cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solution to worldvolume action of D3 brane in pp-wave background
Creators: name: Pal, Shesansu Sekhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric solutions of D3 brane configuration in the background of pp wave obtained as a Penrose limit of $AdS_5\times S^5$.
description: 10 pp, LaTex, more references added, one more solution added and susy corrected
On The Effect of Environment on Line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium
Creators: name: Zhang, Huanian
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Behroozi, Peter
name: Werk, Jessica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure differences in the emission line flux from the circumgalactic medium, CGM, of galaxies in different environments. Such differences could be a critical clue in explaining a range of galaxy properties that depend on environment. Using large samples of stacked archival spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we find that the H$α$ + [N {\small II}] emission line flux from the CGM within 50 kpc of $\sim$ L$^*$ galaxies is lower both for galaxies that lie within a projected distance of $\sim$ 500 kpc from a massive ($M_*>10^{11} M_\odot$) galaxy and for galaxies in richer/denser environments. The environmental differences are statistically significant even after we control for galaxy mass and morphology. We interpret these observations as a direct signature of environmentally-caused strangulation. We present a simple, heuristic model for the effect of a massive parent galaxy. In this model, the CGM cool gas fraction within 50 kpc is significantly decreased for galaxies that lie within 700 kpc of a massive galaxy, with about 80\% of the cool gas removed even when the galaxy is at a distance of 500 kpc from its massive parent. However, we discuss alternative physical causes for the observed behavior and discuss ways forward in addressing open questions.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
On the causal relationship between nutrition and economic Growth: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Ogundari, Kolawole
name: Aromolaran, Adebayo
name: Ogundari, Kolawole
name: Aromolaran, Adebayo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Nutrition
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Causality
subject: Cross-country
subject: Panel data
subject: SSA

description: Paper removed at author's request April 2017.
Variational regularisation for inverse problems with imperfect forward operators and general noise models
Creators: name: Bungert, Leon
name: Martin.Burger@Fau.De
name: Burger, Martin
name: Korolev, Yury
name: Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paper
imperfect forward models
f-divergences
Kullback–Leibler divergence
Wasserstein distances
Bregman distances
discrepancy principle
Banach lattices

description: Funder: Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
description: Funder: National Physical Laboratory; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007851
description: Funder: Alan Turing Institute; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100012338
description: Abstract: We study variational regularisation methods for inverse problems with imperfect forward operators whose errors can be modelled by order intervals in a partial order of a Banach lattice. We carry out analysis with respect to existence and convex duality for general data fidelity terms and regularisation functionals. Both for a priori and a posteriori parameter choice rules, we obtain convergence rates of the regularised solutions in terms of Bregman distances. Our results apply to fidelity terms such as Wasserstein distances, φ-divergences, norms, as well as sums and infimal convolutions of those.
Natural Disasters and the Family in Areas with High Levels of Insurance
Creators: name: Adan, Silverio-Murillo
name: Adan, Silverio-Murillo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Natural Disasters

description: A natural disaster can greatly reduce human capital accumulation by households, and decrease the possibility of social mobility. Many of the actual studies of natural disasters are based on areas with low levels of insurance and high rates of poverty. In this study, I analyze the effect of the hurricane Odile in Mexico on income, consumption and education outcomes in an area with a relative high level of insurance on the principal economic activity and low rates of poverty. To analyze the effects of the hurricane on the incomes of interest, I use a difference-in-difference (DID) estimation approach. I do not find evidence of the effects of the hurricane Odile on income, school attendance, or expenditures of food. However, I find evidence that the hurricane affected some prices, and a decrease in the consumption of goods such as chicken, milk, and eggs. This reduction is observed when the head of the household is a man, but not when the head of the household is a woman.
Listronotus similis Henderson 1940
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus similis

description: Listronotus similis Henderson, 1940
 Listronotus similis Henderson, 1940: 304 (type locality: USA: Texas, Brownsville; type material: H: MCZ and P: 9 INHS, MCZ, SEMC, and USNM).
 Host plants. Paspalum distichum L. (Poaceae) and Polygonum bicorne Raf. (Polygonaceae) (O’Brien, 1977).
 Distribution. Gulf Prairie and High Plains of Texas in the USA (O’Brien, 1977, 1981; O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Equation of state of strongly coupled QCD at finite density
Creators: name: Umino, Yasuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an effective strongly coupled lattice QCD Hamiltonian and Wilson fermions we calculate the equation of state for cold and dense quark matter by constructing an ansatz which exactly diagonalizes the Hamiltonian to second order in field operators for all densities. This ansatz obeys the free lattice Dirac equation with a chemical potential term and a mass term which is interpreted as the dynamical quark mass. We find that the order of chiral phase transition depends on the values of input parameters. In the phase with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry the quark Fermi sea has negative pressure indicating its mechanical instability. This result is in qualitative agreement with those obtained using continuum field theory models with four--point interactions.
description: 12 pages, 2 EPS figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Quantum Monte Carlo" meeting (Trento, Italy, July 3-6, 2001)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRICE AND MARKET STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FROM THE US FOOD RETAIL INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Bozic, Marin
name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Bozic, Marin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Retail concentration
subject: retail food price
subject: endogeneity of retail concentration
subject: instrumental variables fixed-effects regression

description: This study utilizes unique product barcode, store, and retail real estate data to calculate consistent estimates of the effects of retail market structure on food prices in the US. Our uniquely disaggregated data allow for identification strategy that corrects for the type of endogeneity that plagues many previous studies on price-concentration relationship. Empirical findings from an instrumental-variables fixed-effects model indicate that retail concentration is endogenous to price determination. Further, retail prices are found to rise with retail concentration. Importantly, ignoring endogeneity results in a severe downward bias in the estimated effects of concentration on food prices.
Additional file 1 of A pathway level analysis of PFAS exposure and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Birru, Rahel L.
name: Liang, Hai-Wei
name: Farooq, Fouzia
name: Bedi, Megha
name: Feghali, Maisa
name: Haggerty, Catherine L.
name: Mendez, Dara D.
name: Catov, Janet M.
name: Ng, Carla A.
name: Adibi, Jennifer J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Methods. Supplemental Table 1. Summary of studies examining PFAS and gestational diabetes (GDM), glucose, or thyroid biomarkers in pregnancy. Supplemental Table 2. Summary of PFAS and biomarker levels in cohorts. Supplemental Table 3. Association of PFAS with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Supplemental Table 4. Association of PFAS with glucose and insulin biomarkers. Supplemental Table 5: Evidence of PFAS association with free and total triiodothyronine (T3) in pregnancy. Supplemental Table 6: Evidence of PFAS association with free and total thyroxine (T4) in pregnancy. Supplemental Table 7: Evidence of PFAS association with thyrotropin (TSH) in pregnancy. Supplemental Table 8: Evidence of PFAS association with thyroid hormones by thyroid autoantibody status in pregnancy.
Thickness dependence of the anomalous Nernst effect and the Mott relation of Weyl-semimetal Co2MnGa thin films
Creators: name: Park, Gyu-Hyeon
name: Reichlova, Helena
name: Schlitz, Richard
name: Lammel, Michaela
name: Markou, Anastasios
name: Swekis, Peter
name: Ritzinger, Philipp
name: Kriegner, Dominik
name: Noky, Jonathan
name: Gayles, Jacob
name: Sun, Yan
name: Felser, Claudia
name: Nielsch, Kornelius
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Thomas, Andy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a robust anomalous Nernst effect in Co2MnGa thin films in the thickness regime between 20 and 50 nm. The anomalous Nernst coefficient varied in the range of -2.0 to -3.0 uV/K at 300 K. We demonstrate that the anomalous Hall and Nernst coefficients exhibit similar behavior and fulfill the Mott relation. We simultaneously measure all four transport coefficients of the longitudinal resistivity, transversal resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and anomalous Nernst coefficient. We connect the values of the measured and calculated Nernst conductivity by using the remaining three magneto-thermal transport coefficients, where the Mott relation is still valid. The intrinsic Berry curvature dominates the transport due to the relation between the longitudinal and transversal transport. Therefore, we conclude that the Mott relationship is applicable to describe the magneto-thermoelectric transport in Weyl semimetal Co2MnGa as a function of film thickness.
A CO Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with the IRAM Interferometer
Creators: name: Barvainis, Richard
name: Alloin, Danielle
name: Bremer, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a CO survey of gravitationally lensed quasars, conducted with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer over the last three years. Among the 18 objects surveyed, one was detected in CO line emission, while six were detected in the continuum at 3mm and three in the continuum at 1mm. The low CO detection rate may at least in part be due to uncertainties in the redshifts derived from quasar broad emission lines. The detected CO source, the z=3.2 radio quiet quasar MG0751+2716, is quite strong in the CO(4-3) line and in the millimeter/submillimeter continuum, the latter being emission from cool dust. The integrated CO line flux is 5.96 +- 0.45 Jy.km/s, and the total molecular gas mass is estimated to be in the range M(H_2) = 1.6-3.1 X 10^9 solar masses.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, uses aa.cls and psfig.sty
Listronotus sondondoanus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus sondondoanus

description: Listronotus sondondoanus (Voss, 1954)
 Hyperodes sondondoanus Voss, 1954: 260 (type locality: Peru: southern Peru, Sondondo river, 2400 m; type material: S: DEI).
 Listronotus sondondoanus; O´Brien, 1979: 268.
 Distribution. Peru (Wibmer and O'Brien, 1986).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 9 of Acute depletion of CTCF rewires genome-wide chromatin accessibility
Creators: name: Xu, Beisi
name: Wang, Hong
name: Wright, Shaela
name: Hyle, Judith
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Shao, Ying
name: Niu, Mingming
name: Fan, Yiping
name: Rosikiewicz, Wojciech
name: Djekidel, Mohamed Nadhir
name: Peng, Junmin
name: Lu, Rui
name: Li, Chunliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9.
Sociodemographic and Built Environment Associates of Travel to School by Car among New Zealand Adolescents: Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Mandic, Sandra
name: Ikeda, Erika
name: Stewart, Tom
name: Garrett, Nicholas
name: Hopkins, Debbie
name: Mindell, Jennifer S.
name: Tautolo, El Shadan
name: Smith, Melody
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: transport
school
driving
built environment
adolescents
meta-analysis

description: Travelling to school by car diminishes opportunities for physical activity and contributes to traffic congestion and associated noise and air pollution. This meta-analysis examined sociodemographic characteristics and built environment associates of travelling to school by car compared to using active transport among New Zealand (NZ) adolescents. Four NZ studies (2163 adolescents) provided data on participants’ mode of travel to school, individual and school sociodemographic characteristics, distance to school and home-neighbourhood built-environment features. A one-step meta-analysis using individual participant data was performed in SAS. A final multivariable model was developed using stepwise logistic regression. Overall, 60.6% of participants travelled to school by car. When compared with active transport, travelling to school by car was positively associated with distance to school. Participants residing in neighbourhoods with high intersection density and attending medium deprivation schools were less likely to travel to school by car compared with their counterparts. Distance to school, school level deprivation and low home neighbourhood intersection density are associated with higher likelihood of car travel to school compared with active transport among NZ adolescents. Comprehensive interventions focusing on both social and built environment factors are needed to reduce car travel to school.
Listronotus sordidus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus sordidus

description: Listronotus sordidus (Gyllenhal, 1834)
 Listroderes sordidus Gyllenhal, 1834: 280 (type locality: North America; type material: H: NHRS).
 Listroderes distinguendus Gyllenhal, 1834: 281 (type locality: North America; type material: H: NHRS); Henderson, 1940: 264 (= L. sordidus).
 Listronotus obliquus LeConte, 1876: 129 (type locality: USA: Texas; type material: S: 2 MCZ); Henderson, 1940: 264 (= L. sordidus).
 Listroderes inaequalipennis authors (misidentification, non Boheman, 1842); Henderson, 1940: 264 (= L. sordidus).
 Listronotus sordidus; LeConte, 1876: 128.
 Distribution. Widespread in North America: USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982; Anderson, 1992).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Identifying Ovarian Cancer in Symptomatic Women: A Systematic Review of Clinical Tools
Creators: name: Funston, Garth
name: Hardy, Victoria
name: Abel, Gary
name: Crosbie, Emma J.
name: Emery, Jon
name: Hamilton, Willie
name: Walter, Fiona M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: ovarian cancer
symptoms
early detection
risk assessment
diagnostic prediction model
triage tool
ovarian cancer symptoms

description: In the absence of effective ovarian cancer screening programs, most women are diagnosed following the onset of symptoms. Symptom-based tools, including symptom checklists and risk prediction models, have been developed to aid detection. The aim of this systematic review was to identify and compare the diagnostic performance of these tools. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane CENTRAL, without language restriction, for relevant studies published between 1 January 2000 and 3 March 2020. We identified 1625 unique records and included 16 studies, evaluating 21 distinct tools in a range of settings. Fourteen tools included only symptoms; seven also included risk factors or blood tests. Four tools were externally validated—the Goff Symptom Index (sensitivity: 56.9−83.3%; specificity: 48.3−98.9%), a modified Goff Symptom Index (sensitivity: 71.6%; specificity: 88.5%), the Society of Gynaecologic Oncologists consensus criteria (sensitivity: 65.3−71.5%; specificity: 82.9−93.9%) and the QCancer Ovarian model (10% risk threshold—sensitivity: 64.1%; specificity: 90.1%). Study heterogeneity precluded meta-analysis. Given the moderate accuracy of several tools on external validation, they could be of use in helping to select women for ovarian cancer investigations. However, further research is needed to assess the impact of these tools on the timely detection of ovarian cancer and on patient survival.
Advances in Quantum Cryptography
Creators: name: Pirandola, S.
name: Andersen, U. L.
name: Banchi, L.
name: Berta, M.
name: Bunandar, D.
name: Colbeck, R.
name: Englund, D.
name: Gehring, T.
name: Lupo, C.
name: Ottaviani, C.
name: Pereira, J.
name: Razavi, M.
name: Shaari, J. S.
name: Tomamichel, M.
name: Usenko, V. C.
name: Vallone, G.
name: Villoresi, P.
name: Wallden, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science. Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly improving, and experiments are gradually moving from proof-of-principle lab demonstrations to in-field implementations and technological prototypes. In this review, we provide both a general introduction and a state of the art description of the recent advances in the field, both theoretically and experimentally. We start by reviewing protocols of quantum key distribution based on discrete variable systems. Next we consider aspects of device independence, satellite challenges, and high rate protocols based on continuous variable systems. We will then discuss the ultimate limits of point-to-point private communications and how quantum repeaters and networks may overcome these restrictions. Finally, we will discuss some aspects of quantum cryptography beyond standard quantum key distribution, including quantum data locking and quantum digital signatures.
description: Review article. Comments and suggestions are welcome. REVTeX: 118 pages, 20 figures, 785 references
Listronotus squamiger
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus squamiger

description: Listronotus squamiger (Say, 1831)
 Listroderes squamiger Say, 1831: 11 (type locality: USA: Arkansas; type material: N: USNM).
 Listroderes inaequalipennis Boheman, 1842: 189 (type locality: USA: Pennsylvania; type material: H: NHRS); Henderson, 1940: 250 (= L. squamiger).
 Listronotus inaequalis Schenkling and Marshall, 1931: 11 (lapsus).
 Listronotus squamiger; LeConte, 1876: 128.
 Distribution. Canada and USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 2 of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility-Associated Mitochondrial Gene orf312 Derived from Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Cultivar Tadukan
Creators: name: Takatsuka, Ayumu
name: Kazama, Tomohiko
name: Toriyama, Kinya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Validation of the contig linkage of subgenome-1 based on PCR analysis. Lane numbers refer to the linkages between different contigs. Fig. S2. Determination of the adjacent sequences of contig_8. (A) Amplification of the region adjacent to contig_8 using FPNI-PCR. (B) Schematic structures of the PCR products indicated by stars in panel A. The blue color indicates the regions in which nucleotide sequences were determined. The nucleotide sequences coincide with those in subgenome-1. Fig. S3. A hypothetical master molecule of subgenome-1 of the TAA mitochondrial genome. The graphical representation of the genome map was generated using OGDraw software. Fig. S4. Determination of the upstream and downstream regions of contig_6. (A) Amplification of the region adjacent to contig_6 using FPNI-PCR. (B) Schematic structures of the PCR products indicated by stars in panel A. The blue color indicates the regions in which nucleotide sequences were determined. The nucleotide sequences coincide with those in subgenome-1. Fig. S5. Reproducibility of northern blot analysis of RNA isolated from spikelets of TAA, TAR and Taichung 65 (T65) at the meiotic stage and anthers at the mature stage. The probes are shown in Fig. 3a. Dashed lines indicate where intervening lanes were removed for clarity. Methylene blue staining of rRNA is shown as a loading control. Fig. S6. Comparison of the amino acid sequences of ORF288 (encoding 314 amino acids) in Nipponbare, ORF312 in TAA and WA352 in WA-CMS using ClustalW ( https://clustalw.ddbj.nig.ac.jp ). The COX11-interaction regions reported for WA352 are highlighted. Amino acids in ORF312 that differ from those in WA352 in these regions are indicated by red color.
Generalized Functions in Infinite Dimensional Analysis
Creators: name: Kondratiev, Yuri G.
name: Streit, Ludwig
name: Westerkamp, Werner
name: Yan, Jia-an
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46F25

description: We give a general approach to infinite dimensional non-Gaussian Analysis for measures which need not have a logarithmic derivative. This framework also includes the possibility to handle measures of Poisson type.
description: LaTeX2e
Does Credit Access Improve Firm Output? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jimi, Nusrat A
name: Kumbhakar, Subal
name: Nikolov, Plamen V
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Jimi, Nusrat A
name: Kumbhakar, Subal
name: Nikolov, Plamen V
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Randomize Control Trial
subject: Credit
subject: Small Farm
subject: Efficiency

description: Abstract: Poor financial environment of rural developing economy leads to underinvestment and inefficiency of marginal and small-scale farm households. Development interventions for providing improved market access and credit at subsidized interest rate to small farm households are therefore considered as the preconditions in the transformation process of rural agrarian economy. Hence, the question of whether access to resources influences farm households’ production decisions, performance and efficiency is very important. In this paper, we attempt to estimate the impact of a subsidized credit on farm output and efficiency of small and marginal rice farmers of Bangladesh. Using survey data of a field experimental study, we show that relaxing the credit constraint has significant positive impact on farm output and efficiency. On an average, small-scale rice farms with access to subsidized credit are found to be 13% more efficient than farms with no credit access. The increase is 76% on average when we use the randomized access to credit as instrument for farm credit. We also examine the impact heterogeneity of access to credit by rice variety. We find that cultivation of modern Hybrid rice variety is significantly higher (on average 17%) for treatment farm households compare to the control group. However, we do not find much evidence of heterogeneous productivity impact of access to credit by HYV vs. Hybrid rice. Combining the results, we conclude that access to credit is effective in improving the overall output and efficiency of marginal and small-scale rice farm households. Thus, policies enhancing the credit access of marginal farmers are important for sustainable agricultural development of rural developing economy.
Listronotus suturalis O'Brien 1981
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus suturalis

description: Listronotus suturalis O’Brien, 1981
 Listronotus suturalis O’Brien, 1981: 117 (type locality: USA: Texas, Patricio County, Welder Wildlife Refuge; type material: H: CWOB and P: 18 BMNH, CWOB, TAMU, and USNM).
 Distribution. USA: Texas (O’Brien, 1981).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Metrics with zero and almost-zero Einstein action in quantum gravity
Creators: name: Modanese, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generate numerically on a lattice an ensemble of stationary metrics, with spherical symmetry, which have Einstein action $S_E \ll \hbar$. This is obtained through a Metropolis algorithm with weight $\exp(-β^2 S^2_E)$ and $β\gg \hbar^{-1}$. The squared action in the exponential allows to circumvent the problem of the non-positivity of $S_E$. The discretized metrics obtained exhibit a spontaneous polarization in regions of positive and negative scalar curvature. We compare this ensemble with a class of continuous metrics previously found, which satisfy the condition $S_E=0$ exactly, or in certain cases even the stronger condition $R({\bf x})=0$ for any ${\bf x}$. All these gravitational field configurations are of considerable interest in quantum gravity, because they represent possible vacuum fluctuations and are markedly different from Wheeler's "spacetime foam".
description: 17 pages, 6 figures. Minor typos corrected
Additional file 1 of Facilitators and barriers to healthy eating in a worksite cafeteria: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Stern, Dalia
name: Blanco, Ilian
name: Olmos, Lucy A.
name: Valdivia, Joel J.
name: Shrestha, Archana
name: Josiemer Mattei
name: Spiegelman, Donna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary File 1. Focus Group Moderator’s Guide; Description of data: Complete guide used for the focus groups
Antimatter Bounds by Anti-Asteroids annihilations on Planets and Sun
Creators: name: Fargion, D.
name: Khlopov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of antimatter stars in the Galaxy as possible signature for inflationary models with non-homogeneous baryo-synthesis may leave the trace by antimatter cosmic rays as well as by their secondaries (anti-planets and anti-meteorites) diffused bodies in our galactic halo. The anti-meteorite flux may leave its explosive gamma signature by colliding on lunar soil as well as on terrestrial, jovian and solar atmospheres. However the propagation in galaxy and the consequent evaporation in galactic matter gas suppress the lightest (m < 10^(-2)g) anti-meteorites. Anisotropic annihilation of larger anti-meteorites within a narrow mass window, maybe rarely deflected, bounced by the galactic gas disk, escaping detection in our solar system. Nevertheless heaviest anti-meteorites (m > 10^(-1)g up to 10^(6)g) are unable to be deflected by the thin galactic gas surface annihilation; they might hit the Sun (or rarely Jupiter) leading to an explosive gamma event and a spectacular track with a bouncing and even a propelling annihilation on cromosphere and photosphere. Their anti-nuclei annihilation in pions and their final hard gammas showering may be observabe as a "solar flare" at a rate nearly comparable to the observed ones. From their absence we may infer bounds on antimatter-matter ratio near or below 10^(-9) limit: already recorded data in BATSE catalog might be applied.
description: 6 pages, more accurate estimate and minor corrections
Listronotus sulcipennis
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus sulcipennis

description: Listronotus sulcipennis (Boheman, 1834)
 Hylobius sulcipennis Boheman, 1834: 346 (type locality: Brazil; type material: H: NHRS).
 Hyperodes sulcipennis; Kuschel, 1955: 289.
 Listronotus sulcipennis; O’Brien, 1979: 268.
 Distribution. Brazil (Wibmer and O'Brien, 1986).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
A Similarity Measure for Material Appearance
Creators: name: Lagunas, Manuel
name: Malpica, Sandra
name: Serrano, Ana
name: Garces, Elena
name: Gutierrez, Diego
name: Masia, Belen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a model to measure the similarity in appearance between different materials, which correlates with human similarity judgments. We first create a database of 9,000 rendered images depicting objects with varying materials, shape and illumination. We then gather data on perceived similarity from crowdsourced experiments; our analysis of over 114,840 answers suggests that indeed a shared perception of appearance similarity exists. We feed this data to a deep learning architecture with a novel loss function, which learns a feature space for materials that correlates with such perceived appearance similarity. Our evaluation shows that our model outperforms existing metrics. Last, we demonstrate several applications enabled by our metric, including appearance-based search for material suggestions, database visualization, clustering and summarization, and gamut mapping.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures
Analyzing the AO operational behavior of non-sidereal tracking on the Thirty Meter Telescope using SysML
Creators: name: Miles, John
name: Trancho, Gelys
name: Wang, Lianqi
name: Boyer, Corinne
name: Andersen, David
name: Herriot, Glen
name: Ellerbroek, Brent
name: Vierlboeck, Maximilian
name: Karban, Robert
Publisher: name: Proceedings of AO4ELT7 conference 2023 - Editors: Thierry Fusco and Benoit Neichel
Year: 2023
Subjects: MBSE
SYSML
REQUIREMENTS
TMT

description: We have modeled the functional and physical architecture, behavior, requirements, and parametric relationships through system-level simulation of observation workflows, using OMG\'s Systems Modeling Language (SysML), to validate use-case scenarios and verify timing requirements early in the life-cycle phase. This paper presents preliminary results for non-sidereal tracking scenarios, for LGS MCAO modes where the NFIRAOS pyramid wavefront sensor and the on-instrument wavefront sensors must hand off from one guide star to another. Operational modes and behavior are modeled using activity diagrams. Scenarios are captured primarily using sequence and activity diagrams. Verifiable requirements are formally captured using constraints on properties. This type of modeling can be particularly useful when investigating the effect of parallelizing or re-ordering sequence tasks.
Listronotus teretirostris
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus teretirostris

description: Listronotus teretirostris (LeConte, 1857)
 Listroderes teretirostris LeConte, 1857: 55 (type locality: USA: California, San Francisco; type material: H: MCZ). Listronotus teretrirostris LeConte, 1857: 55 (incorrect original spelling, emended by LeConte, 1876: 135).
 Host plants. Eleocharis macrostachya Britton (Cyperaceae) (O’Brien, 1981).
 Distribution. USA: north central California (O’Brien, 1981).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
How is Respect and Social Inclusion Conceptualised by Older Adults in an Aspiring Age-Friendly City? A Photovoice Study in the North-West of England
Creators: name: Ronzi
name: Orton
name: Buckner
name: , Bruce
name: Pope
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Age-Friendly Cities
photovoice
qualitative research
healthy ageing
active ageing
older people
social inclusion
participation
UK

description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) Guide classifies key characteristics of an AFC according to eight domains. Whilst much age-friendly practice and research have focused on domains of the physical environment, those related to the social environment have received less attention. Using a Photovoice methodology within a Community-Based Participatory Research approach, our study draws on photographs, interviews and focus groups among 26 older Liverpool residents (60+ years) to explore how the city promotes respect and social inclusion (a core WHO AFC domain). Being involved in this photovoice study allowed older adults across four contrasting neighbourhoods to communicate their perspectives directly to Liverpool’s policymakers, service providers and third sector organisations. This paper provides novel insights into how: (i) respect and social inclusion are shaped by aspects of both physical and social environment, and (ii) the accessibility, affordability and sociability of physical spaces and wider social processes (e.g., neighbourhood fragmentation) contributed to or hindered participants’ health, wellbeing, intergenerational relationships and feelings of inclusion and connection. Our findings suggest that respect and social inclusion are relevant across all eight domains of the WHO AFC Guide. It is core to an AFC and should be reflected in both city-based policies and evaluations.
Listronotus testaceipes
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus testaceipes

description: Listronotus testaceipes (Champion, 1902)
 Hyperodes testaceipes Champion, 1902: 122 (type locality: Mexico: Tabasco, San Juan Bautista; type material: S: 3 BMNH).
 Listronotus testaceipes; O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982: 71.
 Distribution. Mexico (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Dairy Cattle Insurance Will Change Dairy Farmers' Anti-risk Inputs?
Creators: name: Zhao, Yuanfeng
name: Zhang, Xuguang
name: Zhao, Yuanfeng
name: Zhang, Xuguang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Dairy farming
subject: Dairy cattle insurance
subject: Anti-risk inputs
subject: Moral hazard

description: A major problem facing dairy farmers is production risk, and dairy cattle insurance is one alternative for reducing this risk. The primary objective of this paper is to test the effects of dairy cattle insurance on farmers’ anti-risk inputs. Based on the survey data of dairy farmers in 2015, this paper selects the main area of dairy farming in China-the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as the study area, using treatment-effects model for empirical test and analysis. The findings indicates that the existing dairy cattle insurance policies in China do not have a significant effect on farmers’ anti-risk inputs. Due to the low insurance payments and the narrow insurance coverage for the death of dairy cattle, the farmers who participate in dairy cattle insurance, will not weaken their health management measures for dairy cattle, and they do not have negative anti-risk behaviors in the process of dairy production.
Additional file 1 of Quantitative sonographic assessment of quadriceps muscle thickness for fall injury prediction in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: an observational cohort study
Creators: name: Sai, Asuka
name: Tanaka, Kentaro
name: Ohashi, Yasushi
name: Kushiyama, Akifumi
name: Tanaka, Yoshihide
name: Shuta Motonishi
name: Sakai, Ken
name: Hara, Shigeko
name: Ozawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Sample quadriceps muscle thickness, thigh circumference, and handgrip strength by sex. Table 2. Sample characteristics by absence or presence of fall injury.
White Paper: Safe To Speak for a Safer NHS: Implementing Psychological Safety For Patient Safety under Labour's Vision for Healthcare  January 2025
Creators: name: Grewal, Perbinder
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This white paper examines the critical relationship between healthcare workers' psychological safety and patient safety outcomes within Labour's comprehensive healthcare vision.

 

Labour's vision for transforming the NHS centres on creating a healthcare environment where psychological safety enables better patient outcomes. The current healthcare landscape faces significant challenges, with 47% of healthcare workers reporting anxiety symptoms, 38%experiencing depression, and critical understaffing across 85% of NHS trusts. These challenges directly impact patient safety and care quality.

Our analysis presents a comprehensive framework for implementing psychological safety initiatives across the NHS, aligned with Labour's £65 billion healthcare investment strategy.

 

The proposed implementation framework requires an initial investment of £150 million over three years, structured across four key areas: establishing Psychological Safety Officer positions (£45M), developing technology infrastructure (£40M), implementing comprehensive training programs (£35M), and conducting research and evaluation (£30M). This investment is projected to yield annual benefits of £575 million by year three, representing a 250% return on investment through reduced medical errors, decreased staff turnover, and improved patient outcomes.
Additional file 1 of Cross-talks between gut microbiota and tobacco smoking: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Fan, Jiayao
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Meng, Ran
name: Tang, Jinsong
name: Zhu, Jiahao
name: Aldrich, Melinda C.
name: Cox, Nancy J.
name: Zhu, Yimin
name: Li, Yingjun
name: Zhou, Dan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Self-inspection results of STROBE-MR checklist of recommended items to address in reports of Mendelian randomization studies. Table S2. Self-inspection results of critical appraisal checklist proposed by Davies et al. for evaluating Mendelian randomization studies. Table S3. The MR results of causal links between gut microbiome and smoking phenotypes by using IVW method under two instrumental variable selection thresholds. Figure S1. Overview of the analytical plan and main findings. Figure S2. Scatter plot of associations between genetic variants and Actinobacteria[p] versus between genetic variants and Cigarettes Per Day. The slope of each line represents the causal effect estimate using the corresponding MR analysis model, and the intercept can be interpreted as an estimate of the average horizontal pleiotropic effect across the genetic variants. Figure S3. Forest plot of individual SNP estimates and summary estimates for the causal associations between Actinobacteria[p] abundance and Cigarettes Per Day. Figure S4. Leave-one-out plot to assess if a single SNP drives the causal association between Actinobacteria[p] abundance and Cigarettes Per Day. Figure S5. Funnel plot of MR estimation for the causal association between Actinobacteria[p] abundance and Cigarettes Per Day.
Single-channel correlators and residue calculus
Creators: name: Jacob, P.
name: Mathieu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some simple (namely, single-channel) correlation functions involving an arbitrary number of fields are computed by means of a direct application of the residue calculus, through partial fraction expansions. Examples are presented in minimal models and parafermionic conformal theories. A generic factorized expression is deduced for the corresponding single-channel structure constants.
description: 25 pages (harvmac); minor corrections and one ref. added
On the phase diagram of the random bond $q$-state Potts model
Creators: name: Delfino, Gesualdo
name: Lamsen, Noel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the two-dimensional random bond $q$-state Potts model within the recently introduced exact framework of scale invariant scattering, exhibit the line of stable fixed points induced by disorder for arbitrarily large values of $q$, and examine the renormalization group pattern for $q>4$, when the transition of the pure model is first order.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures; part of the EPJB topical issue "Recent advances in the theory of disordered systems"
Richard Dedekind y la arquitectura del continuo aritmético
Creators: name: Ricardo, Luis Giraldo González
name: Fernández, Carlos Sánchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is usually considered that the structuralist tendency in mathematics began in the twentieth century, at some point after the works on set theory and obtained its spreading through the works made by the Bourbaki group. In the present paper we argument the presence of this stylistic inclination in Richard Dedekind (1831-1916) when he made this dissertation for the habilitation as privatdozent at the University of Goettingen in 1854. Our main objective is to show how evolved the structuralist style in Dedekind's works, and to argument why we consider him significant to the architecture of arithmetical continuum.
description: in Spanish
Time-reversal symmetry violations and entropy production in field theories of polar active matter
Creators: name: Borthne, Øyvind L
name: Fodor, Étienne
name: Cates, Michael E
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paper
entropy production
active matter
flocking

description: Funder: ATTRACT Investigator Grant, Luxembourg National Research Fund Oppenheimer Research Fellowship, University of Cambridge
description: Funder: Junior Research Fellowship, St Catharine's College
description: Funder: Aker Scholarship
description: Abstract: We investigate the steady-state entropy production rate (EPR) in the hydrodynamic Vicsek model (HVM) and diffusive flocking model (DFM). Both models display a transition from an isotropic gas to a polar liquid (flocking) phase, in addition to travelling polar clusters and microphase-separation in the miscibility gap. The phase diagram of the DFM, which may be considered an extension of the HVM, contains additional structure at low densities where we find a novel crystal phase in which a stationary hexagonal lattice of high-density ridges surround low density valleys. From an assessment of the scaling of the EPR at low noise, we uncover that the dynamics in this limit may be organised into three main classes based on the dominant contribution. Truly nonequilibrium dynamics is characterised by a divergent EPR in this limit, and sustains global time-reversal symmetry (TRS) violating currents at zero noise. On the other hand, marginally nonequilibrium and effectively equilibrium dynamics have a finite EPR in this limit, and TRS is broken only at the level of fluctuations. For the latter of these two cases, detailed balance is restored in the small noise limit and we recover effective Boltzmann statistics to lowest nontrivial order. We further demonstrate that the scaling of the EPR may change depending on the dynamical variables that are tracked when it is computed, and the protocol chosen for time-reversal. Results acquired from numerical simulations of the dynamics confirm both the asymptotic scaling relations we derive and our quantitative predictions.