cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Counselling before first trimester abortion and acceptability of the procedure: results from a Slovenian cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Vodopivec, Sara
name: Bokal, Eda Vrtacnik
name: Pinter, Bojana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Objectives: In Slovenia, first-trimester abortion is performed at the woman’s request, either surgically under general anaesthesia or medically with mifepristone and misoprostol, in a public hospital. Our study aimed to evaluate pre-abortion counselling and to reveal differences in acceptability and satisfaction with the two abortion methods. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out at Ljubljana University Medical Centre between January and June 2015. Women requesting termination of a pregnancy up to 10 weeks’ gestation voluntarily completed an anonymous questionnaire after the procedure and were divided into a surgical and a medical abortion group. Results: Of the 266 women who were invited to take part, 229 accepted; 16.6% chose a surgical abortion, 83.4% a medical abortion. The most frequent reason cited for requesting an abortion was economic/housing problems. Most women who chose a surgical abortion did so because it was faster, whereas most women who chose a medical abortion did so on the advice of a primary care gynaecologist. Women choosing a surgical abortion had more previous pregnancies and presented with a higher gestational age pregnancy. The choice of method was not related to the woman’s age. There were no differences in acceptability of the two procedures. Pain during the procedure was, however, more severe in the medical abortion group (p = .026), along with bleeding, nausea and chills; there were no differences in severity of vomiting, diarrhoea, dizziness or headache between the groups. Women in the surgical abortion group reported higher satisfaction with the method (p Conclusion: The most common reason given for choosing a surgical abortion was the speed of the procedure; for a medical abortion, it was on the advice of a primary care gynaecologist. Satisfaction was higher with the surgical abortion method. There were no differences in general acceptability of the methods.
Additional file 2: of Comparing SNP panels and statistical methods for estimating genomic breed composition of individual animals in ten cattle breeds
Creators: name: He, Jun
name: Guo, Yage
name: Xu, Jiaqi
name: Li, Hao
name: Fuller, Anna
name: Tait, Richard
name: Wu, Xiao-Lin
name: Bauck, Stewart
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S2. Map view of 1 K (A), 3 K (B), 5 K (C), 10 K (D) and 16 K (E) SNP panels, where 1 K, 3 K, 5 K and 10 L denotes 1000, 3000, 5000 and 10,000 SNP panels, respectively. The 1-10 K panels were obtained by maximizing average Euclidean distance of SNP allele frequencies among ten cattle breeds. The 16 K consisted of 15,708 common SNPs across five currently used bovine SNP chips. (DOCX 290 kb)
How Safe are European Safe Bonds? An Analysis from the Perspective of Modern Portfolio Credit Risk Models
Creators: name: Frey, Rüdiger
name: Kurt, Kevin
name: Damian, Camilla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 97M30

description: Several proposals for the reform of the euro area advocate the creation of a market in synthetic securities backed by portfolios of sovereign bonds. Most debated are the so-called European Safe Bonds or ESBies proposed by Brunnermeier, Langfield, Pagano,Reis, Van Nieuwerburgh and Vayanos (2017). The potential benefits of ESBies and other bond-backed securities hinge on the assertion that these products are really safe. In this paper we provide a comprehensive quantitative study of the risks associated with ESBies and related products, using an affine credit risk model with regime switching as vehicle for our analysis. We discuss a recent proposal of Standard and Poors for the rating of ESBies, we analyse the impact of model parameters and attachment points on the size and the volatility of the credit spread of ESBies and we consider several approaches to assess the market risk of ESBies. Moreover, we compare ESBies to synthetic securities created by pooling the senior tranche of national bonds as suggested by Leandro and Zettelmeyer(2019). The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the policy implications from our analysis.
description: 32 pages
On the Boundary Layer Equations with Phase Transition in the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Creators: name: Bernhoff, Niclas
name: Golse, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82C40 76P05 35Q20 (34K18, 82B26)

description: Consider the steady Boltzmann equation with slab symmetry for a monatomic, hard sphere gas in a half space. At the boundary of the half space, it is assumed that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. The present paper discusses the existence and uniqueness of a uniformly decaying boundary layer type solution of the Boltzmann equation in this situation, in the vicinity of the Maxwellian equilibrium with zero bulk velocity, with the same temperature as that of the condensed phase, and whose pressure is the saturating vapor pressure at the temperature of the interface. This problem has been extensively studied first by Y. Sone, K. Aoki and their collaborators, by means of careful numerical simulations. See section 2 of [C. Bardos, F. Golse, Y. Sone: J. Stat. Phys. 124 (2006), 275-300] for a very detailed presentation of these works. More recently T.-P. Liu and S.-H. Yu [Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 209 (2013), 869-997] have proposed an extensive mathematical strategy to handle the problems studied numerically by Y. Sone, K. Aoki and their group. The present paper offers an alternative, possibly simpler proof of one of the results discussed in [T.P. Liu, S.-H. Yu, loc. cit.]
Pan-Genome Analysis of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio metschnikovii Strains Isolated from Migratory Birds at Dali Nouer Lake in Chifeng, China
Creators: name: Zheng, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70707 Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology)
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: We isolated V. cholerae and V. metschnihovii strains from migratory bird epidemic samples from 2017 to 2018 and isolated V. metschnihovii from migratory bird feces in 2019 from bird samples taken from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.
Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger 1843
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Typhlopidae
Ramphotyphlops

description: Genus Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843 (1 species)
Rhinothyphlops (Ramphotyphlops) Fitzinger, 1843: 24 (type species: Typhlops multilineatus Schlegel, 1839, by original designation; gender masculine).
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Additional file 1: of Analysis of differentially expressed genes among human hair follicleâ derived iPSCs, induced hepatocyte-like cells, and primary hepatocytes
Creators: name: Xu, Ziran
name: He, Xia
name: Shi, Xu
name: Xia, Yuhan
name: Liu, Xiaomei
name: Wu, Haitao
name: Li, Pengdong
name: Zhang, Hongyu
name: Yin, Weisi
name: Du, Xiubo
name: Li, Lisha
name: Li, Yulin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S1.Top gene expression differences between HLCs and hHF-iPSCs. Table S2. Top gene expression differences between HLCs and PHHs. Table S3. Top gene expression differences between PHHs and hHF-iPSCs. Table S4. GO analysis of DEGs between HLCs and hHF-iPSCs. Table S5. GO analysis of DEGs between HLCs and PHHs. Table S6. GO analysis of DEGs between PHHs and hHF-iPSCs. Table S7. KEGG pathway analysis of DEGs between HLCs and hHF-iPSCs. Table S8. KEGG pathway analysis of DEGs between HLCs and PHHs. Table S9. KEGG pathway analysis of DEGs between PHHs and hHF-iPSCs. (DOCX 42 kb)
Monopoles in Real Time for Classical U(1) Gauge Field Theory
Creators: name: Biro, Tamas S.
name: Markum, Harald
name: Pullirsch, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: U(1) gauge fields are decomposed into a monopole and photon part across the phase transition from the confinement to the Coulomb phase. We analyze the leading Lyapunov exponents of such gauge field configurations on the lattice which are initialized by quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We observe that the monopole field carries the same Lyapunov exponent as the original U(1) field. As a long awaited result, we show that monopoles are created and annihilated in pairs as a function of real time in excess to a fixed average monopole number.
description: Contribution to the "International Conference on Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics - Confinement 2003" (Tokyo, Japan, 2003-07-21 -- 2003-07-24); 5 pages; 6 figures
Study of the effect of external noise pickups on the performance of a cryogenic bolometer
Creators: name: Garai, A.
name: Reza, A.
name: Mazumdar, A.
name: Krishnamoorthy, H.
name: Gupta, G.
name: Pose, M. S.
name: Mallikarjunachary, S.
name: Nanal, V.
name: Pillay, R. G.
name: Ramakrishnan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports the detailed noise characterization, investigation of various noise sources and its mitigation to improve the performance of a cryogenic bolometer detector. The noise spectrum has been measured for a sapphire bolometer test setup with indigenously developed NTD Ge sensor in the CFDR system at Mumbai. The effect of external noise, arising either from ground loops in the system or from the diagnostic and control electronics of the cryostat, on the performance of a cryogenic bolometer is assessed. A systematic comparison of the influence of different noise pickups on the bolometer resolution is also presented. The best-achieved resolution at 15mK is ~15 keV for heater pulses and appears to be mainly limited by the noise due to the pulse tube cryocooler.
Additional file 3: of Comparing SNP panels and statistical methods for estimating genomic breed composition of individual animals in ten cattle breeds
Creators: name: He, Jun
name: Guo, Yage
name: Xu, Jiaqi
name: Li, Hao
name: Fuller, Anna
name: Tait, Richard
name: Wu, Xiao-Lin
name: Bauck, Stewart
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S3. Plot of -2logLikelihood values computed for 198 purported Akaushi cattle, based on the admixture model with 1Â K versus 16Â K SNP panels. (DOCX 25 kb)
Proparholaspulus suzukii Ishikawa 1980
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Proparholaspulus
Proparholaspulus suzukii

description: 161. Proparholaspulus suzukii Ishikawa, 1980
 Proparholaspulus suzukii Ishikawa, 1980a: 24.
 Proparholaspulus suzukii.— Ishikawa, 1980c: 184; Ishikawa, 1987b: 91; Liang, 1992: 245; Liang & Hu, 1993: 63; Kuang, 2010: 79; Bhattacharyya & Kheto, 2016: 636.
 Type locality and habitat: Japan, Ehime Prefecture, Matsuyama, Higashino, in litter of Pinus densiflora. [mainland China]
 Type depository: NSMT.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
Ramphotyphlops lineatus
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Typhlopidae
Ramphotyphlops
Ramphotyphlops lineatus

description: Ramphotyphlops lineatus (Schlegel, 1839) — Native.
Typhlops lineatus Schlegel, 1839: 39. Syntypes (2): RMNH.RENA.3696 (2), by original designation. Type locality: “von Java ”, Indonesia.
Lined Blind Snake (Figure 25H)
Singapore records.
Pilidion lineatum — Cantor, 1847b: 897.— Cantor, 1847c: 1069, 1074, 1076.— Flower, 1899: 614.
Typhlops lineatus — Boulenger, 1893: 15.— Flower, 1896: 876.— Flower, 1899: 653.—Ridley, 1899: 207.— Barbour, 1912: 98.— de Rooij, 1917: 4.—Sworder, 1923: 58.— Smith, 1943: 527.— de Haas, 1950: 518.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 53.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 145.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 106.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 146.
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — David & Vogel, 1996: 32.—Chan-ard et al., 1999: 38.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 14.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.— Das, 2010: 348.—Wallach et al., 2014: 628.— Chan-ard et al., 2015: 146.— de Lang, 2017: 336.—I.S. Law, Seah & van Whye, 2019: 133–134 (Bukit Timah Nature Reserve).— Charlton, 2020: 57.
Remarks. The very recent rediscovery of R. lineatus based on a dead individual found along a mountain biking trail at BTNR on 16 September 2019 (Law et al. 2019) (Fig. 25H) ends the longest period a species went undetected in Singapore. The specimen was found 174 years after Gray (1845) reported the first record from Singapore based on a specimen at NHMUK. Gray (1845) designated the locality of the specimen from Hardwicke’s collection as “ India ”, but the locality was later changed to Singapore (e.g., Cantor 1847b; Boulenger 1893). Hence, Cantor (1847b) was the first to actually report R. lineatus from Singapore. An unpublished illustration of the R. lineatus specimen from Hardwicke’s collection exists at NHMUK (Smith 1943). Not much is known regarding the habits of R. lineatus as it is rare in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo (Tweedie 1983; David & Vogel 1996; Stuebing et al. 2014), but de Lang (2017) says it is fairly common in western Java.
Occurrence. Known only from one specimen predating 1845 and one specimen discovered in 2019. Rare.
Singapore conservation status. Critically Endangered.
Conservation priority. Highest.
IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2012].
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve: ZRC.2.7363 (16-Sep-2019).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Singapore localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 225-226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Forecasting Hard Red Winter and Soft White Wheat Basis in Washington State
Creators: name: Song, Wenxing
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
name: Song, Wenxing
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The objective of the study is rst to identify economic factors that in uence two speci c classes of wheat: hard red winter (HRW) and soft white (SWW) wheat, and develop models to improve the forecast performance of basis in Washington State. Earlier work has investigated basis behavior of some other classes of wheat, but none has examined soft white wheat. This class is unique because there is no direct futures contract-it is usually priced o the soft red wheat futures contract. The models we estimate include: 1) a simple moving average model to serve as a benchmark, 2) an econometric fundamental model, 3) an ARMA time series model, and 4) an ARMAX hybrid model. The econometric fundamental and ARMAX models include supply/demand factors suggested by economic theory and literature. We estimate all the models and then compare their forecast performance. Based on empirical results, we nd the best HRW model at the 4-month and 11-month forecast horizons is the econometric fundamental model, at the 5-month, is an ARMA(3,0,0) model, and the best model for the rest of the forecasts is an ARMAX (3,0,0). For SWW, the econometric fundamental model is the best overall. In addition, the ARMAX models perform better than the ARMA models in most cases, except SWW in Odessa, WA.
Spectroscopy and polarimetry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 with the 6m SAO RAS telescope
Creators: name: Popović, L. Č.
name: Afanasiev, V. L.
name: Moiseev, A.
name: Smirnova, A.
name: Simić, S.
name: Savić, Dj.
name: Mediavilla, E. G.
name: Fian, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new spectroscopic and polarimetric observations of the gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112 taken with the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO, Russia). In order to explain the variability that is observed only in the blue wing of the C IV emission line, corresponding to image A, we analyze the spectroscopy and polarimetry of the four images of the lensed system. Spectra of the four images were taken in 2007, 2008, and 2018, and polarization was measured in the period 2014-2017. Additionally, we modeled the microlensing effect in the polarized light, assuming that the source of polarization is the equatorial scattering in the inner part of the torus. We find that a blue enhancement in the CIV line wings affects component A in all three epochs. We also find that the UV continuum of component D was amplified in the period 2007-2008, and that the red wings of CIII] and CIV appear brighter in D than in the other three components. We report significant changes in the polarization parameters of image D, which can be explained by microlensing.Our simulations of microlensing of an equatorial scattering region in the dusty torus can qualitatively explain the observed changes in the polarization degree and angle of image D. We do not detect significant variability in the polarization parameters of the other images (A, B, and C), although the averaged values of the polarization degree and angle are different for the different images. Microlensing of a broad line region model including a compact outflowing component can qualitatively explain the CIV blue wing enhancement (and variation) in component A. However, to confirmed this hypothesis, we need additional spectroscopic observation in future.
description: accepted in the A&A, 18 paged, 15 figures
Actuarial evaluation of the EU proposed farm income stabilisation tool
Creators: name: Pigeon, Mathieu
name: Frahan, Bruno Henry De
name: Denuit, Michel
name: Pigeon, Mathieu
name: Frahan, Bruno Henry De
name: Denuit, Michel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: agricultural risk management
subject: income stabilisation
subject: Belgium
subject: European Union

description: Recently, the European Commission proposed to introduce several risk management tools in the rural development pillar 2 of the CAP. One of them consists in providing co-financing support to mutual funds compensating farmers who experience a severe drop in their farm income. This paper analyses this new farm income stabilization tool for the Walloon region in Belgium, considering separately three groups of farms (crop, dairy and cattle farms). Relying on FADN data from 1997 to 2007, this analysis focuses on estimating the probability that such regional mutual funds would need to intervene to compensate farm net incomes and, in that case, the expected amount of each farm income compensation and the total expected amount of compensation. The budgetary compensation that would be required if an income insurance scheme was implemented to compensate Walloon farmers for their income losses is evaluated. Particular attention is paid to the cyclical pattern as well as to additional requirements that could be imposed to the EU income stabilisation tool.
Pan-Genome Analysis of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio metschnihovii Strains Isolated from Migratory Birds at Dali Nouer Lake in Chifeng, China
Creators: name: Zheng, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70707 Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology)
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: We isolated V. cholerae and V. metschnihovii strains from migratory bird epidemic samples from 2017 to 2018 and isolated V. metschnihovii from migratory bird feces in 2019 from bird samples taken from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.
Orbits of quantum states and geometry of Bloch vectors for $N$-level systems
Creators: name: Schirmer, S. G.
name: Zhang, T.
name: Leahy, J. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical constraints such as positivity endow the set of quantum states with a rich geometry if the system dimension is greater than two. To shed some light on the complicated structure of the set of quantum states, we consider a stratification with strata given by unitary orbit manifolds, which can be identified with flag manifolds. The results are applied to study the geometry of the coherence vector for n-level quantum systems. It is shown that the unitary orbits can be naturally identified with spheres in R^{n^2-1} only for n=2. In higher dimensions the coherence vector only defines a non-surjective embedding into a closed ball. A detailed analysis of the three-level case is presented. Finally, a refined stratification in terms of symplectic orbits is considered.
description: 15 pages LaTeX, 3 figures, reformatted, slightly modified version, corrected eq.(3), to appear in J. Physics A
Snaveolaspis Johnston 1969
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Snaveolaspis

description: Genus Snaveolaspis Johnston, 1969
 Snaveolaspis Johnston, 1969: 274. Type species Parholaspulus parvilobatus Krantz, 1960, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
The effect of early vs. delayed postpartum insertion of the LNG-IUS on breastfeeding continuation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Creators: name: Abdelhakim, Ahmed Mohamed
name: Sunoqrot, Mohammad
name: Amin, Ahmed Hussein
name: Nabil, Hala
name: Raslan, Ayman N.
name: Samy, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: The aim of the study was to compare early vs. delayed postpartum insertion of the 52 mg levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS). Methods: The databases of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and CENTRAL were searched to February 2019. The search comprised randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing early vs. delayed postpartum insertion of the LNG-IUS. Data were extracted and combined in a meta-analysis. Pooled results were expressed as the relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI). The main outcome measures were breastfeeding continuation, LNG-IUS expulsion, uterine perforation, LNG-IUS use, satisfaction and number of pregnancies. Results: Twelve RCTs were included, comprising 1006 women in total. Our analysis indicated no significant difference between early and delayed insertion of the LNG-IUS in terms of any breastfeeding continuation (RR 0.99; 95% CI 0.84, 1.16; p = 0.88). After removal of heterogeneity, there was a statistically significant superiority in LNG-IUS use at the endpoint in the early insertion group compared with the delayed insertion group (RR 1.27; 95% CI 1.07, 1.51; p = 0.006). LNG-IUS expulsion was significantly less in the delayed insertion group in comparison with the early insertion group (RR 5.32; 95% CI 2.68, 10.53; p = 0.00001). No significant differences were found between the groups in satisfaction, number of pregnancies and risk of uterine perforation. Conclusion: Early postpartum insertion of the LNG-IUS has no negative effects on breastfeeding continuation. Early postpartum insertion may be used as an alternative to delayed postpartum insertion.
Can drought-tolerant varieties produce more food with less water? An empirical analysis of rice farming in China
Creators: name: Li, Luping
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Hu, Ruifa
name: Pray, Carl E.
name: Li, Luping
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Hu, Ruifa
name: Pray, Carl E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Water-saving
subject: Drought-tolerance
subject: Rice
subject: China

description: Most of the poorest people live in rural areas worldwide, characterized by uncertain rainfall, low levels of input use, and low returns to land and labor. Farmers in these risky production environments often face drought that interacts with many other agronomic stresses to reduce yields and push them deeper into poverty and hunger. The primary objective of this paper is to estimate the effects that have resulted from the adoption of drought-tolerant rice. Food security and water shortage are two major challenges for China. Rice is a staple food for most Chinese people and has played an important role in ensuring food security in China. This paper assesses the impacts of Hanyou 3, one of the drought-tolerant rice varieties that have been released to farmers’ fields already in China, on water use and rice production. The results indicated that the rice farmers gave less irrigation to DT variety as compared to non-DT variety, saving about 30-40% of water over non-DT variety. It is also found that the DT rice variety in China yielded as much as existing high-yielding varieties under normal or high rainfall conditions.
Additional file 1: of Genomic diversity dynamics in conserved chicken populations are revealed by genome-wide SNPs
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengmeng
name: Han, Wei
name: Tang, Hui
name: Li, Guohui
name: Zhang, Minjie
name: Xu, Ran
name: Liu, Yijun
name: Yang, Tao
name: Li, Wenting
name: Zou, Jianmin
name: Wu, Keliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. The distribution of SNPs and average distances between neighboring SNPs. (DOCX 17 kb)
Generating Cosmological Solutions from Known Solutions
Creators: name: Quevedo, Hernando
name: Ryan,, Michael P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three methods by which one can generate new cosmological models. Two of these are based on the Lorentzian structure of spacetime. In a Lorentzian manifold there can exist horizons that separate regions of spacetime that can be interpreted as cosmological models from others that have the character of ``black holes.'' A number of well known solutions of this type can be used to generate both known cosmological models and others that do not seem to have been recognized. Another method based on the Lorentzian character of spacetime is to simply interchange some space variable with time and try to restructure the metric to make a viable cosmology. A more broad-ranging method is the use of modern solution-generating techniques to construct new models. This method has been widely used to generate black hole solutions, but seems not to have been so widely used in cosmology. We will discuss examples of all three methods.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures
CNAK : Cluster Number Assisted K-means
Creators: name: Saha, Jayasree
name: Mukherjee, Jayanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Determining the number of clusters present in a dataset is an important problem in cluster analysis. Conventional clustering techniques generally assume this parameter to be provided up front. %user supplied. %Recently, robustness of any given clustering algorithm is analyzed to measure cluster stability/instability which in turn determines the cluster number. In this paper, we propose a method which analyzes cluster stability for predicting the cluster number. Under the same computational framework, the technique also finds representatives of the clusters. The method is apt for handling big data, as we design the algorithm using \emph{Monte-Carlo} simulation. Also, we explore a few pertinent issues found to be of also clustering. Experiments reveal that the proposed method is capable of identifying a single cluster. It is robust in handling high dimensional dataset and performs reasonably well over datasets having cluster imbalance. Moreover, it can indicate cluster hierarchy, if present. Overall we have observed significant improvement in speed and quality for predicting cluster numbers as well as the composition of clusters in a large dataset.
Symmetry breaking and quark-hadron duality in structure functions
Creators: name: Close, F. E.
name: Melnitchouk, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify conditions under which a summation over nucleon resonances can yield, via quark-hadron duality, parton model results for electromagnetic and neutrino structure functions at large x. While a summation over the lowest even and odd parity multiplets is sufficient to achieve duality in the symmetric quark model, a suppression of transitions to specific final states is required for more realistic cases incorporating SU(6) breaking. We outline several scenarios consistent with duality, discuss their implications for the high Q^2 behavior of transition form factors, and illustrate how they can expose the patterns in the flavor-spin dependence of inter-quark forces.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C
Do menstrual cups increase risk of IUD expulsion? A survey of self-reported IUD and menstrual hygiene product use in the United States
Creators: name: Schnyer, Ariela N.
name: Jensen, Jeffrey T.
name: Edelman, Alison
name: Han, Leo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Purpose: To gather preliminary data about menstrual hygiene product use and associated risk of intrauterine device (IUD) expulsion. Materials and methods: We conducted an Internet-based survey using the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform and Researchmatch.org. Eligible participants were women at least 18 years old and self-identified as current or previous IUD users. Results: Of 902 survey responses, 71% reported current or previous IUD use and 19.7% reported menstrual cup use. IUD users were significantly more likely than non-IUD users to use a menstrual cup or tampons. Among all IUD users, 56 individuals reported experiencing at least one expulsion (8.8%). We found a positive association between concurrent menstrual cup use and IUD expulsion (OR: 2.75, 95% CI: 1.40–5.42, p = .002), but no association with concurrent tampon or pad use. Of concurrent IUD and cup users who experienced an expulsion, one reported it occurring ‘while using a menstrual cup’, with others reporting the expulsion during other events. Conclusions: Menstrual cup use may be higher than previously reported, particularly in IUD users. Concurrent menstrual cup use may increase the risk of IUD expulsion. Prospective research is necessary to fully explore the relationship between menstrual hygiene product use and IUD expulsions.
Short Term Load Forecasting Models in Czech Republic Using Soft Computing Paradigms
Creators: name: Khan, Muhammad Riaz
name: Abraham, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0

description: This paper presents a comparative study of six soft computing models namely multilayer perceptron networks, Elman recurrent neural network, radial basis function network, Hopfield model, fuzzy inference system and hybrid fuzzy neural network for the hourly electricity demand forecast of Czech Republic. The soft computing models were trained and tested using the actual hourly load data for seven years. A comparison of the proposed techniques is presented for predicting 2 day ahead demands for electricity. Simulation results indicate that hybrid fuzzy neural network and radial basis function networks are the best candidates for the analysis and forecasting of electricity demand.
Snaveolaspis lobatus
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Snaveolaspis
Snaveolaspis lobatus

description: 162. Snaveolaspis lobatus (Krantz, 1960)
 Parholaspulus lobatus Krantz, 1960: 419.
 Parholaspulus lobatus.— Petrova, 1967a: 40; Petrova, 1967b: 22; Petrova-Nikitina, 1969: 187.
 Snaveolaspis lobatus.— Johnston, 1969: 274; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 106.
 Type locality and habitat: U.S.A., Oregon, 2 miles north of Waldport, in litter of Pinus contorta.
 Type depository: USNM.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
Agribusiness Opportunities in the 21st Century
Creators: name: Peterson, H. Christopher
name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Peterson, H. Christopher
name: Swinton, Scott M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Falling commodity returns. Proliferating environmental regulations. More complicated technologies. Pickier consumers. The general outlook is for an economic environment that puts greatly increased demands on agribusiness management. It's a sow's ear. What can be done with it?
Augmenting Music Sheets with Harmonic Fingerprints
Creators: name: Miller, Matthias
name: Bonnici, Alexandra
name: El-Assady, Mennatallah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.0; I.7.2; H.1.1

description: Conventional Music Notation (CMN) is the well-established foundation for the written communication of musical information, such as rhythm, harmony, or timbre. However, CMN suffers from the complexity of its visual encoding and the need for extensive training to acquire proficiency and legibility. While alternative notations using additional visual variables (such as color to improve pitch identification) have been proposed, the music community does not readily accept notation systems that vary widely from the CMN. Therefore, to support student musicians in understanding the harmonic relationship of notes, instead of replacing the CMN, we present a visualization technique that augments a digital music sheet with a harmonic fingerprint glyph. Our design exploits the circle of fifths - a fundamental concept in music theory, as a visual metaphor. By attaching these visual glyphs to each bar of a selected composition we provide additional information about the salient harmonic features available in a musical piece. We conducted a user study to analyze the performance of experts and non-experts in an identification and comparison task of recurring patterns. The evaluation shows that the harmonic fingerprint supports these tasks without the need for close-reading, as when compared to a not-annotated music sheet.
description: (9+1) pages; 5 figures; User Study
Sustainable Growth In Agricultural Production: Into the 21st Century
Creators: name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Production Economics

description: A number of agricultural resource, environmental and health concerns will condition the capacity of the agricultural sector in both developed and developing countries to increase production in the coming century. These concerns give rise to four generic issues: (a) Many of the issues are international in scope. In turn, the responses will also have to be international or at least multinational. (b) The capacity to design and build the institutions necessary to achieve increases in agricultural production is limited. (c) Much more attention needs to be given to designing technologies and institutions that increase the number of alternative actions that can be taken in the future, and (d) National and international capacities to monitor changes in the sources of and changes in productivity, environmental amenities and health conditions are severely limited.
Additional file 4: of Genomic diversity dynamics in conserved chicken populations are revealed by genome-wide SNPs
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengmeng
name: Han, Wei
name: Tang, Hui
name: Li, Guohui
name: Zhang, Minjie
name: Xu, Ran
name: Liu, Yijun
name: Yang, Tao
name: Li, Wenting
name: Zou, Jianmin
name: Wu, Keliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S2. Genetic differentiation (FST values) among the 9 sub-populations in three chicken breeds. (DOCX 25 kb)
Trimeresurus Lacepede 1804
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Trimeresurus

description: Genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (2 species)
Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804: 209 (type species: Vipera viridis Lacépède, 1804 [= Trimeresurus albolarbis insularis Kramer, 1977], by subsequent designation by Brattstrom, 1964: 250; gender masculine).
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Efficient Pourbaix diagrams of many-element compounds
Creators: name: Patel, Anjli
name: Nørskov, Jens K.
name: Persson, Kristin A.
name: Montoya, Joseph H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pourbaix diagrams have long been an essential tool for determining the phase stability of solids and their associated ionic species under electrochemical conditions. In recent years, Pourbaix diagrams have been used for applications ranging from corrosion-resistance alloy design to electrocatalysis, and the data from which they are generated has been enhanced by the availability of materials data in various online databases. However, generation of multi-element Pourbaix diagrams has a critical bottleneck which makes 3-element systems difficult to analyze quickly, and 4 and 5 element systems intractable. In this work, we present a method for constructing Pourbaix diagrams which uses a pre-processing step to circumvent the most egregious computational bottleneck and make many-element Pourbaix diagrams computationally efficient.
Identifying young people exposed to or at risk of sexual ill health: pilot implementation of an evidence-informed toolkit (SEXIT) at Swedish youth clinics
Creators: name: Hammarström, Sofia
name: Nilsen, Per
name: Lindroth, Malin
name: Stenqvist, Karin
name: Bernhardsson, Susanne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Objectives: We aimed to develop and pilot-implement an evidence-informed toolkit (SEXual health Identification Tool; SEXIT) for identifying young people exposed to or at risk of sexual ill health, at Swedish youth clinics, and to investigate SEXIT’s potential to identify young people in need of special care and monitoring. Methods: The SEXIT toolkit was developed, validated and pilot-implemented at three Swedish youth clinics. Pre-implementation staff readiness was assessed and youth clinic visitors’ responses to SEXIT were analysed. Results: All staff perceived a need for screening for sexual risk-taking and exposure. The response rate from 268 youth clinic visitors (aged 15–24 years) was 86%. Half of the visitors had one or no variable associated with sexual ill health, a third had two or three, and 15% reported between four and seven variables. The most common variables were alcohol use, three or more sexual partners in the past year and previous chlamydia. Visitors rated SEXIT as important and not uncomfortable or difficult to answer. Conclusions: The SEXIT toolkit was found to be feasible and highly acceptable in a clinical setting. The use of SEXIT may facilitate important questions on sexual risk-taking and sexual ill health to be raised with youth clinic visitors.
Inconsistency of quantum--classical dynamics, and what it implies
Creators: name: Terno, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new proof of the impossibility of a universal quantum-classical dynamics is given. It has at least two consequences. The standard paradigm ``quantum system is measured by a classical apparatus" is untenable, while a quantum matter can be consistently coupled only with a quantum gravity.
description: 5 pages, RevTeX 4
Snaveolaspis tragardhi
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Snaveolaspis
Snaveolaspis tragardhi

description: 164. Snaveolaspis tragardhi (Krantz, 1960)
 Parholaspulus trägårdhi Krantz, 1960: 419.
 Parholaspulus trägardhi (sic).— Petrova, 1967a: 40.
 Parholaspulus trägårdhi.— Petrova, 1967b: 22.
 Snaveolaspis tragardhi.— Johnston, 1969: 274; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 107.
 Type locality and habitat: U.S.A., Oregon, 2 miles north of Waldport, in litter of Pinus contorta.
 Type depository: USNM.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926