cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Policy Brief
Creators: name: Ralitsa Zhekova, Serena Dentoni, Fahimeh Mousavi
Publisher: name: EMPOWEREDbyNEIA
Year: 2025

description: The purpose of this policy brief is to foster a policy and funding environment that enables the development and implementation of collaborative innovation projects in the cleantech domain. Rooted in the insights and bottom-up knowledge gathered during the EMPOWEREDbyNEIA project, the brief seeks to provide tailored recommendations to policymakers, helping them refine decisions that align with the specific needs and contexts of regional ecosystems while leveraging synergies with existing initiatives.This brief underscore the importance of equipping regional authorities with the tools and awareness to enhance their support for projects aimed at achieving environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable transformations. By advocating for targeted incentives and strategic frameworks, it highlights actionable pathways for strengthening regional and cross-regional collaborations.The scope of the policy brief extends to:− Synthesizing empirical research and insights derived from the project’s collaborative activities and entrepreneurial discovery processes.− Proposing recommendations that align with regional contexts and contribute to the broader goals of the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA).− Encouraging regional authorities to prioritize policies that enable sustainable development through innovative cleantech projects.By addressing these aspects, this policy brief aspires to act as a catalyst for meaningful policy reform, paving the way for robust innovation ecosystems and coordinated action plans across European regions.
Figure S2 from Prey speed influences the speed and structure of the raptorial strike of a ‘sit-and-wait’ predator
Creators: name: Rossoni, Sergio
name: Niven, Jeremy E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Illustrative examples of forelimb joint angle calculation.
Organochlorines as contaminants in butter and other shortenings: occurrence and exposure assessment
Creators: name: Masci, Maurizio
name: Turrini, Aida
name: Caproni, Roberto
name: Nevigato, Teresina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In the present work, experimental measurements were carried out on dietary fats purchased in stores or bought online and produced in different countries of the world. Shortenings of animal origin (lard, butter) or vegetable-made (margarine, coconut oil, hydrogenated palm/soybean oil) were selected. The concentrations of organochlorines (OC pesticides and PCBs) were measured to ascertain whether the level of these contaminants in food has decreased since they were banned and to assess the today consumer exposure to such xenobiotics. Analyses were carried out by GC-ECD and GC-MS according to the United Nations Environment Program on persistent organic pollutants. Organochlorines were detected in 85% of the samples analysed. The observed levels were not high (maximum value 5.54 ± 2.33 ng g−1) and point out a slow decline over the last years. Butter from Europe was the most studied matrix showing HCB and 4,4′-DDE as the main organochlorines that were constantly detected above the limit of quantitation. This can be explained if the past use of the two pesticides is considered. Consumption data from the EFSA database were combined with the HCB and 4,4′-DDE concentrations measured in the present research to obtain the Estimated Daily Intakes (EDIs) of the two contaminants from butter. The comparison with the Tolerable Daily Intakes (TDIs) set by World Health Organization indicates that the observed EDIs are far below the TDIs, so allowing to conclude that the risk deriving from the intake of the investigated organochlorines through butter is acceptably low for European consumers. Results relating to some non-Aroclor PCBs detected in shortenings, such as PCB 47, which have recently been discovered to be released into the environment are also reported.
Photon and Phonon Spectral-Functions for Continuum Quantum Optomechanics
Creators: name: Zoubi, Hashem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study many-particle phenomena of propagating multi-mode photons and phonons interacting through Brillouin scattering-type Hamiltonian in nanoscale waveguides. We derive photon and phonon retarded Green's functions and extract their spectral functions in applying the factorization approximation of the mean-field theory. The real part of the self-energy provides renormalization energy shifts for the photons and the phonons. Besides the conventional leaks, the imaginary part gives effective photon and phonon damping rates induced due to many-particle phenomena. The results extend the simple spectral functions of quantum optomechanics into continuum quantum optomechanics. We present the influence of thermal phonons on the photon effective damping rates, and consider cases of specific photon fields to be excited within the waveguide and which are of importance for phonon cooling scenarios.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Rotation and accretion of very low mass objects in the SigmaOri cluster
Creators: name: Scholz, Alexander
name: Eisloeffel, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on two photometric monitoring campaigns of Very Low Mass (VLM) objects in the young open cluster around SigmaOrionis. Our targets were pre-selected with multi-filter photometry in a field of 0.36 sqdeg. For 23 of these objects, spanning a mass range from 0.03 to 0.7 MS, we detect periodic variability. Of these, 16 exhibit low-level variability, with amplitudes of less than 0.2 mag in the I-band, which is mostly well-approximated by a sine wave. These periodicities are probably caused by photospheric spots co-rotating with the objects. In contrast, the remaining variable targets show high-level variability with amplitudes ranging from 0.25 to 1.1 mag, consisting of a periodic light variation onto which short-term fluctuations are superimposed. This variability pattern is very similar to the photometric behaviour of solar-mass, classical T Tauri stars. Low-resolution spectra of a few of these objects reveal strong Halpha and Ca-triplet emission, indicative of ongoing accretion processes. This suggests that 5-7% of our targets still possess a circumstellar disk. In combination with previous results for younger objects, this translates into a disk lifetime of 3-4 Myr, significantly shorter than for solar mass stars. The highly variable objects rotate on average slower than the low-amplitude variables, which is expected in terms of a disk-locking scenario. There is a trend towards faster rotation with decreasing mass, which might be caused by shortening of the disk lifetimes or attenuation of magnetic fields.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, A&A, in press
Polar pesticides in food of animal origin: interlaboratory validation to evaluate method fitness-for-purpose of official control
Creators: name: Lattanzio, Veronica Maria Teresa
name: Ciasca, Biancamaria
name: Verdini, Emanuela
name: von Holst, Christoph
name: Pecorelli, Ivan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present work reports on the design, execution and evaluation of results of an interlaboratory validation study aimed at verifying the fitness-for-purpose of a LC-MS/MS method for the detection of polar pesticides in food of animal origin in official control and monitoring programmes. To this scope, five participant laboratories, with relevant expertise, were recruited. After passing a pre-trial test, the participants were asked to analyse test samples of bovine fat, chicken eggs and cow’s milk, contaminated with 11 polar pesticides (group A: Aminomethyl phosphonic acid (AMPA), cyanuric acid, ethephon, glyphosate, fosetyl aluminium, 2-hydroxyethyphosphonic acid (HEPA), maleic hydrazide, N-acetyl-glyphosate, group B: N-acetyl glufosinate (NAG), 3-methylphosphinicopropionic acid (MPP) and glufosinate ammonium) at two different levels (0.05 and 0.25 mg/kg−1 and 0.01 and 0.05 mg/kg−1 for group A and B respectively. The method was based on acidified methanol/water extraction followed by dSPE clean up with C18 sorbent. For LC-MS/MS analysis isotopically labelled standards were used for all targeted analytes. With a couple of exceptions, average recoveries ranged from 85% to 110%, with repeatability (RSDr) ranging from 3% to 25%, and reproducibility (RSDR) from 4% to 26%. The assessment by different laboratories provided also insights on key factors impacting method performance characteristics and its implementation by new users.
title: Objectworlds : a class of computer-based discovery learning environments
Creators: name: Sellman, Royston
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1994

description: It is possible to discern a class of Computer-Based Discovery Learning Environments which centre on novel, concept rich,simulated objects and which include simple but general functions with which the objects may be manipulated. This thesis provides a history of this class of environments, which we call objectworlds, and we also give them a strict definition. We describe Gravitas, a new objectworld we have built, which allows learners to work with objects that behave like gravitating masses moving in a two dimensional space.

Gravitas contains a powerful programmable interface to the objects, in the form of a set of Logo commands, and a functionally equivalent but easier to use graphical interface which is controlled by the mouse. We show that the combination of interfaces helps learners to explore the world of these objects more effectively.

We contrast the educational experiences learners are afforded by objectworlds with those offered by two closely related kinds of Discovery Learning Environment: Simulations and Modelling Systems. We also describe a psychological framework which provides a useful way of thinking about the construction of computer simulated objects for discovery learning applications.
Forward sensitivity approach for estimating eddy viscosity closures in nonlinear model reduction
Creators: name: Ahmed, Shady E.
name: Bhar, Kinjal
name: San, Omer
name: Rasheed, Adil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a variational approach to estimate eddy viscosity using forward sensitivity method (FSM) for closure modeling in nonlinear reduced order models. FSM is a data assimilation technique that blends model's predictions with noisy observations to correct initial state and/or model parameters. We apply this approach on a projection based reduced order model (ROM) of the one-dimensional viscous Burgers equation with a square wave defining a moving shock, and the two-dimensional vorticity transport equation formulating a decay of Kraichnan turbulence. We investigate the capability of the approach to approximate an optimal value for eddy viscosity with different measurement configurations. Specifically, we show that our approach can sufficiently assimilate information either through full field or sparse noisy measurements to estimate eddy viscosity closure to cure standard Galerkin reduced order model (GROM) predictions. Therefore, our approach provides a modular framework to correct forecasting error from a sparse observational network on a latent space. We highlight that the proposed GROM-FSM framework is promising for emerging digital twin applications, where real-time sensor measurements can be used to update and optimize surrogate model's parameters.
Numerical Studies of the Compressible Ising Spin Glass
Creators: name: Marshall, Adam H.
name: Chakraborty, Bulbul
name: Nagel, Sidney R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-dimensional compressible Ising spin glass at constant volume. The spin interactions are coupled to the distance between neighboring particles in the Edwards-Anderson model with +/- J interactions. We find that the energy of a given spin configuration is shifted from its incompressible value, E_0, by an amount quadratic in E_0 and proportional to the coupling strength. We then construct a simple model expressed only in terms of spin variables that predicts the existence of a critical value of the coupling above which the spin-glass transition disappears.
description: REVTeX, 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Structural, magnetic and insulator-to-metal transitions under pressure in the GaV4S8 Mott insulator: A rich phase diagram up to 14.7 GPa
Creators: name: Mokdad, Julia
name: Knebel, Georg
name: Marin, Christophe
name: Brison, Jean-Pascal
name: Phuoc, Vinh Ta
name: Sopracase, Rodolphe
name: Colin, Claire
name: Braithwaite, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In addition to its promising potential for applications, GaV4S8 shows very interesting physical properties with temperature and magnetic field. These properties can be tuned by applying hydrostatic pressure in order to reveal and understand the physics of these materials. Not only pressure induces an insulator-to-metal transition in GaV4S8 but it also has an interesting effect on the structural and magnetic transitions. Using a combination of AC calorimetry, capacitance, and resistivity measurements under pressure, we determine the evolution of the structural and magnetic transitions with pressure and thus establish the T-P phase diagram of GaV4S8. To detect the insulator-to-metal transition, we use optical conductivity and DC resistivity measurements and we follow the evolution of the Mott gap under pressure. The structural transition temperature increases with pressure and a second transition appears above 6 GPa indicating a possible new phase with a very small gap. Pressure has surprisingly a very weak effect on the ferromagnetic transition that persists even very close to the IMT that occurs at around 14 GPa, implying that the metallic state may also be magnetic.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Chern insulating phases and thermoelectric properties of EuO/MgO(001) superlattices
Creators: name: Köksal, Okan
name: Pentcheva, Rossitza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological and thermoelectric properties of (EuO)$_{n}$/(MgO)$_{m}$(001) superlattices (SLs) are explored using density functional theory calculations including a Hubbard $U$ term together with Boltzmann transport theory. In (EuO)$_{1}$/(MgO)$_{3}$(001) SL at the lattice constant of MgO a sizable band gap of 0.51 eV is opened by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) due to a band inversion between occupied localized Eu $4f$ and $5d$ conduction electrons. This inversion between bands of opposite parity is accompanied by a spin reorientation in the spin-texture along the contour of band crossing surrounding the $Γ$ point and leads to a Chern insulator with $C$=-1, also confirmed by the single edge state. Moreover, this Chern insulating phase shows promising thermoelectric properties, e.g. a Seebeck coefficient between 400 and 800 $μ$VK$^{-1}$. A similar SOC-induced band inversion takes place also in the ferromagnetic semimetallic (EuO)$_{2}$/(MgO)$_{2}$(001) SL. Despite the vanishing band gap, it leads to a substantial anomalous Hall conductivity with values up to -1.04 $e^{2}/h$ and somewhat lower thermoelectric properties. Both systems emphasize the relation between non-trivial topological bands and thermoelectricity also in systems with broken inversion symmetry.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
How many candidates are needed to make elections hard to manipulate?
Creators: name: Conitzer, Vincent
name: Lang, Jerome
name: Sandholm, Tuomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.11

description: In multiagent settings where the agents have different preferences, preference aggregation is a central issue. Voting is a general method for preference aggregation, but seminal results have shown that all general voting protocols are manipulable. One could try to avoid manipulation by using voting protocols where determining a beneficial manipulation is hard computationally. The complexity of manipulating realistic elections where the number of candidates is a small constant was recently studied (Conitzer 2002), but the emphasis was on the question of whether or not a protocol becomes hard to manipulate for some constant number of candidates. That work, in many cases, left open the question: How many candidates are needed to make elections hard to manipulate? This is a crucial question when comparing the relative manipulability of different voting protocols. In this paper we answer that question for the voting protocols of the earlier study: plurality, Borda, STV, Copeland, maximin, regular cup, and randomized cup. We also answer that question for two voting protocols for which no results on the complexity of manipulation have been derived before: veto and plurality with runoff. It turns out that the voting protocols under study become hard to manipulate at 3 candidates, 4 candidates, 7 candidates, or never.
Table S1 from Prey speed influences the speed and structure of the raptorial strike of a ‘sit-and-wait’ predator
Creators: name: Rossoni, Sergio
name: Niven, Jeremy E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Summary of the linear mixed-effects models used for testing.
Angle-resolved photoemission study of USb2: the 5f band structure
Creators: name: Guziewicz, E.
name: Durakiewicz, T.
name: Butterfield, M. T.
name: Olson, C. G.
name: Joyce, J. J.
name: Arko, A. J.
name: Sarrao, J. L.
name: Moore, D. P.
name: Morales, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystal antiferromagnetic USb2 was studied at 15K by angle-resolved photoemission with an overall energy resolution of 24 meV. The measurements unambiguously show the dispersion of extremely narrow bands situated near the Fermi level. The peak at the Fermi level represents the narrowest feature observed in 5f-electron photoemission to date. The natural linewidth of the feature just below the Fermi level is not greater than 10 meV. Normal emission data indicate a three dimensional aspect to the electronic structure of this layered material.
description: 22 pages including figures
Prediction and Protection of Cultivated Land in China
Creators: name: YANG Renyi
name: LIU Fenglian
name: YANG Zisheng
name: YANG Renyi
name: LIU Fenglian
name: YANG Zisheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cultivated land, Scale, Prediction, Cultivated land protection, China, Ordinary least square (OLS) regression model

description: [Objectives] To protect cultivated land and ensure national food security and to forecast the cultivated land area of China and the provinces (cities) in 2030, 2035 and 2050. [Methods] Based on the cultivated land area data of the whole country and provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) from 2009 to 2017, the OLS model is used to forecast the cultivated land area of China and the provinces (cities) in 2030, 2035 and 2050. [Results] The results show that the predicted area of cultivated land in 2030, 2035 and 2050 is 134.088 6 million ha, 133.785 6 million ha and 132.876 4 million ha, respectively, showing an obvious decreasing trend. The national cultivated land scale predicted in this paper can meet the requirements of the 2030 national cultivated land retention target set in the National Land Planning Outline (2016-2030).However, in the total area of existing cultivated land, there is still a certain area of sloping cultivated land (accounting for about 4% of the total cultivated land area, it is appropriate to gradually return farmland to forest).At the same time, nearly 20% of the cultivated land has been polluted, and the low-quality cultivated land accounts for about 22% of the total cultivated land. [Conclusions] The situation of cultivated land protection in the whole country is not rosy. For this reason, some measures and suggestions are put forward: strengthening land consolidation, striving to improve the quality of cultivated land, and appropriately increasing new cultivated land; strengthening the protection of cultivated land resources and strictly controlling the reduction of cultivated land.Key words Cultivated land, Scale, Prediction, Cultivated land protection, China, Ordinary least square (OLS) regression model
description: Prediction and Protection of Cultivated Land in China
A unique representation of polyhedral types
Creators: name: Springborn, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B10

description: It is known that for each combinatorial type of convex 3-dimensional polyhedra, there is a representative with edges tangent to the unit sphere. This representative is unique up to projective transformations that fix the unit sphere. We show that there is a unique representative (up to congruence) with edges tangent to the unit sphere such that the origin is the barycenter of the points where the edges touch the sphere.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. v2: belated upload of final version (of March 2004)
Pteroneta Deeleman-Reinhold 2001
Creators: name: Versteirt, V.
name: Deeleman-Reinhold, C.
name: Baert, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Clubionidae
Pteroneta

description: Pteroneta Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 145.
  Type species. –  Pteroneta saltans (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001). A description of this species is given by Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) based on a male specimen from the Lesser Sunda Island, Sumba [Province], Indonesia.
 Remarks. – For further diagnosis and description of the genus we refer to the work done by Christa Deeleman-Reinhold (2001). A total of 109 specimens were sampled (60 location points) and studied (26 males and 83 females).
description: Published as part of Versteirt, V., Deeleman-Reinhold, C. & Baert, L., 2008, Description Of New Species Of The Genus Pteroneta (Arachnida: Araneae: Clubionidae) From Papua New Guinea, pp. 307-315 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4508188
Confirmed short periodic variability of subparsec supermassive binary black hole candidate Mrk 231
Creators: name: Kovacevic, Andjelka B.
name: Yi, Tignfeng
name: Dai, Xinyu
name: Yang, Xing
name: Cvorovic-Hajdinjak, Iva
name: Popovic, Luka C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we confirm the short periodic variability of a subparsec supermassive binary black hole (SMBBH) candidate Mrk 231 in the extended optical photometric data set collected by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) and All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). Using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and 2DHybrid method, we detected the significant periodicity of ~ 1.1 yr beyond a damped random walk model in the CRTS+ASAS-SN optical data set. Mrk 231 has been previously proposed as a SMBBH candidate with a highly unequal mass ratio (q~ 0.03), very tight mutual separation of ~590 AU, and an orbital period of ~1.2 yr. Hence, our result further supports, even though not prove, the intriguing hypothesis that SMBBHs with low mass ratios may be more common than close-equal mass SMBBHs. This result, however, was obtained from the contribution of CRTS data with limited sampling cadence and photometric accuracy, and further monitoring of Mrk 231 is crucial to confirm the periodicity.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Assessing the Relationship between Quality Competitiveness and the Safety of Domestic Agricultural Products in Japan
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Ryo
name: Sakamoto, Ryo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: quality competitiveness
subject: food safety
subject: domestic agricultural products
subject: SPS agreement
subject: welfare analysis

description: In Japan, it is widely believed that domestic agricultural products have higher quality because they have a higher level of safety, both objectively and subjectively, than imported products. However, no research examines whether safety attributes can establish the facts regarding the quality of domestic products. Thus, this article assesses the relationship between quality competitiveness and safety in a bilateral trade framework under the WTO/SPS agreement. The result of theoretical analysis indicates that when an importing country changes its safety regulations based on scientific evidence, it is necessary to ensure the same level of subjective safety between imported and domestic products in order to maximize its economic welfare. In fact, the tendency of differences in subjective safety levels among countries to decrease can be confirmed by experiences accumulated in U.S.-Japan bilateral issues raised over beef BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). This implies that safety attributes will not be critical factors in the maintenance of quality competitiveness in Japan's agriculture in the future.
Semileptonic Decay of $B$ and $D\to K^*_0(1430) \bar{\ell}ν$ From QCD Sum Rule
Creators: name: Yang, Mao-Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate $B_{(s)}$, and $D_{(s)}$ to $K^*_0(1430)$ transition form factors, and study semileptonic decays of $B_{(s)}$ and $D_{(s)}\to K_0^*(1430) \bar{\ell}ν$ based on QCD sum rule. Measuring these semileptonic decays with high statistics will give valuable information on the nature of light scalar mesons.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures,latex,typos and errors corrected
Emergy Estimation of the Main Forest Biomass in Shangri-La, Tibetan Area of Yunnan Province
Creators: name: LIU Yun
name: LIU Yun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Emergy, Forest, Shangri-La, Biomass, Estimation

description: [Objectives] To calculate and study the biomass emergy of main forests in Shangri-La, Tibetan area of Yunnan Province. [Methods] Four main forest biomass values of P. likiangensis and A. georgei, P. densata, Q. aquifolioides and P. yunnanensis in Shangri-La, Yunnan were determined by emergy method. [Results] The energy of the four kinds of forests was 2 572 252.490 6×106 J, the emergy was 10 767.336 6×1020sej, and the economic value was 43 756.841 1×0.1 billion yuan. The total economic value was 41.56 times of GDP and 5 494.94 times of forestry output value in 2020; the emergy storage density was 9 271.795 9×1010 sej/m2, and the per capita emergy reserve was 741.2 202×1016 sej/person; the per capita macro value was 30.122 081 million yuan, which was 875.59 times that of the per capita GNP of 34 402 yuan in 2020. [Conclusions] The value of forest ecological assets was mainly distributed in P. likiangensis and A. georgei in four main forests and arborous layer in vertical layer. The value of forest biomass in Shangri-La is much higher than that of developing forestry economy, and it is a valuable and potential asset. We should strengthen the protection of forest ecological environment and maintain forest assets.
Microwave multiphoton conversion via coherently driven permanent dipole systems
Creators: name: Mirzac, Alexandra
name: Carlig, Sergiu
name: Macovei, Mihai A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the multiphoton quantum dynamics of a leaking single-mode quantized cavity field coupled with a resonantly driven two-level system possessing permanent dipoles. The frequencies of the interacting subsystems are being considered very different, e.g., microwave ranges for the cavity and optical domains for the frequency of the two-level emitter, respectively. In this way, the emitter couples to the resonator mode via its diagonal dipole moments only. Furthermore, the generalized Rabi frequency resulting form the external coherent driving of the two-level subsystem is assumed as well different from the resonator's frequency or its multiples. As a consequence, this highly dispersive interaction regime is responsible for the cavity multiphoton quantum dynamics and photon conversion from optical to microwave ranges, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Hamiltonian treatment of the (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Brits, Lionel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The (2+l)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory is studied in the functional Schrödinger formalism using the machinery laid out by Karabali and Nair. The low-lying spectrum of the theory is computed by analyzing correlators of the Leigh-Minic-Yelnikov ground-state wave-functional in the Abelian limit. The contribution of the WZW measure is treated by a controlled approximation and the resulting spectrum is shown to reduce to that obtained by Leigh et al., at large momentum. The inclusion of fundamental Fermions is done from first-principles, and it is found that the requirement of gauge invariance spoils the commutativity between gauge and matter fields.
The Significance of Quality in Rice Distribution: Discussion of the Factors in Competitiveness
Creators: name: Fuyuki, Katsuhito
name: Fuyuki, Katsuhito
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: rice distribution
subject: former food control system
subject: grading
subject: the area of production and the kind of rice
subject: actual demand stage

description: The purpose of this paper is to clarify factors that have an influence on the competitiveness in the selling of rice. Therefore I looked back on the history of rice distribution from the viewpoint of quality. As a result, I made clear that a wide variety of “quality" is necessary at the actual demand stage; however, consciousness of the grading based on the area of production and the kind of rice remains on not only the production side but also that of the consumers even now, and this is because it was carried out under the former food control system. In addition, I pointed out that an improvement in the essential quality of rice is demanded under the assumption international competition, but the weakening of farming manpower is a serious problem.
Food Quality Issues and Food-related Firms' Procurement Activities of Imported Agricultural Products
Creators: name: Kidachi, Manao
name: Kidachi, Manao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: diversification of quality concept
subject: food-related firm
subject: food safety
subject: physical distribution quality
subject: alue-added strategy

description: This paper analyzed firstly the positive meanings of imperfect competition, diversification of quality concept and role of various actors, and secondly the complicated procurement activities by Japanese food-related firms. Though quality control systems for vegetables have been strengthened after pesticide problems happened in China, they still remain partial. It is a crucial task for food-related firms to establish a supply chain based on trust. Long delivery time and large lot size are inevitable for imported products. As far as Japanese food-related firms express an orientation for postponement procurement, Japanese agricultural products can gain the competitive advantage of physical distribution quality. On the other hand, as there is a case that imported agricultural products are positioned as a means of differentiation strategies, any quality advantage depends on each food-related firm's strategy.
Stochastically Stable Quenched Measures
Creators: name: Bianchi, Alessandra
name: Contucci, Pierluigi
name: Knauf, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a class of stochastically stable quenched measures. We prove that stochastic stability is fully characterized by an infinite family of zero average polynomials in the covariance matrix entries.
description: 13 pages
Figure S4 from Prey speed influences the speed and structure of the raptorial strike of a ‘sit-and-wait’ predator
Creators: name: Rossoni, Sergio
name: Niven, Jeremy E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: P. aeruginosa can abandon a strike.
Ecological Investigation and Ecological Security Assessment of Xizhijiang River Basin in Huizhou City of Guangdong Province
Creators: name: QIN Jianqian
name: HE Zifeng
name: CHEN Jianmei
name: HUANG Xiaoping
name: YU Dongni
name: WU Shaoli
name: QIN Jianqian
name: HE Zifeng
name: CHEN Jianmei
name: HUANG Xiaoping
name: YU Dongni
name: WU Shaoli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Xizhi River Basin, Ecological security assessment, DPSIR model

description: In addition to such ecological problems as the pollution of the water system, the unreasonable structure of the upstream Basin and the insufficient water conservation forests, the Xizhi River Basin also faces human decision-making problems such as imperfect ecological compensation mechanism. In view of the above problems, using the DPSIR model (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses), this paper analyzed eucalyptus forest in Xizhi River Basin to assess the security of the Xizhi River ecological Basin, and finally concluded that the ecological status of Xizhi River Basin remains safe.
Molecular Cloning and Bioinformatics Analysis of araC Gene of Vibrio alginolyticus
Creators: name: MO Fangling
name: AFRIYIE Gyamfua
name: HU Jialing
name: WANG Junling
name: ZHOU Shihui
name: WANG Zhongduo
name: F.K.A.KUEBUTORNYE
name: PAN Chuanhao
name: PANG Huanying
name: MO Fangling
name: AFRIYIE Gyamfua
name: HU Jialing
name: WANG Junling
name: ZHOU Shihui
name: WANG Zhongduo
name: F.K.A.KUEBUTORNYE
name: PAN Chuanhao
name: PANG Huanying
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Vibrio alginolyticus, araC gene, Gene cloning, Bioinformatics analysis

description: [Objective] To clone araC gene of Vibrio alginolyticus HY9901 strain, and analyze bioinformatics. [Methods] the whole genome sequence of Vibrio alginolyticus on GenBank was used to design specific primers. According to the principle of PCR amplification sequence, the target gene araC was amplified, and then the sequence was further analyzed by bioinformatics method to establish the phylogenetic tree of araC gene and its corresponding subunit three-dimensional structure model. [Results] Sequence analysis revealed araC gene is 711 bp and encodes a putative protein of 236 amino acids. The predicted molecular mass of AraCwas 26.92 ku. Using Signal P 4.0 and TMHMM Server 2.0 software for analysis, it was predicted that the AraC protein did not contain a signal peptide or a transmembranous region. The AraC protein had two cAMP and cGMP dependent protein kinase phosphorylation site, five protein kinase C phosphorylation sites, three casein kinase II phosphorylation sites, one prenyl group binding site (CAAX box) and five microbodies C-terminal targeting signal. The predicted results of protein subcellular localization showed that AraC was located in the mitochondria, nucleus and cytoplasm. Its protein is unstable and hydrophilic. The AraC protein is a transcriptional regulatory protein which belongs to HTH_18 superfamily. According to the prediction, secondary structure: a-helix (Alpha helix) accounted for 52.12%, Random coil (31.78%), Extended strand (11.02%), b-fold (Beta turn) accounted for 5.08%. V. alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio palustris were clustered together, which implies that the genetic relationship between these three species was the closest.
Remarks on dimensional reduction of multidimensional cosmological models
Creators: name: Guenther, Uwe
name: Zhuk, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multidimensional cosmological models with factorizable geometry and their dimensional reduction to effective four-dimensional theories are analyzed on sensitivity to different scalings. It is shown that a non-correct gauging of the effective four-dimensional gravitational constant within the dimensional reduction results in a non-correct rescaling of the cosmological constant and the gravexciton/radion masses. The relationship between the effective gravitational constants of theories with different dimensions is discussed for setups where the lower dimensional theory results via dimensional reduction from the higher dimensional one and where the compactified space components vary dynamically.
description: 9 pages, Latex2e, Conf. Proc., Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, July 20-26, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presentation and references extended
Friable Callus Induction of Hedera nepalensis var. sinensis
Creators: name: XU Dingfan
name: LIU Yanjun
name: LIU Yawen
name: HUANG Junxuan
name: WU Chunxia
name: LI Jianke
name: XU Dingfan
name: LIU Yanjun
name: LIU Yawen
name: HUANG Junxuan
name: WU Chunxia
name: LI Jianke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Hedera nepalensis var. sinensis, Stem segment, Friable callus, Hormone

description: [Objectives] The purpose was to establish an induction system for friable callus of Hedera nepalensis var. sinensis with different parts. [Methods] By screening the most suitable explant and adjusting the hormone ratio of medium, friable calli of H. nepalensis var. sinensis were induced. [Results] The calli could be induced from leaves, petioles and stem segments, but the ideal explant was stem segments, with induction rate reaching 98%. The optimal medium for callus proliferation was MS + 0.5 mg/L KT + 1.0 mg/L 2,4-D + 30.0 g/L sucrose. After 3-4 generations of subculture on MS+0.5 mg/L BA+1.0 mg/L 2,4-D+30.0 g/L sucrose, favorable friable calli of H. nepalensis var. sinensis were obtained. [Conclusions] The friable calli induced in this experiment can lay a foundation for in-vitro regeneration and cellular secondary metabolite production of H. nepalensis var. sinensis.
Kinetics of random sequential adsorption of two-dimensional shapes on a one-dimensional line
Creators: name: Cieśla, Michał
name: Kozubek, Konrad
name: Kubala, Piotr
name: Baule, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Saturated random sequential adsorption packings built of two-dimensional ellipses, spherocylinders, rectangles, and dimers placed on a one-dimensional line are studied to check analytical prediction concerning packing growth kinetics [A. Baule, Phys. Rev. Let. 119, 028003 (2017)]. The results show that the kinetics is governed by the power-law with the exponent $d=1.5$ and $2.0$ for packings built of ellipses and rectangles, respectively, which is consistent with analytical predictions. However, for spherocylinders and dimers of moderate width-to-height ratio, a transition between these two values is observed. We argue that this transition is a finite size effect that arises for spherocylinders due to the properties of the contact function. In general, it appears that the kinetics of packing growth can depend on packing size even for very large packings.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
Public Funding Repository
Creators: name: Antonela Marincat, Fahimeh Mousavi, All partners
Publisher: name: EMPOWEREDbyNEIA
Year: 2025

description: This deliverable, D.3.2 Public Funding Repository, represents the key output of ‘Task 3.2 – Identifying resources to support the implementation of the action plans’ under work package 3 (WP3) of the EMPOWEREDbyNEIA project. It provides a comprehensive overview of the primary public funding opportunities available (2024-2025) at European level and within the project partners’ national and regional level. The core objective of Task 3.2 is to systematically map the existing funding landscape, spanning public funding sources across national, regional, and European levels. The result of this effort is a robust and accessible repository, designed as an actionable agenda of public funding opportunities. This repository serves as an essential tool for innovation stakeholders, fostering strategic connections with funding agencies, industry players, and local investors to drive impactful projects forward. A distinctive element of this deliverable is its detailed documentation of funding opportunities specific to each partner region. The repository features tailored sections that highlight national, regional, and local funding programmes in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Poland, and Romania. By focusing on the unique funding landscapes of these regions, the deliverable ensures that stakeholders within diverse ecosystems can access relevant and context-specific information. This targeted approach helps address disparities in funding accessibility and promotes meaningful cross-border collaboration.
Trade Rules on Food Quality and Safety Attributes and Their Trade Strategy Implications
Creators: name: Hayashi, Masanori
name: Hayashi, Masanori
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: qualitative attributes of agricultural products
subject: food safety
subject: technical regulations and standards
subject: sanitary and phytosanitary measures
subject: geographical indications

description: The evolution of trade rules on agricultural products has three aspects: firstly, from intervening to market mechanism to ʻmarket-orientedʼ; secondly, from that mainly of "mass-production and mass-consumption" products to that of "small-scale production and small-scale consumption" products; and thirdly, elaborated in a more and more detailed manner in function of the purposes and characteristics of the measures in question. Due attention should be paid to the WTO's trade issues resolving functions and rules elaboration functions as well as regional trade agreements' tendency to ‘supplement' the WTO rules as well as to realize the difficult of achieving each country's interests in the WTO. Japan has to have a clear self-recognition of the ʻqualityʼ merits of its products and make the best use of the trade rules.
How much does finance benefit society?
Creators: name: Bertocco, Giancarlo
name: Kalajzic, Andrea
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: good finance, bad finance, enterprise, speculation
subject: G01; G20; E12; E44

description: The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has generated feelings of deep aversion towards finance among the public. Zingales (2015) urges the economics profession not to underestimate these feelings, noting that economists tend to overestimate the benefits of finance and to ignore that the ‘best form of finance’ is accompanied by a ‘bad type of finance’. The problem with these statements is that the macroeconomic theory elaborated over the last decades is unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for the coexistence of these two forms of finance. The aim of this work is to present a sound explanation of the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ finance, based on: i) Keynes’s distinction between ‘enterprise’ and ‘speculation’; ii) Schumpeter analysis of the role of bank money in a capitalist economy. JEL codes: G01, G20, E12, E44 Keywords: good finance, bad finance, enterprise, speculation
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 71, N. 287 (2018): December
An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries
Creators: name: Moyo, Busani
name: Nchake, Mamello
name: Chiripanhura, Blessing
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: AGOA, SSA, propensity score matching
subject: F13; F14

description: This paper evaluates the impact of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement on the growth of exports from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Using several variants of propensity score matching techniques, results show that the impact of AGOA on SSA exports is generally negative and statistically significant. The same conclusion is reached using the difference in differences (DID) method. Further, descriptive statistics show that the proportions of Africa’s exports going to the EU and the US since 2011 have been declining and the export shares of the three largest exporters to the US, namely, South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, are falling. JEL codes: F13, F14 Keywords: AGOA, SSA, propensity score matching
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 71, N. 287 (2018): December
How Should We Overcome Chronic Deficit?
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Taichi
name: Kitagawa, Taichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: chronic deficit
subject: the rule about the expenditure including Special Accounts
subject: the further consciousness raising and cooperation of the members

description: As for the financial status of this society, the situation of chronic deficit of accounts in a single year is becoming common. On the other hand, relative abundance exists for Special Accounts. In response to such a situation, we have maintained the rule about the expenditure including Special Accounts. We maintain an income and expenditure balance of a single year for the time being, and it will be necessary to save a balance carried forward even to some extent in future. Therefore, to keep community finances in an appropriate state, prompt fee delivery is carried out, and the further consciousness raising and cooperation of the members are indispensable.