cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Individual grain boundary properties and overall performance of metal-organic-deposition coated conductors
Creators: name: Weigand, M.
name: Speller, S. C.
name: Hughes, G. M.
name: Rutter, N. A.
name: Lozano-Perez, S.
name: Grovenor, C. R. M.
name: Durrell, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated single grain boundaries (GBs) isolated in coated conductors produced by Metal-Organic Deposition (MOD). When a magnetic field is swept in the film plane, an angle-dependent crossover from boundary to grain limited critical current density Jc is found. In the force-free orientation, even at fields as high as 8 T, the GBs still limit Jc. We deduce that this effect is a direct consequence of GB meandering. We have employed these single GB results to explain the dependence of Jc of polycrystalline tracks on their width: in-plane measurements become flatter as the tracks are narrowed down. This result is consistent with the stronger GB limitation at field configurations close to force-free found from the isolated boundaries. Our study shows that for certain geometries even at high fields the effect of GBs cannot be neglected.
Measuring Elderly People's Food Access in Urban Food Environments: The Potential Benefits of Urban Agriculture
Creators: name: Ikejima, Yoshifumi
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2019

description: Abstract. This study aims to examine food access among urban residents in Japan – especially elderly residents – and to explore the potential benefits of urban agriculture in alleviating problems that relate to shopping for fresh food. In Japan, which has a high population density, urban agriculture has a locational advantage: many produce stands owned by individual farmers and farmers’ markets are located close to urban residents, and it is convenient to visit these outlets to purchase fresh and healthy food at affordable prices. This study assesses how many people face insufficient access to fresh, healthful food, and how many people could benefit from local agricultural outlets. To that end, this study employs geographic information system tools to calculate, in detail, the number of people in food desert areas or in areas where people could otherwise benefit from local agricultural outlets. According to this study’s results, in two study areas, approximately 60% of those aged 65 years or more reside far from food stores for daily shopping. This analysis sheds light on the difficulties that many face in shopping. Improving access to fresh food through the use of local agricultural outlets is one of the advantages of urban agriculture. In identifying the impact of improving food access via urban agriculture, this study quantitatively verified, using a realworld case, that it is possible to pinpoint the beneficial effects of urban agriculture against social disparities. This study’s findings vis-à-vis the effects of agri-oases on food security among urban elderly people point to urban agriculture’s contribution to environments with insufficient food supplies.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019): January Issue
Additional file 1 of Switch from a ritonavir to a cobicistat containing antiretroviral regimen and impact on tacrolimus levels in a kidney transplant recipient
Creators: name: Erba, Andrea
name: Marzolini, Catia
name: Rentsch, Katharina
name: Stoeckle, Marcel
name: Battegay, Manuel
name: Mayr, Michael
name: Weisser, Maja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Co-medication.
Quantum efficiency measurement of single photon detectors using photon pairs generated in optical fibers
Creators: name: Li, Xiaoying
name: Ma, Xiaoxin
name: Quan, Limei
name: Yang, Lei
name: Cui, Liang
name: Guo, Xueshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81v80

description: Using the correlated signal and idler photon pairs generated in a dispersion shifted fiber by a pulsed pump, we measure the quantum efficiency of a InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode-based single photon detector. Since the collection efficiency of photon pairs is a key parameter to correctly deduce the quantum efficiency, we carefully characterize the collection efficiency by studying correlation dependence of photon pairs upon the spectra of pump, signal and idler photons. This study allows us to obtain quantum efficiency of the single photon detector by using photon pairs with various kinds of bandwidths.
description: 21pages, 6figures, 4tables, accepted for publication in J. Opt. Soc. Am. B
Acquedotto intercomunale di Bellinzona e dintorni
Creators: name: Renggli, Mattia
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2015

description: Adottato dal Consiglio di Stato del Canton Ticino il 23 febbraio 2005, il PCAI-B prevede la costruzione di 4 nuovi pozzi di captazione presso la riserva idrica cantonale di Gorduno – Gnosca, una nuova stazione di pompaggio a Gorduno e le relative condotte e impianti per portare l’acqua potabile ai comuni interessati. La necessità di sfruttare la riserva idrica nasce dalla città di Bellinzona che, trovatasi a dover dismettere i propri 5 pozzi di captazione presso la zona campo da calcio, si é impegnata nella ricerca di un approvigionamenteo idrico alternativo. Nel 2003, la città di Bellinzona allestisce un progetto di massima di acquedotto comunale che verrà poi ripreso dal Consiglio di Stato per allestire un piano cantonale di approvigionamento idrico (PCAI-B), notificato in seguito a 17 comuni il 26 agosto 2003. Con l’adozione del PCAI B da parte del Consiglio di Stato il 23 febbraio 2005, vengono integrati nel progetto i comuni di Claro, Gnosca e Gorduno. L’ente incaricato per la progettazione e la realizzazione delle opere previste dal PCAI-B sono le Aziende Municipalizzate Bellinzona (AMB) di proprietà della città di Bellinzona. Nel 2006, in fase di affinamento del progetto, anche i comuni di Monte Carasso e Sementina decidono di prendervi parte, confermando la loro volontà tramite i rispettivi esecutivi l’8 maggio 2007 (Monte Carasso) e il 4 maggio 2007 (Sementina). Il 10 febbraio 2009, il Consiglio comunale di Claro respinge la richiesta di partecipazione al progetto. La composizione definitiva del PCAI-B 2015 comprende pertanto i comuni di: Bellinzona, Gnosca, Gorduno, Monte Carasso e Sementina.
Additional file 1 of Association between air pollutants and initiation of biological therapy in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a nationwide, population-based, nested case–control study
Creators: name: Kao, Chung-Mao
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Huang, Wen-Nan
name: Chen, Yi-Hsing
name: Chen, Hsin-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. International Codes of Diseases–Ninth Revision Clinical Modification codes of diseases and manifestations, and Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification codes of medications. Supplementary Table 2. Baseline characteristics amongst matched study subjects with use of approved biologics through reimbursement and without the use. Supplementary Table 3. Correlation table for ambient air pollutant levels within three months before index date. Supplementary Table 4. Association between initiation of reimbursed biologics and air pollutants exposed within one year before index date in adjustment for potential confounders other than NO2 or CO exposure. Supplementary Table 5. Association between initiation of reimbursed biologics and air pollutants exposed within three months before index date in adjustment for potential confounders other than NO2 or CO exposure. Supplementary Table 6. Correlation table for age at first reimbursed biologic initiation and disease duration.
Automated human-in-the-loop assertion generation
Creators: name: Zamprogno, Lucas Alan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Test cases use assertions to check program behaviour. While these assertions may not be complex, they are themselves code and must be written correctly in order to distinguish between passing and failing test cases. I assert that test assertions are relatively repetitive and straight-forward, making their construction well suited to automation; and that tools can reduce developer effort (and simultaneously improve the quality of the assertions in their test suites) by automatically generating assertions that the tester can choose to accept, modify, delete, or augment. Such a tool can fit into a developer workflow where tests are frequently written alongside runnable source code. I examined 33,873 assertions from 105 projects and identified twelve high-level categories that account for the vast majority of developer-written test assertions, confirming that test assertions are fairly simple in practice. To assess the utility of my human-in-the-loop assertion generation thesis, I developed the AutoAssert framework, which generates typical assertions for test cases written for JavaScript code. AutoAssert uses dynamic analysis to determine both which assertions to generate and what values they should verify. The developer can choose to accept, modify, delete, or add to the set of generated assertions. I compared assertions generated by AutoAssert to those written by developers and found that it generates the same kind of assertions as written by developers 84\% of the time in a sample of over 1,000 assertions. Additionally I validated the utility of AutoAssert-generated assertions with 17 developers; these developers found that the majority of generated assertions were useful and expressed considerable interest in using such a tool/approach for their own projects.
Deformed Skyrme Crystals
Creators: name: Lobo, J. Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Skyrme crystal, a solution of the Skyrme model, is the lowest energy-per-charge configuration of skyrmions seen so far. Our numerical investigations show that, as the period in various space directions is changed, one obtains various other configurations, such as a double square wall, and parallel vortex-like solutions. We also show that there is a sudden "phase transition" between a Skyrme crystal and the charge 4 skyrmion with cubic symmetry as the period is gradually increased in all three space directions.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. To be published in JHEP
Practices of Food Provisioning in Alternative Food Networks: How Different Practitioners Engage in Different Practices, Depending on Their Emotional Energy
Creators: name: Veen, Esther J.
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2019

description: In this article we combine social practice theory and interaction ritual theory to better understand the dynamics of learning processes in alternative food networks, and how these influence levels of alternative food network engagement. We apply this combination to the study of a solidarity purchasing group in southern Italy. We show that the levels of emotional energy built up between different groups of people within this solidarity purchasing group explain the extent to which participants are willing and able to overcome the practical difficulties associated with being part of the solidarity purchasing group, and change their routines accordingly. We recognize two different groups of users, with different levels of emotional energy; they vary according to the extent to which participants share motivations and understandings. The two groups attach different meanings to their involvement and associate those meanings with different activities that solidarity purchasing group engagement entails. We conclude that the two groups engage in different social practices – even though they are part of the same solidarity purchasing group. This finding provides insights into the heterogeneity both within and between alternative food networks as described in the literature; it explains different degrees of involvement, as well as reasons not to incur the practical costs associated with solidarity purchasing group involvement by quitting. Our study applies the idea of Weenink and Spaargaren that emotional energy can function as an explanatory force regarding why people engage in certain practices, and it sheds more light on how to define a practice.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019): January Issue
Towards the decarbonization of the power sector – a comparison of China, the EU and the US based on historical data
Creators: name: Noussan, Michel
name: Hafner, Manfred
name: Campbell, Loyle
name: Lu, Xinqing
name: Raimondi, Pier Paolo
name: Zhu, Erpu
name: Noussan, Michel
name: Hafner, Manfred
name: Campbell, Loyle
name: Lu, Xinqing
name: Raimondi, Pier Paolo
name: Zhu, Erpu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Electricity
subject: Power
subject: Decarbonization
subject: Energy Transition
subject: China
subject: EU
subject: US

description: This work compares the different decarbonization strategies of the power sector in China, the European Union and the United States, by considering the historical evolution of electricity generation and the current situation. Such a comparison is gaining a broader significance when evaluated with an additional level of geographic detail, by comparing European countries, Chinese provinces, and US states. The differences among these geographies highlight the challenges and opportunities of pushing towards low-carbon technologies, by making clear that regional decarbonization will need to address very different local contexts. Moreover, multiple policy and planning levels are involved, and those mechanisms are different in the three blocs being compared. Our analysis shows that these three blocs, although moving towards similar decarbonization targets, are currently at different levels of carbon intensity. The zero-carbon pathway will need to be declined in different local goals, based on the availability of low-carbon resources and the electricity demand. Given the geographical differences between demand and supply, and the likely increase of electricity demand, an improvement of power transmission networks will be essential. This work is part of a series of papers on the geopolitics of the energy transition in China, the European Union and the United States of America.
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopic Observations of a Possible E+A Progenitor SDSS J160241.00+521426.9
Creators: name: Matsubayashi, Kazuya
name: Yagi, Masafumi
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Akita, Akira
name: Sugai, Hajime
name: Kawai, Atsushi
name: Shimono, Atsushi
name: Hattori, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to investigate the evolution of E+A galaxies, we observed a galaxy SDSS J160241.00+521426.9, a possible E+A progenitor which shows both emission and strong Balmer absorptions, and its neighbor galaxy. We used the integral field spectroscopic mode of the Kyoto Tridimensional Spectrograph (Kyoto3DII), mounted on the University of Hawaii 88-inch telescope located on Mauna Kea, and the slit-spectroscopic mode of the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) on the Subaru Telescope. We found a strong Balmer absorption region in the center of the galaxy and an emission-line region located 2 kpc from the center, in the direction of its neighbor galaxy. The recession velocities of the galaxy and its neighbor galaxy differ only by 100 km s^-1, which suggests that they are a physical pair and would have been interacting. Comparing observed Lick indices of Balmer lines and color indices with those predicted from stellar population synthesis models, we find that a suddenly quenched star-formation scenario is plausible for the star-formation history of the central region. We consider that star formation started in the galaxy due to galaxy interactions and was quenched in the central region, whereas star formation in a region offset from the center still continues or has begun recently. This work is the first study of a possible E+A progenitor using spatially resolved spectroscopy.
description: 39 pages, 10 figures and 10 tables, accepted to ApJ
Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Creators: name: Chiffoleau, Yuna
name: Loconto, Allison Marie
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: In the literature and in current public discourse, innovation is usually taken to mean technological innovation, which is carried out through the figure of the entrepreneur. This editorial introduction first goes back to the emergence of the notion of social innovation, dedicated to including other processes, actors and purposes. It reminds us that the notion has been shaped by the crises that faced societies from the 1970s and presents the two fields of research that have anchored the notion in different theoretical positions. We highlight how the food and agricultural sector illustrates the three current meanings of social innovation, despite the fact that the general literature on social innovation usually focuses only on a few types of initiatives. We explain how the papers of this special issue demonstrate that agriculture and food represent an exemplary empirical terrain to push forward thinking in the field, such as the need for a better understanding of ‘social innovation in the making’ or of the processes of innovation scaling. This introduction thus not only consolidates a collection of contributions to the area of research on social innovation in the sociology of agriculture and food, but it also frames a new and potential contribution of sociology to the literature on social innovation.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
The Emergence, dynamics and agency of social innovation in seed exchange networks
Creators: name: Balázs, Bálint
name: Aistara, Guntra
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: Seed movements are more than a manifestation of the struggle to increase farmers’ and gardeners’ access to seeds. In this article, we explore seed saving and sharing as networked practices for the maintenance of genetic diversity as well as for social innovation in a new type of seed exchange networks in Hungary, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK and the European Coordination of the Let’s Liberate Diversity network. We analyse our qualitative interview data using Transformative Social Innovation theory as a new perspective to link social movement and social innovation literature. We focus on the emergence, dynamics, and agency of seed exchange networks in Europe as innovative social configurations to explore how seed networks promote transformations in agricultural, ecological, political, material, social, and cultural realms. We conclude that social innovation arises when the material exchange of seeds is intertwined with interpersonal sharing of knowledge that helps to create new social relationships and reframe global agricultural problems. The materiality of the seed is the intermediary that unites people, ideas, and networks across sectors, and serves as a means to redefine social relationships and create new modes of learning, doing, framing, and organising.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Additional file 2 of Transfer of knowledge to diagnose infant abuse and its incidence – a time-series analysis from Sweden
Creators: name: Högberg, Ulf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Additional file 2 of MiR-206 may regulate mitochondrial ROS contribute to the progression of Myocardial infarction via TREM1
Creators: name: Lin, Hao
name: Chu, Jiapeng
name: Yuan, Deqiang
name: Wang, Kangwei
name: Chen, Fei
name: Liu, Xuebo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table S2. The information of 10 hub genes identified in this study.
Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Italy
Creators: name: Maestripieri, Lara
name: Giroletti, Toa
name: Podda, Antonello
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: Over the last twenty years, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) have become increasingly successful at reducing the length of the chain that connects food production and consumption in an attempt to counteract the impact of the contradictions of the industrial food system and its supermarket-dominated distribution. Their grassroots actions, aimed at overcoming pre-existing socio-economic structures, are in line with social innovations, which have the objective of promoting the social participation of consumers and producers in food systems (empowerment, socio-political activism or social integration in society). In Italy, the Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs), have been the subject of numerous academic studies, but the scope of these studies has, to date, been limited to the political activism of the consumer. The ability of this experience to foster the social participation of the groups’ suppliers and the effects that the exchange has on the economic life of the producers have not yet been adequately studied. This article addresses this gap by investigating the extent to which SPGs can reduce the economic marginalisation of their suppliers and evaluates if the activities they promote could increase their social participation. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, this study shows that SPGs, in contrast to other AFNs, maintain a clear separation between consumers and producers and this could mitigate the positive impact of these initiatives on their suppliers. Our analysis of the suppliers shows that SPGs can act as a safety net against economic downturns and that the social participation of the producers involved is higher at the macro, meso and individual levels, compared to producers who do not cooperate with the SPGs.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Urban Food Movements and Their Transformative Capacities
Creators: name: Kropp, Cordula
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: The paper explores how the transformative capacity of the urban food movement can be judged. To this end, it firstly presents what the founders of German initiatives and their members and customers tell about their motives and strategies. Subsequently, the various projects are discussed as part of a broader transformative social movement whose transformative capacity is considered from a non-economic perspective along the lines of transformative social innovation. A discussion of the urban food movement as a place of sustainability innovations compared to sustainability innovations within the established system follows before the findings on the transformative capacity are summarized.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
(In)comprensione di problemi: attività di cooperative learning promuovono comprensione e emozioni positive di fronte ai problemi matematici
Creators: name: Lorenzetti, Claudia
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2019

description: Molti allievi delle scuole medie non amano la matematica. Ricerche hanno concluso che i ragazzi hanno particolari difficoltà nella risoluzione di problemi, specialmente nella comprensione del testo. Questo lavoro mira a investigare se attività di cooperative learning contribuiscono a sviluppare strategie efficaci nella comprensione di problemi matematici e emozioni più positive nei loro confronti. La raccolta di concezioni e metodologie di risoluzione pregresse è stata svolta attraverso un questionario iniziale. In seguito, sono state sottoposte agli allievi tre situazioni che prevedevano il passaggio da un lavoro individuale, per stimolare la responsabilità dell’allievo, alla discussione nel lavoro cooperativo in coppia e in gruppo, per promuovere il confronto tra pari. Al termine di questo percorso, un questionario finale ha raccolto i cambiamenti avvenuti. Prima di svolgere le attività, gli allievi esprimevano emozioni perlopiù negative nei confronti dei problemi matematici. Ciò era correlato ad una misconcezione del significato di problema basata unicamente sul concetto di difficoltà e ad una mancanza di attenzione verso le informazioni fornite nel testo. Affrontando il percorso progettato, gli allievi hanno sviluppato strategie efficaci nella comprensione dei problemi: prestano maggiore attenzione alle informazioni fornite e riconoscono l’utilità di porsi domande. La didattica del cooperative learning ha oltretutto migliorato le emozioni provate dagli allievi nei confronti dei problemi matematici. Questi risultati dimostrano la necessità di proporre agli allievi più attività di cooperative learning, al fine di favorire una comprensione e delle emozioni migliori di fronte ai problemi matematici. Relatrice: Patrizia Renzetti. Materia: Matematica.
Thermal properties of Ba3Ti3B2O12 glasses
Creators: name: Vaish, Rahul
name: Varma, K. B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transparent glasses in the system 3BaO-3TiO2-B2O3 (BTBO) were fabricated via the conventional melt-quenching technique. The as-quenched samples were confirmed to be glassy by differential thermal analysis (DTA) technique. The thermal parameters were evaluated using non-isothermal DTA experiments. Kauzmann temperature was found to be 759 K based on heating rate dependent glass transition and crystallization temperatures. Theoretical relation for temperature dependent viscosity was proposed for these glasses and glass-ceramics.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Systematic levels of IL-29 and microRNA185-5p were not associated with severe COVID-19 in the Iranian population
Creators: name: Sarrafi, Omidreza
name: Kariminik, Ashraf
name: Arababadi, Mohammad Kazemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
A possible solution to the [alpha/Fe]-sigma problem in early type galaxies within a hierarchical galaxy formation model
Creators: name: Calura, Francesco
name: Menci, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most massive elliptical galaxies apparently formed the fastest, because the ratio of alpha elements (such as oxygen) to iron is the smallest. In fact, iron is mainly produced from type Ia supernovae on a timescale of ~ 0.1-1 billion years, while the alpha elements come from massive stars on timescales of a few tens of million years (Matteucci 1994). Reproducing such a alpha/Fe correlation has long been a severe problem for cosmological theories of galaxy formation, which envisage massive galaxies to assemble gradually from smaller progenitors, and to be characterized by a star formation history too much extended towards late cosmic times. While it has recently become clear that feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) activity play a role in the late quenching of star formation (e.g. Cattaneo et al. 2009), and that early star formation history in the galaxy progenitors affect the alpha/Fe ratio (Calura & Menci 2009), major mergers alone cannot enhance the star formation in the high-redshift progenitors to the levels required to match the steepness of the observed alpha/Fe correlation (Spolaor et al. 2010). Here we report that the inclusion of the effects of fly-by 'harassments', that trigger lower level starbursts, combined with the AGN quenching of the starburst activity, considerably enhances the capability to account for the observed alpha/Fe ratio in ellipticals within cosmological galaxy formation models . The critical difference between the earlier work and the present result is the effect of starbursts driven by fly-by encounters that would have been very common amongst the high-redshift progenitors of massive galaxies and which would have boosted star formation in the first 2 billion years after the Big Bang, combined with quenching of the burst activity within the first 3-4 Gyr.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS Letters, accepted
transformative potential of social innovation. The case of wheat and bread value chain in Tuscany
Creators: name: Rossi, Adanella
name: Bocci, Riccardo
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: The complexity of the transition to more sustainable food systems has taken multiple trajectories, differently driven and oriented. In this scenario, innovation pathways promoted at the grassroots level and based on collective action driven by social purposes appear to carry a strong transformative capacity. Considered as expressions of social innovation, their study has been approached through different theoretical frameworks. By referring to some of these, and in particular to the developments of transition theories, we analyse the innovation pathways involving the wheat-bread value chain in Tuscany (Italy). The analysis sheds light on the relevance of the nature of social innovation carried out by grassroots initiatives in their pursuing radical change aimed at deeply redefining production-consumption practices through social interaction, to meet socially shared needs and achieving several social benefits. The paper also analyses the factors and mechanisms underlying the change processes this innovation has triggered in the mainstream system, focusing on the so-called “anchoring” process. Through this analysis, the work aims at improving the understanding of the transformative potential of social innovation.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Additional file 3 of Transfer of knowledge to diagnose infant abuse and its incidence – a time-series analysis from Sweden
Creators: name: Högberg, Ulf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3.
Factors for Effectiveness of Social Innovations in Urban Agriculture
Creators: name: Pickard, Dona
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: The paper offers an analysis of an urban agriculture case in Plovdiv, the second largest city in Bulgaria, where the municipality is clearing more than 2 hectares of allotments that have been tolerated on public land for more than 30 years in order to extend the neighbouring park, without involving the evicted allotment users in a discussion about the future of urban agriculture. At the same time, a number of non-governmental organizations are promoting urban agriculture practices as a social innovation that can alleviate pressing urban problems such as poverty and social exclusion. Using two theoretical viewpoints, the text presents this case as an example of the barriers that hinder a social practice that displays all the prerequisites to fully empower its members and be implemented as a meaningful social innovation. The first viewpoint is based on the writings of Moulaert and co-authors, and explores the factors that make social innovations capable of changing social relations in regard to governance, thus enabling satisfaction of the needs and increasing the level of participation of deprived groups in society by boosting the civic capability to access required resources (Moulaert et al, 2005). The second viewpoint gives grounds for analysing public space as a common good that exists in three interrelated but distinct forms: perceived, conceived and lived space (Lefebvre, 1991; 1996). Borrowing from Lefebvre’s model, the paper analyses the social processes that characterise the development of urban agriculture practices as a manifestation of “the right to the city” in the sense of civic engagement in the creation of urban space and its physical use.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Transport properties of graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Jhon W.
name: Pacheco, Monica
name: Rosales, Luis
name: Orellana, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a single-band tight binding Hamiltonian and the Green's function formalism using real space renormalization techniques. We show calculations of the local density of states, linear conductance and I-V characteristics. Our results depict a resonant behavior of the conductance in the quantum dot structures which can be controlled by changing geometrical parameters such as the nanoribbon segments widths and relative distance between them. By applying a gate voltage on determined regions of the structure, it is possible to modulate the transport response of the systems. We show that negative differential resistance can be obtained for low values of gate and bias voltages applied.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. B
Generalized quantum isotonic nonlinear oscillator in d dimensions
Creators: name: Hall, Richard L.
name: Saad, Nasser
name: Yesiltas, Ozlem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a supersymmetric analysis for the d-dimensional Schroedinger equation with the generalized isotonic nonlinear-oscillator potential V(r)={B^2}/{r^{2}}+ω^{2} r^{2}+2g{(r^{2}-a^{2})}/{(r^{2}+a^{2})^{2}}, B\geq 0. We show that the eigenequation for this potential is exactly solvable provided g=2 and (ωa^2)^2 = B^2 +(\ell +(d-2)/2)^2. Under these conditions, we obtain explicit formulae for all the energies and normalized bound-state wavefunctions.
description: 8 pages, no figures
Transformative Social Innovation for Food Sovereignty: The Disruptive Alternative
Creators: name: Juárez, Paula
name: Trentini, Florencia
name: Becerra, Lucas
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: In the last decade, a new concept has emerged in Europe and the Americas to explain a ‘new’ phenomenon of societal and technological organization oriented to the resolution of social and environmental issues: social innovation. In certain contexts, social innovators confront dominant institutions in order to achieve their political, economic, and cultural goals. This confrontation has a transformative character. In this sense, transformative social innovation may be defined as ‘changes in social relations, involving new ways of doing, organizing, framing and/or knowing, which challenge, alter, and/or replace established (dominant) institutions in a specific socio-material context.’ This framework, developed as a result of the Transformative Social Innovation Theory Project, refers to the ability to design and implement new forms of social interaction that enable people and social groups to carry out strategies and deploy narratives that lead, under certain conditions, to transformative change that engenders modifications in social and/or environmental dynamics. This article presents a conceptual framework to understand transformative social innovation, which is then used to analyze the case of the La Vía Campesina (the International Peasant Movement), focusing on: 1) the strategies employed in terms of a social innovation agent, and 2) the construction of narratives of change oriented to empower peasants and generate a collective identity of the peasantry at a global level. Finally, the article presents closing remarks in order to conceptualize the social innovation capabilities of certain global movements (such as La Vía Campesina) and their achievements related to inclusive sustainable development, where food production and distribution, as well as territorial development, are fundamental.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Approximate equivalence between guided modes in a low-contrast photonic bandgap fiber and Maxwell TM modes of a high-contrast two-dimensional photonic structure
Creators: name: Legrand, Olivier
name: Labonté, Laurent
name: Vanneste, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formal analogy between the eigenvalue problem for guided scalar modes in a low-contrast photonic bandgap fiber and quasi-stationary TM modes of a two-dimensional (2D) photonic structure. Using this analogy, we numerically study the confinement losses of disordered microstructured fibers through the leakage rate of an open 2D system with high refractive index inclusions. Our results show that for large values of the disorder, the confinement losses increase. However, they also suggest that losses might be improved in strongly disordered fibers by exploring ranges of physical parameters where Anderson localization sets in.
Additional file 1 of Cross-species transcriptomic analyses reveals common and opposite responses in Arabidopsis, rice and barley following oxidative stress and hormone treatment
Creators: name: Hartmann, Andreas
name: Berkowitz, Oliver
name: Whelan, James
name: Narsai, Reena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Fig. 1a. Functional categories of up-regulated genes in response to stress across species. Supplemental Fig. 1b. Functional categories of down-regulated genes in response to stress across species. Supplemental Fig. 2. Differentially expressed genes within orthogroups from Arabidopsis, rice and barley. Supplemental Fig. 3. Heatmap of MDS candidate genes in Arabidopsis. Supplemental Fig. 4. Expression of genes encoding transcription factors in Arabidopsis, rice and barley in response to different stress treatments. Supplemental Fig. 5. Enrichment of transcription factor families in response to stress across species. Supplemental Fig. 6. Transcription factor families that were enriched in oppositely responsive gene-sets (up/down-regulated).
London’s urban agriculture
Creators: name: Levidow, Les
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: In cooperative food activities, the pervasive term ‘community’ plays a performative role in stimulating congenial activities which build enthusiasms and expand alternative food-supply chains. As exemplified by London’s food initiatives, community-building entails several forms of social innovation, e.g. enhancing socio-political capabilities, fulfilling unsatisfied needs and redefining societal problems. In particular, these initiatives recast ‘food poverty’ as a socio-cultural poverty which warrants a system change. They reframe ‘assets’ as people’s capacities, e.g. by defending amenities for lower-income people, re-commoning urban spaces, and resisting land-assetisation. Social innovation depends on novel forms of agency in two main processes: capabilities development for a food culture, and multi-actor territorial outscaling. Together these build solidaristic interdependencies around a vision of food sovereignty for social justice. To gain more resources, they accommodate or stretch the criteria of funding bodies; they strategically engage with local authorities as partners and/or critics. London’s food initiatives face challenges in combining these diverse aims and activities.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Social Innovation in Agriculture and Food
Additional file 2 of Systematic levels of IL-29 and microRNA185-5p were not associated with severe COVID-19 in the Iranian population
Creators: name: Sarrafi, Omidreza
name: Kariminik, Ashraf
name: Arababadi, Mohammad Kazemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
The Two-Dimensional Square-Lattice S=1/2 Antiferromagnet Cu(pz)$_2$(ClO$_4$)$_2$
Creators: name: Tsyrulin, N.
name: Xiao, F.
name: Schneidewind, A.
name: Link, P.
name: Rønnow, H. M.
name: Gavilano, J.
name: Landee, C. P.
name: Turnbull, M. M.
name: Kenzelmann, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study of the two-dimensional S=1/2 square-lattice antiferromagnet Cu(pz)$_2$(ClO$_4$)$_2$ (pz denotes pyrazine - $C_4H_4N_2$) using specific heat measurements, neutron diffraction and cold-neutron spectroscopy. The magnetic field dependence of the magnetic ordering temperature was determined from specific heat measurements for fields perpendicular and parallel to the square-lattice planes, showing identical field-temperature phase diagrams. This suggest that spin anisotropies in Cu(pz)$_2$(ClO$_4$)$_2$ are small. The ordered antiferromagnetic structure is a collinear arrangement with the magnetic moments along either the crystallographic b- or c-axis. The estimated ordered magnetic moment at zero field is m_0=0.47(5)mu_B and thus much smaller than the available single-ion magnetic moment. This is evidence for strong quantum fluctuations in the ordered magnetic phase of Cu(pz)$_2$(ClO$_4$)$_2$. Magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the square-lattice planes lead to an increase of the antiferromagnetically ordered moment to m_0=0.93(5)mu_B at mu_0H=13.5T - evidence that magnetic fields quench quantum fluctuations. Neutron spectroscopy reveals the presence of a gapped spin excitations at the antiferromagnetic zone center, and it can be explained with a slightly anisotropic nearest neighbor exchange coupling described by J_1^{xy}=1.563(13)meV and J_1^z=0.9979(2)J_1^{xy}.
Additional file 3 of MiR-206 may regulate mitochondrial ROS contribute to the progression of Myocardial infarction via TREM1
Creators: name: Lin, Hao
name: Chu, Jiapeng
name: Yuan, Deqiang
name: Wang, Kangwei
name: Chen, Fei
name: Liu, Xuebo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure 1. PCA plot of samples in different groups. Supplementary Figure 2. The original Gels of Fig. 5I were presented. Supplementary Figure 3. The original Gels of Fig. 5N and O were presented.
The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil: The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector on Its Path Towards Sustainability
Creators: name: Rengifo, Gustavo Adolfo Corrêa
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: There is great concern at present about obtaining energy for the development of humanity. Non-renewable energy resources are being depleted, and we are looking urgently to replace non-renewable rainforest wood and other slow-recovering energy resources, without the intensive use of fossil fuels. Recently, biofuels have appeared as a viable alternative due to their renewability, relative ease of production and low impact on the environment. One of the most important biofuels is ethanol, produced mainly from corn and sugarcane. The latter is used most, especially in developing countries, and Brazil is at the head of world producers of sugarcane. Brazil is the world’s leading producer of sugar and second in ethanol from sugarcane. Generally, when Brazil is named, it is thought of in terms of sugarcane and its products, tropical climate and sustainability. Sustainability is the main concern for Brazil, and it is here that a question emerges: will sugarcane crops be sustainable in the future?
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)
The Social Construction of Quality in Agri-food Localized Systems (SYAL): The Case of the Montpeyroux Wine Arrangement, France
Creators: name: Mascarenhas, Gilberto
name: Touzard, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2018

description: The approach based on localized agri-food systems (SYAL, from the French acronym) has brought about new perspectives for analysis of local productive arrangements, complementing and expanding the theoretical background of clusters and industrial districts. In addressing physical, institutional, cultural and relational factors, SYAL’s approach has enabled a more dynamic view of the processes underlying the creation, resilience and evolution of these arrangements. However, studies on this topic have only focused on some of these factors. This article aims to analyse how these factors interplay and are integrated into the consolidation of productive arrangements focused on improving the quality of local products. To that end, a case study was conducted in a wine arrangement in Montpeyroux, Southern France, which found synergies, complementarities and a reinforcement process involving these factors in the genesis and configuration of the arrangement, thus showing that methodologies that consider them in an integrated way can provide a better understanding of these arrangements in general and further strengthen SYAL assumptions.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)