cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perdita (Pygoperdita) micheneri Timberlake 1956
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Perdita (Pygoperdita) micheneri Timberlake, 1956
[Holotype: UCRC; ♀ Eagle Rock Hills, Los Angeles Co., California, USA; May 5, 1935]
Perdita micheneri is distributed in the CFP and the SD in the BCP. Timberlake (1968) reported two specimens of this species in BC’s Coastal Sage Matorral, both of which are vouchered at UCRC (GBIF 2023). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in the Central Desert in March 2021 (2 ♂), and in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April (1 ♀) and May 2021 (1 ♂) (MABC). See fig. 65.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
What Makes Poverty So Intractable in High-Poverty Nonmetro Counties?
Creators: name: Morrissey, Elizabeth S.
name: Morrissey, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Security and Poverty
Labor and Human Capital

description: Rural counties with high poverty rates are substantially different from counties with low poverty rates. For example, high poverty counties are more likely to have relatively large dependent populations such as female-headed families, disabled persons, and persons not in the work force, in addition, their populations are less educated and more likely to have low-wage jobs. Such characteristics suggest that government assistance in the form of income transfers could play a big role in alleviating poverty in these areas.
Comparison of regression techniques for certain patterned matrices in the errors in variables model
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Ho
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The goal of this research is to study and overcome a severe collinearity problem in the satellite data. Future satellites will have more than 2000 predictors. Those predictors are severely collinear. In this research, which method among ridge, principal component and ordinary least square regression would be a simple and robust approach to these kind of problems will be found using both theoretical and heuristic arguments. The closed form of prediction of Y is derived for several Fs which show the linear dependency structure of predictors. Simulation studies assuming a possible linear dependency structure are performed. The relationship of ridge and principal component regression (PCR) is investigated for the case of severe collinearity with measurement errors when a possible linear dependency structure is assumed. Comparison of the sum of squared error (SSE) between PCR and ridge regression is shown, and the range of k that SSER < SSEP for this special case is found. Several analytical results for this case are revealed. An application to the data from the NOAA-K is analysed with three different regression techniques.
Boolean learning under noise-perturbations in hardware neural networks
Creators: name: Andreoli, Louis
name: Porte, Xavier
name: Chrétien, Stéphane
name: Jacquot, Maxime
name: Larger, Laurent
name: Brunner, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A high efficiency hardware integration of neural networks benefits from realizing nonlinearity, network connectivity and learning fully in a physical substrate. Multiple systems have recently implemented some or all of these operations, yet the focus was placed on addressing technological challenges. Fundamental questions regarding learning in hardware neural networks remain largely unexplored. Noise in particular is unavoidable in such architectures, and here we investigate its interaction with a learning algorithm using an opto-electronic recurrent neural network. We find that noise strongly modifies the system's path during convergence, and surprisingly fully decorrelates the final readout weight matrices. This highlights the importance of understanding architecture, noise and learning algorithm as interacting players, and therefore identifies the need for mathematical tools for noisy, analogue system optimization.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Modelowanie emisji podtlenku azotu i amoniaku w skali regionalnej oraz w Polsce
Modeling of Emission of Nitrous Oxide and Ammonia on a Regional Scale and in Poland
Creators: name: Faber, Antoni
name: Jarosz, Zuzanna
name: Faber, Antoni
name: Jarosz, Zuzanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: nitrogen
subject: balance
subject: emission
subject: nitrous oxide
subject: ammonia
subject: azot
subject: bilans
subject: emisja
subject: podtlenek azotu
subject: amoniak

description: The aim of the research was to verify the N2O direct and NH3 emission factors adopted in national inventories, and to estimate the direct and indirect N2O emissions in cultivation systems increasing carbon sequestration. Simulations were performed using the DNDC model for NUTS2 and Poland with the use of twenty-year series of meteorological data. It was found that the simulated direct emission of nitrous oxide for Poland was in line with the adopted emission factor. The simulated ammonia emission was greater than the assumed emission factor. Use in simulations of cultivation systems increasing the sequestration of organic carbon, such as conservation system and conventional system with manure fertilization, increased: surface leaching and runoff of nitrogen as well as direct and indirect N2O emission. The increase of these emissions must be compensated with an allowance increase in the amount of sequestered organic carbon in the soil if the greenhouse gas emissions balance is to be negative. / Synopsis. Celem badań była weryfikacja przyjętych w krajowych inwentaryzacjach emisji gazów cieplarnianych współczynników emisji bezpośredniej N2O i NH3 oraz oszacowanie emisji bezpośredniej i pośredniej N2O w systemach uprawy zwiększających sekwestrację węgla. Symulacje wykonywano przy użyciu modelu DNDC dla województw i Polski z użyciem dwudziestoletnich serii danych meteorologicznych. Stwierdzono, że symulowana emisja bezpośrednia podtlenku azotu dla Polski była zgodna z przyjętym współczynnikiem emisji. Symulowana emisja amoniaku była większa od przyjętego współczynnika emisji. Zastosowanie w symulacjach systemów uprawy zwiększających sekwestrację węgla organicznego, takich jak uprawa konserwująca oraz nawożenie obornikiem, zwiększało: wymycie i spływ powierzchniowy azotu oraz emisję bezpośrednią i pośrednią N2O. Wzrost tych emisji powinien być skompensowany z naddatkiem przyrostem ilości sekwestrowanego węgla organicznego w glebie, jeśli bilans emisji gazów cieplarnianych ma być ujemny.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.2.35
Getting a Job in Poor Counties of the Rural South
Creators: name: Cho, Woong K.
name: Cho, Woong K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: A lack of jobs makes finding work extremely difficult according to more than half of those interviewed in low-income counties in the rural South. More than a third said that not knowing the right people and not having enough training or education also were serious obstacles. These survey responses reveal why many residents of low-income rural areas in the South feel they did not fully share in the 1970's rural revival.
Dimensional Analysis and Weak Turbulence
Creators: name: Connaughton, Colm
name: Nazarenko, Sergey
name: Newell, Alan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the study of weakly turbulent wave systems possessing incomplete self-similarity it is possible to use dimensional arguments to derive the scaling exponents of the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra, provided the order of the resonant wave interactions responsible for nonlinear energy transfer is known. Furthermore one can easily derive conditions for the breakdown of the weak turbulence approximation. It is found that for incompletely self-similar systems dominated by three wave interactions, the weak turbulence approximation usually cannot break down at small scales. It follows that such systems cannot exhibit small scale intermittency. For systems dominated by four wave interactions, the incomplete self-similarity property implies that the scaling of the interaction coefficient depends only on the physical dimension of the system. These results are used to build a complete picture of the scaling properties of the surface wave problem where both gravity and surface tension play a role. We argue that, for large values of the energy flux, there should be two weakly turbulent scaling regions matched together via a region of strongly nonlinear turbulence.
description: revtex4, 10 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Early detection of Ebola virus proteins in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from infected mice
Creators: name: Ward, Michael D.
name: Kenny, Tara
name: Bruggeman, Ernie
name: Kane, Christopher D.
name: Morrell, Courtney L.
name: Kane, Molly M.
name: Bixler, Sandra
name: Grady, Sarah L.
name: Quizon, Rachel S.
name: Mekbib Astatke
name: Cazares, Lisa H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of exclusion list masses commonly observed hemoglobin peptides.
Comparison of regression techniques for certain patterned matrices in the errors in variables model
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Ho
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The goal of this research is to study and overcome a severe collinearity problem in the satellite data. Future satellites will have more than 2000 predictors. Those predictors are severely collinear. In this research, which method among ridge, principal component and ordinary least square regression would be a simple and robust approach to these kind of problems will be found using both theoretical and heuristic arguments. The closed form of prediction of Y is derived for several Fs which show the linear dependency structure of predictors. Simulation studies assuming a possible linear dependency structure are performed. The relationship of ridge and principal component regression (PCR) is investigated for the case of severe collinearity with measurement errors when a possible linear dependency structure is assumed. Comparison of the sum of squared error (SSE) between PCR and ridge regression is shown, and the range of k that SSER < SSEP for this special case is found. Several analytical results for this case are revealed. An application to the data from the NOAA-K is analysed with three different regression techniques.
Irradiated ocean planets bridge super-Earth and sub-Neptune populations
Creators: name: Mousis, Olivier
name: Deleuil, Magali
name: Aguichine, Artyom
name: Marcq, Emmanuel
name: Naar, Joseph
name: Aguirre, Lorena Acuña
name: Brugger, Bastien
name: Goncalves, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small planets ($\sim$1--3.9 $\Rearth$) constitute more than half of the inventory of the 4000-plus exoplanets discovered so far. Smaller planets are sufficiently dense to be rocky, but those with radii larger than $\sim$1.6 $\Rearth$ are thought to display in many cases hydrogen/helium gaseous envelopes up to $\sim$30\% of the planetary mass. These low-mass planets are highly irradiated and the question of their origin, evolution, and possible links remains open. Here we show that close-in ocean planets affected by greenhouse effect display hydrospheres in supercritical state, which generate inflated atmospheres without invoking the presence of large hydrogen/helium gaseous envelopes. We present a new set of mass-radius relationships for ocean planets with different compositions and different equilibrium temperatures, which are found to be well adapted to low-density sub-Neptune planets. Our model suggests that super-Earths and water-rich sub-Neptunes could belong to the same family of planets, i.e. hydrogen/helium-free planets, with differences between their interiors simply resulting from the variation in the water content.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Dynamics of M-theory vacua
Creators: name: Donoghue, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At very early times, the universe was not in a vacuum state. Under the assumtion that the deviation from equillibrium was large, in particular that it is higher than the scale of inflation, we analyse the conditions for local transitions between states that are related to different vacua. All pathways lead to an attractor solution of a description of the universe by eternal inflation with domains that have different low energy parameters. The generic case favors transitions between states that have significantly different parameters rather than jumps between nearby states in parameter space. I argue that the strong CP problem presents a potential difficulty for this picture, more difficult than the hierarchy problem or the cosmological constant problem. Finally, I describe how the spectrum of quark masses may be a probe of the early dynamics of vacuum states. As an example, by specializing to the case of intersecting braneworld models, I show that the observed mass spectrum, which is approximately scale invariant, corresponds to a flat distribution in the intersection area of the branes, with a maximum area A_max ~ 100 alpha'.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures
Selected Aspects of Protectionism of EU Member States in the EU Agri-Food Market
Creators: name: Grochowska, Renata
name: Ambroziak, Adam A.
name: Grochowska, Renata
name: Ambroziak, Adam A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: EU internal market
subject: non-tariff barriers
subject: agri-food products

description: Tendencies in national actions against foreign products currently observed in the European Union indicate protectionism or at least discrimination. The aim of this article is describe economic mechanisms of applying selected import-related policy instruments of Member States and to identify some potential directions of their impact on the functioning of the EU agri-food internal market. The presented mechanisms are related to three situations: (a) hindering the market entry through retargeting of consumer demand; (b) promotion of own products contrary to the fair rules of competition; (c) limiting economic activity of foreign companies. The analyses carried out allowed to identify economic activity areas, where negative effects could reveal and to state that the potential result of these activities may be selective reduction of trade or change of its directions.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.2.36
Measurement and Information Extraction in Complex Dynamics Quantum Computation
Creators: name: Casati, G.
name: Montangero, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem related to the extraction of the information in the simulation of complex dynamics quantum computation. Here we present an example where important information can be extracted efficiently by means of quantum simulations. We show how to extract efficiently the localization length, the mean square deviation and the system characteristic frequency. We show how this methods work on a dynamical model, the Sawtooth Map, that is characterized by very different dynamical regimes: from near integrable to fully developed chaos; it also exhibits quantum dynamical localization.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, Proceeding of "First International Workshop DICE2002 - Piombino (Tuscany), (2002)"
Fundamentalists and democracy: The political culture of Indonesian Islamist students
Creators: name: Madrid, Robin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is an anthropological investigation of the political culture of Indonesian Islamist students. There has been a tendency among Western analysts and particularly policy makers to assume that religious activism and democratic principles are incompatible, that without the advance of secularism fundamental principles of liberal politics will founder. For many there is something inherently anti-democratic in Islam as a belief system. Accordingly, some policy makers have advocated excluding Muslim fundamentalists from participation in political forums and democratic contests. This dissertation shows, however, that Islamic fundamentalism is a contested arena. The term covers a wide range of discourses and activist programs. The research indicates that the objectives and practices of some fundamentalist organizations and movements are compatible with democratic functioning. The author argues further that participation in the democratic process is itself democratizing. She suggests, therefore, that western human rights and democracy advocates need to adopt a more inclusive policy toward fundamentalist groups. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim nation. It is therefore an important arena for investigating the compatibility of Islamic fundamentalism and democracy. The research was conducted in the late nineties, in the years immediately preceding and during the student reform movement that brought about the end of the New Order regime of President Suharto---a movement in which Islamist students played a leading role. The research was conducted in mosques and student organizations in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia. The approach is framed by research in what has been termed "new social movements." It thus foregrounds questions of identity, combining structural and phenomenological approaches. In the approach to the Islamic student movement the author argues argue that the student movement cannot be faithfully tracked by standard social movement theories that downplay the role of organizations and their leaders' organizing skill and experience or sideline the role of religious motivation.
Multirate control strategies for avoiding sample losses. Application to UGV path tracking
Creators: name: Salt, J.
name: Alcaina, J.
name: Cuenca, A.
name: Banyos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: When in a digital control strategy there are samples lost due to limitations, diff t multirate (MR) control options can be used for solving the problem: Dual-rate inferential control (IC) and model-based dual-rate control (MBDR). The objective of this contribution is to analyze, compare, and to assess their behavior under different perspectives. Is a dual-rate inferential control better than a model-based dual-rate control? Both options lead to a periodically time-varying discrete-time system and for this reason a lifted modeling is considered. An efficient algorithm is used for computing a MR systems frequency response for these control structures. The robust performance and disturbance effects are studied in detail under sample losses and process uncertainty, and some considerations are reported. A new QFT (quantitative feedback theory) procedure for dual-rate systems analysis is also described. Analysis and simulation examples and experimental results for UGV path tracking are introduced in this work, revealing that MBDR outperforms IC when the model contains important uncertainties.
description: 41 pages, 24 figures
Single Hadron Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering
Creators: name: Maniatis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NLO-QCD correction to single hadron production in deep inelastic scattering is calculated. We require the final state meson to carry a non-vanishing transversal momentum, thus being sensitive to perturbative QCD effects. Factorization allows us to convolute the hard scattering process with parton densities and fragmentation functions. The predictions are directly comparable to experimental results at the HERA collider at DESY. The results are sensitive to the gluon density in the proton and allow us to test universality of fragmentation functions.
description: Proceedings of Ringberg New Trends in HERA Physics Workshop, Sept.28-Oct.3, 2003
EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL LAND RENTAL MARKET PARTICIPATION ON AGRICULTURAL INCOME OF SMALL SCALE FARMERS IN KWALE COUNTY, KENYA
Creators: name: Mbudzya, Joseph Jabu
name: Mbudzya, Joseph Jabu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Financial Economics
Land Economics/Use

description: A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Award of Master of Science Degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics of Egerton University. Advisors: Dr. Oscar Ingasia Ayuya, Prof. Patience Mshenga
A comment on a controversial issue: a Generalized Fractional Derivative cannot have a regular kernel
Creators: name: Hanyga, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 34A99

description: The problem whether a given pair of functions can be used as the kernels of a generalized fractional derivative and the associated generalized fractional integral is reduced to the problem of existence of a solution to the Sonine equation. It is shown for some selected classes of functions that a necessary condition for a function to be the kernel of a fractional derivative is an integrable singularity at 0. It is shown that locally integrable completely monotone functions satisfy the Sonine equation if and only if they are singular at 0.
description: The discussion of sLICM functions with a logarithmic singularity has been expanded in a separate section
Should the Rural Elderly Opt for the New Equity Conversion Plans?
Creators: name: Meeks, Carol B.
name: Meeks, Carol B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Elderly homeowners should look before they leap into one of the new plans to tap the idle value of their home equity and turn it into cash. While such an equity conversion plan may be just what they 've been looking for, the plans can be difficult to evaluate. Some plans will increase their income taxes or make them ineligible for public assistance. Before deciding, it would pay to look Into other sources of financial aid, such as a loan secured by a traditional mortgage or a low-interest loan from a State government.
Role of the dielectric constant of ferroelectric ceramic in enhancing the ionic conductivity of a polymer electrolyte composite
Creators: name: Singh, Pramod Kumar
name: Chandra, Amreesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dispersal of high dielectric constant ferroelectric ceramic material Ba(0.7)Sr(0.3)TiO(3) (Tc~30 C) and Ba(0.88)Sr(0.12)TiO(3) (Tc~90 C) in an ion conducting polymer electrolyte (PEO:NH4I) is reported to result in an increase in the room temperature ionic conductivity by two orders of magnitude. The conductivity enhancememt "peaks" as we approach the dielectric phase transition of the dispersed ferroelectric material where the dielectric constant changes from ~ 2000 to 4000. This establishes the role of dielectric constant of the dispersoid in enhancing the ionic conductivity of the polymeric composites.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Retirement: A Growing Part of Rural Economies
Creators: name: Kuehn, John A.
name: Kuehn, John A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: While only a small proportion of the elderly move when they retire, many who do move seek out rural communities with favorable climates and good scenery. These older people bring to rural areas an important ingredient of economic growth—spending power that creates demand for a myriad of retail goods and locally produced goods and services.
Pseudomacrotera Timberlake 1954
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Pseudomacrotera

description: Genus Pseudomacrotera Timberlake, 1954
This monotypic genus was previously recognized as a subgenus of Perdita (Michener, 2007). We adhere to the most recent classification outlined by Bossert et al. (2022), which is based on modern molecular phylogenomic techniques.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
PERCEPTIONS OF ENHANCED FRESHNESS FORMULATION TECHNOLOGIES AND ADOPTION DECISIONS AMONG SMALLHOLDER BANANA FARMERS IN MOROGORO, TANZANIA
Creators: name: Subert, Moses Peter
name: Subert, Moses Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS OF SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE. MOROGORO, TANZANIA. Advisor: Prof. F. T. M. Kilima
MOVEMENTS, DETERMINANTS AND EFFECT OF AGRICULTURE COMMERCIALIZATION AMONG SMALLHOLDERS FARMERS IN TANZANIA
Creators: name: Mbegallo, Franco John
name: Mbegallo, Franco John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS OF SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE. MOROGORO, TANZANIA.
Pseudomacrotera turgiceps
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Pseudomacrotera turgiceps (Timberlake, 1954)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Palm Springs, California; May 20, 1917]
This species is distributed in California and Northern BC. In BC it has been previously recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral (Timberlake 1954). The specimen is a female paratype and was collected in April, 1939 in Rosarito Beach. It was also collected in the Lower Colorado Desert south of San Felipe in April, 1965. We reviewed all of the reported specimens (CASC). See fig. 63.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Fundamentalists and democracy: The political culture of Indonesian Islamist students
Creators: name: Madrid, Robin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation is an anthropological investigation of the political culture of Indonesian Islamist students. There has been a tendency among Western analysts and particularly policy makers to assume that religious activism and democratic principles are incompatible, that without the advance of secularism fundamental principles of liberal politics will founder. For many there is something inherently anti-democratic in Islam as a belief system. Accordingly, some policy makers have advocated excluding Muslim fundamentalists from participation in political forums and democratic contests. This dissertation shows, however, that Islamic fundamentalism is a contested arena. The term covers a wide range of discourses and activist programs. The research indicates that the objectives and practices of some fundamentalist organizations and movements are compatible with democratic functioning. The author argues further that participation in the democratic process is itself democratizing. She suggests, therefore, that western human rights and democracy advocates need to adopt a more inclusive policy toward fundamentalist groups. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim nation. It is therefore an important arena for investigating the compatibility of Islamic fundamentalism and democracy. The research was conducted in the late nineties, in the years immediately preceding and during the student reform movement that brought about the end of the New Order regime of President Suharto---a movement in which Islamist students played a leading role. The research was conducted in mosques and student organizations in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia. The approach is framed by research in what has been termed "new social movements." It thus foregrounds questions of identity, combining structural and phenomenological approaches. In the approach to the Islamic student movement the author argues argue that the student movement cannot be faithfully tracked by standard social movement theories that downplay the role of organizations and their leaders' organizing skill and experience or sideline the role of religious motivation.
Additional file 1 of Migraine, headache, and mortality in women: a cohort study
Creators: name: Rohmann, Jessica L.
name: Rist, Pamela M.
name: Buring, Julie E.
name: Kurth, Tobias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Baseline characteristics according to migraine subtypes or non-migraine headache status (N = 27,844). Supplementary Table S2. Fine-Gray subdistribution age- and multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios for cause-specific mortality accounting for competing risks according to migraine or headache status (N = 27,844). Supplementary Table S3. Fine-Gray subdistribution age- and multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios for cause-specific mortality accounting for competing risks according to migraine subtypes or non-migraine headache status (N = 27,844).
CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR SHELF LIFE EXTENDED FRESH CASSAVA ROOTS IN UGANDA: CASE OF KAMPALA DISTRICT
Creators: name: Innocent, Kwagala
name: Innocent, Kwagala
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH AND GRADUATE TRAINING IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY. Advisor: Dr. Gracious Diiro, Dr. Peter Walekhwa
Managing intraday overdrafts on Fedwire: An empirical analysis of recent developments
Creators: name: Moorty, Lalita Mylavarupu
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this dissertation, structural changes in demand for overdrafts on Fedwire are examined since the imposition of fees in April 1994. Initial results confirmed the existence of a structural break and showed that the long- and short-run impacts of all variables had undergone a major change since the imposition of fees. However, on closer examination, the demand for overdrafts appears to be stable. This result is contingent on the use of sweep adjusted reserves instead of the commercial banks' end-of-the-day reserves.
Protandrena Cockerell 1897
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Protandrena

description: Genus Protandrena Cockerell, 1897
We recognize Heterosarus Robertson, Pseudopanurgus Cockerell, and Pterosarus Timberlake as subgenera of Protandrena as in Bossert et al. (2022). The species of Protandrena present in the BCB require taxonomic revision, and the phylogeny of its subgenera needs to be re-evaluated (Bossert et al. 2022).
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Managing intraday overdrafts on Fedwire: An empirical analysis of recent developments
Creators: name: Moorty, Lalita Mylavarupu
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment

description: In this dissertation, structural changes in demand for overdrafts on Fedwire are examined since the imposition of fees in April 1994. Initial results confirmed the existence of a structural break and showed that the long- and short-run impacts of all variables had undergone a major change since the imposition of fees. However, on closer examination, the demand for overdrafts appears to be stable. This result is contingent on the use of sweep adjusted reserves instead of the commercial banks' end-of-the-day reserves.
Quark structure of the $χ_{\rm c}(3P)$ and $X(4274)$ resonances and their strong and radiative decays
Creators: name: Ferretti, J.
name: Santopinto, E.
name: Anwar, M. Naeem
name: Lu, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the masses of $χ_{\rm c}(3P)$ states with threshold corrections in a coupled-channel model. The model was recently applied to the description of the properties of $χ_{\rm c}(2P)$ and $χ_{\rm b}(3P)$ multiplets [Phys.\ Lett.\ B {\bf 789}, 550 (2019)]. We also compute the open-charm strong decay widths of the $χ_{\rm c}(3P)$ states and their radiative transitions. According to our predictions, the $χ_{\rm c}(3P)$ states should be dominated by the charmonium core, but they may also show small meson-meson components. The $X(4274)$ is interpreted as a $c \bar c$ $χ_{\rm c1}(3P)$ state. More informations on the other members of the $χ_{\rm c}(3P)$ multiplet, as well as a more rigorous analysis of the $X(4274)$'s decay modes, are needed to provide further indications on the quark structure of the previous resonance.
Backing into the buzzsaw: The Defense Department's attempt to merge the Military Traffic Management Command and the Military Sealift Command, 1973--1984
Creators: name: Schaefer, Mason Read
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Long divided among the armed services, American military transportation functioned expensively and inefficiently in the 1970s. As critics observed, the services' fragmented management of their separate segments threatened American military readiness by slowing response time in an emergency. This dissertation examines the Defense Department's lengthy attempt to streamline transportation by merging the Army's Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) with the Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) It faced strong opposition from entrenched service interests, especially the Navy. The military confronted several other issues, including adaptation to technology, interservice rivalry, civilian-military relationships (specifically interaction with Congress), and the Defense Department's own struggle for unity of command. To support its conclusions, this study draws on the secondary literature plus Congressional hearings, Congressional, DoD and outside reports and twenty volumes of merger records located in the Military Traffic Management Command history office. As this dissertation reveals, frequent analyses of military transportation from 1955 onward exposed the armed services' duplicative and inefficient transportation operations, which could hurt military readiness. Almost all recommended a single transportation director rather than individual control by the armed services. For this and other reasons, Congressional involvement in military transportation policy changed from reactive (until 1971) to assertive (after 1973). Under formal direction from the House Appropriations Committee in 1979, the Defense Department spent three years trying to implement the MSC/MTMC merger. Ironically, legislative action halted that action in 1982 as conservative senators and representatives responded to Navy protests. After two more years of negotiations, the Navy and Congress vetoed a more limited merger. The Joint Chiefs of Staff then officially cancelled the scheme in November 1984. Seemingly definitive, this act did not end needed restructuring of military transportation. Though interservice rivalry and Congressional conservatism slowed reform, they could not halt change, as subsequent military exercises and studies revealed consistent transportation inefficiencies and sluggishness. As this study concludes, the Senate's cancellation of the merger spurred more sweeping reform efforts.
Additional file 1 of Clinical significance of precedent asymptomatic non-sustained ventricular tachycardias on subsequent ICD interventions and heart failure hospitalization in primary prevention ICD patients
Creators: name: Makimoto, Hisaki
name: Zielke, Sophie
name: Clasen, Lukas
name: Lin, Tina
name: Gerguri, Shqipe
name: Müller, Patrick
name: Schmidt, Jan
name: Bejinariu, Alexandru
name: Kurt, Muhammed
name: Brinkmeyer, Christoph
name: Stern, Manuel
name: Kelm, Malte
name: Fürnkranz, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Predictors of unplanned hospitalizations due to heart failure according to etiologies of cardiomyopathies.
Hinda decas Weise Gordon 1971
Creators: name: Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De
name: Milléo, Julianne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Hinda
Hinda decas

description: Hinda decas Weise 1902:171; Korschefsky 1931:177; Blackwelder 1945: 446.
 Diagnosis. Body oval­convex. Integument black with yellow spots on pronotum and elytra (Fig. 16). Pronotum black at base, with two projections towards apex forming letter ‘‘M’’. Scutellum black. Each elytron with five large spots: the first oval and basal; the second, smallest, on humeral callus; the third, below first, close to suture, approximately same size as first, quadrangular, with oblique base and truncate apex; the fourth linked to external elytral border, with small central constriction and with rounded internal borders; fifth spot apical, oval, linked to external border. Length 3.92–4.08 mm. Width 3.08– 3.50 mm.
 Male. Median lobe symmetrical, with rounded apex, shorter than parameres. Parameres wide at base and constricted at apical apical where they narrow and turn outward to end in rounded point (Fig. 26). Sipho curved, with truncate apex and membranous projections (Fig. 27).
 Female. Unknown.
 Remarks. Hinda decas resembles H. designata in color and in position of the spots, and in the symmetrical lobes of the male genitalia. However, H. decas does not have the central spot of the elytral disc, and other aspects of the male genitalia are different. In H. decas the parameres are narrow near the apex, while in H. designata they are wide and concave at the apex. It (and that of H. designata) are restricted to Colombia.
 Type Material. One specimen of H. decas, indicated by Weise as from Thieme, Colombia, Manizales (Patino), with a hand­written label Hinda decas m., possesses two additional labels: one printed ‘‘Zool. Mus. Berlin’’ and the other with: ‘‘ Lectotype, Hinda decas Weise Gordon 1971,’’ the designation of which was unpublished. This material is deposited in the ZMHU.
 Material Examined. Colombia. Thieme col., lectotype, one specimen (ZMHU); locality not indicated, one specimen (ZMHU).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Milléo, Julianne, 2000, Review Of The Genus Hinda Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Hyperaspinae, Brachiacanthadini), pp. 68-87 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0068:rotghm]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900193
An economic evaluation of the Cotton Yield Programme in Zambia
Creators: name: Ngulube, James
name: Ngulube, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Agricultural Economics In the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences The University of Pretoria Pretoria.
Radion Cosmology in Theories with Universal Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Mohapatra, R. N.
name: Pérez-Lorenzana, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss cosmology of models with universal extra dimensions, where the Standard Model degrees of freedom live in a $4+n$ dimensional brane, with $n$ compact and small extra spatial dimensions. In these models, the simplest way to obtain the conventional 4-dimensional Planck scale starting with a low string scale is to have also some larger extra dimensions, where only gravity propagates. In such theories, dimensional reduction generically leads to at least two radion fields, one associated with the total volume of the extra spatial dimensions, and the other with the ratio of the sizes of small and large extra dimensions. In this paper, we discuss the impact of the radion fields on cosmology. We emphasize various aspects of radion physics such as radion coupling to the Standard Model fields, bare and dressed radion masses during inflation, dynamical stabilization of radions during and after inflation, radion decay life time and its late dominance in thermal history of the Universe as well as its quantum fluctuations during inflation. We argue that models where the radion plays the role of an inflaton or the inflaton is a brane scalar field, run into problems. We then present a successful inflation model with bulk scalar fields that seems to have all the desired properties. We also briefly discuss the possibility of radion as a cold dark matter candidate.
description: 37 pages + 3 figures
Backing into the buzzsaw: The Defense Department's attempt to merge the Military Traffic Management Command and the Military Sealift Command, 1973--1984
Creators: name: Schaefer, Mason Read
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Long divided among the armed services, American military transportation functioned expensively and inefficiently in the 1970s. As critics observed, the services' fragmented management of their separate segments threatened American military readiness by slowing response time in an emergency. This dissertation examines the Defense Department's lengthy attempt to streamline transportation by merging the Army's Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) with the Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) It faced strong opposition from entrenched service interests, especially the Navy. The military confronted several other issues, including adaptation to technology, interservice rivalry, civilian-military relationships (specifically interaction with Congress), and the Defense Department's own struggle for unity of command. To support its conclusions, this study draws on the secondary literature plus Congressional hearings, Congressional, DoD and outside reports and twenty volumes of merger records located in the Military Traffic Management Command history office. As this dissertation reveals, frequent analyses of military transportation from 1955 onward exposed the armed services' duplicative and inefficient transportation operations, which could hurt military readiness. Almost all recommended a single transportation director rather than individual control by the armed services. For this and other reasons, Congressional involvement in military transportation policy changed from reactive (until 1971) to assertive (after 1973). Under formal direction from the House Appropriations Committee in 1979, the Defense Department spent three years trying to implement the MSC/MTMC merger. Ironically, legislative action halted that action in 1982 as conservative senators and representatives responded to Navy protests. After two more years of negotiations, the Navy and Congress vetoed a more limited merger. The Joint Chiefs of Staff then officially cancelled the scheme in November 1984. Seemingly definitive, this act did not end needed restructuring of military transportation. Though interservice rivalry and Congressional conservatism slowed reform, they could not halt change, as subsequent military exercises and studies revealed consistent transportation inefficiencies and sluggishness. As this study concludes, the Senate's cancellation of the merger spurred more sweeping reform efforts.