cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Maximum sustainable yield from interacting fish stocks in an uncertain world: two policy choices and underlying trade-offs
Creators: name: Farcas, Adrian
name: Rossberg, Axel G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The case of fisheries management illustrates how the inherent structural instability of ecosystems can have deep-running policy implications. We contrast ten types of management plans to achieve maximum sustainable yields (MSY) from multiple stocks and compare their effectiveness based on a management strategy evaluation (MSE) that uses complex food webs in its operating model. Plans that target specific stock sizes ($B_{\text{MSY}}$) consistently led to higher yields than plans targeting specific fishing pressures ($F_{\text{MSY}}$). A new self-optimising control rule, introduced here for its robustness to structural instability, led to intermediate yields. Most plans outperformed single-species management plans with pressure targets set without considering multispecies interactions. However, more refined plans to "maximise the yield from each stock separately", in the sense of a Nash equilibrium, produced total yields comparable to plans aiming to maximise total harvested biomass, and were more robust to structural instability. Our analyses highlight trade-offs between yields, amenability to negotiations, pressures on biodiversity, and continuity with current approaches in the European context. Based on these results, we recommend directions for developments of EU fisheries policy.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, plus supplementary material (substantial textual revision of v5)
Piona pseudouncata Piersig 1906
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Pionidae
Piona
Piona pseudouncata

description: Piona pseudouncata Piersig, 1906
Records from the study area: Kerala—Walter (1928); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Liver Safety Assessment in Special Populations (Hepatitis B, C, and Oncology Trials)
Creators: name: Watkins, Paul B.
name: Merz, Michael
name: Kullak-Ublick, Gerd A.
name: Griffel, Louis
name: Kaplowitz, Neil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The FDA guidance for industry in the premarketing clinical evaluation of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is the most specific regulatory guidance currently available and has been useful in setting standards for the great majority of clinical indications involving subjects with a low risk of liver disorders. However, liver safety assessment faces challenges in populations with underlying liver disease, such as viral hepatitis or metastatic cancer. This is an important issue because there are currently many promising anti-viral and oncologic therapies in clinical development, with a trend toward oral therapies with reduced side effects. Without clearer guidelines, questions regarding liver safety may become a major factor in regulatory approval and ultimately physician uptake of the new treatments. The lack of consensus in defining stopping rules based on serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels underscores the need for precompetitive data sharing to improve our understanding of DILI in these populations and to allow evidence-based rather than empirical definition of stopping rules. A workshop was convened to discuss best practices for the assessment of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in clinical trials.
title: A linguistic analysis of borrowing from English into modern Arabic
Creators: name: H. Al Jawadi, K.
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The phenomenon of the influence of one language upon another is closely related to that of the influence of a culture upon another. Cultures are always travelling from place to place carrying with them linguistic elements to other peoples and influencing their lives as well as their languages in various degrees. When the British and the Americans came to the Middle Eastern Arab countries as missionaries and military invaders, they brought the English language with them, and its standing in the Arab world improved considerably with the development of commercial and educational relations with Britain and America. Consequently, a process of borrowing from English into Arabic started. It was encouraged by various factors, namely insufficient knowledge of their own language among Arabic speakers, the absence of a competent body of qualified scholars to deal with the problem of establishing e4ýivalentsj the lack of Arabic equivalents and the ignorance of such equivalents when they exist,. attraction of the English expression or image, love for the new and the strange, and a sense of inferiority. These factors were later augmented by the emergence of the mass-information media, which encouraged, and in certain cases relied on translation, mainly from English and employed translators whose Arabic and English were not idiomatic. On the other and there were factors that reduced borrowing, such as the religious and nationalist spirit which saw in borrowing a threat to the purity and continued vitality of the language, lack of emotional attachment to English, the phonological and morphological differences between the two languages, and the differences in the cultural backgrounds of the two nations which influence their modes of expression.
Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma)
Creators: name: Emery, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1915
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Aphaenogaster

description: Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) Il sottogenere Deromyrma (tipo swammerdami For.) è stato istituito dal Forel, per cangiare nome al gruppo delle specie comprese altra volta nel sottogenere Ischnomyrmex, dovendo l' accezione di tal nome essere limitata al solo I. longipes F. Sm. che, pel suo dimorfismo, ha affinità indiscutibile con Pheidole. Il sottogenere Deromyrma ha per carattere principale, il capo prolungato più o meno vistosamente in collo, e 1' ala anteriore con una sola cubitale di tipo Solenopsis. Se si considera il carattere del capo come più importante, bisogna escluderne 1' A. longiceps d’ Australia, che non ha collo; all’ opposto, se si dà sopratutto valore alla nervatura delle ali, è di necessità comprenderla nel sottogenere, ma se si vuole agire con tutta conseguenza, come d’ altronde ha fatto il Forel (Zool. Jahrb, Syst, voi. 36, p. 53 (1913)), bisogna mettervi anche la specie imala-iana, A. sagei, che ha il capo tutto differente di forma. Tutto ben considerato io preferisco collocare A. longiceps e sagei nel sottogenere Attomyrma. Il sottogenere Deromyrma, come è stato inteso dal Forel, è sparso in diversissime regioni, e comprende gruppi distinti di poche specie. Gruppo tipico. Malgascio: swammerdami For., gonacantha Emery. - Indiano: beccarii Emery, feae Emery, laevior Emery, sagei For.. - Asiatico e Mediterraneo: raphidiiceps Mayr, cecconii Emery. - Americano: araneoides Emery, phalangium Emery, ensifera For., mexicana Perg.. - Australiano: longiceps F. Sm.. - Papuano: dromedarius Emery, loriae Emery, quadrispina Emery. I ♂ a me noti (swammerdami, gonacantha?, beccarii, feae, phalangium, longiceps, loriae, quadrispina) hanno il capo conico indietro e prolungato in collo vistosissimo, eccetto longiceps, che merita ancora per questo di essere escluso dal sottogenere Deromyrma. Non conosco il ♂ dell’ A. sagei. II gruppo papuano è stato studiato particolarmente dal Viehmeyer (Zool. Jahrb, Syst, voi. 37, p. 604 (1914), che lo ha separato dal sottogenere Deromyrma facendone un nuovo sottogenere che ha chiamato Planimyrma.
description: Published as part of Emery, C., 1915, Definizione del genere Aphaenogaster e partizione di esso in sottogeneri. Parapheidole e Novomessor nn. gg, pp. 67-75 in Rendiconto delle Sessioni della R. Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (N. S.) 19 on pages 70-71, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11435
Extremal dichotomy for uniformly hyperbolic systems
Creators: name: Carvalho, Maria
name: Freitas, Ana Cristina Moreira
name: Freitas, Jorge Milhazes
name: Holland, Mark
name: Nicol, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A50, 60G70, 37B20, 60G10, 37C25

description: We consider the extreme value theory of a hyperbolic toral automorphism $T: \mathbb{T}^2 \to \mathbb{T}^2$ showing that if a Hölder observation $ϕ$ which is a function of a Euclidean-type distance to a non-periodic point $ζ$ is strictly maximized at $ζ$ then the corresponding time series $\{ϕ\circ T^i\}$ exhibits extreme value statistics corresponding to an iid sequence of random variables with the same distribution function as $ϕ$ and with extremal index one. If however $ϕ$ is strictly maximized at a periodic point $q$ then the corresponding time-series exhibits extreme value statistics corresponding to an iid sequence of random variables with the same distribution function as $ϕ$ but with extremal index not equal to one. We give a formula for the extremal index (which depends upon the metric used and the period of $q$). These results imply that return times are Poisson to small balls centered at non-periodic points and compound Poisson for small balls centered at periodic points.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
title: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Prediction for Wireless Networks Inside Boeing Fuselages
Creators: name: Youssef, Mennatoallah
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2005

description: Commercial grade software is intended for electromagnetic predictions within office buildings; it was used to develop models to analyze propagation inside airplane fuselages. This study shows that Wireless XGTD and Insite software can accurately predict power propagation within airplane fuselages. Current work uses fuselage models, which contain additional internal components. A comparison was made between empty and full fuselage to examine the effects of internal components. Two propagation model types [Fast 3D and Full 3D] were also compared for accuracy to experimental study. It was concluded that completed fuselages are suggested for further simulation study as well as that the Full 3D propagation method is more accurate than Fast 3D. The software could qualitatively predict electromagnetic propagation inside the aircraft cabin environment.
Pontarachna australis Smit 2003
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Pontarachnidae
Pontarachna
Pontarachna australis

description: Pontarachna australis Smit, 2003
Records from the study area: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Andaman Sea)— Pešić et al. (2009).
Habitat: Marine littoral.
Distribution: Western Australia, Red Sea, South Africa, South Korea, India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: Petroglyphs of the eastern desert of Egypt : content, comparisons, dating and significance
Creators: name: Michael Judd, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Data on the petroglyphs of the Eastern Desert of Egypt that have recently become available are collated and analysed in detail. Images of wild animals, domestic animals, anthropoids and boats, together with geometric patterns, are classified and analysed by statistical means to reach conclusions about the preferences of the artists in terms of subject matter, style, context and geographical distribution. Published data on the petroglyphs of the Nile Valley are analysed similarly but in less detail to permit comparison with the Eastern desert, identifýing many similarities but also significant differences. Petroglyphs from farther afield - the Western Desert, Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir, south-eastern Egypt, Sinai, the Negev and Arabia - are also compared. The general conclusion is that similarity decreases rapidly with distance, but there are also a few individual cases indicating that some of the artists were in contact No evidence of contact with Arabia is found. Dating of the Eastern Desert petroglyphs, both relative and absolute, by various methods, is reviewed. It is concluded that, while precision is not possible, it is reasonably certain that many of the animal images, in particular those of animals that require a relatively moist environment, and some of the boats and anthropoids, date to the fourth millennium BC, while other boats, anthropoids and desert animals are later. The significance of the petroglyphs to the artists who drew them is addressed. Various possible reasons for drawing them, such as religious, magical or shamanistic practices, are examined and it is concluded that in the majority of cases it is not possible to say what they meant, Only in the case of the boats is it possible to be reasonably sure that they had some sort of fimerary significance. The probability that many of the images had little or no significance to the artists is recognised. Nevertheless it is possible to deduce much about the artists and their communities. A series of propositions, each based on the analysis of the corpus of images and without any assumptions about meaning, is drawn up. Together these propositions form a partial description of the society that gave rise to the petroglyphs, although not its beliefs. This description is objective and free from conjecture.
Liver Safety Assessment: Required Data Elements and Best Practices for Data Collection and Standardization in Clinical Trials
Creators: name: Avigan, Mark I.
name: Pasanen, Markku
name: Lewis, James H.
name: Cooper, Charles
name: Watkins, Paul B.
name: Merz, Michael
name: Bjornsson, Einar S.
name: Andrade, Raul J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: A workshop was convened to discuss best practices for the assessment of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in clinical trials. In a breakout session, workshop attendees discussed necessary data elements and standards for the accurate measurement of DILI risk associated with new therapeutic agents in clinical trials. There was agreement that in order to achieve this goal the systematic acquisition of protocol-specified clinical measures and lab specimens from all study subjects is crucial. In addition, standard DILI terms that address the diverse clinical and pathologic signatures of DILI were considered essential. There was a strong consensus that clinical and lab analyses necessary for the evaluation of cases of acute liver injury should be consistent with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on pre-marketing risk assessment of DILI in clinical trials issued in 2009. A recommendation that liver injury case review and management be guided by clinicians with hepatologic expertise was made. Of note, there was agreement that emerging DILI signals should prompt the systematic collection of candidate pharmacogenomic, proteomic and/or metabonomic biomarkers from all study subjects. The use of emerging standardized clinical terminology, CRFs and graphic tools for data review to enable harmonization across clinical trials was strongly encouraged. Many of the recommendations made in the breakout session are in alignment with those made in the other parallel sessions on methodology to assess clinical liver safety data, causality assessment for suspected DILI, and liver safety assessment in special populations (hepatitis B, C, and oncology trials). Nonetheless, a few outstanding issues remain for future consideration.
Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma)
Creators: name: Emery, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1915
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Aphaenogaster

description: Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma) Il carattere del gruppo Planimyrma risiede nei ♂. Io avevo descritto un ♂ che attribuivo all’, e che aveva, carattere molto singolare, un paio, di spine sul mesonoto, mancanti nella Il Viehmeyer ha descritto il ♂ dell’A, il quale è provvisto delle stesse spine. Inoltre, questo ♂ ha le antenne di 12 articoli, invece di averle di 13 come nelle altre Deromyrma. Questo carattere, che non avevo notato, si trova anche nel ♂ dell’ A. quadrispina. Le ☿ delle A. loriae e quadrispina hanno il torace armato di quattro spine, ciò che non si riscontra nelle altre specie di Aphaenogaster.- L' A. dromedarius ☿ non ha spine sul pronoto, ma rassomiglia molto alle specie quadrispinose, per cui è verosimile che il ♂, che per ora non si conosce, avrà gli stessi caratteri; perciò riunisco provvisoriamente le tre specie papuane nel sottogenere Planimyrma.
description: Published as part of Emery, C., 1915, Definizione del genere Aphaenogaster e partizione di esso in sottogeneri. Parapheidole e Novomessor nn. gg, pp. 67-75 in Rendiconto delle Sessioni della R. Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (N. S.) 19 on page 72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11435
title: Mechanisms and effects of growth hormone deficiency (due to subarachnoid haemorrhage and traumatic brain injury) on quality of life and regional body composition, and the influence of hormone replacement.
Creators: name: Gardner, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Aims of Thesis • Section 1 – To ascertain the incidence of non alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with growth hormone deficiency and the impact of hormone replacement. • Section 2 – Validation of the glucagon stimulation test in healthy subjects and hypopituitary patients. • Section 3 – A prospective longitudinal study of pituitary function in survivors of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and evaluation of changes in Quality of life following growth hormone replacement. • Section 4 – An analysis of the Pfizer KIMS database to evaluate changes in Quality of Life and Body Composition following Growth Hormone Replacement in patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.
title: A legal assessment of the impact of the Human Tissue Act 2004 upon unplanned non-heart beating donation and elective ventilation
Creators: name: Sangster, Catriona
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This thesis addresses the development and scope of the law in England relating to unplanned non-heart beating donation and elective ventilation in providing a source of solid organs for transplantation from adult donors. The thesis analyses the legality of both preservation strategies under the Human Tissue Act 1961 and the Human Tissue Act 2004, and considers the interaction between organ preservation law and coroniallaw. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part one introduces some preliminary aspects of the English cadaveric donation system. Chapter one defines the scope ofthe thesis. Chapter two discusses the legal regulation of cadaveric donation, considering different mechanisms for providing consent and facilitating trust and accountability in the system, and some of the ethical and social factors which impact upon the preservation strategies. Chapter three outlines the development of brain and cardio-pulmonary criteria in defining death and the consequent impact on sources and availability of organ donors. It considers the impact ofprevious corpse related legislation and societal views on the development ofthe Human Tissue Act 2004. Part two of the thesis considers the legal position ofelective ventilation and unplanned non-heart beating donation under the Human Tissue Act 1961 and the role of the Coroner, in chapters four and five respectively. Part three critically analyses the attempts made by the Human Tissue Act 2004 to expand the donor pool. Chapter six introduces the HTA 2004, providing a summary of the new transplantation provisions contained within HTA 2004 and considers the impact of the Alder Hey Inquiry in shaping the legislation. Chapter seven focuses upon the legal status ofNHBD in light of the provisions contained in s.43 of the 2004 Act considering what preservation steps are pennitted, where they can be prefonned and who can carry them out. Chapter eight analyses the possibility of 'elective ventilation being pennissible under s.43. Chapter nine evaluates further s.43 from a theoretical perspective. It considers the effect of s.43 on systems of trust and accountability within the organ donation paradigm, focusing on the role of the Coroner. Finally, chapter ten draws together the main thematic issues in an attempt to fo~ecast the overall effectiveness of s.43.
Derivation of a $BC_n$ elliptic summation formula via the fundamental invariants
Creators: name: Ito, Masahiko
name: Noumi, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give an alternative proof of an elliptic summation formula of type $BC_n$ by applying the fundamental $BC_n$ invariants to the study of Jackson integrals associated with the summation formula.
description: 13 pages. V2: minor corrections
Methodology to Assess Clinical Liver Safety Data
Creators: name: Kullak-Ublick, Gerd A.
name: Watkins, Paul B.
name: Merz, Michael
name: Lee, Kwan R.
name: Brueckner, Andreas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Analysis of liver safety data has to be multivariate by nature and needs to take into account time dependency of observations. Current standard tools for liver safety assessment such as summary tables, individual data listings, and narratives address these requirements to a limited extent only. Using graphics in the context of a systematic workflow including predefined graph templates is a valuable addition to standard instruments, helping to ensure completeness of evaluation, and supporting both hypothesis generation and testing. Employing graphical workflows interactively allows analysis in a team-based setting and facilitates identification of the most suitable graphics for publishing and regulatory reporting. Another important tool is statistical outlier detection, accounting for the fact that for assessment of Drug-Induced Liver Injury, identification and thorough evaluation of extreme values has much more relevance than measures of central tendency in the data. Taken together, systematical graphical data exploration and statistical outlier detection may have the potential to significantly improve assessment and interpretation of clinical liver safety data. A workshop was convened to discuss best practices for the assessment of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in clinical trials.
Stability Analysis of Integral Delay Systems with Multiple Delays
Creators: name: Zhou, Bin
name: Li, Zhao-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This note is concerned with stability analysis of integral delay systems with multiple delays. To study this problem, the well-known Jensen inequality is generalized to the case of multiple terms by introducing an individual slack weighting matrix for each term, which can be optimized to reduce the conservatism. With the help of the multiple Jensen inequalities and by developing a novel linearizing technique, two novel Lyapunov functional based approaches are established to obtain sufficient stability conditions expressed by linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). It is shown that these new conditions are always less conservative than the existing ones. Moreover, by the positive operator theory, a single LMI based condition and a spectral radius based condition are obtained based on an existing sufficient stability condition expressed by coupled LMIs. A numerical example illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
description: 14 pages
Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) chelatus Walter 1911
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Encentridophorus
Encentridophorus chelatus

description: Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) chelatus Walter, 1911
Records from the study area: Uttar Pradesh—K. Viets (1926a, b); Prasad (1974).
Remarks: K. Viets (1926a) identified a female specimen of Encentridophorus from Bihar as E. chelatus, a species known from the female sex only from Aru Island (Walter 1911). Viets' specimen is similar to the female of E. similis Cook, 1967 but has more acetabula (17 on each side). According to Cook (1967) Viets' record of E. chelatus from India should be regarded as tentative, because in the genus Encentridophorus females are difficult to identify.
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Civil-society Support
Creators: name: Sefsani, Ririn
name: Ziegenhain, Patrick
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: This paper argues that the enormous support of civil-society organizations was a major reason for Joko Widodo's victory in the Indonesian presidential elections in 2014. Social-science theories generally assign civil-society organizations leading role in strengthening democratic political order and improving the quality of democracy in it. The authors' assessment of Joko Widodo's election campaign reveals that the involvement of volunteer groups (relawan) with pro-democratic goals was an important component. The remarkable commitment of these civil-society organizations, which provided support in a variety of ways, can be interpreted as a positive sign that democracy is deepening in Indonesia.
description: Asien, Nr. 136 (2015): ASIEN (Juli)
FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions
Creators: name: Baulin, Vladimir
name: Vyatkin, Alex
name: GUÉNIN—CARLUT, Avel
name: Friedman, Daniel
name: Bolt, John
name: Falkenstein, Stefan
name: Jassal, Parishrut
name: Trois, Celio
name: Minchin, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Self.
Year: 2024

description: Project description submitted as part of application to Future of Life Institute - How to mitigate AI-driven power concentration

Climate change intensifies agricultural challenges, requiring more and more advanced technological solutions. Small farmers increasingly rely on technical assistance, which is becoming centralized, dominated by large agricultural corporations and governments imposing sophisticated pre-designated solutions. As AI proliferates within these centralized solutions, diseases mitigation methods, climate credits, government subsidies, and regulations risk monopolizing farmers' activities. This tendency, amplified by AI development,  threatens to undermine farmers' autonomy and limit their ability to make independent decisions, converting them into consumers of centralized technological solutions.

 

We propose to develop FarmWorks — a platform for human-AI interaction in agriculture that enables personalized, farm-scale solutions while resisting power concentration associated with centralized AI systems. FarmWorks addresses the above challenges by providing an open source decentralized AI-powered agricultural platform that empowers individual farmers with cutting-edge technology while preserving their autonomy and promoting sustainable practices. By integrating real-time data collection, edge computing, and Active Inference models, FarmWorks enables farmers to make informed decisions tailored to their specific contexts (for example, integrating humidity data and epidemiological models to assist farmers with remediative and anticipatory treatments for mold).
Clinical Pattern of Tolvaptan-Associated Liver Injury in Subjects with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: Analysis of Clinical Trials Database
Creators: name: Czerwiec, Frank S.
name: Watkins, Paul B.
name: Krasa, Holly
name: Lewis, James H.
name: Ouyang, John
name: Kaplowitz, Neil
name: Blais, Jaime D.
name: Zimmer, Christopher A.
name: Torres, Vicente E.
name: Smotzer, Dan M.
name: Alpers, David H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: IntroductionSubjects with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) who were taking tolvaptan experienced aminotransferase elevations more frequently than those on placebo in the TEMPO 3:4 (Tolvaptan Efficacy and Safety in Management of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and its Outcomes) clinical trial.MethodsAn independent, blinded, expert Hepatic Adjudication Committee re-examined data from TEMPO 3:4 and its open-label extension TEMPO 4:4, as well as from long-term (>14months) non-ADPKD tolvaptan trials, using the 5-point Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network classification.ResultsIn TEMPO 3:4, 1445 subjects were randomized 2:1 (tolvaptan vs. placebo) and 1441 had post-baseline assessments of hepatic injury. Sixteen patients on tolvaptan and one on placebo had significant aminotransferase elevations judged to be at least probably related to study drug. No association with dose or systemic exposure was found. Two of 957 subjects taking tolvaptan (0.2%) and zero of 484 taking placebo met the definition of a Hy’s Law case. One additional Hy’s Law case was identified in a TEMPO 4:4 subject who had received placebo in the lead study. The onset of a hepatocellular injury occurred between 3 and 18months after starting tolvaptan, with gradual resolution over the subsequent 1–4months. None of the events were associated with liver failure or chronic liver injury/dysfunction. No imbalance in hepatic events was observed between tolvaptan and placebo in lower-dose clinical trials of patients with hyponatremia, heart failure, or cirrhosis.ConclusionsAlthough hepatocellular injury following long-term tolvaptan treatment in ADPKD subjects was infrequent and reversible, the potential for serious irreversible injury exists. Regular monitoring of transaminase levels is warranted in this patient population.
Role of Civil Society in the Creation of India's New State of Telangana
Creators: name: Graitl, Lorenz
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: The creation of India's 29th state on June 2, 2014 realized 58-year-old demand for the division of the state of Andhra Pradesh due to internal economic inequalities. The center's decision to create a new federal unit was preceded by massive protests that had been going on since 2009. These mobilizations were organized by various social movements as well as parties like the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) who now forms the government of the state. Apart from their success in the institutional field of politics, the protests for Telangana, in which large parts the population were involved and through which many social movement organizations were founded, led also to the creation of a new civil society. Uniting in the name of a neglected region, this civil society often provided a space in which traditionally marginalized groups could raise their voices and articulate their particular interests. Thus this civil society promoted a process for democratization outside the parliamentary system in that it provided an alternative sphere for participation.
description: Asien, Nr. 136 (2015): ASIEN (Juli)
Civil Society and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Rother, Stefan
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: This special issue discusses the relationship between civil society and democracy in South and Southeast Asia. The case studies range from the subnational and national to the transnational and regional levels. Based on these case studies from across South and Southeast Asia, the role of civil society in a number of currently unfolding democratic and democratization processes is analyzed. This introduction discusses these various levels of engagement, after first highlighting some principal questions on the role of civil society, its definitions, and its organizational forms.
description: Asien, Nr. 136 (2015): ASIEN (Juli)
How outpatient substance abuse treatment unit director activities may affect provision of community outreach services
Creators: name: Green, Sherri
name: Chuang, Emmeline
name: Alexander, Jeffrey
name: Wells, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Community outreach services play an important role in infectious disease prevention and engaging drug users not currently in treatment. However, fewer than half of US substance abuse treatment units provide these services and many have little financial incentive to do so. Unit directors generally have latitude about scope of services, including the level of outreach provided to the community. The current study examines how directors’ interactions with external stakeholders affect substance abuse treatment units’ provision of community outreach services.
The Relationship Between Resonant Frequency, Sound Hole Diameter, and Body Depth in Acoustic Guitars
Creators: name: Fernandez, Alyssa Caroline
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401702
subject: Dynamics, vibration and vibration control
classificationCode: 401406
subject: Machining
classificationCode: 401610
subject: Timber, pulp and paper
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: When a design feature (such as material choice, internal bracing pattern, guitar body depth, and sound hole diameter) of an acoustic guitar changes, the effect of the change on the guitar’s sound is not well understood. As a result, luthiers approximate how to make guitars that have resonant frequencies of around 95-105 Hertz (Hz), the frequency range which sounds “good.” The researcher designed a reconfigurable fixture that simulated an acoustic guitar body with a variable body depth and sound hole diameter. The researcher used this testing fixture to examine the relationship between sound hole diameter, body depth, and resonant frequency. She conducted an experimental parameter sweep, measuring frequency response functions (FRFs) to collect data on the first, Helmholtz, and second resonant frequencies of the simulated acoustic guitar. The researcher pinpointed the general trends in the correlation between resonant frequency, body depth, and sound hole diameter using the frequency data from the FRF measurements. She determined that as sound hole diameter increased, the first, Helmholtz, and second resonant frequencies increased; and as body depth and body volume increased, the first and Helmholtz resonant frequencies decreased, while the second resonant frequency increased up until a body depth of approximately 4.50” inches. Exploring alternative design features and material choices contributes to improving urban infrastructure by encouraging luthiers to make instruments with sustainable materials (National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges – Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure, 2023).
title: Continuity of quadratic matings
Creators: name: Ma, Liangang
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis we explore the continuity of quadratic matings with one mating component fixed. Two main continuity results are proved by different methods, which are sub-results considering a conjecture in the thesis. There are also other by-results in the thesis in our exploration of the main continuity problem.
title: Rapid increase of molecular complexity through C–H and C–C bond activation
Creators: name: Ho, Kelvin
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The activation of carbon-hydrogen (C–H) and carbon-carbon (C–C) bonds by transition metal catalysts is an attractive strategy to streamline organic synthesis. Herein this manuscript, the two main areas of research are described. Firstly, it was found that a nickel catalyst can promote the insertion of alkynes into the C–C bond of 3-azetidinones and 3-oxetanones to enable quicker access to pyranones and pyridinones in high yields and excellent regioselectivity. Secondly, a rhodium-catalysed pyridine directed C–H bond activation enables the rearrangement of 1,6-heptadienes into bicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes in good yields. Importantly, three stereogenic centres are created with complete diastereocontrol in this atom-efficient reaction. In chapter 1, an overview of the literature on transition metal-catalysed C–C bond activation of four membered rings is described. In chapter 2, our efforts to optimise the catalytic conditions and build the scope of the nickel-catalysed reaction are reported. In chapter 3, the results of the mechanistic investigations of the nickel-catalysed reaction are reported. Finally in chapter 4, a brief overview of the transition metal-catalysed functionalisation of an alkene C–H bond with another alkene is described. Subsequently, the optimisation of the catalytic conditions and the scope of the diastereoselective carbocyclisation of 1,6-heptadienes triggered by rhodium-catalysed activation of an alkene C–H bond are reported.
Stable marriage and roommates problems with restricted edges: complexity and approximability
Creators: name: Cseh, Ágnes
name: Manlove, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2; G.2.1
subject: 05C85, 05C70, 68W40

description: In the stable marriage and roommates problems, a set of agents is given, each of them having a strictly ordered preference list over some or all of the other agents. A matching is a set of disjoint pairs of mutually accepted agents. If any two agents mutually prefer each other to their partner, then they block the matching, otherwise, the matching is said to be stable. In this paper we investigate the complexity of finding a solution satisfying additional constraints on restricted pairs of agents. Restricted pairs can be either forced or forbidden. A stable solution must contain all of the forced pairs, while it must contain none of the forbidden pairs. Dias et al. gave a polynomial-time algorithm to decide whether such a solution exists in the presence of restricted edges. If the answer is no, one might look for a solution close to optimal. Since optimality in this context means that the matching is stable and satisfies all constraints on restricted pairs, there are two ways of relaxing the constraints by permitting a solution to: (1) be blocked by some pairs (as few as possible), or (2) violate some constraints on restricted pairs (again as few as possible). Our main theorems prove that for the (bipartite) stable marriage problem, case (1) leads to NP-hardness and inapproximability results, whilst case (2) can be solved in polynomial time. For the non-bipartite stable roommates instances, case (2) yields an NP-hard problem. In the case of NP-hard problems, we also discuss polynomially solvable special cases, arising from restrictions on the lengths of the preference lists, or upper bounds on the numbers of restricted pairs.
description: conference version appeared at SAGT 2015
title: Positive allosteric modulators of the strychnine sensitive glycine receptor. A new concept in the treatment of chronic pain
Creators: name: Taylor, Lee
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Chronic pain is a global medical-health problem. It is estimated that approximately 20% of the adult population suffer from some form of chronic pain. Along with the physical and emotional burden that living with chronic pain brings to the individual, there is also a huge socio-economic cost implication currently estimated at more than €200 million per annum in Europe and at over $150 million in the USA. Unfortunately, because of a lack of efficacious treatments, chronic pain is poorly managed. Current therapies for chronic pain act upon well-established targets and have been shown not only to be inadequate for the majority of patients, with only 1 in 4 patients only finding up to 50% relief from their painful syndromes There is, therefore, a continued need for novel analgesic drugs that act at novel therapeutic targets. With the elucidation of the role of α1 glycine receptor (α1 GlyR) plays in nociceptive pathways it has become an attractive target for novel analgesic compounds. Previous work with the group has identified a series of potent bi-phenyl compounds targeting the α1 GlyR with EC50 values in the low nM range. However, these compounds suffered from poor physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Work in this thesis describes the rational design and synthesis of a library of compounds which selectively target the α1 GlyR with EC50 values in the sub nano-molar range. We have successfully progressed from hit to lead stage with improved efficacy and DMPK properties. The lead compound has shown excellent PK profiles, CNS penetration properties and no toxicity issues. We have obtained proof-of concept for the lead compound in a rat model of neuropathic pain and are currently moving forward with lead optimisation.
title: Risk evaluation in public-private partnership projects in the transport sector in Vietnam.
Creators: name: Nguyen, Nhat
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Many Public-Private Partnership Projects (PPPs) have failed because of risks occurring during operation and earlier studies have demonstrated a need for risk assessment and allocation methods for PPPs. Although researchers have been working in this area for years, the amount of empirical work is limited, especially when applied to developing countries, particularly to Vietnamese PPPs. This research attempts to design a framework using quantitative methods. Besides, qualitative methods are also used as supportive methods. The framework is proposed to identify risks, allocate risks, evaluate the project’s riskiness and return, and optimize concession parameters. The proposed framework is based on two fundamental theories which are Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Risk Adjusted Decoupled Net Present Value (Risk Adjusted DNPV). In AHP, the subjective evaluations are converted into numerical values and analysed to rank each alternative on a numerical scale. A pairwise comparison is then applied to the alternatives regarding specific criteria. Mathematical analysis is then used to create a comprehensive comparison of alternatives. Therefore, in this framework, first, critical risks are identified and evaluated based on their probability of occurrence and the degree of impact. After that, AHP is used to evaluate alternatives’ (projects) riskiness. In addition, AHP is used to allocate critical identified risks with regards to the ability criteria of each party. Risk adjusted DNPV in this framework is used to evaluate returns of the projects and to optimize the concession parameters. Currently, Net Present Value method (NPV) is being widely used to evaluate projects’ returns because of its simplicity to investors. In the NPV method, risks are accounted for by adjusting a “risk-free rate” to form a risk-adjusted discount rate (RADR), and then the RADR is used to devalue cash flow with time. However, it has been argued that time and risk are different variables, and they should be separated in evaluating projects, otherwise evaluation errors can be generated, especially for projects which require long-term investment. PPPs typically demand long-term investments. Consequently, PPPs should be an environment in which the limitations of NPV are exposed. To minimize the limitations of NPV, Risk Adjusted Decoupled Net Present Value method (Risk Adjusted DNVP) has been developed as a new tool to assess projects. In Risk Adjusted DNVP, risks are decoupled from the time value, and they are quantified and treated as a cost to the project. Nevertheless, Risk Adjusted DNVP has not been applied to the area of PPPs. Therefore, this research attempts to use DNPV to evaluate projects’ returns, and to optimize concession parameters. This research also clarifies how the public and private sector can use the proposed framework. Case studies from five Vietnamese PPPs will be shown in the thesis to demonstrate the proposed framework.
The remaining cases of the Kramer-Tunnell conjecture
Creators: name: Cesnavicius, Kestutis
name: Imai, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 11G07

description: For an elliptic curve $E$ over a local field $K$ and a separable quadratic extension of $K$, motivated by connections to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Kramer and Tunnell have conjectured a formula for computing the local root number of the base change of $E$ to the quadratic extension in terms of a certain norm index. The formula is known in all cases except some when $K$ is of characteristic $2$, and we complete its proof by reducing the positive characteristic case to characteristic $0$. For this reduction, we exploit the principle that local fields of characteristic $p$ can be approximated by finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_p$--we find an elliptic curve $E'$ defined over a $p$-adic field such that all the terms in the Kramer-Tunnell formula for $E'$ are equal to those for $E$.
description: 13 pages; final version, to appear in Compositio Mathematica