum black brown with yellow edge. 0+3 dc, acr in 6 rows, 1st post-sutural dc close to suture, prsc about as long as 1st post-sutural dc. Legs yellow. Fore femur with 4 posterior ventral bristles, 6 posterior dorsal bristles, and ctenidium with 14 short bristles. Mid femur with 6 anterior bristles; mid tibia with 3 spurs. Wing pale yellow, only dark on m-m; costa with 2nd, 3rd and 4th sections in proportion of 3:1.4:0.8; r-m slightly before middle of discal cell; ultimate section of M 1+2 1.4 times as long as penultimate; ultimate section of M 3+4 about 1/5 of penultimate. Halter white.
Abdomen with black brown dorsum and yellow venter; tergites 6-9 yellow, 6th tergite with a brown stripe at middle; cercus brown. Male genitalia (Figs. 20-24): Protandrium forming a sclerotized band with a ventral segment, with a small dorsal protuberance directed forward, without setulae around spiracle (Fig. 21); surstylus on epandrium short and winding upward; hypandrium H-shaped, its apodemes distinct, gonopod long; aedeagus short and broad, with distinct apical incision (Fig. 24).
 Distribution. – China (Guangxi); Java, Malaysia. New to China.
description: Published as part of Gao, Caixia & Yang, Ding, 2004, A Review Of The Genus Homoneura From Guangxi, China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 351-364 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on pages 355-358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619516
"Good Agricultural Practice" - European Union (EU) Food Safety Requirements and the Windward Islands Banana Industries
Creators: name: Cain, Ashley R.
name: Cain, Ashley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Mad Cow Disease (BSE), genetically modified organisms, greater demand for organic produce, cloning of livestock, all enjoy the increasing fear and preoccupation of EU consumers with "safe food". EU food retailers have responded by requiring greater guarantees from suppliers that all foods supplied to them for distribution, including bananas, are safe and produced in line with their declared standards of "good agricultural practice". For the Windward Islands banana industries these new standards have become as important a competitive issue as the WTO rules and continued access to the EU market under the new EU Banana Regime. I review the evolution of these new standards and the nature of the industries response to the new imperatives .and assess their impacts on and implications for the Windward Islands banana industries.
Growth and transport properties of Mg3X2 (X = Sb, Bi) single crystals
Creators: name: Xin, Jiazhan
name: Li, Guowei
name: Auffermann, Gudrun
name: Borrmann, Horst
name: Schnelle, Walter
name: Gooth, Johannes
name: Zhao, Xinbing
name: Zhu, Tiejun
name: Felser, Claudia
name: Fu, Chenguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of high thermoelectric performance in n-type polycrystalline Mg3(Sb,Bi)2 based Zintl compounds has ignited intensive research interest. However, some fundamental questions concerning the anisotropic transport properties and the origin of intrinsically low thermal conductivity are still elusive, requiring the investigation of single crystals. In this work, high-quality p-type Mg3Sb2 and Mg3Bi2 single crystals have been grown by using a self-flux method. The electrical resistivity \r{ho} of Mg3Bi2 single crystal displays an anisotropy with \r{ho} in-plane twice larger than out-of-plane. The low-temperature heat capacity and lattice thermal conductivity of Mg3Sb2 and Mg3Bi2 single crystals have been investigated by using the Debye-Callaway model, from which the existence of low-lying vibration mode could be concluded. Large Grüneisen parameters and strong anharmonicity are found responsible for the intrinsically low thermal conductivity. Moreover, grain boundary scattering does not contribute significantly to suppress the lattice thermal conductivity of polycrystalline Mg3Sb2. Our results provide insights into the intrinsic transport properties of Mg3X2 and could pave a way to realize enhanced thermoelectric performance in single-crystalline Mg3X2-based Zintl compounds.
Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement on Food Safety and Trade by Developing Countries
Creators: name: Badrie, Neela
name: Badrie, Neela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: There have been concerns that Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures can act as a barrier to trade and thus impede the export of agricultural and food products to developed countries. To a large extent, this reflects poor access to compliance resources, including scientific and technical expertise, information and finance. In 1994, developed countries collectively accounted for 72.5% of the total world imports of agricultural products (UNCTAD 1998). This paper explores the impact of the SPS Agreement on food safety and examines some developing food safety issues. The basic rules for food safety as set out by the SPS Agreement are highlighted and the standards by different regulatory and advisory bodies are outlined. Some of the problems and challenges that developing countries experience in meeting SPS standards in food safety are identified.
Limonia (Libnotes) strigivena
Creators: name: Alexander, C. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Limonia
Limonia strigivena

description: 3.Limonia (Libnotes) strigivena (Walker). Limnobia strigivena Walker, Linn. Soc. London, Jour. 5: 229, 1861. Fadian, Sept. 22, Swezey; "ex rotten bark of dug-dug", Swezey.
description: Published as part of Alexander, C. P., 1942, Diptera, Tipulidae of Guam, pp. 195-198 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu. Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin, 172 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174000
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of a serious game addressing guideline adherence: cohort study with 1.5-year follow-up
Creators: name: Raupach, Tobias
name: De Temple, Insa
name: Angélina Middeke
name: Anders, Sven
name: Morton, Caroline
name: Schuelper, Nikolai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Online Supplement. eTables 1a-c and eFigure 1.
Homoneura (Homoneura) cornuta Sasakawa 2001
Creators: name: Gao, Caixia
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Homoneura
Homoneura cornuta

description: Homoneura (Homoneura) cornuta Sasakawa, 2001
(Figs. 13-18)
 Homoneura cornuta Sasakawa, 2001: 85. Type locality – Viet Nam.
 Material examined. – 1 male, 1 female, Guangxi: Longsheng, Hongtan, 25 Jun.1986, Jikun Yang (CAU).
  Diagnosis. – W  ing with 5 brown spots on tip of R 2+3 to M 1+2, r-m and m-m, but spot on m-m disappeared gradually backward.
 Redescription. – Body length 5.7 mm (male) or 5.8 mm (female), wing length 5.9 mm (male) or 6.7 mm (female).
Head yellow, with yellow dust. Frons about as wide as long, parallel-sided; ocellar triangle pale brown; oc as long as anterior or; face without spot; cheek about 1/8 height of eye. Antenna yellow brown; 3rd segment 1.6 times as long as wide; arista black except testaceous base, with longest hairs as long as width of 3rd antennal segment. Proboscis yellow brown, with black and yellow hairs; palpus yellow, with black hairs.
Thorax yellow, with yellow dust. 0+3 dc, 8 rows of acr, prsc longer than 1st post-sutural dc. Legs yellow. Fore femur with 4 posterior ventral bristles, 7 posterior dorsal bristles, and ctenidium with 14 short bristles. Mid femur with 4 anterior bristles, mid tibia with 3 spurs. Wing pale yellow, with 5 brown spots on tip of R 2+3 to M 1+2, r-m and m-m; costa with 2nd, 3rd and 4th sections in proportion of 10:3:2; r-m slightly behind middle of discal cell; ultimate section of M 1+2 1.4 times as long as penultimate; ultimate section of M 3+4 about 1/7 of penultimate. Halter yellow to brown.
Abdomen testaceous, with dense white dust; tergites 5-6 with black spot apically. Male genitalia (Figs. 14-18): Protandrium forming a sclerotized band with a ventral segment, without setulae around spiracle (Fig. 15); surstylus on epandrium with 3 acute processes; hypandrial apodemes small, gonopod bifurcate apically; aedeagus with deep apical incision (Fig. 18).
 Distribution. – China (Guangxi); Vietnam. New to China.
description: Published as part of Gao, Caixia & Yang, Ding, 2004, A Review Of The Genus Homoneura From Guangxi, China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 351-364 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619516
Secondary Adoption of Soil Management Practices in Haiti
Creators: name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Howze, Glenn
name: Shannon, Dennis
name: Bannister, Michael
name: Flaurentin, Gardy
name: Lea, John Dale (Zach)
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Howze, Glenn
name: Shannon, Dennis
name: Bannister, Michael
name: Flaurentin, Gardy
name: Lea, John Dale (Zach)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: A secondary adoption study of Soil Conservation (SC) practices, principally rock walls, alley cropping, contour terraces, crop bands, and contour canals was conducted in Haiti during the months of August and September 1998. A total of 101 farm heads of households who had not been included in a recent SC project were interviewed to determine their source of information on the adoption of soil conservation practices. The sample of heads of household included 91 males and 10 females within the ages of 17 to 75 years. It was found that land tenure system affected the adoption of SC practices and soil fertility positively affected the installation of SC practices (p>.05). Most farmers indicated that their information for the adoption of SC practices come from the following: 17.1% from their own experience, 12.0% from other, and 5.7% from friends. Only 1.3% revealed that they obtained the information from the on-going project, while 9.5% said they received it from another contemporary project.
title: 02_0630
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Homoneura (Homoneura) picta
Creators: name: Gao, Caixia
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Homoneura
Homoneura picta

description: Homoneura (Homoneura) picta (de Meijere, 1904)
 Drosomyia picta de Meijere, 1904: 114. Type locality – Java.
 Material examined. – 1 female, Guangxi: Tianlin, Heba (1400m), 16 Aug.2002, coll. Ding Yang (CAU); 6 males, 11 females, Guangxi: Tianlin, Linaoshan (1300m), 14 Aug.2002, coll. Ding Yang (CAU & ZRC).
 Diagnosis. – Face with brown spots on ventral part. Wing mostly brown.
 Distribution. – China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Taiwan); Malaysia, Nepal, Viet Nam, Thailand, Flores Island, India, Java, Malaya, Sumatra.
description: Published as part of Gao, Caixia & Yang, Ding, 2004, A Review Of The Genus Homoneura From Guangxi, China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 351-364 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 361, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619516
Electron transport in two-dimensional arrays
Creators: name: Meyer, Julia S.
name: Kamenev, Alex
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study charge transport in a granular array with high inter-grain conductances. We show that the system exhibits a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover from the high-temperature conducting state into a low-temperature insulating state. The crossover takes place at a critical temperature T_{BKT} \propto E_c exp{-g}, where E_c is the charging energy of a grain and g >> 1 is the dimensionless inter-grain conductance. A uniformly applied gate voltage drives the insulator into a conducting charge liquid state followed by an insulating lattice-pinned Wigner crystal state at larger values of the gate voltage. Technically, we establish correspondence between the charge and phase representations, employing the instanton gas summation in the framework of the phase model.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
title: Tracing Star Formation Around Quasars With Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Creators: name: Bilton, Lawrence Edward
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: The feedback processes linking quasar activity to galaxy stellar mass growth are not well understood. If star formation is closely causally linked to black hole accretion, one may expect star formation confined to nuclear regions rather than extended over several kpc scales. Since Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features are widely used as tracers of stellar formation, it is, therefore, possible to use PAH emission detected around QSOs to help resolve this question. PAH data from a sample of 63 QSOs procured from the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is used, employing the Spectroscopic Modelling Analysis and Reduction Tool's (SMART) Advanced Optimal (AdOpt) extraction routines. A composite spectrum was also produced to help determine the average conditions and compositions of star forming regions. It is found, from our high redshift (z > 1) sample of QSOs, there is a marginally significant extended star formation on average of 34 kpc scales. At low redshift, the median extension after deconvolving the instrumental point spread function is 3.2 kpc, potentially showing evolutionary variations in star formation activity. However, limitations of the spatial resolving power constrain the ability to make any absolute conclusive remarks. It is also found that the QSO/AGN composite has more neutral PAHs than the starbursting and the main sequence galaxies, consistent with the AGN having no contribution to heating the PAH emission, and also consistent with the average PAH emission found on kpc scales (i.e. not confined to the nuclear regions). A tentative detection of water vapour emission from the gravitationally lensed Einstein Cross quasar, QSO J2237+0305, is also presented suggesting a strong molecular outflow possibly driven by the active nucleus.
Polar Fields for AB Dor
Creators: name: McIvor, T.
name: Jardine, M.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Wood, K.
name: Donati, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar spots are often observed on rapidly-rotating cool stars, but the nature of the magnetic field in these spots is as yet unknown. While Zeeman-Doppler imaging can provide surface magnetic field maps over much of the observed stellar surface, the Zeeman signature is suppressed in the dark polar regions. We have determined the effect on the global coronal structure of three current models for this polar field: that it is composed (a) of unipolar field, (b) of bipolar regions or (c) of nested rings of opposite polarity. We take as an example the young, rapid rotator AB Dor (rotation period = 0.514 days). By adding these model polar fields into the surface field maps determined from Zeeman-Doppler imaging, we have compared the resulting coronal structure with the observable properties of the corona - the magnitude and rotational modulation of the X-ray emission measure and the presence of slingshot prominences trapped in the corona around the Keplerian co-rotation radius. We find that only the presence of a unipolar spot has any significant effect on the overall coronal structure, forcing much of the polar field to be open.
description: 10 pages, 21 figures
Limonia (Limonia) swezeyana Alexander, 1942, new species
Creators: name: Alexander, C. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Limonia
Limonia swezeyana

description: 4. Limonia (Limonia) swezeyana, new species. Belongs to the albitarsis group; general coloration of mesonotum medium brown; pleura paler; legs brown, the tarsi snowy white, involving about the distal fourth or fifth of the basitarsus; wings with a strong brownish tinge; Sci ending about opposite two-fifths the length of Rs; male hypopygium with two rostral spines. Male, length about 5 mm., wing 5.5 mm.; female, length about 5 mm., wing, 5 mm. Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black throughout. Head dark. Mesonotum almost uniformly medium brown; pleura paler. Halteres dark brown. Legs brown, the tarsi snowy white, this including about the distal fourth or fifth of the basitarsus, as well as the outer tarsal segments. Wings with a strong brownish tinge; stigma not or scarcely darker; veins dark brown. Venation: Sci ending about opposite two-fifths the length of Rs, Sc2 a short distance from its tip; free tip of Sc2 lying a short distance beyond the level of R2; m-cu close to fork of ill. Abdominal tergites dark brown, the caudal borders of the segments a trifle paler. Male hypopygium with the tergite transverse, the setae apical. Basistyle relatively long, the lobes much as in albitarsis. Dorsal dististyle a nearly straight, stout rod. Ventral dististyle small, the prolongation conspicuous, bearing two long conspicuous spines from a common tubercle; outer spine about four-fifths as long as the inner and a little more slender. Gonapophyses with mesal-apical lobe long, straight and very slender. Fadian, Sept. 18, Swezey, holotype female; "ex rotten bark of dug-dug", Swezey, allotopotype male, in poor condition. I take great pleasure in naming this species in honor of the collector, 0. H. Swezey. It is allied to Linionia (Liinonia) albitarsis (Alexander) and Limonia (L.) subalbitarsis Alexander, of the East Indies, differing in the small size and in the possession of two rostral spines on the ventral dististyle of the male hypopygium.
description: Published as part of Alexander, C. P., 1942, Diptera, Tipulidae of Guam, pp. 195-198 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu. Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin, 172 on pages 195-196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174000
Agriculturists as Environmentalists: The Challenge of Seeing Participatory IPM as an Environmental Innovation for Sustainable Adoption by Farming Communities in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Ganpat, Wayne G.
name: Persad, Cynthra
name: Ganpat, Wayne G.
name: Persad, Cynthra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Recent definitions of Integrated Pest Management (1PM) put more emphasis on the ecological approach to pest management and the need to involve end-users in the technology development process (Joffe, 1998, Meerman, 1999). This approach brings to the fore major differences between IPM and other technical innovations that should force agriculturists to begin to look at IPM with the eyes of environmentalists. Agriculturists are trained to provide clear recommendations to farmers, based on research conducted at centralized experiment stations, and to expect changes in the shortest possible time, often without much concern for the environment Policies and regulatory measures support this approach. The focus of this paper is to present participatory IPM as "a set of best management practices", worked out with farmers and given for a particular context and environment. A greater emphasis is placed on protection rather than production. The strategies to be adopted are therefore expected to be inconsistent with those used to promote commercial innovations, and more in line with environmental innovations. This could be challenging. Several of the issues that would confront development institutions and agriculturists if a new perspective were to be taken are discussed. Extension would need to shift from individual to community adoption, adjust expectations of short-term results, and place much more emphasis on the environment-specific Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK) that resides in communities. Policy-makers would need to develop a different set of policy instruments and regulatory mechanisms, research would have to be conducted on-farm, and research, extension and farmers must work together. A participatory approach must be taken. As overall objectives shift, economists so far not directly involved must now make their input The importance of taking this approach, and its potential, are discussed from the context of the several examples of IPM initiatives in the region.
Additional file 1 of Exploring the extent of digital food and beverage related content associated with a family-friendly event: a case study
Creators: name: Amson, Ashley
name: Remedios, Lauren
name: Adena Pinto
name: Kent, Monique Potvin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Frequency of views for food and beverage social media posts linked to Winterlude by source. Table S2. Frequency of retweets for food and beverage social media posts linked to Winterlude by source. Fig. 1. Example of a food and beverage social media post linked to Winterlude from Facebook. Fig. 2. Example of a food and beverage social media post linked to Winterlude from Instagram. Fig. 3. Example of a food and beverage social media post linked to Winterlude from Twitter.