cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A novel method for modeling the recoil in W boson events at hadron collider
Creators: name: Abazov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for modeling the hadronic recoil in W->lnu events produced at hadron colliders. The recoil is chosen from a library of recoils in Z->ll data events and overlaid on a simulated W->lnu event. Implementation of this method requires that the data recoil library describe the properties of the measured recoil as a function of the true, rather than the measured, transverse momentum of the boson. We address this issue using a multidimensional Bayesian unfolding technique. We estimate the statistical and systematic uncertainties from this method for the W boson mass and width measurements assuming 1 fb-1 of data from the Fermilab Tevatron. The uncertainties are found to be small and comparable to those of a more traditional parameterized recoil model. For the high precision measurements that will be possible with data from Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron and from the CERN LHC, the method presented in this paper may be advantageous, since it does not require an understanding of the measured recoil from first principles.
description: 26 pages, 24 figures, NIM 609, 250 (2009)
PR - MANAGEMENT SUCCESSION IN AGRICULTURE:
Creators: name: Hewlett, John
name: Tranel, Jeffery
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Management Transition
subject: Succession Planning
subject: Farm Families

description: The number one goal of most rural family business owners is to transition their business to other family membersâ€”the next generation. While many programs have been developed to help families transfer ownership to the next generation, few resources are available to help with transferring management responsibilities. It is said that only a third of all family businesses successfully transition to the next generation. The reasons why are many. This paper briefly outlines the issues inherent in the transition of management responsibilities. It also describes each of the three online courses developed to address the big-picture questions faced by rural families: 1. Where Are We? 2. Where Do We Want to Go? and 3. How Do We Get There From Here? These courses and online tools are designed to help family business owners successfully plan and accomplish a smooth transition of business ownership, leadership, and management. The three courses are among several available to the public at no cost via the RightRisk website located at: RightRisk.org > Courses. RightRisk is a multi-state team of educators organized to assist decision-makers throughout the world discover innovative and effective risk management solutions.
description: Twenty-first International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Application of simulation technique in the study of sawmill productivity
Creators: name: Aune, Jan Erik
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A computer simulation program which models the operation of a British Columbia coast dimension sawmill has been developed in FORTRAN IV. The model represents the initial log breakdown by a double cut, multi-pass band headrig, cant breakdown by a bulledger and the further processing on two resaws, pony edger and the double end trimsaw. Simulation of the headrig and bulledger operation is event oriented, whereas the piece flow through the other processing units is updated with 1-minute intervals. Flowcharts describe the routines briefly. The principal types of data input are sawlog population characteristics, machine characteristics, buffer storage capacities, and product output constraints. Information about the model operation is collected during the simulation runs, and the printed output includes productivity in Mbfm per 8-hour shift, the time each saw was operating, idle, busy or blocked, the time the bulledger queue contained a given number of cants and histograms showing the queue length distribution in 10-piece classes for subsequent saws. Validation of the model plays an important part in system simulation. The approach has been to attempt a verification of the piece flow arriving at trimmer, #l and #2 resaw, ponyedger and greenchain. Although the productivity figures obtained from simulation correspond to those experienced by the mill, the piece flow could not be verified. Irregular log shape, not reflected in the sawlog population characteristics and leading to more manufacturing of slabs in the real system, is considered to be the principal factor contributing to this. Preferably, further modelling should lead to the development of one general assembly-system, which regards sawmills as a collection of interconnected components, with increased input and output flexibility.
Fermion Mixings in SU(9) Family Unification
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul H.
name: Kephart, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an SU(9) model of gauged family unification, we propose an explanation for why angles observed in the lepton flavor ({\it PMNS}) mixing matrix are significantly larger than those measured for any analagous quark flavor ({\it KM}) mixing angle. It is directly related to a see-saw mechanism that we assume to be responsible for the generation of neutrino masses. Our model is more constrained and therefore even more predictive than a model previously proposed by Barr.
description: Explanation of mixing angles
BioExcel remote training programme: making training more accessible
Creators: name: Lloret-Llinares, Marta
name: Andrio, Pau
name: Apostolov, Rossen
name: Armstrong, David
name: Tiwari, Chandra Deep
name: Hospital, Adam
name: Matser, Vera
name: Mendonca, Michelle
name: Proeme, Arno
name: Wildish, Tony
name: Yuan, David Yu
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: BioExcel is the leading European Centre of Excellence for computational biomolecular research. Its training programme is based on a competency profile and aims to develop computational abilities related to structural biology and molecular modelling. In 2019, BioExcel started to include remote courses in the programme as a way to lower the barriers for both delivering and attending a course, i.e., we offer short courses that we would not offer face-to-face and we allow people to participate without travelling. But remote training poses several challenges to provide an enriching learning experience, including high computational demands in the case of biomolecular software. To address these challenges, we work with virtual machines, breakout rooms, interaction with participants and the combination of presentations and exercises. We gather feedback from both trainers and trainees after each course to learn how to keep improving our remote training programme. We are developing a living document for trainer guidelines along the programme. Here we present the lessons learned so far and the challenges that we continue working on in areas such as social interaction, hands-on activities, computational demands or instructions for participants.
PR - DANISH FARMERSâ€™ PREFERENCE FOR BIO-BASED FERTILISERS - A CHOICE EXPERIMENT
Creators: name: Jacobsen, B.H.
name: Bonnichsen, O.
name: Turâ€Cardona, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Bio-based products
subject: willingness to pay
subject: Manure products

description: Within the transition towards a â€œcircularâ€ economy, more farmers are searching for bio-based fertilisers, which are nutrient products based on animal manure. In Denmark, there are many collaborative agreements between farmers, and the need for manure processing is relatively low. Arable farmers typically receive the manure free of charge or for a relatively low cost (application or transport costs). With higher N-norms, Danish farmers might want to use bio-based products instead of mineral fertiliser; however, this will depend on the product and the price. The purpose here is to investigate how much Danish farmers are willing to pay for bio-based fertilisers and what characteristics of bio-based fertilisers are the most important for Danish farmers to start using them. This paper uses the stated preference technique of a Choice Experiment, where respondents are presented with a choice between two bio-based fertiliser alternatives and their current mineral fertiliser, based on selected attributes. Data was collected from 202 Danish farmers. The sample consisted of more arable farms than average as the focus was on farmers who receive manure. Results indicate that the farmers reveal preferences for a higher certainty in the N-content, low volume, organic carbon and hygienisation. The ideal product, which is like mineral fertiliser which includes organic material, typically can be sold at up to 50% of the mineral fertiliser price. The analysis shows that some farmers are unlikely to accept bio-based fertilisers unless the product has the same properties as mineral fertilisers.
description: Twenty-first International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
New maximal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space with arbitrary genus and their cousins in de Sitter 3-space
Creators: name: Fujimori, Shoichi
name: Rossman, Wayne
name: Umehara, Masaaki
name: Yang, Seong-Deog
name: Yamada, Kotaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10; 53A35; 53C50

description: Until now, the only known maximal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space of finite topology with compact singular set and without branch points were either genus zero or genus one, or came from a correspondence with minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space given by the third and fourth authors in a previous paper. In this paper, we discuss singularities and several global properties of maximal surfaces, and give explicit examples of such surfaces of arbitrary genus. When the genus is one, our examples are embedded outside a compact set. Moreover, we deform such examples to CMC-1 faces (mean curvature one surfaces with admissible singularities in de Sitter 3-space) and obtain "cousins" of those maximal surfaces. Cone-like singular points on maximal surfaces are very important, although they are not stable under perturbations of maximal surfaces. It is interesting to ask if cone-like singular points can appear on a maximal surface having other kinds of singularities. Until now, no such examples were known. We also construct a family of complete maximal surfaces with two complete ends and with both cone-like singular points and cuspidal edges.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures
“Belong anywhere”: Airbnb’s role in destination images projection. Constructing authenticities throughout the community
Creators: name: Review, Omitted for
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150699 Tourism not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Codebook to analyze Airbnb's Neighbourhood Guides in the pre-Covid and post-Covid samples, with references used to construct it.
EpiRegio: analysis and retrieval of regulatory elements linked to genes
Creators: name: Baumgarten, Nina
name: Hecker, Dennis
name: Sivarajan Karunanithi
name: Schmidt, Florian
name: List, Markus
name: Schulz, Marcel H.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: A current challenge in genomics is to interpret non-coding regions and their role in transcriptional regulation of possibly distant target genes. An additional challenge is to reliably identify the target genes of the regulatory regions, which is an essential step in understanding their impact on gene expression.
Here we present the EPIREGIO web server, a resource of regulatory elements (REMs). REMs are genomic regions that exhibit variations in their chromatin accessibility profile associated with changes in expression of their target genes. EPIREGIO incorporates both epigenomic and gene expression data for various human primary cell types and tissues, providing an integrated view of REMs in the genome. Our web server allows the analysis of genes and their associated REMs, including the REM’s activity and its estimated cell type-specific contribution to its target gene’s expression. EPIREGIO provides a programmatic access through a REST API and is freely available at https://epiregio.de/.
PR - FARM VALUE EVALUATION: METHODS AND CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Jeanneaux, P
name: Desjeux, Y.
name: Enjolras, G.
name: Latruffe, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: farm value
subject: succession
subject: agricultural valuation methods

description: Statistics clearly show a continuous decline in the number of farms in Europe. One fourth of farms disappeared in Metropolitan France between 2000 and 2010. With 13,200 entering farmers in 2013, compared to 17,200 exiting farmers, the renewal rate was 77%. In this context, some concerns have been expressed regarding a lack of generational renewal in agriculture despite existing policies targeting this issue. This communication based on a literature review contributes to scientific knowledge and provides new perspectives to farm stakeholders and policy-makers on farm transfers, focusing specifically on the role of the value of the farm in this process. Agricultural sector is particularly affected by succession problems: high farm value due to animals as well as land, buildings and machinery; hence, high transfer cost; low attractiveness due to hard working conditions; and by contrast low profitability. Farm transfer depends on the value of the farm. There are numerous methods to assess the value but they are less used. The â€˜patrimonialâ€™ method based on the accounting/market value of the different assets the farm comprises is rather used. Therefore, the farm value depends also on sociological points of view, needs to take into account intangible assets and not only financial considerations.
description: Twenty-first International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Optimising Code Generation with haggies
Creators: name: Reiter, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article describes haggies, a program for the generation of optimised programs for the efficient numerical evaluation of mathematical expressions. It uses a multivariate Horner-scheme and Common Subexpression Elimination to reduce the overall number of operations. The package can serve as a back-end for virtually any general purpose computer algebra program. Built-in type inference that allows to deal with non-standard data types in strongly typed languages and a very flexible, pattern-based output specification ensure that haggies can produce code for a large variety of programming languages. We currently use haggies as part of an automated package for the calculation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories. The examples in this articles, however, demonstrate that its use is not restricted to the field of high energy physics.
description: 66 pages, 5 figures, program files for download at http://www.nikhef.nl/~thomasr/
bio_embeddings: python pipeline for fast visualization of protein features extracted by language models
Creators: name: Dallago, Christian
name: Schütze, Konstantin
name: Heinzinger, Michael
name: Olenyi, Tobias
name: Rost, Burkhard
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: The descriptive ability of protein-based machine learning models is increasingly leveraged to guide experimental decision making. Protein Language Models (LMs) show enormous potential in generating descriptive features for proteins from just their sequences at a fraction of the time of evolutionary approaches. In general, protein LMs offer to convert amino acid sequences into embeddings (vector representations) that can be used in machine learning pipelines for supervised predictions of function or structure. Protein embeddings can also be used in combination with dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g. UMAP) to quickly span and visualize protein spaces (e.g. via scatter plots). The bio_embeddings pipeline offers an interface to simply and quickly embed large protein sets using protein LMs, to project the embeddings in lower dimensional spaces, and to visualize proteins in these spaces on interactive 3D scatter plots.
LuaTaint: A Static Analysis System for Web Configuration Interface Vulnerability of Internet of Things Devices
Creators: name: Xiang, Jiahui
name: Fu, Lirong
name: Ye, Tong
name: Liu, Peiyu
name: Le, Huan
name: Zhu, Liming
name: Wang, Wenhai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The diversity of web configuration interfaces for IoT devices has exacerbated issues such as inadequate permission controls and insecure interfaces, resulting in various vulnerabilities. Owing to the varying interface configurations across various devices, the existing methods are inadequate for identifying these vulnerabilities precisely and comprehensively. This study addresses these issues by introducing an automated vulnerability detection system, called LuaTaint. It is designed for the commonly used web configuration interface of IoT devices. LuaTaint combines static taint analysis with a large language model (LLM) to achieve widespread and high-precision detection. The extensive traversal of the static analysis ensures the comprehensiveness of the detection. The system also incorporates rules related to page handler control logic within the taint detection process to enhance its precision and extensibility. Moreover, we leverage the prodigious abilities of LLM for code analysis tasks. By utilizing LLM in the process of pruning false alarms, the precision of LuaTaint is enhanced while significantly reducing its dependence on manual analysis. We develop a prototype of LuaTaint and evaluate it using 2,447 IoT firmware samples from 11 renowned vendors. LuaTaint has discovered 111 vulnerabilities. Moreover, LuaTaint exhibits a vulnerability detection precision rate of up to 89.29%.
PR - PASTORAL FARMING ON THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU
Creators: name: Lucock, Xiaomeng
name: Woodford, Keith
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
subject: semi-nomadic pastoral farming systems
subject: Henan County

description: We report on pastoral farming systems in Henan County (altitude 3600 metres) within the Sanjiangyuan (Three-River Headwaters) Region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Our information comes from in-depth interviews of 13 pastoral farming families, plus discussions with key local informants. Traditional nomadic pastoral farming systems are in transition to semi-nomadic, with permanent housing and associated animal shelters for much of the year but still with grassland tent-living by pastoral farming families in summer. Yaks and Tibetan sheep are the dominant livestock. Livestock products in Henan include meat, milk, butter and cheese (qula) from yaks, and meat, wool and skins from sheep. Yak dung is the main source of fuel for cooking and heating. Dung is also a commercial product. Yaks calve in spring, typically having their first calf at four years of age and then calve every second year. Sheep lamb in autumn, typically having their first lamb at three or four years of age. Predation by wolves is a major issue with sheep. Overall animal productivity is low. Sustainability issues are a major concern due to ongoing nutrient removal from dung and animal products, combined with high rodent plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) populations and general overgrazing.
description: Twenty-first International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
A deep learning model for the prediction of Influenza A CTL & HTL epitopes: An optimal solution for the robust vaccine design
Creators: name: R, Karthika
name: Prabhu, Prince R.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Influenza virus A is an important human respiratory pathogen causing seasonal, endemic, and pandemic infections affecting the world population with high morbidity and considerable mortality. The vaccine reformulation for Flu due to antigenic shift and drift of the virus demands the need for more accurate tools which can make the vaccine candidate prediction easier. Designing universal vaccines with high efficacy is also a prominent goal which could be done through the efficient CTL and HTL epitope predictions, separately. My present study targets the more conserved and antigenic Neuraminidase (NA) protein that could result in giving a more cross-protective dominant immune response in humans. In this study, we aim to develop a reliable deep learning neural network model that can predict the Flu A epitopes efficiently from the non-epitopes. This drastically reduces experimental efforts and give faster results. Study of MHC-I-II-binding capability of peptides, as well as other immunogenic and antigenic properties, become more relevant as they are the major factors deciding the potent vaccine candidates. In order to assess the model with the other competing ones, the standardized performance measures like accuracy, specificity, sensitivity were considered and objective benchmarking also is proposed to be done. In the case of both CTL and HTL models, an optimal accuracy of around 98 percent was obtained with all the features. The model was then validated with the experimentally determined epitopes already available in NCBI Influenza Research Database. In the scenario of more or less similar existing servers for MHC-I-II immunogenic epitope predictors, benchmarking is also being done with comparative ranking methods.
Structural insights into functional analysis of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Newstead, 1910) odorants binding proteins
Creators: name: Souleymane Diallo
name: Makwata, John M.
name: Masiga, Daniel
name: Christofells, Alan
name: Getahun, Merid N.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Olfaction involves various olfactory proteins, at various levels, such as OBPs, odorant receptors, etc. starting with reception of semiochemicals at the periphery. Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are soluble proteins found in sensillum lymph which can shape and modulate the olfactory process by diverse mechanisms at the periphery, however, their interaction with odorant is less investigated.
Here we investigated the function of OBPs using behaviorally well-studied tsetse repellent odorant. We first analyzed the structural features of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes odorant binding proteins. Using molecular-docking simulations coupled with gene expression alteration studies we addressed the functional role of OBPs. We found a structural variability between the different OBPs that impacted the binding affinity to Waterbuck repellent compounds (WRB) (δ-octalactone, geranyl acetone, guaiacol, and pentanoic acid) and 1-octen-3-ol (attractant). The molecular docking and the gene expression helped us to identify some of the putative OBPs for the Waterbuck repellent compounds (WRB) and 1-octen -3-ol. Additionally, our results showed tissue-specific expression pattern of the OBPs. This result of the tissue-specific (antenna and legs) expression could highlight their role in olfaction and taste sensory modalities. Furthermore, the physicochemical property analysis showed these various OBPs vary in their number of hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions, and in the area of binding pocket that might determine their molecular interactions. Thus, their physicochemical properties such as the volume of the binding pocket and the number of the hydrophobic interactions, their mRNA alteration when exposed to odorants combined with expression in olfactory tissues suggest they play a role in the olfactory processing of WRB compounds.
Our study provides structural information that could lead to a better understanding of OBPs function in tsetse fly, vector of African Trypanosomiasis (AT). We also believe that a better understanding of chemosensory proteins will contribute to more efficient development of olfactory-based tool
PR - PROFITABILITY MIGRATION IN MINNESOTA FARMS
Creators: name: Mahnken, Curtis
name: Nordquist, Dale
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: profitability
subject: efficiency
subject: migration

description: Producers who benchmark are seeking growth and improvement for their farms, but how can they achieve it? What are the top producers doing differently, and are they doing it consistently? Can information be gleaned from financial statement data to help producers narrow their focus and make their farm businesses stronger? This paper uses data from the FINBIN farm financial database to analyze how often a farm migrates between profitability efficiency groups to establish a set of consistently top farms. Consistently top farms are found to be much more efficient in overhead expenses such as fuel, repairs, and interest payments. Top farms had less debt and had more working capital as a percentage of gross revenue.
description: Twenty-first International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Nomi, parole e stili in Proust
Creators: name: Bottiroli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article is a reworking of the first chapter of a longer work yet to be published. It aims at retrieving an idea, which Proust formulated in 1913 and subsequently discarded, that is, the splitting of his oeuvre into “The Age of Names”, “The Age of Words”, and “The Age of Things”. Following this tripartite division, and reading it both diachronically and synchronically, I suggest that the language of the Recherche (and of art in general) should be understood as a conflictual interweaving of styles. A theory of styles does not only state the multiplicity of expressions, but attempts to identify different types of linguistic articulation, from which differing language-thought regimes are born. Alongside the re-evaluation of the importance of Names, this study suggests a reading of the aesthetic apprenticeship of the Recherche as the conquest of a style which, apart from being original (as it is bound to be), enhances the linguistic potential more directly through flexibility and metamorphosis. To be adequately understood, this perspective requires the contribution of the theory of literature and of philosophy.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
«Der Blaue Montag». Un quadretto popolare come possibile fonte di una scena di Delitto e castigo
Creators: name: Caratozzolo, Marco
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The influence of loubok (Russian popular print) on Dostoevsky’s works is a topic deserving more attention than has been given up to now. It makes us understand how Dostoevsky got inspiration from popular iconography. The present article could be a further contribution to this research topic; its aim being to investigate the recurrence in Dostoevsky’s poetics of a particular typology of popular print, showing how a wife beats her husband after he came back home drunk. This loubok spread widely through Russia (the peasant family version) and Germany (the cobbler version). In particular the German version, which had a wide readership thanks to the German printer G. Renner and was named “Der Blaue Montag” was undoubtedly known to Dostoevsky, since it was widespread in the very period he travelled through Germany. In this paper I will try to show how the Russian novelist caught not only the general setting but also some details from this version to describe Marmeladov’s home in the scene (I, 2) when he comes back home and faces a violent welcome from his wife Katerina Ivanovna.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Reassessing Japanese American Collective Memory Through Gene Oishi’s Internment Narratives
Creators: name: Becce, Nicolangelo
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Seven decades after Japanese Americans were interned during the Second World War, former journalist and internment survivor Gene Oishi published Fox Drum Bebop (2014). The protagonist, Hiroshi, had been introduced in Oishi’s previous memoir, In Search of Hiroshi (1988), as “quasi-fictional” and “neither American nor Japanese, but simply me”. Yet, in the same memoir, Oishi had also described his inability to write about ‘Hiroshi’, thus settling on ‘Gene’ as a main character and waiting 28 more years before publishing a book about his true self. A comparison between the two books highlights that In Search of Hiroshi was written as an attempt at telling a story that would implicitly support the ‘model minority’ myth by offering an account of the internment experience as a direct response to the sociopolitical constraints related to the request by Japanese Americans for redress from the U.S. government. On the other hand, the more recent Fox Drum Bebop represents a fictional retelling of Oishi’s memoir which reveals the limits of the collective memory of the internment as developed during the redress years by openly defying the ‘model minority’ stereotype while at the same time once more denouncing the injustices suffered by the Japanese American community during the war. This essay focuses on Oishi’s double narrative as a reassessment of the collective memory of the internment experience and of its lasting effects on Japanese Americans.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
The targum (1979:Oct. 1 - 1979:Oct. 31)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1979

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Weakly Interacting Bose Mixtures at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Van Schaeybroeck, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent experiments on Bose-Einstein mixtures with tunable interactions we study repulsive weakly interacting Bose mixtures at finite temperature. We obtain phase diagrams using Hartree-Fock theory which are directly applicable to experimentally trapped systems. Almost all features of the diagrams can be characterized using simple physical insights. Our work reveals two surprising effects which are dissimilar to a system at zero temperature. First of all, no pure phases exist, that is, at each point in the trap, particles of both species are always present. Second, even for very weak interspecies repulsion when full mixing is expected, condensate particles of both species may be present in a trap without them being mixed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
PR - FARMERSâ€™ OCCUPATIONAL ATTITUDES AND FINANCIAL SITUATION IN THE SWISS MOUNTAIN REGION
Creators: name: Odermatt, Basil
name: Lips, Markus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: family farm
subject: income
subject: perceived financial situation

description: Based on three data sources, namely tax declaration, structural data and a survey, we investigate the relation between farmersâ€™ occupational attitudes and financial and structural indicators. 127 observations are available from the Canton of Obwalden, a Swiss province in the mountain region. A factor and a correlation analysis are carried out. The results show a clear correlation between the perception of the financial situation and the actual household or total income. Conversely, there is no significant correlation between the actual agricultural income and the perceived financial situation. Furthermore, farmers with high agricultural income tend to put a relatively higher focus on operating goals such as improving productivity than farmers with low agricultural income.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Open Clusters ASCC21 as a Probable Birthplace of the Neutron Star Geminga
Creators: name: Bobylev, V. V.
name: Bajkova, A. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the encounters of the neutron star (pulsar) Geminga with open star clusters in the OB association OriOB1a through the integration of epicyclic orbits into the past by taking into account the errors in the data. The open cluster ASCC21 is shown to be the most probable birthplace of either a single progenitor star for the Geminga pulsar or a binary progenitor system that subsequently broke up. Monte Carlo simulations of Geminga--ASCC21 encounters with the pulsar radial velocity Vr =-100+-50 km/s have shown that close encounters could occur between them within <= 10 pc at about t=-0.52 Myr. In addition, the trajectory of the neutron star Geminga passes at a distance about 25 pc from the center of the compact OB association lambda Ori at about t=-0.39 Myr, which is close to the age of the pulsar estimated from its timing.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
PR - THE EFFECT OF ENTREPRENURIAL ORIENTATION ON CROP PORTFOLIO CHOICE: RESULTS FROM A STUDENT SIMULATION
Creators: name: Owusuâ€“Kodua, Derrick
name: Micheels, Eric
name: Brown, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Entrepreneurial Orientation
subject: Portfolio Choice
subject: Managing Risk

description: The paper explores how crop choices within a farm simulation game are influenced by the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of participants. To do so, we employs a survey on demographics and management style to estimate the riskiness of crop choices as well as the entrepreneurial posture of participants. The purpose is to verify if the level of EO, constructed from the dimensions identified in the literature, helps predict the studentâ€™s inclination towards crop diversification as it relates to portfolio risk. The results reveal that participants with a high level of EO selected higher-risk crop portfolios, a result consistent with other empirical studies on entrepreneurship. The study is a step toward developing an analytical basis for future empirical study in farming risk mitigation.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
The Forms and Meanings of (In)Visibility
Creators: name: Schiavini, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article investigates two well-known plays by Youssef El Guindi, the most important and prolific playwright of 21st century Arab-American theatre. Both plays are related to the consequences of the terrorist attacks on the Arab-American community, and they explore the structures of control enacted by the security state and the strategies of its repressive politics. The article focuses in particular on the tropes of visibility and invisibility and its paradoxes for a minority that moved from ‘invisible citizens’ to ‘visible subjects’ within a few hours. The paradoxes of visibility and invisibility and their divide are here explored in relation to three main issues: the relationship between ethnic identity and citizenship – be it social and/or political; deviancy and the construction of Otherness; and identity and the body.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Matrix elasticity a fork in the road for cell fate decisions
Creators: name: Brielle, Shlomi
name: Bavli, Danny
name: Motzik, Alex
name: Kan-Tor, Yoav
name: Batia Avni
name: Ram, Oren
name: Buxboim, Amnon
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) form a heterogeneous population of multipotent progenitor cells that contribute to tissue remodeling, repair, and homeostasis. While differentiation of MSC populations towards soft and stiff tissue lineages is directed by matrix mechanics, single cells differ by their matrix-sensing potential and multilineage differentiation capacity. Human MSCs were cultured on soft and stiff matrices that mimicked fat and precalcified bone and exposed them to a bi-potential adipogenic/osteogenic induction medium. To study lineage specification heterogeneity, we obtained single-cell transcriptomes of thousands MSCS at naïve, matrix-conditioned, and early differentiating states using droplet-based single-cell RNA (scRNA) profiling. While adipogenesis was favored on soft matrices and osteogenesis on stiff matrices, scRNA transcriptomes revealed matrix directed linage differentiation only in a fraction of cells. Cell clustered into distinctive subpopulations defined by matrix priming and linage specification. Diffusion pseudotime reconstruction of naïve states, matrix-priming, and lineage specification histories revealed a cell-fate decision-making bifurcation towards fat and bone fates. Adipogenesis was retarded on stiff matrices, and soft matrices activated chondrogenic markers in osteogenic cells. Differential gene expression screening between matrix-sensitive cells that differentiated in parallel with matrix mechanics and matrix-insensitive cells that exclusively express stress-associated surface markers revealed specific cytoskeletal proteins whose signaling functions we validated via knockdown and overexpression assays. Our work provides a dynamic mapping of MSC subpopulations characterized by multilineage differentiation capacity associated with cytoskeletal proteins that mediate mechanical signaling.
PR - IMPACTS OF WATER POLICIES ON NEW ZEALAND LIVESTOCK AGRICULTURE AND THE RUAMÄ€HANGA CATCHMENT
Creators: name: Parminter, Terry G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Wairarapa
subject: nitrogen
subject: water quality

description: New Zealand communities are seeking improved water quality. Applying New Zealandâ€™s legislative framework, policy decisions to achieve these improvements must take account of a range of factors, including the sources of contaminants, and the economic implications of policy changes for resource users such as farmers. This paper outlines key components of the agricultural information being used to underpin policy decision-making in the RuamÄhanga River Catchment, and evaluates the economic impacts on farming of one potential policy scenario to achieve improved water quality. Twelve representative farms are used in the evaluation. Based on this, 24% of the nitrogen load entering the river from livestock agriculture is from dairying, 40% from sheep and beef breeding farms, and 36% from sheep and beef finishing farms. Reducing the nitrogen load in the river from the current levels of 0.64 to 0.53mg/L, requires livestock farmers in the catchment to reduce nitrogen discharges by an estimated 700T of nitrogen per year. Such a water quality target can be achieved if improved farm management practices are adopted, and provided that other human-induced sources of contaminant are also reduced. The costs of the farm management changes required could reduce their contribution to the district GDP by over 10%.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Trespassing Boundaries in Wuthering Heights
Creators: name: Brazzelli, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The Spatial Turn as a transdisciplinary phenomenon in the Humanities was established in the 1990s, and, especially in the last few decades, geography seems to have pervaded critical analysis and language. According to contemporary geographical and environmental perspectives, the setting in narratives is not only a background defining the place where the plot is located but a complex system that is central to the construction of literary texts. Wuthering Heights (1847) provides an excellent case study. Emily Brontë’s novel is certainly characterized by its topography. Although different sources had been collected by the writer from a wide range of models across the country in Yorkshire, they were then reassembled to form a landscape that is both familiar and uncanny, self-consistent and reminiscent of real buildings and sceneries. Besides, the dynamics between displacement, departures and arrivals and the seeming immobility of the landscape is a crucial pattern of the novel. In Wuthering Heights, the natural world of the moors and its geographies are reminders of history and memory. Brontë’s weaving together of emotional stories into the moorlands suggests a mutual exchange between nature and culture. The writer constructs a textured geography representing the cycles of change, family history, and passion that have created that space.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Lenticular Galaxies and Their Environments
Creators: name: Bergh, Sidney van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that lenticular (S0) galaxies were initially spirals from which the gas has been removed by interactions with hot cluster gas, or by ram-pressure stripping of cool gas from spirals that are orbiting within rich clusters of galaxies. However, problems with this interpretation are that: (1) Some lenticulars, such as NGC 3115, are isolated field galaxies rather than cluster members. (2) The distribution of flattening values of S0 galaxies in clusters, in groups and in the field are statistically indistinguishable. This is surprising because one might have expected most of the progenitors of field S0 galaxies to have been flattened late-type galaxies, whereas lenticulars in clusters are thought to have mostly been derived from bulge-dominated early-type galaxies. (3) It should be hardest for ram-pressure to strip massive luminous galaxies with deep potential wells. However, no statistically significant differences are seen between the luminosity distributions of early-type Shapley-Ames galaxies in clusters, groups and in the field. (4) Finally, both ram-pressure stripping and evaporation by hot intra-cluster gas would be most efficient in rich clusters. However, the small number of available data in the Shapley-Ames sample appears to show no statistically significant differences between the relative frequencies of dust-poor S0_1 and dust-rich S0_3 galaxies in clusters, groups and in the field. It is tentatively concluded that ram-pressure stripping, and heating by intra-cluster gas, may not be the only evolutionary channels that lead to the formation of lenticular galaxies. It is speculated that gas starvation, or gas ejection by active nuclei, may have play a major role in the formation of a significant fraction of all S0 galaxies.
description: Astrophysical Journal, in press
PR - IS THE â€œF WORDâ€ AN OPTION FOR BRAZILIAN FARMERS? THE PLACE OF FORESTRY IN FUTURE INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEMS
Creators: name: De AragÃ£O Pereira, Mariana
name: Costa, Fernando Paim
name: De Almeida, Roberto Giolo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: ABC Plan
subject: Agroforestry
subject: Economic analysis

description: This study analyses the economic viability of forestry in integrated farming systems (IFS) in Brazil. A 12-year cash flow was built with both experimental data and estimates for three IFS in the Savannah region: ICL (crops + cattle); ICLF1 (ICL + 227 eucalyptus trees/ha); and ICLF2 (ICL + 357 eucalyptus trees/ha). Investment analysis showed all IFS were viable, but ICL was more profitable than ICLF, due to occasional high crops and beef prices and low wood prices in 2016. In extreme scenarios, i.e. all commodities prices were high (SCE I) or all low (SCE II), results remained the same. However, an alternative, most likely, scenario (SCE III) showed ICLF were more economically recommended than ICL, as beef and crop prices dropped and wood prices increased, which is expected because of commodities price volatility. Thus, the introduction of forestry in future IFS is economically viable, although market risks remain. Further adoption of IFS with trees relies on innovative and follower farmers, with strong support of R&D, technology transfer programs and IFS policies.
description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017