cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Surrender and Live
Creators: name: Moreno, Michael A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Brothers Nathaniel and Nicolas have grown up like many children of migrant farmworkers- in the back of beaten pickup trucks, in the shady billows of cotton rows, in the corroded tin outbuildings that house both the weary laborers and monstrous machines that keep food on their tables. Neglected from the start, the two boys struggle to survive the harsh realities of migrant life, the abuses of both their keepers and strangers, and the supernatural events that at times shackle them and at times empower them. While their journeys into adulthood must be taken separately, a shared longing for their long-absent father brings them together for an encounter that seals their fates.
Can private food standards promote gender equality in the small farm sector?
Creators: name: Meemken, Eva-Marie
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Meemken, Eva-Marie
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: cash crops
subject: certification
subject: gender
subject: sustainability standards
subject: women’s empowerment

description: Agricultural commercialization can help to lift subsistence farmers out of poverty, but can also have adverse effects on gender equality. We explore whether private food standards – with their particular elements to regulate production and trade – could serve as a vehicle to promote gender equality in the small farm sector. We use gender-disaggregated data from coffee producers in Uganda and focus on two sustainability standards that explicitly address gender issues, namely Fairtrade and UTZ. Entropy balancing techniques, combined with estimates of farmers’ willingness to accept standards, are used to control for possible selection bias when comparing certified and non-certified households. We find that standards and their certification programs increase wealth in male-headed and female-headed households. In male-headed households, standards also change the intra-household distribution of asset ownership: while in non-certified households, assets are predominantly owned by the male household head alone, in certified households most assets are jointly owned by the male head and his female spouse. Standards also improve access to agricultural extension for both male and female farmers. Effects on women’s access to financial services are statistically insignificant. Private standards cannot completely eliminate gender disparities, but the findings suggest that they can contribute towards this goal.
The Energy Operator for a Model with a Multiparametric Infinite Statistics
Creators: name: Meljanac, Stjepan
name: Perica, Ante
name: Svrtan, Dragutin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17Bxx, 81Rxx

description: In this paper we consider energy operator (a free Hamiltonian), in the second-quantized approach, for the multiparameter quon algebras: $a_{i}a_{j}^{\dagger}-q_{ij}a_{j}^{\dagger}a_{i} = δ_{ij}, i,j\in I$ with $(q_{ij})_{i,j\in I}$ any hermitian matrix of deformation parameters. We obtain an elegant formula for normally ordered (sometimes called Wick-ordered) series expansions of number operators (which determine a free Hamiltonian). As a main result (see Theorem 1) we prove that the number operators are given, with respect to a basis formed by "generalized Lie elements", by certain normally ordered quadratic expressions with coefficients given precisely by the entries of the inverses of Gram matrices of multiparticle weight spaces. (This settles a conjecture of two of the authors (S.M and A.P), stated in [8]). These Gram matrices are hermitian generalizations of the Varchenko's matrices, associated to a quantum (symmetric) bilinear form of diagonal arrangements of hyperplanes (see [12]). The solution of the inversion problem of such matrices in [9] (Theorem 2.2.17), leads to an effective formula for the number operators studied in this paper. The one parameter case, in the monomial basis, was studied by Zagier [15], Stanciu [11] and Møller [6].
description: 24 pages. accepted in J. Phys. A. Math. Gen
Additional file 4 of Shallow whole-genome sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA accurately differentiates small from non-small cell lung carcinoma
Creators: name: Raman, Lennart
name: Malaïka Van Der Linden
name: Eecken, Kim Van Der
name: Vermaelen, Karim
name: Ingel Demedts
name: Surmont, Veerle
name: Himpe, Ulrike
name: Franceska Dedeurwaerdere
name: Ferdinande, Liesbeth
name: Lievens, Yolande
name: Claes, Kathleen
name: Menten, Björn
name: Dorpe, Jo Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Supplementary single-end copy number profiles, containing all in-house lung cancer copy number profiles.
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Moor- und Torfkunde richtet einen DGMT-Förderpreis ein
The German Peat Society establishes a Sponsorship Award
Creators: name: Caspers, Gerfried
name: Blankenburg, Joachim
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2007

description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: editorial
The elliptical colour-magnitude relation as a discriminant between the monolithic and merger paradigms: the importance of progenitor bias
Creators: name: Kaviraj, Sugata
name: Devriendt, Julien E. G.
name: Ferreras, Ignacio
name: Yi, Sukyoung K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The colour-magnitude relation (CMR) of cluster ellipticals has been widely used to constrain their star formation histories (SFHs) and to discriminate between the monolithic and merger paradigms of elliptical galaxy formation. We investigate the elliptical CMR predicted in the merger paradigm by using a LCDM hierarchical merger model. We first highlight sections of the literature which indicate that the traditional use of fixed apertures to derive colours gives a distorted view of the CMR due to the presence of colour gradients in galaxies. Fixed aperture observations make the CMR steeper and tighter than it really is. We then show that the star formation history (SFH) of cluster ellipticals predicted by the model is quasi-monolithic, with over 95 percent of the total stellar mass formed before a redshift of 1. The quasi-monolithic SFH produces a predicted CMR that agrees well at all redshifts with its observed counterpart once the fixed aperture effect is removed. More importantly, we present arguments to show that the elliptical-only CMR can be used to constrain the SFHs of present-day cluster ellipticals only if we believe a priori in the monolithic collapse model. It is not a meaningful tool for constraining the SFH in the merger paradigm, because a progressively larger fraction of the progenitor set of present-day cluster ellipticals is contained in late-type star forming systems at higher redshift, which cannot be ignored when deriving the SFHs. Hence, the elliptical-only CMR is not a useful discriminant between the two competing theories of elliptical galaxy evolution.
description: replaced with accepted version
Surrender and Live
Creators: name: Moreno, Michael A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Brothers Nathaniel and Nicolas have grown up like many children of migrant farmworkers- in the back of beaten pickup trucks, in the shady billows of cotton rows, in the corroded tin outbuildings that house both the weary laborers and monstrous machines that keep food on their tables. Neglected from the start, the two boys struggle to survive the harsh realities of migrant life, the abuses of both their keepers and strangers, and the supernatural events that at times shackle them and at times empower them. While their journeys into adulthood must be taken separately, a shared longing for their long-absent father brings them together for an encounter that seals their fates.
Vortex-Antivortex Lattice in Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases
Creators: name: Botelho, S. S.
name: de Melo, C. A. R. Sa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss ultra-cold Fermi gases in two dimensions, which could be realized in a strongly confining one-dimensional optical lattice. We obtain the temperature versus effective interaction phase diagram for an s-wave superfluid and show that, below a certain critical temperature T_c, spontaneous vortex-antivortex pairs appear for all coupling strengths. In addition, we show that the evolution from weak to strong coupling is smooth, and that the system forms a square vortex-antivortex lattice at a lower critical temperature T_M.
description: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND THE ROLE OF PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN KENYA
Creators: name: Oduor, Dora N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation uses a qualitative research approach to explore how religion influences HIV prevention policy. This study draws a parallel analysis to the ways in which missionaries used religion to achieve their goals and why the consequence was a process of cultural imperialism. Through the coining of a central term in my dissertation, Millennial Cultural Imperialism (MNI), this research shows how the current missionary movement instills elements of the past missionary movement, but it complicates it by its use of religion in policy and implementation to address a social problem. The sample of 14 organizations was generated from the Kenyan National AIDS Control Council database. I conducted in-depth interviews with 27 participants in Nairobi. The following findings support the notion that applying religion to HIV prevention is a process of millennial cultural imperialism. ABC-D Policy: Implementing Abstinence (A) and Be faithful (B) is a common preference. The perception that Condom use (C) encourages adultery and promiscuity limit the preference for implementing condom use to planned parenthood, and HIV positive and discordant couples. Engaging in immoral behavior and condom use (which does not guarantee protection from contracting HIV) could be Disastrous (D) and a cause of Death (D). Feminized Perceptions and Gendering Prevention Policy: Widows are expected to abstain and younger widows are encouraged to re-marry. Cultural practices such as wife-inheritance is discouraged. Re-marrying will reduce the probability of engaging in deviant behavior. Popular Culture and Social Media: Gospel concerts, modern Christian rap music and social activities are socialization strategies and spaces targeting the youth with abstinence messages. Social Advocacy and Creating Safe Spaces for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Churches offer socioeconomic and emotional/spiritual support services. Social Control: Some religious leaders apply religious principles to justify why they exclude people living with HIV/AIDS. Sexuality and Social Exclusion: Minority and at risk groups are excluded from equally receiving services due to stigma and discrimination. Mega Rallies and Commercializing Spirituality: Deliverance, Faith-healing and Prosperity Prayers: Revivals, crusades and advertisements suggesting that prayer cures HIV/AIDS are influential social forces for people searching for spiritual guidance, meaning and purpose in life.
A Massive Jet Ejection Event from the Microquasar SS 433 Accompanying Rapid X-Ray Variability
Creators: name: Kotani, T.
name: Trushkin, S. A.
name: Valiullin, R.
name: Kinugasa, K.
name: Safi-Harb, S.
name: Kawai, N.
name: Namiki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microquasars occasionally exhibit massive jet ejections which are distinct from the continuous or quasi-continuous weak jet ejections. Because those massive jet ejections are rare and short events, they have hardly been observed in X-ray so far. In this paper, the first X-ray observation of a massive jet ejection from the microquasar SS 433 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) is reported. SS 433 undergoing a massive ejection event shows a variety of new phenomena including a QPO-like feature near 0.1 Hz, rapid time variability, and shot-like activities. The shot-like activity may be caused by the formation of a small plasma bullet. A massive jet may be consist of thousands of those plasma bullets ejected from the binary system. The size, mass, internal energy, and kinetic energy of the bullets and the massive jet are estimated.
description: 21 pages including 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
A Spectral Triple for a Solenoid Based on the Sierpinski Gasket
Creators: name: Aiello, Valeriano
name: Guido, Daniele
name: Isola, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L87, 58B34, 28A80

description: The Sierpinski gasket admits a locally isometric ramified self-covering. A semifinite spectral triple is constructed on the resulting solenoidal space, and its main geometrical features are discussed.
THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND THE ROLE OF PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN KENYA
Creators: name: Oduor, Dora N.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation uses a qualitative research approach to explore how religion influences HIV prevention policy. This study draws a parallel analysis to the ways in which missionaries used religion to achieve their goals and why the consequence was a process of cultural imperialism. Through the coining of a central term in my dissertation, Millennial Cultural Imperialism (MNI), this research shows how the current missionary movement instills elements of the past missionary movement, but it complicates it by its use of religion in policy and implementation to address a social problem. The sample of 14 organizations was generated from the Kenyan National AIDS Control Council database. I conducted in-depth interviews with 27 participants in Nairobi. The following findings support the notion that applying religion to HIV prevention is a process of millennial cultural imperialism. ABC-D Policy: Implementing Abstinence (A) and Be faithful (B) is a common preference. The perception that Condom use (C) encourages adultery and promiscuity limit the preference for implementing condom use to planned parenthood, and HIV positive and discordant couples. Engaging in immoral behavior and condom use (which does not guarantee protection from contracting HIV) could be Disastrous (D) and a cause of Death (D). Feminized Perceptions and Gendering Prevention Policy: Widows are expected to abstain and younger widows are encouraged to re-marry. Cultural practices such as wife-inheritance is discouraged. Re-marrying will reduce the probability of engaging in deviant behavior. Popular Culture and Social Media: Gospel concerts, modern Christian rap music and social activities are socialization strategies and spaces targeting the youth with abstinence messages. Social Advocacy and Creating Safe Spaces for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Churches offer socioeconomic and emotional/spiritual support services. Social Control: Some religious leaders apply religious principles to justify why they exclude people living with HIV/AIDS. Sexuality and Social Exclusion: Minority and at risk groups are excluded from equally receiving services due to stigma and discrimination. Mega Rallies and Commercializing Spirituality: Deliverance, Faith-healing and Prosperity Prayers: Revivals, crusades and advertisements suggesting that prayer cures HIV/AIDS are influential social forces for people searching for spiritual guidance, meaning and purpose in life.
Prospective Memory is Resistant to Build-up of Proactive Interference
Creators: name: Oates, Joyce M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Proactive interference (PI), or memory impairment due to previously learned items, has been studied extensively in retrospective memory (RetroM). PI builds up rapidly when items learned recently are similar to those learned previously (e.g., all animal words). Release is observed if items learned subsequently are no longer similar (e.g., profession words), and memory improves. In six experiments, we examined whether a similar build-up and release would also be observed in prospective memory (ProM), which is memory for future intentions. In Experiments 1-5, although the usual findings were replicated in RetroM, there was no evidence of build-up of PI in ProM. Memory for the same words was unaffected when they served as ProM cues but impaired when they served as the to-be-recalled RetroM words. In Experiment 6, when the ProM and RetroM tasks were combined into a single task, a comparable build-up and release was observed in ProM, as well. Our findings suggest qualitative differences in ProM retrieval processes and we suggest that it is primarily the recursive remindings (Block & Zakay, 2006) that enable ProM to stay resistant to build-up.
Potentials of Waste and Wastewater Resources Recovery and Re-use (RRR) Options for Improving Water, Energy and Nutrition Security
Maksud Bekchanov
Creators: name: Bekchanov, Maksud
name: Bekchanov, Maksud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: waste, wastewater, effluents, nutrients and energy recovery

description: Under increasing demand for water, fertilizer and energy, waste and wastewater treatment can be potential options for considerably enhancing not only the supply of these valuable economic assets but also for improving sanitation and ecological conditions. Effluents and treated wastewater are important for meeting water demands for agricultural irrigation, landscape irrigation, and environmental system enhancement. Fertilizer and nutrients recovered though recycling organic waste and filtering wastewater, or embedded in effluents can be essential inputs for increasing crop biomass, timber output, and production of aquatic crops and marine species such as fish. Similarly, energy recovered from waste and wastewater recycling (including dry manure for cooking and heating) is important for enhanced energy supply especially in remote rural areas of the developing countries. Yet, the utilization of the waste and wastewater resources for additional gains should consider the accepted safety measures in order to prevent environmental and health risks. Focusing on potential benefits from resources recycling and recovery yet being cautious on their external effects, this review critically assesses the available waste and wastewater treatment options, and their economic, environmental and health benefits and risks.
Prospective Memory is Resistant to Build-up of Proactive Interference
Creators: name: Oates, Joyce M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Proactive interference (PI), or memory impairment due to previously learned items, has been studied extensively in retrospective memory (RetroM). PI builds up rapidly when items learned recently are similar to those learned previously (e.g., all animal words). Release is observed if items learned subsequently are no longer similar (e.g., profession words), and memory improves. In six experiments, we examined whether a similar build-up and release would also be observed in prospective memory (ProM), which is memory for future intentions. In Experiments 1-5, although the usual findings were replicated in RetroM, there was no evidence of build-up of PI in ProM. Memory for the same words was unaffected when they served as ProM cues but impaired when they served as the to-be-recalled RetroM words. In Experiment 6, when the ProM and RetroM tasks were combined into a single task, a comparable build-up and release was observed in ProM, as well. Our findings suggest qualitative differences in ProM retrieval processes and we suggest that it is primarily the recursive remindings (Block & Zakay, 2006) that enable ProM to stay resistant to build-up.
Kronecker CP Decomposition with Fast Multiplication for Compressing RNNs
Creators: name: Wang, Dingheng
name: Wu, Bijiao
name: Zhao, Guangshe
name: Yao, Man
name: Chen, Hengnu
name: Deng, Lei
name: Yan, Tianyi
name: Li, Guoqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful in the tasks oriented to sequential data, such as natural language processing and video recognition. However, since the modern RNNs, including long-short term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) networks, have complex topologies and expensive space/computation complexity, compressing them becomes a hot and promising topic in recent years. Among plenty of compression methods, tensor decomposition, e.g., tensor train (TT), block term (BT), tensor ring (TR) and hierarchical Tucker (HT), appears to be the most amazing approach since a very high compression ratio might be obtained. Nevertheless, none of these tensor decomposition formats can provide both the space and computation efficiency. In this paper, we consider to compress RNNs based on a novel Kronecker CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (KCP) decomposition, which is derived from Kronecker tensor (KT) decomposition, by proposing two fast algorithms of multiplication between the input and the tensor-decomposed weight. According to our experiments based on UCF11, Youtube Celebrities Face and UCF50 datasets, it can be verified that the proposed KCP-RNNs have comparable performance of accuracy with those in other tensor-decomposed formats, and even 278,219x compression ratio could be obtained by the low rank KCP. More importantly, KCP-RNNs are efficient in both space and computation complexity compared with other tensor-decomposed ones under similar ranks. Besides, we find KCP has the best potential for parallel computing to accelerate the calculations in neural networks.
description: Accepted by TNNLS
THE TRIUMPH AND DECLINE OF THE "SQUARES": GRUMMAN AEROSPACE ENGINEERS AND PRODUCTION WORKERS IN THE APOLLO ERA, 1957-1973
Creators: name: Onkst, David Hugh
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is a social, cultural, and economic history of the men and women of the Grumman Aerospace Company of Bethpage, New York from 1957 through 1973. These "Grummanites" were the engineers and production workers who designed and built the Apollo Lunar Modules that allowed humans to land on the Moon. This study provides unique insights into the impact that the Apollo Program--a large state-initiated and -supported program--had on those "squares," people whom many contemporaries saw as a vital part of mainstream 1960s American society.By the beginning of the Space Age in 1957, Grumman, Long Island's single largest employer, had firmly established a workplace culture of paternalism that Grummanites largely embraced. Company officials believed strongly in worker retention and had established a policy of providing every sort of benefit their employees seemingly desired, including a highly personal and participatory form of management. Many Grummanites had joined the firm during the early years of the Apollo Program because they believed in the promise of permanent employment on exciting projects that would explore the endless frontier of space. But, as many of these mainly self-reliant, individualistic "squares" would bitterly discover, their dedication to Grumman did little to secure their livelihoods during the aerospace industry's early 1970s downsizing; their individual successes were too largely tied to federal spending and declined when Americans grew disenchanted with space exploration.This dissertation demonstrates how the cultural bond of paternalism between aerospace workers and their company unraveled in the 1960s, and then ended in the early 1970s, because of forces within the company, the economy, and the American state. The word "triumph" in this study's title not only applies to Grummanites' triumphs with the Lunar Modules, but also their individual socioeconomic victories. The term "decline" refers to the early 1970s downsizing of more than a third of the Apollo workforce that had made that program a reality. By relying on a wide-range of archival research (including corporate records) and extensive surveys and interviews with Grummanites, this dissertation provides an overview of how Apollo era aerospace workers interacted with the Cold War American state.
THE TRIUMPH AND DECLINE OF THE "SQUARES": GRUMMAN AEROSPACE ENGINEERS AND PRODUCTION WORKERS IN THE APOLLO ERA, 1957-1973
Creators: name: Onkst, David Hugh
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: This dissertation is a social, cultural, and economic history of the men and women of the Grumman Aerospace Company of Bethpage, New York from 1957 through 1973. These "Grummanites" were the engineers and production workers who designed and built the Apollo Lunar Modules that allowed humans to land on the Moon. This study provides unique insights into the impact that the Apollo Program--a large state-initiated and -supported program--had on those "squares," people whom many contemporaries saw as a vital part of mainstream 1960s American society.By the beginning of the Space Age in 1957, Grumman, Long Island's single largest employer, had firmly established a workplace culture of paternalism that Grummanites largely embraced. Company officials believed strongly in worker retention and had established a policy of providing every sort of benefit their employees seemingly desired, including a highly personal and participatory form of management. Many Grummanites had joined the firm during the early years of the Apollo Program because they believed in the promise of permanent employment on exciting projects that would explore the endless frontier of space. But, as many of these mainly self-reliant, individualistic "squares" would bitterly discover, their dedication to Grumman did little to secure their livelihoods during the aerospace industry's early 1970s downsizing; their individual successes were too largely tied to federal spending and declined when Americans grew disenchanted with space exploration.This dissertation demonstrates how the cultural bond of paternalism between aerospace workers and their company unraveled in the 1960s, and then ended in the early 1970s, because of forces within the company, the economy, and the American state. The word "triumph" in this study's title not only applies to Grummanites' triumphs with the Lunar Modules, but also their individual socioeconomic victories. The term "decline" refers to the early 1970s downsizing of more than a third of the Apollo workforce that had made that program a reality. By relying on a wide-range of archival research (including corporate records) and extensive surveys and interviews with Grummanites, this dissertation provides an overview of how Apollo era aerospace workers interacted with the Cold War American state.
Graduate recitals
Creators: name: Vohradsky, Vincent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thesis for the Master of Music degree in Orchestral Instruments consists of two full-length recitals, or the equivalent, with emphasis on solo works, but also including representative chamber works. My two full-length recitals were performed on November 19, 2002 and May 19, 2007.
Wydajność pracy jako przesłanka restrukturyzacji zatrudnienia w rolnictwie
Labor Productivity as a Premise to Restructure Employment in Agriculture
Creators: name: Czyżewski, Andrzej
name: Staniszewski, Jakub
name: Czyżewski, Andrzej
name: Staniszewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: structural change, agriculture, shift-share, restructuring, European Union, zmiana strukturalna, rolnictwo, shift-share, restrukturyzacja, Unia Europejska

description: Improvement in agricultural labour productivity can be achieved, among others, by the change in the employment structure, based on increase in the share of types of farming, where labour productivity is higher. To support this thesis, decomposition of labour productivity growth in the agriculture sector of EU countries, in years 2005-2013 has been carried out, using the shift-share method. Research results shows that the new Member States are more dynamic in this respect. The changes mainly meant a switch from a mixed production to a field cropping. In countries such as Lithuania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Latvia, the production in the farming types of above-average productivity was increasing. In Latvia and Denmark, the share of employment in sectors with higher productivity growth was increasing. However, changes in the opposite direction were more common. Synopsis. Poprawę wydajności pracy w rolnictwie można osiągnąć m.in. poprzez zmianę struktury (restrukturyzację) zatrudnienia, polegającą na zwiększaniu udziału typów produkcyjnych, gdzie czynnik jest wydajniej wykorzystywany. Dla poparcia tej tezy dokonano dekompozycji wzrostu wydajności pracy w rolnictwie krajów UE, w latach 2005-2013, z zastosowaniem metody shift-share. Wyniki badań wskazują, że większą dynamiką struktury zatrudnienia cechowały się nowe kraje członkowskie. Zmiany polegały głównie na spadku znaczenia produkcji mieszanej na rzecz upraw polowych. W krajach takich jak Litwa, Bułgaria, Cypr i Łotwa na znaczeniu zyskiwały typy produkcji o ponadprzeciętnej wydajności pracy. Ponadto na Łotwie i w Danii większe znaczenie w wykorzystaniu czynnika pracy zyskiwały typy gospodarstw cechujące się ponadprzeciętnym przyrostem wydajności pracy. Częstsze były jednak zmiany zachodzące w kierunku odwrotnym.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Zachowania konsumentów na rynku produktów regionalnych i tradycyjnych
Consumer Behaviour of Buyers on the Market of Regional and Traditional Products
Creators: name: Grzybek, Maria
name: Szopiński, Wiesław
name: Grzybek, Maria
name: Szopiński, Wiesław
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: consumers, local and regional products, konsumenci, produkty regionalne i lokalne

description: The study assesses the behaviour of consumers on the market of regional and traditional products in Podkarpackie province. In the analysis of the empirical results of the study on 600 consumers from Podkarpackie province there were indicated categories of purchased regional and traditional products, shopping venues, frequency and motives of buying this type of food and the phenomenon of ethnocentrism occurring among respondents. Based on the study it should be stated that in Podkarpackie province there is a dynamic development in the market of the above-mentioned products in the context of favourable natural conditions, culinary heritage and strong involvement of local authorities. Consumers use all possible sources of supply. They especially appreciate high quality, consumption safety, taste, freshness and local origin. They also showed ethnocentrism, as local and regional origin of the products is essential for them. Synopsis. W opracowaniu dokonano oceny zachowań konsumentów na rynku produktów regionalnych i tradycyjnych w woj. podkarpackim. W analizie empirycznych wyników badania dotyczących 600 konsumentów z woj. podkarpackiego wykazano kategorię nabywanych produktów regionalnych i tradycyjnych, miejsca realizacji zakupów, częstotliwość i motywy zaopatrywania się w tego rodzaju artykuły spożywcze oraz zjawisko etnocentryzmu występujące wśród badanych. Na podstawie badania należy stwierdzić że w woj. podkarpackim ma miejsce dynamiczny rozwój rynku omawianych produktów w kontekście sprzyjających warunków naturalnych, dziedzictwa kulinarnego oraz przy dużym zaangażowaniu władz samorządowych. Konsumenci wykorzystują wszystkie możliwe źródła zaopatrzenia. Preferują zwłaszcza wysoką jakość, bezpieczeństwo spożycia, smak, świeżość i lokalne pochodzenie. Wykazali się także etnocentryzmem, gdyż regionalne i lokalne pochodzenie produktów ma dla nich istotne znaczenie.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Wpływ subsydiów wspólnej polityki rolnej na dochody gospodarstw mlecznych FADN w krajach Unii Europejskiej w latach 2004-2013
The Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies on the Income of FADN Dairy Farms in the European Union Countries in 2004-2013
Creators: name: Guth, Marta
name: Smędzik-Ambroży, Katarzyna
name: Guth, Marta
name: Smędzik-Ambroży, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: CAP, revenues of milk farms, subsidies, panel regression, WPR, dochody gospodarstw mlecznych, subsydia, regresja panelowa

description: The main aim of the article was to assess the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy subsidies on the income of FADN dairy farms in 2004-2013. The share of total subsidies, including subsidies on investments on farm income per unit of work (FWU) on FADN dairy farms in EU countries, with the division to EU-12 and EU-15, was examined. The trend of family farm income with and without subsidies during the period under review was presented. In order to demonstrate which of the groups of subsidies had the greatest impact on family farm income, a panel regression was conducted. It turned out that the most significant for the FADN dairy farm income in 2005-2013 was decoupled payments and additional aid with other support. Synopsis. Celem głównym artykułu była ocena wpływu subsydiów wspólnej polityki rolnej na dochody gospodarstw mlecznych FADN w latach 2004-2013. Zbadano udział subsydiów ogółem łącznie z dopłatami do inwestycji na poziom dochodu z gospodarstwa rolnego w przeliczeniu na jednostkę pracy rodziny (FWU) w gospodarstwach mlecznych FADN w krajach Unii Europejskiej z podziałem na kraje UE-10 i UE-15. Następnie zaprezentowano trendy kształtowania się dochodu z gospodarstwa rolnego/FWU z i bez dopłat w badanym okresie. W celu zaprezentowania, które z grup dopłat miały największy wpływ na kształtowanie się dochodu z gospodarstwa rolnego/FWU przeprowadzono regresję panelową. Na jej podstawie określono, że najbardziej istotne dla dochodów gospodarstw mlecznych FADN w latach 2005-2013 były dopłaty decoupled oraz dodatkowe wsparcie wraz z pozostałymi subsydiami.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
title: Jes Tüxen
title: 12. März 1929 bis 16. September 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Caspers, Gerfried
name: Günther, Jürgen
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: In memoriam Dr. Jes Tüxen (12. März 1929 bis 16. September 2015)
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: editorial
Teichgräben als schutzwürdige Lebensräume in Niedermoorgebieten
Pond-like ditches in fens - A habitat to conservate
Creators: name: Langheinrich, Uta
name: Lüderitz, Volker
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2007

description: Abstract: Pond-like ditches are species-rich habitats for aquatic and semi-aquatic plants and animals. In such ditches in the Naturpark Drömling (Saxony-Anhalt) we found 201 species of macroinvertebrates and 149 species of macrophytes. According to the German Red List, there are 29 endagered species amongst them. For further 19 species, endangerment is supposed. This amount of Red List species emphasizes the supraregional importance of these water bodies. The physical and chemical status of the ditches depends on the intensity of the grazing cattle in the surroundings. Temporary grazing improves the ecological conditions by diversification. On the other hand, a too high intensity of grazing leads to an ecological impoverishment. The relative high load of plant nutrients in the ditches is not totally reflected by the plant communities; some aquatic and semi-aquatic communities are indicators of only slightly loaded water bodies. To maintain the pond-like ditches which tend to land up, the following measures should be combined: removal of mud, temporary grazing, and input of herbivore fishes in low abundances.
description: Zusammenfassung: Teichgräben stellen artenreiche Lebensräume für Flora und Fauna dar. Unter den 201 Taxa von Makroinvertebraten und 149 Pflanzenarten in den Teichgräben des Naturparks Drömling (Sachsen-Anhalt) befinden sich zahlreiche gefährdete Arten. Die hohe Zahl an Arten der Roten Listen Deutschlands (29 der Kategorie 1-3, 19 der Vorwarnlisten bzw. mit anzunehmender Gefährdung) unterstreicht die überregionale Bedeutung dieser Gewässer. Die chemisch-physikalischen Verhältnisse in den Teichgräben werden vor allem durch die Intensität der Umfeldnutzung (hier: Beweidung) bestimmt. Zeitweilige Beweidung führt zu einer Verbesserung der Standortbedingungen, ein zu hoher Beweidungsdruck zu einer Artenverarmung. Die hohe Nährstoffbelastung spiegelt sich jedoch nicht immer im Arteninventar wider, einige Makrophyten und -gesellschaften sind Indikatoren geringer belasteter Standorte. Zum Erhalt der Teichgräben entgegen ihrer natürlichen Verlandungstendenz sollten mehrere Maßnahmen (teilweise Entschlammung, kontrollierter Fischbesatz, zeitweilige Beweidung der Flächen) kombiniert werden.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Function follows form: From semiconducting to metallic towards superconducting PbS nanowires by faceting the crystal
Creators: name: Moayed, Mohammad Mehdi Ramin
name: Kull, Sascha
name: Rieckmann, Angelique
name: Beck, Philip
name: Wagstaffe, Michael
name: Noei, Heshmat
name: Kornowski, Andreas
name: Hungria, Ana B.
name: Lesyuk, Rostyslav
name: Stierle, Andreas
name: Klinke, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the realm of colloidal nanostructures, with its immense capacity for shape and dimensionality control, the form is undoubtedly a driving factor for the tunability of optical and electrical properties in semiconducting or metallic materials. However, influencing the fundamental properties is still challenging and requires sophisticated surface or dimensionality manipulation. In this work, we present such a modification for the example of colloidal lead sulphide nanowires. We show that the electrical properties of lead sulphide nanostructures can be altered from semiconducting to metallic with indications of superconductivity, by exploiting the flexibility of the colloidal synthesis to sculpt the crystal and to form different surface facets. A particular morphology of lead sulphide nanowires has been synthesized through the formation of {111} surface facets, which shows metallic and superconducting properties in contrast to other forms of this semiconducting crystal, which contain other surface facets ({100} and {110}). This effect, which has been investigated with several experimental and theoretical approaches, is attributed to the presence of lead rich {111} facets. The insights promote new strategies for tuning the properties of crystals as well as new applications for lead sulphide nanostructures.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Glueball Matrix Elements on Anisotropic Lattices
Creators: name: Chen, Y.
name: Dong, S. -J.
name: Draper, T.
name: Horvath, I.
name: Lee, F. -X.
name: Mathur, N.
name: Morningstar, C.
name: Peardon, M.
name: Tamhankar, S.
name: Young, B. L.
name: Zhang, J. -B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The glueball-to-vacuum matrix elements of local gluonic operators in scalar, tensor, and pseudoscalar channels are investigated numerically on several anisotropic lattices with the spatial lattice spacing in the range 0.1fm -- 0.2fm. These matrix elements are needed to predict the glueball branching ratios in $J/ψ$ radiative decays which will help to identify the glueball states in experiments. Two types of improved local gluonic operators are constructed for a self-consistent check, and the finite volume effects are also studied. The lattice spacing dependence of our results is very small and the continuum limits are reliably extrapolated.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice2003 (spectrum)
Additional file 3 of Shallow whole-genome sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA accurately differentiates small from non-small cell lung carcinoma
Creators: name: Raman, Lennart
name: Malaïka Van Der Linden
name: Eecken, Kim Van Der
name: Vermaelen, Karim
name: Ingel Demedts
name: Surmont, Veerle
name: Himpe, Ulrike
name: Franceska Dedeurwaerdere
name: Ferdinande, Liesbeth
name: Lievens, Yolande
name: Claes, Kathleen
name: Menten, Björn
name: Dorpe, Jo Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1 Performance comparison between the copy number profile abnormality (CPA) score and previously published alternatives, applied to all liquid biopsies. Figure S2 Tumor heterogeneity analysis, applied to patients with a liquid (LB) and solid biopsy (SB) taken no longer than 50 days apart. Figure S3 Cluster analysis, applied to all liquid biopsies. Figure S4 Prediction accuracy in relation to abnormality cutoff stringency. Figure S5 Performance of predicting histology by single-end (SE) versus paired-end (PE) sequencing. Figure S6 Copy number profiles of a relapsed patient with small cell transformation/a second primary tumor.
Beyond the Curtain: An Exploration of Theatrical Production Management
Creators: name: Page, Kylene K.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates the role of experience and personal qualities in defining a production manager in the performing arts. It examines the roles, backgrounds, and qualities of theatrical production managers by analyzing how non-profit arts organizations describe production management and how production managers describe their jobs and themselves. A definition of production management is created through an analysis of thirty-eight production management job descriptions for non-profit performing arts organizations; a survey of nine directors, designers, technicians, stage managers, and a producer; and interviews with five professional production managers from a presenting house, a producing house, and a university theatre.
Essays on the exchange rate and monetary policy in Nepal
Creators: name: Panday, Anjan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Nepal has a large and growing trade deficit with India and an overall negative trade balance. Its economy is growing slowly relative to India's, while the exchange rate is pegged with India at a parity that is believed to be overvalued. India is Nepal's largest trading partner, with which it also shares an open order. The peg is considered central to macroeconomic stability and is treated as the monetary policy anchor. Nepal also represents a typical case of a country in which remittances are vital for short-run macroeconomic stability, while they may have adverse consequences for the long-run health of the economy. The three essays in this dissertation are relevant to a broader discussion on the macroeconomic impact of remittances in the context of a low-income country.In the first chapter, I consider possible misalignment of Nepal's real effective exchange rate by estimating a behavioral equilibrium exchange rate using a set of fundamentals for the period 1975--2008. The estimates from the Johansen (1998) cointegrated-VAR model as well as a single equation bounds-testing approach to cointegration suggest that Nepal's trade-weighted real exchange rate was overvalued in the last decade and a half.The question of the efficacy of monetary policy in influencing the exchange rate is analyzed in the second chapter, using a monetary model of exchange market pressure. Applying a recently developed estimation technique, impulse indicator saturation, along with general-to-specific modeling, I find that a contractionary monetary policy results in easing pressure on the exchange rate. The robustness of the results is confirmed using various tests.The final essay entails a comprehensive analysis of economic symmetry between Nepal and India, which is one of the pre-conditions for monetary integration. A two-pronged empirical investigation reveals inconclusive evidence to justify such integration on economic grounds. First, using a three-variable SVAR showed a low and negative correlation in the supply shocks. Decomposing the structural shocks into regional and idiosyncratic components showed a favorable co-movement with the regional element only in Nepal's monetary shock. Second, the business-cycle analysis using state-space models of GDP and its components showed some evidence of co-movement with the regional element in some variables while others showed divergence.
Quantum Cellular Automata Pseudo-Random Maps
Creators: name: Weinstein, Yaakov S.
name: Hellberg, C. Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computation based on quantum cellular automata (QCA) can greatly reduce the control and precision necessary for experimental implementations of quantum information processing. A QCA system consists of a few species of qubits in which all qubits of a species evolve in parallel. We show that, in spite of its inherent constraints, a QCA system can be used to study complex quantum dynamics. To this aim, we demonstrate scalable operations on a QCA system that fulfill statistical criteria of randomness and explore which criteria of randomness can be fulfilled by operators from various QCA architectures. Other means of realizing random operators with only a few independent operators are also discussed.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRA