cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mixed modeling for large-eddy simulation: The single-layer and two-layer minimum-dissipation-Bardina models
Creators: name: Streher, L. B.
name: Silvis, M. H.
name: Cifani, P.
name: Verstappen, R. W. C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predicting the behavior of turbulent flows using large-eddy simulation requires modeling of the subgrid-scale stress tensor. This tensor can be approximated using mixed models, which combine the dissipative nature of functional models with the capability of structural models to approximate out-of-equilibrium effects. We propose a mathematical basis to mix (functional) eddy-viscosity models with the (structural) Bardina model. By taking an anisotropic minimum-dissipation (AMD) model for the eddy viscosity, we obtain the (single-layer) AMD-Bardina model. In order to also obtain a physics-conforming model for wall-bounded flows, we further develop this mixed model into a two-layer approach: the near-wall region is parameterized with the AMD-Bardina model, whereas the outer region is computed with the Bardina model. The single-layer and two-layer AMD-Bardina models are tested in turbulent channel flows at various Reynolds numbers, and improved predictions are obtained when the mixed models are applied in comparison to the computations with the AMD and Bardina models alone. The results obtained with the two-layer AMD-Bardina model are particularly remarkable: both first- and second-order statistics are extremely well predicted and even the inflection of the mean velocity in the channel center is captured. Hence, a very promising model is obtained for large-eddy simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows at moderate and high Reynolds numbers.
description: 29 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables; revised, accepted manuscript
The Domesday Book of South Cumbria
Creators: name: Whalley, Neil
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 18, 105-122
description: The Domesday Book for the north-west of England is limited in both its geographical extent and its level of detail, covering only the lowland areas south of the Lakeland fells with succinct entries that sometimes prove difficult to interpret, yet it remains a document of extraordinary value for the region given the paucity of local records relating to that time. Despite its importance and a general level of interest in the Domesday Book nationally, the records pertaining to the region have received relatively little attention since the first detailed study of the subject by William Farrer in 1906. Various authorities, local and national, have contributed to the discussion and progress has certainly been made, culminating with Chris Lewis' An Introduction to the Lancashire Domesday which remains the most thorough and authoritative work on the subject. Modern publications continue to reiterate outdated ideas, however, and uncertainty remains over the identification of some of the places listed. This article aims to offer some redress by providing an introduction to Domesday for the northernmost part of the region, focussing on modern South Cumbria, and by taking a detailed look at some of the outstanding issues of interpretation for this area, in particular the problematic entries of Hougun and Cherchebi.
Between every now and then : history and social studies teachers’ interpretations of history agency and social change
Creators: name: Den Heyer, Kent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: If history and social studies instruction helps to create "imagined communities," then presumably it also creates images of the ways in which communities have formed, now function, and will continue to evolve. Questions about the ways that people imagine their capacities and contribute (agency) to how communities change through time (social change), thus, lie at the very heart of history and social studies instruction. Yet, to what degree or in what ways teachers engage students in such questions is insufficiently addressed in the history and social studies education research literature. This study begins with a review of this literature. I conclude that students cite an "American middle-class conception" of agency, casting celebrated individuals as the cause of social change in a light that fails to illuminate the complexities of human subjectivity and the multiple sources of social change. I continue with a theoretical investigation of historical agency as a more distributed and fractious capacity. I create a "sensitizing framework" from recent work in historiography and sociology offering a range of interpretations of the ways that social conditions and individual and group intentions and actions intersect to affect social change. In the empirical portion of this study, I use the "sensitizing framework," observations, and individual interviews to explore four high school history teachers' interpretations of historical agency and change in their teaching and thought. The framework serves as an effective heuristic device aiding participants' reflection on their practice and clarifying the disjunctures and complexities of their interpretations. I conclude that a similar exploration by teachers with students will enhance both the complexity of their historical explanations of social change and reflection on their variegated capacities as agents of social life.
The Medieval Parks of Brough under Stainmore
Creators: name: Charlesworth, Haydn
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 18, 169-190
description: The study of parks in Cumbria has benefited from recent scholarly examination of its baronial and manorial parks. Within the Barony of Appleby, the parks at Whinfell, Flakebridge and Old Park were included. This present research, however, has identified several parks in Brough-under-Stainmore, hitherto omitted. The evidence for these missing parks largely arises from documents describing the legal title to land. These then confirm the suggested sequence of use and dating-evidence for the parks, and the landscape-history fieldwork. From this the parcels of land identified suggest patterns of early spatial planning along the Stainmore township boundary. Subsequent changes imply that land use responded to events with new designs and alternative solutions to the hunting park. While offering new insights into the medieval parks of Cumbria, this article also demonstrates how fieldwork can be used to locate medieval parks, and highlights further areas for study.
Additional file 3 of Health and intention to leave the profession of nursing - which individual, social and organisational resources buffer the impact of quantitative demands? A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Diehl, Elisabeth
name: Rieger, Sandra
name: Letzel, Stephan
name: Schablon, Anja
name: Nienhaus, Albert
name: Pinzon, Luis Carlos Escobar
name: Dietz, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table 3. Associations between ‘intention to leave the profession’ and covariates.
'For his Extraordinary paines in beutifying the Church': the work of James Addison of Hornby, church painter
Creators: name: White, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 18, 191-200
description: This article considers the work of the 17th century church painter, James Addison of Hornby. His work is recorded in several local churches in the south of Cumbria and he may have worked further afield, although physical evidence is now very limited, since the restoration of many of the churches involved. He is seen to be one of a number of practitioners in this field, producing both 'sentences': scriptural texts on lime-washed walls, and Royal Arms and Commandment Boards. The tradition appears to have been very widespread at the time. Addison himself is much harder to pin down, and there are intriguing gaps left in his life for which I have failed to find any evidence. The physical means of producing these mural paintings is also considered in evidence from Lincolnshire.
Diffusion rates of Cu adatoms on Cu(111) in the presence of an adisland nucleated at FCC or HCP sites
Creators: name: Marinica, Mihai-Cosmin
name: Barreteau, Cyrille
name: Spanjaard, Daniel
name: Desjonqueres, Marie-Catherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface diffusion of Cu adatoms in the presence of an adisland at FCC or HCP sites on Cu(111) is studied using the EAM potential derived by Mishin {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 63} 224106 (2001)]. The diffusion rates along straight (with close-packed edges) steps with (100) and (111)-type microfacets (resp. step A and step B) are first investigated using the transition state theory in the harmonic approximation. It is found that the classical limit beyond which the diffusion rates follow an Arrhenius law is reached above the Debye temperature. The Vineyard attempt frequencies and the (static) energy barriers are reported. Then a comparison is made with the results of more realistic classical molecular dynamic simulations which also exhibit an Arrhenius-like behavior. It is concluded that the corresponding energy barriers are completely consistent with the static ones within the statistical errors and that the diffusion barrier along step B is significantly larger than along step A. In contrast the prefactors are very different from the Vineyard frequencies. They increase with the static energy barrier in agreement with the Meyer-Neldel compensation rule and this increase is well approximated by the law proposed by Boisvert {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75} 469 (1995)]. As a consequence, the remaining part of this work is devoted to the determination of static energy barriers for a large number of diffusion events that can occur in the presence of an adisland. In particular, it is found that the corner crossing diffusion process for triangular adislands is markedly different for the two types of borders (A or B). From this set of results the diffusion rates of the most important atomic displacements can be predicted and used as input in Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations.
Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Demeke, Abera Birhanu
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Demeke, Abera Birhanu
name: Zeller, Manfred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: food security
subject: principal components analysis
subject: rainfall
subject: panel data
subject: Ethiopia

description: Ethiopia's agriculture is predominantly rainfed and hence any irregularity in weather conditions has adverse welfare implications. Using panel data, this paper analyzes the effect of rainfall shocks on Ethiopian rural households' food security and vulnerability over time while controlling for a range of other factors. To this end, we generated a time-variant household food security index which is developed by principal components analysis. Based on the scores of the index, households were classified into relative food security groups and their socioeconomic differences were assessed. The exploratory results show that compared to the less secured households, the more secured ones have male and literate household heads, tend to have a greater number of economically active household members, own more livestock, experience better rainfall outcome, participate in equb (a local savings group), and use chemical fertilizer. Fixed effects regression was used to identify the factors which affect the score's variability and the results indicate that rainfall shock is an important factor affecting households' food security over time. It is also noted that household size, head's age, participation in equb, off-farm activities, use of fertilizer, and livestock ownership positively and significantly affect the food security score. Results from multinomial logistic regression model reinforce the fixed effects regression results by showing the strong association of persistent food insecurity and vulnerability with adverse rainfall shock. A number of conclusions can be drawn from the results which are useful for policymakers as well as for agencies that engage in areas of risk and food security.
The Landscape and People of the Cartmel Peninsula in 1685: the Kuerden/Towneley maps
Creators: name: Shannon, William D
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 18, 201-222
description: The antiquary Richard Kuerden's 1685 survey of the roads and boundaries of Cartmel parish was carried out as part of a wider project to map the roads and towns of Lancashire, related to his life's work studying the history of the county. Rediscovered in 1952, but largely unpublished since, the manuscript maps throw new light not only on the technicalities of late-17th century surveying, but more importantly onto the landscape, people and places of Cartmel, from the first representation of Over-Sands routes, to the earliest date for a bloomery forge on the Winster, to the impact of the Flookburgh fire of 1664, and probably the only surviving representation of Flookburgh chapel. The landscape is seen to be characterised by stone walls, something virtually unknown elsewhere in Lancashire at that date, while some 35 people are named, from Squire Preston of Holker, to Widow Housman, the keeper of a Cartmel lodging house.
Four earthwork enclosures on Faulds Brow, near Caldbeck
Creators: name: Hinchcliffe, John
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 123-130
description: Faulds Brow, north-west of Caldbeck, is a ridge of carboniferous limestone, running broadly west/east, to the north of the valley of the Whelpo Beck, which separates it from the northern Lake District fells. The highest point of the Brow is 343m (1125ft) and the ridge has extensive views of the northern fells and northwards across the Solway Firth to Criffel and the hills of Dumfries and Galloway. Between March and December 2017, the Northern Group of the Lake District National Park Archaeology Volunteers Network undertook a walkover survey of this area.
Controlled photophoretic levitation of nanostructured thin films for near-space flight
Creators: name: Azadi, Mohsen
name: Popov, George A.
name: Lu, Zhipeng
name: Eskenazi, Andy G.
name: Bang, Ji Won
name: Campbell, Matthew F.
name: Hu, Howard
name: Bargatin, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report light-driven levitation of macroscopic polymer films whose bottom surface is engineered to maximize the thermal accommodation coefficient. Specifically, we levitated centimeter-scale disks made of commercial 0.5-micron-thick mylar film coated with carbon nanotubes on one side. When illuminated with light intensity comparable to natural sunlight, the polymer disk heats up and interacts with incident gas molecules differently on the top and bottom sides, producing a net recoil force. This lift force is maximized at gas pressures corresponding to Knudsen number on the order of 0.3, and correspondingly, we observed the levitation of 0.6-cm-diameter disks in a vacuum chamber at pressures between 10 and 30 Pa. Moreover, we controlled the flight of the disks using a shaped beam that optically trapped the levitating disks. Our experimentally validated theoretical model predicts that the lift forces can be many times the weight of the films, allowing payloads of up to 10 milligrams for sunlight-powered low-cost microflyers in the upper atmosphere at altitudes of 50-100 km.
description: Main text (10 pages, 4 figures) + Supplementary Information (23 pages, 14 figures) in a single PDF file
537 and Camlann
Creators: name: Johnson, Flint
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 131-140
description: For 537/9 Annales Cambriae records the famous Battle of Camlann, death place of Arthur, and possibly located at Camboglanna, a Roman fort on Hadrians Wall.The same entry in the document is also assigned to a major famine. Over the last four decades many scholars have believed this entry ultimately derives from the Northern Memorandum, and that the original scriptorium for this historical work was in the Cumberland area. More recent scholarship, and especially the work of Andrew Breeze, has attempted to connect the two in a causal relationship, e.g. the famine now known to have occurred in 537 worldwide produced a social upheaval in Britain that led to the catastrophic battle.1 This article argues that there is no reason to connect the two events and by extension no relative argument or absolute evidence for dating Camlann to 537. This is done by exploring the rationale proposed by Breeze, the nature of Arthur, and the culture of the period. The context for the Battle of Caml
Pillow Mounds of Westmorland
Creators: name: Robinson, Jeremy Rowan
name: Cook, Geoff
name: Grice, Kevin
name: Hardwick, Brian
name: Minchom, Philip
name: Simpson, Mark
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 141-160
description: In an earlier article, the results of an archaeological and historical survey of, inter alia, a group of pillow mounds at Cunswick Hall were described. That survey provided a reference point for further research at five other sites in the former county of Westmorland where pillow mounds are recorded. The purpose of the research was to establish whether the mounds were once rabbit warrens and, if so, to date them. The research sets pillow mounds in their wider socio-economic context and relates the findings to other research in England and Wales. Of the five sites, one turned out not to have been a rabbit warren. Documentary evidence and/or physical characteristics suggest that the other four were warrens dating from the early post-medieval period. All appear to have fallen out of use by the second half of the 18th century.
Creating stable molecular condensate using a generalized Raman adiabatic passage scheme
Creators: name: Ling, Hong Y.
name: Pu, Han
name: Seaman, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Feshbach resonance assisted stimulated adiabatic passage of an effective coupling field for creating stable molecules from atomic Bose condensate. By exploring the properties of the coherent population trapping state, we show that, contrary to the previous belief, mean-field shifts need not to limit the conversion efficiency as long as one chooses an adiabatic passage route that compensates the collision mean-field phase shifts and avoids the dynamical unstable regime.
description: 4+\epsilon pages, 3 figures
The Loss and Recovery of Catterlen
Creators: name: Vaux, Hugh
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 161-174
description: This article demonstrates how the legal process could be used by a member of the gentry to achieve the recovery of an estate made forfeit in 1592, as a result of attainder. This was possible only because of the changed conditions following the union of the crowns in 1603.
A History of Sizergh's Tapestries
Creators: name: Asquith, Richard
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 175-194
description: This research accompanied a programme of cleaning of Sizergh Castle's tapestries undertaken by the property's National Trust Conservation Team in 2016. With the reopening of the property the following spring, the Library was displayed to visitors for the first time, and thus the tapestries became accessible to the public. This combination of factors provided the opportunity for this long-overdue assessment of the significance of the tapestries at Sizergh, both in situ and lost, which reveals much about the history of the castle and the resident Strickland family. It offers new insights into the development of the castle over the centuries and the ways in which it was regarded by its occupants. The author would like to thank Henry Hornyold-Strickland for permitting access to the Sizergh Castle muniments.
A Cumbrian Friendly Society: The Free and Independent United Order of Mechanics 1879-1951
Creators: name: Harris, Harriet
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 195-210
description: Friendly Societies provided vital financial assistance to members and their families during times of illness or death. By the 1870s national membership was estimated to be three to four million. One such society, the Free and Independent United Order of Mechanics, seceded from a parent order, the Independent United Order of Mechanics, shortly after the Friendly Societies Act 1875. Most of the lodges, or branches, were located in small industrial villages within or close to the Lake District. Membership and numbers of lodges declined with the shrinking of local industries in the twentieth century, but a nucleus of lodges remained until changes imposed by the National Insurance act of 1946 made dissolution expedient in 1951. This case study explores how the Free and Independent United Order of Mechanics adapted to potential threats to its survival caused by the practice of providing long term benefits and the introduction of the government's National Insurance scheme of 1911.
The role of modern retailers to ensure quality in the food sector: the case of organic strawberry consumption in Italy
Creators: name: Panico, Teresa
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Cicia, Gianni
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Panico, Teresa
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Cicia, Gianni
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food quality and food safety
subject: organic strawberry consumption
subject: modern retail
subject: Logit model.

description: Major changes have occurred in the agri-food sector, generating new and more complex concepts of food quality. One of the most significant indicators of these changes is market restructuring, in terms of rapid concentration among retailers, the dominance of chain stores and their imposition of cost and quality constraints. Retailers currently play a more important role in ensuring food product quality and safety than public authorities. To analyze this new aspect in the food sector, we carried out a survey on organic strawberry consumption in Italy. This segment of the organic sector is particularly interesting because the conventional strawberry may be considered an unsafe product due to the large use of chemical inputs in the production process. Nevertheless, the demand for organic strawberries demand is fairly low. We attempted to investigate such concerns through a questionnaire-based survey submitted to a representative sample of 318 Italian households. The questionnaire was structured into three areas of information to collect data related to consumer preferences for different characteristics of organic strawberries and psychometric and socio-economic variables. The data were analyzed using a Logit model to derive a demand estimate for organic strawberries. Our first results indicate the presence of a major role played by modern retailers and consumer lifestyles to drive the final demand of high-quality and safe food products.
The Lakeland Bobbin Industry in the 19th century: A Reappraisal .
Creators: name: White, Peter
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 211-230
description: This article re-examines the 19th-century history of bobbin manufacture in the former counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the sands, roughly the area of the Lake District. Centred in Furness, the earliest reference to the industry was in 1788, and its expansion was driven by the rapid growth of the Lancashire textile industry. Over the course of the 19th century more than 100 bobbin mills went into production, peaking around 1860 when about 60 mills were active. The industry was opportunistic; water power was readily available, and transport routes for the export of iron already existed. Coppiced woodland was the characteristic feature of the local landscape, and coppice poles were the principal raw material throughout the industry's history.
Finitely presented wreath products and double coset decompositions
Creators: name: de Cornulier, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 20E22, Secondary 20B22, 20F05, 20E28

description: We characterize which permutational wreath products W^(X)\rtimes G are finitely presented. This occurs if and only if G and W are finitely presented, G acts on X with finitely generated stabilizers, and with finitely many orbits on the cartesian square X^2. On the one hand, this extends a result of G. Baumslag about standard wreath products; on the other hand, this provides nontrivial examples of finitely presented groups. For instance, we obtain two quasi-isometric finitely presented groups, one of which is torsion-free and the other has an infinite torsion subgroup. Motivated by the characterization above, we discuss the following question: which finitely generated groups can have a finitely generated subgroup with finitely many double cosets? The discussion involves properties related to the structure of maximal subgroups, and to the profinite topology.
description: 21 pages; no figure. To appear in Geom. Dedicata
Potato starch quota fixed to Poland – a shadow on the success story of the Polish agriculture integration into the CAP regulations?
Creators: name: Chotkowski, Jacek
name: Gazinski, Benon
name: Chotkowski, Jacek
name: Gazinski, Benon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Market Competitiveness
subject: Starch Quota
subject: Polish Agriculture

description: Integration of Polish agriculture is recognized as a success. Nevertheless some remarkable difficulties have emerged. Some of them are related to low production quotas in dairy, sugar and starch sectors. Authors of this Poster argue that the level of starch quota inscribed for Poland is incompatible with the principle of fair competition on the inner EU market. The quota ceiling of mere 145 thousand tons is a heavy constraint to the processing plants – their total processing capacities are estimated for some 220-260 thousand tons. Therefore, they are utilized in c. 56- 66 %, leading to the increase of unit costs of starch production of about 9,2 % and decrease of the competitiveness. Another point is the ratio of the quota to the volume of harvests: 0,1121 for Denmark, 0,057 for Germany and (only) 0,0131 for Poland. Furthermore, the domestic consumption of starch products in Poland is two-fold bigger than the quota with resultant increase of importation. Paradoxically, such practices are pronounced in spite of unutilized natural resources of Polish agriculture – high proportion of light soils. The temporary solution is to increase the quota – the long-run one is to rethink the concept of quota system – under the new CAP reform.
Local control of Hamiltonian chaos
Creators: name: Chandre, Cristel
name: Ciraolo, Guido
name: Lima, Ricardo
name: Vittot, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review a method of control for Hamiltonian systems which is able to create smooth invariant tori. This method of control is based on an apt modification of the perturbation which is small and localized in phase space.
The influence of country of origin on German consumer preferences for peaches: a latent class choice model
Creators: name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Cicia, Gianni
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Cicia, Gianni
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Germany peach market
subject: consumer preferences
subject: latent class choice models

description: Germany is an important world level market for fresh fruit. Spain and Italy are the main suppliers of fresh fruit on the German market while the main imported products are apple, grapes, peaches and oranges. The aim of this paper is to assess the role country of origin plays in the preferences of German consumers for peaches. Since German legislation requires fresh fruit sold on the market to clearly display the product’s country of origin, German consumers usually make their choice with this information to hand. How important is such information, and what is the trade-off between country of origin and price or organic production system? We attempted to investigate such concerns through a choice experiment approach conducted by means of a questionnaire-based survey administered to a representative sample of 300 German households. In the experiment, respondents were asked to choose their favorite peach among four alternatives. Each peach was described as imported from four specific countries (Italy, Spain, Turkey and France) and available at a specific price; some of the peaches were certified Organic or PDO. The stated choices are analyzed using a latent class choice model to derive estimates of preferences for peaches. Results indicate the presence of three distinct consumer segments in the German peach market. The largest segment (48%) showed a strong preference for Italian peaches as well as for organic and PDO certification. For this segment, price was not an important attribute. The second segment (41%) showed a strong preference for Spanish produce and organic certification. Price was important in this case. The third segment (11%) had a negative preference for Italian and Spanish peaches, with price being the main attribute.
Facilitiating the integration of computers into the elementary school curriculum
Creators: name: Kozack, Kelly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A study involving a questionnaire and interview format was undertaken at an independent elementary school in British Columbia, Canada to investigate the factors that affect the integration of computer technology into the curriculum and to determine whether Personal Computers (PCs) or Macs in a computer laboratory or classroom setting would provide the best the learning opportunities for the students. Focus groups were used to discuss results from the questionnaires and interviews to develop a plan to integrate computers into classroom curricula. Nineteen subjects (teachers as well as administrators) took part in the study with an 83% response rate to questionnaires. Six subjects were randomly chosen to take part in in-depth interviews and all 23 teachers/administrators took part in the first focus group. Six teachers took part in the second focus group. Factors that were found to affect statistically (p < 0.05) the integration of computers in elementary curricula were age and experience of the teacher, teacher confidence, and perceived emphasis of computers in the school. It was agreed upon that integrating PCs into the classrooms would provide the best learning opportunities for the students by allowing easy access to computers. Following focus group discussions, a three-year plan involving a mentorship program was developed, accepted by the administration, and implemented where 24 PC wireless internet-connected refurbished computers would be purchased and integrated into 6 or 7 classrooms per year. The most confident teachers volunteered to integrate the computers in their classrooms the first year. These teachers then would act as mentors to the teachers integrating the computers in subsequent years, thereby providing guidance and assistance to the less-confident teachers.
Structural and Economic Overview of the Italian Agri-food System: A Focus on Food Prices
Creators: name: Cisilino, Federica
name: Marangon, Francesco
name: Troiano, Stefania
name: Cisilino, Federica
name: Marangon, Francesco
name: Troiano, Stefania
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agri-food System
subject: Farms
subject: Market
subject: Prices.

description: An analysis of the main items characterizing the agri-food system highlights the existence of a strong demand for a politically-correct decisional process. This paper analyzes the value of the agri-food sector at national level in terms of Gross Domestic Product, Value Added at basic and current prices (ISTAT), comparing data with the EU level (Eurostat). Farms’ structure and production are analyzed in order to highlight the current situation and future development of the agri-food sector. After an overview of the main structural characteristics of farms, the study focuses on a direct survey (FADN/RICA sample): in order to collect specific data an “ad hoc” questionnaire was drawn up to identify farm characteristics, productive potential and main market regulatory mechanisms. With the objective of highlighting the farmers’ point of view, a case study on an Italian region is presented to evaluate three main topics: a) sales prices: main factors occurring in the price fixing phase; b) distribution channels and commodities prices: perception of strength in terms of trade agreement; c) rules and checks: actions to enhance and increase price transparency through supply chain rings.
title: Методические указания и задания на контрольную работу по дисциплине Автоматизированное проектирование средств и систем управления
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2016

description: Дисциплина «Автоматизированное проектирование средств и систем управления» изучается студентами, обучающимися по направлению подготовки 15.04.04 на 5 курсе. В процессе обучения студенты прослушивают лекционный курс в объёме 14 часов, выполняют лабораторные работы в объёме 6 часов и контрольную работу. Выполнив домашнее задание, лабораторные работы и прослушав лекционный курс, студент должен получить зачет по всему курсу. Изложены методические указания по самостоятельному изучению курса и задание на контрольную работу.
Below Cost Legislation – Did it matter and would it really matter today?
Creators: name: Collins, Alan Michael
name: Collins, Alan Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Below cost legislation
subject: Grocery Buyer Behaviour

description: This paper traces the emergence, evolution, and demise of below cost legislation in the grocery industry in Ireland. The paper explores retail buyers’ views of the Grocery Order (1987) and the effect, if any, it had on grocery buyer behaviour, competition among retailers, and vertical competition along the food chain until it was repealed in 2006. It addresses the matter of buyers’ likely response to the Order, had it remained in effect, in the current depressed market environment. Views of independent retailers are also provided on the Order. The paper finds that grocery buyer behaviour was determined by the buoyant consumer market and that the Groceries Order acted to depress competitive forces and direct supplier-buyer negotiations to off-invoice variables. Had the Order remained in place, the effect of the rapid decline in the economy, accompanied by the rapid rise of the discounters’ share of the market, the growth in cross border shopping, and the dramatic fall in the value of sterling would have ensured that buyers developed new sourcing models which would have made the legislation redundant. The paper concludes that the legislation did not work to the benefit of shoppers but assisted the imposition of a form of quasiresale price maintenance by suppliers, which suited suppliers and retailers alike in a time of economic buoyancy. The paper endorses the Government’s decision to rescind the order and remove an important constraint in both vertical and horizontal competition.
title: Методические указания и контрольные задания по дисциплине Аппаратные средства вычислительной техники
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2014

description: Основной задачей дисциплины «Аппаратные средства вычислительной техники» (АСВТ) является изучение студентами математических и технических основ вычислительной техники и областей ее применения.
Let politics and differences be forgotten: 'The Little Basques' in Cumbria 1937-39
Creators: name: David, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 231-250
description: Between 1937 and 1939 some 125 child refugees from the Basque region of Spain were accommodated in various hostels in Cumbria. Wilfred Roberts, MP for North Cumberland, was one of the architects of the policy of evacuating children from war-torn Spain, and providing them with a refuge in Britain. The evacuation received no government financial support, so its success was dependent upon fund raising and volunteer help. Despite having few connections with Spain, Cumberland and Westmorland took up the cause of these children with enthusiasm and supported the main hostel at Brampton until its closure in the summer of 1939. The children became involved in raising money for their keep through giving concerts across the north of England, and in doing so helped to raise awareness of Spain and its civil war across the region. 'The Little Basques' were followed in the late 1930s by other refugees from central Europe, many of whom benefitted from what had been learnt from hosting the
Edward Short, MP (1912-2012): from Westmorland Village to Westminster Village
Creators: name: Connell, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 251-268
description: Edward Short of Warcop is one of two politicians raised in the upper Eden Valley who became significant figures in national government. He is also one of two politicians to have written a published autobiography devoted to his childhood. This paper considers the extent to which his formative years in rural North Westmorland made the public man. It suggests that his varied experiences of family, church and school were less positive influences on him than a deep sense of community that became his political lodestar. Entering politics through conventional Labour Party pathways, Ted Short earned, by virtue of his integrity, industry, understanding of colleagues and insistence on loyalty above all, peer respect and the trust of the leadership. He was a crucial stabilising influence in the governments of Harold Wilson, rising to the elected rank of deputy leader; and despite his abrupt rejection by James Callaghan he continued to figure in public life. The paper concludes that throughout Short's long career there were discernible North Westmorland footprints going beyond the truism that the child is father to the man.
Three place-names in the Helvellyn Range
Creators: name: Godwin, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 269-270
description: Ignored by the English Place-Name Society's two volumes on Cumberland (1950) and Westmorland (1967), its earlier spellings are listed by Diana Whaley, the earliest being Helvillon in 1577; Richard Coates (1988) suggested that it derives from a Cumbric halvelyn, 'a yellow upland moor' which it is, as seen from the west. A glance at Diana Whaley's photograph of Catstye Cam, a spur of Helvellyn's range, makes this plain.
An early 13th century coin hoard from Yealand Redmayne, Lancashire
Creators: name: Savage, Carl
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 19, 271-275
description: This note discusses a recently discovered 13th century coin hoard from Yealand Redmayne, Lancashire. It summarises the contents of the hoard and places the coins in their historical context. The coin hoard was discovered in spring 2017 by two metal detectorists near Yealand Redmayne and contained 32 silver coins. The hoard was reported to Dr Dot Boughton, former Finds Liason Offi cer (FLO) for Lancashire and Cumbria and logged with the Treasure Number 2017T511. It was subsequently declared Treasure at the coroner's inquest. Lancashire County Museum Service has expressed an interested in acquiring the hoard.
Additional file 2 of Health and intention to leave the profession of nursing - which individual, social and organisational resources buffer the impact of quantitative demands? A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Diehl, Elisabeth
name: Rieger, Sandra
name: Letzel, Stephan
name: Schablon, Anja
name: Nienhaus, Albert
name: Pinzon, Luis Carlos Escobar
name: Dietz, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table 2. Associations between the scale ‘burnout’ and covariates.
DynamicSLAM: Leveraging Human Anchors for Ubiquitous Low-Overhead Indoor Localization
Creators: name: Shokry, Ahmed
name: Elhamshary, Moustafa
name: Youssef, Moustafa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present DynamicSLAM: an indoor localization technique that eliminates the need for the daunting calibration step. DynamicSLAM is a novel Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) framework that iteratively acquires the feature map of the environment while simultaneously localizing users relative to this map. Specifically, we employ the phone inertial sensors to keep track of the user's path. To compensate for the error accumulation due to the low-cost inertial sensors, DynamicSLAM leverages unique points in the environment (anchors) as observations to reduce the estimated location error. DynamicSLAM introduces the novel concept of mobile human anchors that are based on the encounters with other users in the environment, significantly increasing the number and ubiquity of anchors and boosting localization accuracy. We present different encounter models and show how they are incorporated in a unified probabilistic framework to reduce the ambiguity in the user location. Furthermore, we present a theoretical proof for system convergence and the human anchors ability to reset the accumulated error. Evaluation of DynamicSLAM using different Android phones shows that it can provide a localization accuracy with a median of 1.1m. This accuracy outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques by 55%, highlighting DynamicSLAM promise for ubiquitous indoor localization.
Introduction to metadata initiatives of interest to CESSDA and Service Providers
Creators: name: Borschewski, Kerrin
name: Akdeniz, Esra
name: Piesch, Sophia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: DDI
FAIR
EOSC
SSHOC
Dataverse

description: The content of this report is intended for CESSDA SPs, aspiring CESSDA members, CESSDA MO, and anyone interested in the topics in general and in the metadata work of CESSDA in particular. The report is supposed to provide information for current CESSDA SPs and aspiring CESSDA SPs on the initiatives relevant for CESSDA’s metadata work, and guidance for SPs for their general considerations on the quality and possible upgrades of their metadata. Furthermore, the report will provide information for the public and display information on what is essential for CESSDA concerning the metadata work and how CESSDA interacts with and reflects relevant metadata initiatives. Additionally, this report is intended to provide recommendations for strategic decisions on CESSDA’s metadata developments and a knowledge base that allows easy and grounded decision-making.
title: Учебно-методическое пособие и задание на курсовой проект по курсу Архитектура и ПО сетевых инфокоммуникационных устройств
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2015

description: Целью преподавания дисциплины АиПОСУ в системе подготовки по направлению 071900 является теоретическая и практическая подготовка, которая должна обеспечить получение у студентов углубленных представлений об архитектуре и типах современных сетевых устройств инфокоммуникационных систем (ИС), принципах работы их программного обеспечения и способах их применения.
Additional file 5 of Professional advice for primary healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a social network analysis
Creators: name: Sabot, Kate
name: Blanchet, Karl
name: Berhanu, Della
name: Spicer, Neil
name: Schellenberg, Joanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Cadre with the highest in degree centrality value by network. Description of data: Table with numeric data (whole numbers) reflecting number of networks where each cadre has the highest in degree centrality.
Agricultural Cooperative Organizations in Greece Throughout the 20th Century: A Critical Overview
Creators: name: Patronis, Vassilis
name: Mavreas, Konstantinos
name: Patronis, Vassilis
name: Mavreas, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The first centenary (1900-2000) of the establishment of agricultural cooperatives in the Greek countryside is an appropriate occasion for offering a critical retrospective of their operations during the 20th century. Initially, the causes of their delayed appearance and establishment in Greece are investigated. Subsequently, the large extension of agricultural credit, as well as the constantly increasing involvement of the government and banks in their internal affairs are described and analyzed. This analysis also focuses on the particular interwar conditions that favored the protectionism of the agricultural economy and the “State’s supervision” of cooperatives, an essential element of agrarian policy, even during the first post-war period. Finally, we examine developments relating to the cooperatives during the transition from dictatorship to democracy, namely, the subsequent legislative interference, doubtful investments, as well as the transformation of the organizations into an arena of self-interest for political parties and their leaders and into a means of implementing government social policy.