cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transmission of African swine fever virus to the wild boars of Northeast India
Creators: name: Buragohain, Lukumoni
name: Barman, Nagendra Nath
name: Sen, Suparna
name: Bharali, Arpita
name: Dutta, Biswajit
name: Choudhury, Bhaskar
name: Suresh, Kuralayanapalya Puttahonnappa
name: Gaurav, Shubham
name: Kumar, Rakesh
name: Ali, Samshul
name: Kumar, Sachin
name: Malik, Yashpal Singh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: India recorded the first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in North-eastern region (NER) in the year 2020. The current study was undertaken to investigate the transmission of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in the wild boars of Northeast India, particularly of Assam. ASF suspected mortal tissue remains and blood samples of wild boars collected from different locations of Assam were screened for molecular detection of swine viruses which includes Classical swine fever virus, Porcine Circovirus 2, Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and ASFV. One sample each from Manas and Nameri National Parks was detected positive for ASFV. Besides this, one of the samples was positive for CSFV and one of the ASFV positive samples was also positive for PCV2. Several striking gross and microscopic alterations were noticed in different organs of ASFV infected animals. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of B646L gene confirmed the presence of ASFV genotype-II in wild boars. Circulation of similar genotype in domestic pigs of NER in the contemporary period as well as locations near to the aforementioned national parks indicates the transmission of ASFV from domestic to wild boars. The detection of ASFV in the wild boars of Assam is alarming as it is an impending threat to pig population and other endangered species (particularly Pygmy hog), making it increasingly daunting to control the disease. Chances are high for ASFV to become endemic in Assam region if stringent measures are not taken at proper time.
Navoiy lirikasining badiiyati
Creators: name: Baxtiyorov D, Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari  universiteti Samarqand filiali AX23-08 guruh talabasi
name: Ilmiy rahbar:Samatov Xurshid O'lmasjonivich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqola  mutafakkir shoir , jahon adabiyotining yetuk siymolaridan biri, davlat arbobi, faylasuf Nizomiddin Alisher Navoiy haqida yozilgan.
Non-Factorisable Z2 times Z2 Heterotic Orbifold Models and Yukawa Couplings
Creators: name: Forste, Stefan
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Ohki, Hiroshi
name: Takahashi, Kei-jiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify compactification lattices for supersymmetric Z2 times Z2 orbifolds. These lattices include factorisable as well as non-factorisable six-tori. Different models lead to different numbers of fixed points/tori. A lower bound on the number of fixed tori per twisted sector is given by four, whereas an upper bound consists of 16 fixed tori per twisted sector. Thus, these models have a variety of generation numbers. For example, in the standard embedding, the smallest number of net generations among these classes of models is equal to six, while the largest number is 48. Conditions for allowed Wilson lines and Yukawa couplings are derived.
description: 22 pages, references added
Glimpses of Sustainability in Perth, Western Australia: Capturing and Communicating the Adaptive Capacity of Activist Groups
Creators: name: Dhakai, Subas P
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The root causes of unsustainability e.g. social and environmental injustice are often associated with the failure of the state or the market, and community based activism is one of the ways societies have responded to tackle the sustainability conundrum. Millions of sustainability activist groups (SAGs) are actively engaged in various social and environmental initiatives around the world. While the potential of visualisation to foster sustainability causes has been increasingly utilised, photographic narratives on adaptive capacity – the ability to secure various forms of necessary resources in changing circumstances – of SAGs have been under-represented. This paper responds to this gap and captures the glimpses of one of the longest running activisms in Perth, the state capital of Western Australia.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Additional file 1 of Clinically aggressive pediatric spinal ependymoma with novel MYC amplification demonstrates molecular and histopathologic similarity to newly described MYCN-amplified spinal ependymomas
Creators: name: Shatara, Margaret
name: Schieffer, Kathleen M.
name: Klawinski, Darren
name: Thomas, Diana L.
name: Pierson, Christopher R.
name: Sribnick, Eric A.
name: Jones, Jeremy
name: Rodriguez, Diana P.
name: Deeg, Carol
name: Hamelberg, Elizabeth
name: LaHaye, Stephanie
name: Miller, Katherine E.
name: Fitch, James
name: Kelly, Benjamin
name: Leraas, Kristen
name: Pfau, Ruthann
name: White, Peter
name: Magrini, Vincent
name: Wilson, Richard K.
name: Mardis, Elaine R.
name: Abdelbaki, Mohamed S.
name: Finlay, Jonathan L.
name: Boué, Daniel R.
name: Cottrell, Catherine E.
name: Ghasemi, David R.
name: Pajtler, Kristian W.
name: Osorio, Diana S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary methods and data.
The Star-Forming Torus and Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass in the Seyfert 1 Nucleus of NGC3227
Creators: name: Davies, R.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Sanchez, F. Mueller
name: Tacconi, L.
name: Sternberg, A.
name: Eisenhauer, F.
name: Abuter, R.
name: Saglia, R.
name: Bender, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report R~4300 VLT SINFONI adaptive optics integral field K-band spectroscopy of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC3227 at a spatial resolution of 0.085" (7pc). We present the morphologies and kinematics of emission lines and absorption features, and give the first derivation of a black hole mass in a Seyfert 1 nucleus from spatially resolved stellar dynamics. We show that the gas in the nucleus has a mean column density of order 10^{24}-10^{25}cm^{-2} and that it is geometrically thick, in agreement with the standard `molecular torus' scenario. We discuss which heating processes may be responsible for maintaining the vertical height of the torus. We have also resolved the nuclear stellar distribution, and find that within a few parsecs of the AGN there has been an intense starburst, the most recent episode of which began ~40Myr ago but has now ceased. The current luminosity of stars within 30pc of the AGN, ~3x10^9L_sun, is comparable to that of the AGN. Based on a comparison of the respective size scales, we argue that the star formation has been occuring in the obscuring torus. Finally, we present the first derivation of a black hole mass in a Seyfert 1 nucleus from stellar dynamics which marginally spatially resolve the black hole's sphere of influence. We apply Schwarzschild orbit superposition models to our full 2-dimensional data and derive the mass of the black hole, paying careful attention to the input parameters which are often uncertain: the contribution of the large scale bulge and its mass-to-light ratio; the recent star formation in the nucleus and its mass-to-light ratio; the contribution of the gas mass to the potential; and the inclination. Our models yield a 1sigma range for the black hole mass of M_{BH} = 7x10^6-2x10^7M_sun.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 42 pages with 20 figures
Local Well-posedness of Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann Equation with Generalized Diffuse Boundary Condition
Creators: name: Chen, Hongxu
name: Kim, Chanwoo
name: Li, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a classical equation governing the dynamics of charged particles with the electric force being self-imposed. We consider the system in a convex domain with the Cercignani-Lampis boundary condition. We construct a uniqueness local-in-time solution based on an $L^\infty$-estimate and $W^{1,p}$-estimate. In particular, we develop a new iteration scheme along the characteristic with the Cercignani-Lampis boundary for the $L^\infty$-estimate, and an intrinsic decomposition of boundary integral for $W^{1,p}$-estimate.
description: Chen, H., Kim, C. & Li, Q. Local Well-Posedness of Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann Equation with Generalized Diffuse Boundary Condition. J Stat Phys 179, 535-631 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-020-02545-9
MOESM3 of Dexmedetomidine expands monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells and promotes tumour metastasis after lung cancer surgery
Creators: name: Su, Xiaosan
name: Fan, Yaodong
name: Yang, Liu
name: Huang, Jie
name: Qiao, Fei
name: Fang, Yu
name: Wang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Expression of α2-AR on mouse MDSC. LLC cells were injected s.c. into the dorsa of C57BL/6 mice. When tumours were 1500 mm3 in size, the mice were divided into 3 groups and treated with PBS (Ctrl), DEX or DEX and YOH (DEX + YOH). Then the mice immediately underwent surgical removal of the tumor. Expression of α2-AR was analyzed on days 0, 1, 3 and 7 (depicted as T0, T1, T2 and T3) after surgery on the CD11b+Gr-1+ (MDSC), CD11b+Ly6ChighLy6G−cells (M-MDSC) and CD11b+Ly6ClowLy6G+ (G-MDSC) of lungs of mice (three mice per group at each time point) by flow cytometry. Mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) of α2-AR on (A) MDSC, (B) M-MDSC and (C) G-MDSC was assessed. *P < 0.001 as compared with T0 in Ctrl group; #P < 0.001 as compared with T0 in DEX group; †P < 0.001 as compared with T0 in DEX + YOH group.
Gender and Development: The Challenge of Mainstream
Creators: name: Nilsson, Patricia
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Mainstream institutions have only begun to address issues in Gender and Development since the 1970s, and it is time to evaluate how sustainable the progress in this field has been. In this essay, I briefly discuss three specific challenges facing gender advocates. First, I discuss the risks gender advocates take and the opportunities they miss when treating women as a homogenous group. Second, I evaluate the difficulty of balancing transformative policy and integrationist policy. The former seeks to change entire systems but risks being seen as too radical to be adopted by international influential institutions. The latter allows gender awareness to become adapted by these same institutions (i.e. gender mainstreaming) but risks not truly bringing the transformation needed. In the final part of my essay, I argue the importance of halting the “Sanctity of Culture,” a phrase coined by feminist economist, Naila Kabeer (1999). I further this analysis by looking at an Indian case in which an increased ratio of women is gaining education but see little increase in other factors of equality.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
Bubbling transition as a mechanism of destruction of synchronous oscillations of identical microbubble contrast agents
Creators: name: Garashchuk, Ivan
name: Sinelshchikov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the process of destruction of synchronous oscillations in a model of two interacting microbubble contrast agents exposed to an external ultrasound field. Completely synchronous oscillations in this model are possible in case of identical bubbles, when the governing system of equations possess a symmetry leading to the existence of a synchronization manifold. Such synchronous oscillations can be destructed without breaking the corresponding symmetry of the governing dynamical system. Here we describe the phenomenological mechanism responsible for such destruction of synchronization and demonstrate its implementation in the studied model. We show that the appearance and expansion of transversally unstable areas in the synchronization manifold leads to transformation of a synchronous chaotic attractor into a hyperchaotic one. We also demonstrate that this bifurcation sequence is stable with respect to symmetry breaking perturbations.
description: To appear in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
NESTORE D7.4 Pilot Results: Basal and Final Evaluation of End Users
Creators: name: Rojano Xavier
name: Fernández Maldonado Laura
name: Salvà Antoni
name: Zylan Canan
name: Attanasio Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pilot study and recruitment, baseline assessment

description: The deliverable D7.4 (Pilot Results: Basal and Final Evaluation of End Users) is the result of task 7.4 “Pilot Study” activities. At the beginning of the study was intended to describe the pilot study results of the NESTORE system and its specific components, including a description of the preliminary results obtained during piloting. Nevertheless, the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the initial planning of the study, freezing its development in the sites where the recruitment begun and delaying the onset in the others.
The Return of Large Dams to the Development Agenda: A Post-Development Critique
Creators: name: Pearse-Smith, Scott W.D.
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Large dams are making a comeback. Large dams reflect an outdated development paradigm narrowly focused on economic growth through modernization. This article employs a post-development lens to highlight three biases of the narrow development perspective that underlies large dams. First, it views rivers, and nature more generally, as an unrealized source of economic growth and an input to production. Second, it is blind to distributional impacts and is resultantly inequitable: the benefits of large dams are concentrated in the hands of the wealthy, while conditions for the poor do not improve and often worsen. Third, it disempowers those supposedly being developed by de-politicizing the development decisions to pursue large dam projects. Each of these biases is illustrated by reference to the Mekong River Basin’s experience with large dam development. It is concerning, therefore, that large dams seem to be making a resurgence in Asia, Africa and South America, and are once again receiving World Bank support. This article serves as a reminder of why large dams do not deliver equitable development and faded from the development agenda at the turn of the century.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Isolated from chromoblastomycosis patient
Creators: name: 张兴国(Xingguo Zhang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Genome sequencing
Monoisolate

description: Regulation Mechanism of Chitin Accumulation on the Outer Cell Wall of Chromoblastomycosis Agents and Its Effect on the host CD4+Th Cells Differentiation and outcome of the disease
Some polynomial inequalities on real normed spaces
Creators: name: Revesz, Szilard Gy.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 41A17. Secondary: 41A63, 41A44, 46B20, 46B99, 46G25, 26D05, 26D10, 32U15, 47H60

description: We consider various inequalities for polynomials, with an emphasis on the most fundamental inequalities of approximation theory. In the sequel a key role is played by the generalized Minkowski functional α(K,x), already being used by Minkowski and contemporaries and having occurred in approximation theory in the work of Rivlin and Shapiro in the early sixties. We try to compare real, geometric methods and complex, pluripotential theoretical approaches, where possible, and formulate a number of questions to be decided in the future. An extensive bibliography is given to direct the reader even in topics we do not have space to cover in more detail.
A Novel Adaptive Minority Oversampling Technique for Improved Classification in Data Imbalanced Scenarios
Creators: name: Tripathi, Ayush
name: Chakraborty, Rupayan
name: Kopparapu, Sunil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Imbalance in the proportion of training samples belonging to different classes often poses performance degradation of conventional classifiers. This is primarily due to the tendency of the classifier to be biased towards the majority classes in the imbalanced dataset. In this paper, we propose a novel three step technique to address imbalanced data. As a first step we significantly oversample the minority class distribution by employing the traditional Synthetic Minority OverSampling Technique (SMOTE) algorithm using the neighborhood of the minority class samples and in the next step we partition the generated samples using a Gaussian-Mixture Model based clustering algorithm. In the final step synthetic data samples are chosen based on the weight associated with the cluster, the weight itself being determined by the distribution of the majority class samples. Extensive experiments on several standard datasets from diverse domains shows the usefulness of the proposed technique in comparison with the original SMOTE and its state-of-the-art variants algorithms.
description: 8 pages
Environmental Challenges Facing a Growing City: Sunyani Case Study
Creators: name: Anane, Edward Twum
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This photo essay illustrates the environmental challenges facing a rapidly growing urban settlement in Ghana. Sunyani is one of the fastest growing cities in Ghana. The population of the city increased from 38,634 in March 1984 to 61,992 in March 2000 (Ghana Statistical Service, 2002). This trend presents serious development challenges to the city as high rates of population growth are not matched with increased provision of social services and infrastructure. The city authorities will have to adopt appropriate urban planning strategies if the city is to develop sustainably.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
Entropy maximization in the force network ensemble for granular solids
Creators: name: Tighe, Brian P.
name: van Eerd, Adrianne R. T.
name: Vlugt, Thijs J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long-standing issue in the area of granular media is the tail of the force distribution, in particular whether this is exponential, Gaussian, or even some other form. Here we resolve the issue for the case of the force network ensemble in two dimensions. We demonstrate that conservation of the total area of a reciprocal tiling, a direct consequence of local force balance, is crucial for predicting the local stress distribution. Maximizing entropy while conserving the tiling area and total pressure leads to a distribution of local pressures with a generically Gaussian tail that is in excellent agreement with numerics, both with and without friction and for two different contact networks.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
ผลของโปรแกรมการจัดการอาการต่อภาวะลำไส้หยุดการทางานชั่วคราวในผู้ป่วย แผลเปปติกทะลุที่ได้รับการผ่าตัดฉุกเฉิน
Creators: name: ชัชดา เชาว์สันเทียะ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: ภาวะลำไส้หยุดการทำงานชั่วคราว, โปรแกรมการจัดการอาการ, แผลเปปติกทะลุ

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals Under Investigation for COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment
Creators: name: Lordan, Ronan
name: Rando, Halie M.
name: Consortium, COVID-19 Review
name: Greene, Casey S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused global disruption and a significant loss of life. Existing treatments that can be repurposed as prophylactic and therapeutic agents could reduce the pandemic's devastation. Emerging evidence of potential applications in other therapeutic contexts has led to the investigation of dietary supplements and nutraceuticals for COVID-19. Such products include vitamin C, vitamin D, omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, probiotics, and zinc, all of which are currently under clinical investigation. In this review, we critically appraise the evidence surrounding dietary supplements and nutraceuticals for the prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19. Overall, further study is required before evidence-based recommendations can be formulated, but nutritional status plays a significant role in patient outcomes, and these products could help alleviate deficiencies. For example, evidence indicates that vitamin D deficiency may be associated with greater incidence of infection and severity of COVID-19, suggesting that vitamin D supplementation may hold prophylactic or therapeutic value. A growing number of scientific organizations are now considering recommending vitamin D supplementation to those at high risk of COVID-19. Because research in vitamin D and other nutraceuticals and supplements is preliminary, here we evaluate the extent to which these nutraceutical and dietary supplements hold potential in the COVID-19 crisis.
Building and Urban Planning in Zimbabwe: Putting Needs, Costs and Sustainability in Focus
Creators: name: Chirisa, Innocent
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines construction and its relationship with urban planning in Zimbabwe. Blame levelled against urban planning includes making the building process cumbersome hence raising of costs in the form of transaction costs. Planning and associated bureaucratic processes are often underestimated by most construction investors constitute the transactions costs. Although planning is critical for sustainability of the ultimate artefacts of buildings in Zimbabwe, it still relies heavily on the outdated standards set by the British in an environment (social, economic, and environmental) which has greatly changed. Issues relating to costs, investment, climate change, building materials and planning law are examined in as far as they shape, particularly, urban environments, which in essence must be sustainably built and meet relevant societal needs taking also on board, the question of technology. The paper is a theoretical and empirical review of the beneficiary needs and transaction costs (usually qualitative hence non-monetary, characterizing the construction projects. It examines both micro and macro-scale building processes and issues raised by different players in the industry.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Microbial and biochemical properties of the biological excess phosphate removal process
Creators: name: Mah, Terrance Jock
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The reasearch objectives of this thesis are to determine the behavior of specific cellular components in sludge, in response to varying environmental conditions, and determine the role of the glyoxylate cycle in anaerobic PHA storage. These objectives were addressed by idnetifying assays to determine the immediate biochemical state of the sludge biomass and applying these assay to determine typical sludge behavior then.testing a proposed biochemical model. Radioactive labelling of cells showed aerobic phosphate uptake results in storage of two major polyphosphate types, long chain granular or long chain soluble polyphosphates, that can account for up to 85 % of newly synthesized intracellular phosphate-containing compounds. Both of the polyphosphate types were greater than eight ortho-phosphate units long and susceptible to acid hydrolysis. Anaerobically, long chain soluble polyphosphates are degraded and released during polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) storage. PHA storage was most affected by carbon availability and not strongly influenced by the ORP or the NADH/NAD ratio. The use of a fluorometric probe for detecting intracellular NADH levels revealed several sludge responses that could be used for optimization of process control. Testing of the proposed biochemical model which accounted for two principal storage products, polyhydroxybutyric acid (PHB) and polyhydroxy valeric acid (PHV), provided evidence to suggest the glyoxylate cycle plays a central role in anaerobic PHA storage, by providing the necessary reducing power required for the storage reaction, in the normal operating U.B.C. pilot plant system. Tesing involving nutrient/inhibitor combinations demonstrated that anaerobic PHA storage is not committed exclusively to the glyoxylate cycle for a source of reducing power, since alternative sources of reducing power could also supply reducing power for the PHA storage reaction under different conditions.
ผลของการใช้แบบจำลองรูปร่างโมเลกุลโคเวเลนต์ต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนรายวิชาเคมีเรื่องรูปร่างโมเลกุลโคเวเลนต์
Creators: name: จรรยา ไกรสน
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: แบบจำลองรูปร่างโมเลกุล, ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน, สื่อการเรียน, ความพึงพอใจ

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Interdependency of Aid Effectiveness and Good Governance
Creators: name: Mubazi, John Kigongo E.
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The spirit of this article is to offer a fresh perspective related to the future of aid as a way of informing the ongoing discourse on development assistance to the benefit of policy makers and key stakeholders. It suggests that aid deployment ought to change in such a way as to improve governance and has shown where and how. We explore governance’s focus as well as the World Bank dimensions. Under focus, we concentrate on the transparency of government, the simplicity of procedures, accountability and responsibility, the need to fight against corruption, individual freedom and collective expression, and independence of the legal system. For the World Bank dimensions, the concentration is on: voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. With respect to regulation and corruption, we address whether to use market-based or regulatory measures, possible policy instruments, implementation issues, and difficulties and problems. Under possible policy instruments, mandatory policy instruments, voluntary agreements, compliance instruments, and precautionary measures are explored. Implementation issues include introductory matters, costs, free riding and voluntary agreement and compliance. In addition, we examine difficulties associated with distributional issues, compensation, regulatory capture phenomenon, and the effect on innovation. Regarding corruption, we examine its definition, state capture versus conventional corruption, corrupt acts, forms of corruption, hypothetical causes of corruption, some analytical points, theoretical consequences, unbinding bribery, incidence of corruption, fraud, and control measures.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Comments on D-branes on Orbifolds and K-theory
Creators: name: Kriz, Igor
name: Zayas, Leopoldo A. Pando
name: Quiroz, Norma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically revisit the description of $D$-branes on orbifolds and the classification of their charges via K-theory. We include enough details to make the results accessible to both physicists and mathematicians interested in these topics. The minimally charged branes predicted by K-theory in Z_N orbifolds with $N$ odd are only BPS. We confirm this result using the boundary state formalism for Z_3. For Z_N x Z_N orbifolds with and without discrete torsion, we show that the K-theory classification of charges agrees with the boundary state approach, largely developed by Gaberdiel and collaborators, including the types of representation on the Chan-Paton factors.
description: 47 pages
Electricity Consumption: Should There Be a Limit? Implications of People’s Attitudes for the Forming of Sustainable Energy Policies
Creators: name: Westskog, Hege
name: Winther, Tanja
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this paper is to examine people’s attitudes towards electricity and electricity consumption within the Norwegian market context. The empirical material is based on 18 in-depth interviews and eight focus group discussions carried out in two Norwegian towns. We draw on theories which assume that different types of logics motivate and guide behaviour. The results show that people’s views on electricity consumption vary widely. About half of the sample thinks of electricity as a commodity, following the market logic embedded in the Norwegian electricity system. According to “consumerists”, as long as people pay for consumption, they are entitled to use as much electricity as they want. The other half of our sample, referred to as “citizens”, questions the purely market-based system. They raise the question of fairness and think there is a need for a norm for appropriate consumption. Both groups regard Norwegian hydropower as common property belonging to the Norwegian population, and both groups question the existing market-based system for exchange of power with other countries. We use the results to discuss some of the policy implications in terms of how energy savings could be achieved.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Gamma-ray detection toward the Coma cluster with Fermi-LAT: Implications for the cosmic ray content in the hadronic scenario
Creators: name: Adam, R.
name: Goksu, H.
name: Brown, S.
name: Rudnick, L.
name: Ferrari, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of relativistic electrons within the diffuse gas phase of galaxy clusters is now well established, but their detailed origin remains unclear. Cosmic ray protons are also expected to accumulate during the formation of clusters and would lead to gamma-ray emission through hadronic interactions within the thermal gas. Recently, the detection of gamma-ray emission has been reported toward the Coma cluster with Fermi-LAT. Assuming that this gamma-ray emission arises from hadronic interactions in the ICM, we aim at exploring the implication of this signal on the cosmic ray content of the Coma cluster. We use the MINOT software to build a physical model of the cluster and apply it to the Fermi-LAT data. We also consider contamination from compact sources and the impact of various systematic effects. We confirm that a significant gamma-ray signal is observed within the characteristic radius $θ_{500}$ of the Coma cluster, with a test statistic TS~27 for our baseline model. The presence of a possible point source may account for most of the observed signal. However, this source could also correspond to the peak of the diffuse emission of the cluster itself and extended models match the data better. We constrain the cosmic ray to thermal energy ratio within $R_{500}$ to $X_{\rm CRp}=1.79^{+1.11}_{-0.30}$\% and the slope of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays to $α=2.80^{+0.67}_{-0.13}$. Finally, we compute the synchrotron emission associated with the secondary electrons produced in hadronic interactions assuming steady state. This emission is about four times lower than the overall observed radio signal, so that primary cosmic ray electrons or reacceleration of secondary electrons is necessary to explain the total emission. Assuming an hadronic origin of the signal, our results provide the first quantitative measurement of the cosmic ray proton content in a cluster.[Abridged]
description: 27 pages, accepted in A&A
Rejuvenation of Biofertiliser for Sustainable Agriculture Economic Development (SAED)
Creators: name: Mishra, Dr. Pallabi
name: Dash, Dr. Debiprasad
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Thesis: The economy of India thrives on agriculture. Agriculture is the most practiced occupation by Indians. For agriculture fertilizer is very much essential to enhance proper growth and yield of crops. Of late farmers have been using chemical fertilizers for quicker and better yield. But this causes hazards to the ecosystem, soil and plant, human and animal lives. Biofertilisers which are naturally grown not only give a better yield but also are harmless to us. This paper aims at studying the rejuvenation of biofertiliser for sustainable agriculture economic development (SAED) in comparison to chemical fertilisers. Methodology: Azolla has been taken for the study conducted as a green manure and dual crop. Field experiments were conducted on Azolla. The study was undertaken in the district of Balasore of Odisha. The results show that the yield, the number of tillers, plant height, profit to farmers and the benefit to cost ratio of azolla was higher than chemical fertilizer as a green manure and dual crop leading to better sustainable agriculture economic development (SAED). This further proves that rejuvenating biofertilisers would lead to better sustainable economic development for the farmers and the country. Contribution to other disciplines: Further this paper contributes to the discipline of management, economics, agriculture and commerce.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Sustaining Standard of Living Amidst Volatile Oil Prices – Lessons from the Gulf Countries
Creators: name: Al Sabah, Khaleefah Jabar
name: Palliam, Ralph
name: Salem, Athmar Al
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Improving living standards amidst falling oil prices among countries relying heavily of an ample supply of oil presents numerous challenges. Therefore the relationship associated with oil price changes with identifiable metrics that explain standards of living becomes critical. The management of wealth; sustaining a standard of living; peculiarities of oil trade; oil price determination; and management and the uncharacteristic application of supply and demand are presented. Since aspects of the world oil market remain unclear and opaque, society is in need of credible research and verifiable theory. Data relating to Kuwait over a 32-year period (1983 – 2014) were obtained. Five independent variables: investment growth; inflation; percentage change in price per barrel; unemployment; and percent change in the number of incarcerations are regressed with a change in real GDP (dependent variable). Finally, to determine the robustness of the model, the Durbin-Watson test was used. The coefficient of determination (r2) suggests that 66.24% of variations in lifestyle can be explained by variations in the five independent variables (p<0.01). Standards of living can be sustained by increasing growth in investment, decreasing inflation, decreasing unemployment and incarcerations and most important increase in price of oil. This study places Kuwait as a proxy for the Gulf Countries and should ideally be extended to the other five Gulf Countries. Comparative studies over multiple periods of time ought to be undertaken to measure the robustness of differing sustainability measures.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Additional file 1 of Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity (ALERT): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda
Creators: name: Akuze, Joseph
name: Annerstedt, Kristi Sidney
name: Benova, Lenka
name: Chipeta, Effie
name: Dossou, Jean-Paul
name: Gross, Mechthild M.
name: Kidanto, Hussein
name: Marchal, Bruno
name: Alvesson, Helle Mölsted
name: Pembe, Andrea B.
name: van Damme, Wim
name: Waiswa, Peter
name: Hanson, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) for stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT).
Additional file 1 of Understanding the psycho-social context for a new early intervention for resistance to change that aims to strike a beneficial balance between structure and flexibility
Creators: name: Blackwell, Siobhan
name: Zylberberg, Alex
name: Scerif, Gaia
name: Miller, Sarah
name: Woodcock, Kate A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Bilol Ibn Raboh hayoti
Creators: name: Toshpulatov Javoxir Mirzomaxmud o'g'li, Toshkent Axborot Texnologiyalari universiteti Samarqand filiali Telekommunikatsiya texnologiyalari  va kasb ta'limi fakulteti TTKT 23-06 guruh talabasi
name: Ilmiy rahbar:Samatov Xurshid O'lmasjonivich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu  maqolada  islom  tarixidagi  birinchi  muazzin  Abu Abdulloh Bilol Ibn Raboh al-Habashiyning  hayotida bo’lgan voqea  va hodisalarni o’rganamiz.  Bilol Ibn Rabohning hayoti, Islom diniga bo’lgan muhabbati va Islom diniga  qilgan  xizmatlarini  o’rganib,  uni  keng  targ’ib  qilish,  xalqimizni ma’naviyatimizning  mustahkam  ildizlaridan  biri  bo’lgan  diniy  qadriyatlar  bilan kengroq,  chuqurroq  tanishtirish  ularning  keng  omma  tomonidan  sog’lom  idrok etishiga yordamlashish bizning asosiy vazifamizdir.
Assessing Stakeholder Adaptive Capacity to Salmon Aquaculture in Norway
Creators: name: Tiller, Rachel
name: Richards, Russell
name: Salgado, Hugo
name: Strand, Hilleveli
name: Moe, Espen
name: Ellis, John
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Determining the socio-ecological effects of increased aquaculture/farmed fish production through the granting of new licenses to the industry around the island group of Frøya in Trøndelag, Norway, is explored in this paper. This is investigated from a stakeholder perspective, assessing the adaptive capacity of the given community in each region through workshops combining Scenario Analysis, Systems Thinking and Bayesian Belief Network, developing conceptual frameworks and influence diagrams visualizing the perceived effects of the industry on the given stakeholder system. This adaptive capacity is critical to explore before a de facto industry expansion. This is because there can be context-specific adaptation policies and measures that can be pursued that reduce a given stakeholder group´s vulnerability to negative consequences of industry expansion. Policy makers’ a priori knowledge of these variables can lessen conflicts that may arise as a result of stakeholder discontent with top-down approaches to fisheries management. It can also bring a legitimizing aspect to the political process leading to integrated coastal zone management (IZCM) in the region for affected stakeholder groups, possibly lessening simmering conflicts.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Additional file 1 of Association of fish and meat consumption with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
Creators: name: Wang, Rui Zhen
name: Zhang, Wei Sen
name: Jiang, Chao Qiang
name: Zhu, Feng
name: Jin, Ya Li
name: Xu, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Abundances of Baade's Window Giants from Keck/HIRES Spectra: II. The Alpha- and Light Odd Elements
Creators: name: Fulbright, Jon. P.
name: McWilliam, Andrew
name: Rich, R. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report detailed chemical abundance analysis of 27 RGB stars towards the Galactic bulge in Baade's Window for elements produced by massive stars: O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Ti. All of these elements are overabundant in the bulge relative to the disk, especially Mg, indicating that the bulge is enhanced in Type~II supernova ejecta and most likely formed more rapidly than the disk. We attribute a rapid decline of [O/Fe] to metallicity-dependent yields of oxygen in massive stars, perhaps connected to the Wolf-Reyet phenomenon. he explosive nucleosynthesis alphas, Si, Ca and Ti, possess identical trends with [Fe/H], consistent with their putative common origin. We note that different behaviors of hydrostatic and explosive alpha elements can be seen in the stellar abundances of stars in Local Group dwarf galaxies. We also attribute the decline of Si,Ca and Ti relative to Mg, to metallicity- dependent yields for the explosive alpha elements from Type~II supernovae. The starkly smaller scatter of [/Fe] with [Fe/H] in the bulge, as compared to the halo, is consistent with expected efficient mixing for the bulge. The metal-poor bulge [/Fe] ratios are higher than ~80% of the halo. If the bulge formed from halo gas, the event occured before ~80% of the present-day halo was formed. The lack of overlap between the thick and thin disk composition with the bulge does not support the idea that the bulge was built by a thickening of the disk driven by the bar. The trend of [Al/Fe] is very sensitive to the chemical evolution environment. A comparison of the bulge, disk and Sgr dSph galaxy shows a range of ~0.7 dex in [Al/Fe] at a given [Fe/H], presumably due to a range of Type~II/Type~Ia supernova ratios in these systems.
description: 51 pages, 6 tables, 27 figures, submitted
An Alternative Statistical Characterization of TWDP Fading Model
Creators: name: Maric, A.
name: Njemcevic, P.
name: Kaljic, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) is one of the most promising models for description of small-scale fading effects in emerging wireless networks. However, its current statistical characterization has several fundamental issues. Primarily, conventional TWDP parameterization is not in accordance with the model's underlying physical mechanisms. In addition, available TWDP expressions for PDF, CDF, and MGF are given either in integral or approximate forms, or as mathematically untractable closed-form expressions. Consequently, the existing TWDP statistical characterization does not allow accurate evaluation of system performance (such as error and outage probability) in all fading conditions for most modulation and diversity techniques. In this paper, the existing statistical characterization of the TWDP fading model is improved by overcoming some of the noticed issues. In this regard, physically justified TWDP parameterization is proposed and used for further calculations. Additionally, exact infinite-series PDF and CDF are introduced. Based on these expressions, the exact MGF of the SNR is derived in form suitable for mathematical manipulations. The applicability of the proposed MGF for derivation of the exact average symbol error probability (ASEP) is demonstrated with the example of M-ary PSK modulation. Therefore, in this paper, M-ary PSK ASEP is derived as an explicit expression for the first time in the literature. The derived expression is further simplified for large SNR values in order to obtain a closed-form asymptotic ASEP, which is shown to be applicable for SNR > 20 dB. All proposed expressions are verified by Monte Carlo simulation in a variety of TWDP fading conditions.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Fragmented superfluid due to frustration of cold atoms in optical lattices
Creators: name: Garcia-Ripoll, J. J.
name: Pachos, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A one dimensional optical lattice is considered where a second dimension is encoded in the internal states of the atoms giving effective ladder systems. Frustration is introduced by an additional optical lattice that induces tunneling of superposed atomic states. The effects of frustration range from the stabilization of the Mott insulator phase with ferromagnetic order, to the breakdown of superfluidity and the formation of a macroscopically fragmented phase.
description: New version, more results, about 20 pages
Status of Underutilized Crops in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Recommendations for Development of Underutilized Crops
Creators: name: Dhaba Mengesha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Underutilized crops are an important part of agro-biodiversity, and they have the potential to help poor rural communities adapt to climate change, enhance food security, and gain food sovereignty. Despite increased interest in research, they remain on the peripheries of the agricultural mainstream. Its main goal is to give policy suggestions for supporting the production, conservation, and expanded use of underutilized crops for improved food and livelihood security, particularly for Ethiopia's rural poor. A survey study and literature analysis were used to assess the state of Ethiopia's underutilized crops in order to identify existing gaps, opportunities, challenges, and potential future policy suggestions and guidelines. According to the study, Ethiopia's food and agricultural legislation and policy frameworks allow certain opportunities for the development and use of underutilized crops, but the majority of them do not support or favor these crop products. From agricultural research, production, and extension to agricultural marketing and the country's approach to food security, Ethiopia's policy planning is tilted towards promoting the large crops at the expense of the rural poor people's crops—the underutilized crops. This is unfortunate because many Ethiopian households, especially those in rural areas where the majority of the population resides, rely on these crops not just for food and nutrition but also for income and overall stability. Reforming Ethiopia's food and agricultural policy is also crucial to ensuring that underutilized crops are adequately supported in order to improve Ethiopians' food and livelihood security, particularly in rural areas. It's crucial to identify underutilized crops with the greatest potential for success and the ability to be incorporated into a variety of production or cropping systems, as well as to prioritize them for future research, development, and innovation

Keywords: climate change; challenges; food and nutrition security; opportunities; sustainability