cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gāyatrī
title: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Haas, Dominik
Year: 2019
Subjects: History of Religions, Veda, Tantra, Mantra, Goddess worship

description: The short mantra popularly called Gāyatrī or Sāvitrī certainly belongs to the most frequently used and reused texts of mankind. In the course of time it even came to be venerated as a goddess itself. The aim of this study is (1.) to investigate how the mantra gained prominence as a religious text, (2.) how it was deified and (3.) how it developed into an independent deity and (4.) how these processes interacted and influenced each other. The Gāyatrī mantra as a goddess first appears in the legend of Sāvitrī, in several legends and hymns in late Epic and Purāṇic literature from about the 4th cent. ce or earlier onwards, often as the so-called “Mother of the Vedas.” In several younger texts, we also find a more elaborate, Tantric conceptualization of the Gāyatrī, most prominently in the Gāyatrī Tantra (c. 10th–11th cent. ce). This study will focus on the complex relationships between the Gāyatrī metre, the mantra, the mantra’s literal meaning and ritual function, and the mythical and literary character and deity in Vedic and Sanskrit literature up to approximately the 10th cent. ce.
ANALYZING SMALLHOLDERS AGRICULTURAL COMMERCIALIZATION IN BURKINA FASO. THE ROLE OF TRANSACTION COSTS AND HOUSEHOLDS ASSETS
Creators: name: OUEDRAOGO, Sugrinoma Aristide
name: AL-HASSAN, Ramatu Mahama
name: AMEGASHIE, Ditchfield P. K.
name: ZAHONOGO, Pam
name: SARPONG, Daniel Bruce
name: OUEDRAOGO, Sugrinoma Aristide
name: AL-HASSAN, Ramatu Mahama
name: AMEGASHIE, Ditchfield P. K.
name: ZAHONOGO, Pam
name: SARPONG, Daniel Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: agricultural commercialization
subject: transaction costs
subject: assets
subject: Burkina Faso

description: Promoting smallholders’ agricultural commercialization is frequently identified as a promising strategy to improve agricultural contribution to poverty reduction and economic growth in developing countries. This paper analyses the determinants of agricultural commercialization of smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso, focusing on the role of transaction costs and households’ productive resources. Based on data collected in 2011 at national level from a sample of 1178 farm households, a double hurdle model of market participation and intensity of participation measured by crop commercialization index is estimated. The results indicate that households’ productive resources such as farm size per worker, use of animal traction, quantity of fertilizer used per hectare and access to credit significantly increase the likelihood of households’ market participation and the intensity of commercialization. In addition, transaction costs factors such as quality of rural roads and ownership of communication assets have positive and significant effects on the probability of market participation. Therefore, reducing remoteness-induced transaction costs by unlocking rural areas and improving farm households’ access to productive assets and technologies are required to promote agricultural transformation and commercialization of smallholder farmers.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2018.21.02.22-31 https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-21-no-2-2018/?article=analyzing-smallholders-agricultural-commercialization-in-burkina-faso-the-role-of-transaction-costs-and-households-assets
Διερεύνηση των ταυτοτήτων που κατασκευάζονται από τον Ελληνικό Τύπο για τους ανήλικους αναπήρους παραβάτες την περίοδο 1936-2006
Creators: name: Συμεωνίδου, Μάρθα Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αναπηρία
Παραβατικότητα
Ταυτότητα
Disability
Delinquency
Identity

description: Η παράμετρος της αναπηρίας η οποία συχνά συνεπάγεται ασυλοποίηση μέσω χώρων φιλοξενίας ή κράτηση όπως τα ειδικά σχολεία ή ιδρύματα, αλλά και αυτή του παραβάτη ή του εγκληματία η οποία ντετερμινιστικά οδηγεί σε παρόμοιες δομές εγκλεισμού προς σωφρονισμό, απομάκρυνση από την κοινωνία και μέτρα διορθωτικού χαρακτήρα, γέννησε την ιδέα μελέτης εφημερίδων στο βάθος χρόνου, στον Ελληνικό χώρο, προς διαπίστωση των ταυτοτήτων που κατασκευάζονται, συντηρούνται και υπερισχύουν ανά εποχή. Μέσω της έρευνας, καλούνται να απαντηθούν ερωτήματα περί της παιδικής ηλικίας ή της κατάργησής της ανά πλαίσιο αναφοράς, την επικράτηση της ταυτότητας του αναπήρου, εγκληματία ή παιδιού ανά εποχή καθώς και νέες που πιθανά θα προκύψουν, όπως αυτή του επαίτη ή του ατόμου που στηρίζεται στην φιλανθρωπία ή την πρόνοια. Τα 20 άρθρα που επιλέχθηκαν από σύνολο 5 εφημερίδων κοινού ομίλου, μελετώνται μέσω ανάλυσης ποιοτικών χαρακτηριστικών και δεν αποσκοπούν σε χαρακτήρα γενίκευσης
description: The disability as parameter, which often leads to institutionalization through hospitality or detention sites such as special schools or institutions, but also the fact being an offender or criminal, which determinately leads to similar states, removal from society and corrective character policies, gave birth to the idea of researching the press in the Greek area, to find out the identities that are manufactured, preserved and prevailing per era.Through this dissertation, the main aim is answering questions referring to childhood or abolition by reference of each framework, the prevalence of identity between disability, criminality or childhood per era as well as new identities that may arise, such as the beggar or the one who needs charities to survive. The 20 articles chosen by a total amount of 5 newspapers delivered by the same publishing company are presented through qualitative characteristics analysis while generalization is not intended to be created
On the application of Z^0+jet events for determining the gluon distribution in a proton at the LHC
Creators: name: Bandurin, D. V.
name: Skachkov, N. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the samples of Z0+jet events, collected at the LHC with the integrated luminosity L_{int}=20 fb^{-1}, may have enough statistics for determining the gluon distribution inside a proton in the region of 2*10^{-4} < x < 1.0 at Q^2 values in the interval of 0.9*10^3 < Q^2 < 4*10^4 ~(GeV/c)^2. A possibility of the background events suppression by use of the Z^0+jet events selection criteria is also demonstrated.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
BiLQ: An Iterative Method for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems with a Quasi-Minimum Error Property
Creators: name: Montoison, Alexis
name: Orban, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 15A06, 65F10, 65F25, 65F50, 93E24 90C06

description: We introduce an iterative method named BiLQ for solving general square linear systems Ax = b based on the Lanczos biorthogonalization process defined by least-norm subproblems, and that is a natural companion to BiCG and QMR. Whereas the BiCG (Fletcher, 1976), CGS (Sonneveld, 1989) and BiCGSTAB (van der Vorst, 1992) iterates may not exist when the tridiagonal projection of A is singular, BiLQ is reliable on compatible systems even if A is ill-conditioned or rank deficient. As in the symmetric case, the BiCG residual is often smaller than the BiLQ residual and, when the BiCG iterate exists, an inexpensive transfer from the BiLQ iterate is possible. Although the Euclidean norm of the BiLQ error is usually not monotonic, it is monotonic in a different norm that depends on the Lanczos vectors. We establish a similar property for the QMR (Freund and Nachtigal, 1991) residual. BiLQ combines with QMR to take advantage of two initial vectors and solve a system and an adjoint system simultaneously at a cost similar to that of applying either method. We derive an analogous combination of USYMLQ and USYMQR based on the orthogonal tridiagonalization process (Saunders, Simon, and Yip, 1988). The resulting combinations, named BiLQR and TriLQR, may be used to estimate integral functionals involving the solution of a primal and an adjoint system. We compare BiLQR and TriLQR with Minres-qlp on a related augmented system, which performs a comparable amount of work and requires comparable storage. In our experiments, BiLQR terminates earlier than TriLQR and MINRES-QLP in terms of residual and error of the primal and adjoint systems.
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water
Creators: name: Vinogradova‐Shiffer, Nadya
name: Vaze, Parag
name: Farrar, J. Thomas
name: Morrow, Rosemary
name: Cretaux, Jean‐Francois
name: Picot, Nicolas
name: Sylvestre‐Baron, Annick
name: Sengenes, Pierre
name: Dibarboure, Gerald
name: Pavelsky, Tamlin
name: Fu, Lee‐Lueng
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Year: 2024

description: The elevations of water surfaces hold important information on the earth's oceans and land surface waters. Ocean sea surface height is related to the internal change of the ocean's density and mass associated with ocean circulation and its response to climate change. The flow rates of rivers and volume changes of lakes are crucial to freshwater supplies and the hazards of floods and drought resulting from extreme weather and climate events. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission is a new satellite using advanced radar technology to make headway in observing the variability of the elevation of water surfaces globally, providing fundamentally new information previously not available to the study of earth's waters. Here, we provide the first results of SWOT over oceans, rivers, and lakes. We demonstrate the potential of the mission to address science questions in oceanography and hydrology.
Plain Language Summary Earth is a water planet. The vast amount of ocean water has stored most of the heat released to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution through burning fossil fuels. Climate change is thus moderated by the ocean. Over land the freshwater in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs, a critical natural resource, is affected by the warming climate and direct human modifications. Processes of oceanic uptake of heat and carbon from the atmosphere and cycling of freshwater on land take place at spatial scales too small to have been adequately quantified from space. A new satellite, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, was launched in December 2022. Using advanced radar technology, SWOT provides unprecedented global observations for understanding the ocean's role in climate change and how freshwater resources respond to human influence. SWOT observations near coasts will also advance understanding of how rising sea levels impact those coasts.
Key Points    The first space observations of submesoscale ocean surface topography for understanding ocean's role in heat uptake from the atmosphere   The first space observations of the change of water storage of lakes and flow rates of rivers for understanding the freshwater cycle   The first space observations of the details of the change of coastal water levels to assess the impact of local sea level rise
UNDERSTANDING THE MULTIPLE SOURCES DRIVERS OF AGRICULTURAL INCOME AMONGST SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN SOUTHERN MALI
Creators: name: DEMBELE, Bandiougou
name: BETT, Hillary K.
name: KARIUKI, Isaac Maina
name: Le BARS, Marjorie
name: DEMBELE, Bandiougou
name: BETT, Hillary K.
name: KARIUKI, Isaac Maina
name: Le BARS, Marjorie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: drivers
subject: multiple sources
subject: income
subject: multivariate probit (MVP)
subject: Southern Mali

description: Multiple sources of income are important strategies for reducing smallholder farmer liquidity constraints and over dependency on single income source. However, farmers in Southern Mali, especially Malian high agricultural potential region are still faced with liquidity constraints resulting from low income from cash crop (cotton) production. Therefore, this study was carried out to understand the factors that motivate farmers’ decision to engage in several income-generating activities. Cross-sectional data were collected from 134 randomly sampled smallholder farmers from three villages in different agro-ecological zones in Southern Mali. Multivariate probit (MVP) regression model was used to estimate the effect of socioeconomic and institutional factors on farmer participation in different sources of farm income. Correlation analysis showed that there is a significant correlation between the different income sources. Results from the econometric model revealed that the age of the family head determines the probability of farmers' participating in multiple sources of incomes, family size, dependency ratio, land tenure, education level, access to agricultural credit and extension services, cash crop income, off-farm income, input prices, agricultural output prices, and rural infrastructure. These results imply that policymakers and agricultural development programs should target strengthening of institutions as well as enhancement of farmers’ access to productive resources.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2018.21.02.32-40 https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-21-no-2-2018/?article=understanding-the-multiple-sources-drivers-of-agricultural-income-amongst-smallholder-farmers-in-southern-mali
Dynamo cycles on slow and fast rotating solar analogs
Creators: name: Valery, Pipin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: The Sun and the Heliosphere; Young stars

description: Using the non-linear mean-field dynamo models we calculate the magnetic cycle parameters, like the dynamo cycle period, the amplitude of the total magnetic energy, and the Poynting flux luminosity from the surface for the solar analogs with rotation periods of range from 1 to 30 days. In general, the models show a decrease in the magnetic cycle period with the decrease of the stellar rotation period. We find the non-monotonic variation of the dynamo period with the rotation rate. The models for the rotational periods less than 10 days show the non-stationary evolution with a slight increase in the primary dynamo period with the increase of the rotation rate. There is a dynamo saturation for the star rotating with a period of two days and less. The saturation of the magnetic activity parameters is accompanied by depression of the differential rotation.
description: solar dynamo
Universal approach to gravitational thermal effects
Creators: name: Mensky, Michael B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A universal scheme for describing gravitational thermal effects is developed as a generalization of Unruh effect. Quasi-Rindler (QR) coordinates are constructed in an arbitrary curved space-time in such a way that the imaginary QR time be periodical. The observer at rest in QR coordinates should experience a thermal effect. Application to de Sitter space-time is considered.
description: 8 pages, LATEX
Correction: Youth Empowered Advocating for Health (YEAH): Facilitating Partnerships Between Prevention Scientists and Black Youth to Promote Health Equity
Creators: name: Woods-Jaeger, Briana
name: Riggins, Christa
name: Lightfoot, Alexandra F.
name: Jackson, Melvin
name: Chandler, Caroline
name: Cave, Nkosi
name: Knutzen, Kristin E.
name: Freeman, Marjorie
name: Renfro, Tiffaney L.
name: Jahangir, Tasfia
name: Lucas, Devin
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: Correction to "Youth Empowered Advocating for Health (YEAH): Facilitating Partnerships Between Prevention Scientists and Black Youth to Promote Health Equity"
On the spectroscopic detection of periodic plasma flows in loops undergoing thermal non-equilibrium
Creators: name: Pelouze, Gabriel
name: Auchère, Frédéric
name: Bocchialini, Karine
name: Froment, Clara
name: Parenti, Susanna
name: Soubrié, Elie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Long-period intensity pulsations were recently detected in the EUV emission of coronal loops, and have been attributed to cycles of plasma evaporation and condensation driven by thermal non-equilibrium (TNE). Numerical simulations that reproduce this phenomenon also predict the formation of periodic flows of plasma at coronal temperatures along some of the pulsating loops. Aims: In this paper, we aim at detecting these predicted flows of coronal-temperature plasma in pulsating loops. Methods: To this end, we use time series of spatially resolved spectra from the EUV imaging spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode, and track the evolution of the Doppler velocity in loops in which intensity pulsations have previously been detected in images of SDO/AIA. Results: We measure signatures of flows that are compatible with the simulations, but only in a fraction of the observed events. We demonstrate that this low detection rate can be explained by line of sight ambiguities, combined with instrumental limitations such as low signal to noise ratio or insufficient cadence.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 16 pages, 16 figures
title: The mechanism of depth accommodation in Nymphoides Peltata and other water plants
Creators: name: Malone, M
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: Auxin and ethylene are shown to be important mediating factors in depth accommodation in Nymphoides, as in other water plants. Control of growth by both these regulators is shown to depend on their capacity to affect extensibility of the cell wall. Neutral sugar composition in the fraction of the cell wall most likely to be the site of the wall- loosening reactions is assayed, but no change in the proportions of the constituent monosaccharides was detected even where large increases in length were induced by auxin and ethylene. Thus no light was shed on this aspect of cell growth. Using a variety of techniques, the effects of ethylene and auxin are assessed in the light of current theories on the mode of action of plant growth regulators; both auxin and ethylene are shown to stimulate proton excretion when they promote extension. Acid alone also stimulates extension. It is thus concluded that auxin and ethylene promote growth by an "acid-growth" mechanism i.e. they stimulate hydrogen ion efflux from the cytoplasm into the cell wall, the resultant pH drop in the wall causes an increase in WE and thereby leads to a substantial increase in the rate of cell expansion. This is the first reported finding that ethylene works by an acid- growth mechanism when it promotes growth. The extension of "acid-growth" to this novel situation of rapid-growth promotion is important support for the theory. In a second species, Regnellidium diphyllum, predictions of the "acid-growth" theory were tested but despite repeated attempts, were not fulfilled. This is the only known tissue which shows rapid growth in response to auxin, but not to acid. Implications for the "acid-growth" theory, of the findings on both Nymphoides and Regnellidium are discussed.
Enhanced load balancing technique for SDN controllers: A multi-threshold approach with migration of switches
Creators: name: Kazemiesfeh, Mohammad
name: Imanpour, Somaye
name: Montazerolghaem, Ahmadreza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deploying multiple controllers in the control panel of software-defined networks increases scalability, availability, and performance, but it also brings challenges, such as controller overload. To address this, load-balancing techniques are employed in software-defined networks. Controller load balancing can be categorized into two main approaches: (1) single-level thresholds and (2) multi-level thresholds. However, previous studies have predominantly relied on single-level thresholds, which result in an imprecise classification of controllers or have assumed uniform controller capacities in multi-level threshold methods. This study explores controller load balancing with a focus on utilizing multi-level thresholds to accurately assess controller status. Switch migration operations are utilized to achieve load balancing, considering factors such as the degree of load imbalance of the target controller and migration efficiency. This includes evaluating the post-migration status of the target controller and the distance between the migrating switch and the target controller to select the appropriate target controller and migrating switch. The proposed scheme reduces controller response time, migration costs, communication overhead, and throughput rate. Results demonstrate that our scheme outperforms others regarding response time and overall performance.
FARM TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION BY SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN GHANA
Creators: name: ANANG, Benjamin Tetteh
name: ANANG, Benjamin Tetteh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: joint-adoption
subject: bivariate probit model
subject: mechanisation
subject: high-yielding varieties
subject: northern Ghana

description: Technology adoption by smallholder farmers is a key strategy to improve agricultural sustainability and productivity in developing countries. This study therefore investigated the factors influencing adoption of agricultural mechanisation and improved varieties by rice farmers in northern Ghana. A bivariate probit model was used to analyse the determinants of farmers’ joint adoption decisions. The results indicated that the age and gender of the household head, the degree of specialisation in production, household size, and location of the farm were significantly associated with farmers’ joint adoption decision. Furthermore, farm size, extension visits, herd ownership and the production system were significant factors in farm mechanisation adoption but not the adoption of improved rice varieties. The study concludes that several individual and household characteristics interplay to influence smallholders’ joint adoption decisions. Hence, efforts to improve rice production in Ghana and other developing countries with similar characteristics should take into account these factors when disseminating innovations to smallholders.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2018.21.02.41-47 https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-21-no-2-2018/?article=farm-technology-adoption-by-smallholder-farmers-in-ghana
Exclusive Double Diffractive Events: Menu for LHC
Creators: name: Petrov, V. A.
name: Ryutin, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exclusive double diffractive events (EDDE) are considered in the framework of the Regge-eikonal approach and perturbative calculations for "hard" subprocesses. Total and differential cross-sections for processes $p+p\to p+X+p$ are calculated.
description: 18 pages, Latex 2.09, 6 postscript figures, references are added
Can one improve now-casts of crop prices in Africa? Google can.
Creators: name: Weber, Regine
name: Lukas, Kornher
name: Weber, Regine
name: Lukas, Kornher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Food Security
subject: Maize Prices
subject: Search Query Volume
subject: Internet
subject: Early Warning Systems

description: With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in a specific topic, has gained considerable interest, due to its potential to extract a near real-time online signal about the current interest of a society. The objective of this study is to analyze whether search engine metadata in the form of Google Search Query (GSQ) data can be used to improve now-casts of maize prices in nine African countries, these are Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We formulate as benchmark an auto-regressive model for each country, which we subsequently augment by two specifications based on contemporary GSQ data. We test the models in in-sample, and in a pseudo out-of-sample, one-step-ahead now-casting environment and compare their forecasting errors. The GSQ specifications improve the now-casting fit in 8 out 9 countries and reduce the now-casting error between 3% and 23%. The largest improvement of maize price now-casts is achieved for Malawi, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania, with improvements larger than 14%.
Disiphon Russell
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Disiphon

description: DISIPHON Russell
 Disiphon Russell, 1993: 463–464. Type species Asterochiton dubienus Bondar, 1923: 179–180, by original designation and monotypy.
 DIAGNOSIS AND COMMENTS. As interpreted here, Disiphon comprises species with the following combination of characters: cuticle pale; glands present on dorsal disc, of two distinctly different shapes (Figs 33, 113); with a weak submedian abdominal rhachis; longitudinal moulting suture keeled (Fig. 34); confluence of longitudinal and transverse moulting sutures almost contiguous with meso­/metathoracic suture; median lengths of abdominal segments VI and VII similar; submedian pairs of cephalic, meso­ & metathoracic, eighth abdominal and caudal setae present; vasiform orifice subcircular to cordate, operculum obscuring lingula; caudal furrow absent.
 The puparia of Disiphon somewhat resemble those of Siphoninus Silvestri (1915), but Siphoninus puparia possess submedian first abdominal setae but no thoracic setae, have the longitudinal moulting suture unkeeled, and their dorsal disc glands are only in the form of elongate siphons. More similar are a very few African species currently placed in the genus Cohicaleyrodes Bink­Moenen (1983), notably C. blanzyi (Cohic), which was originally described in Siphoninus, and an undescribed species recently collected from coffee in Uganda.
 In Belize, only one species of Disiphon has been collected, and is here described.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1098 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051548
Μελέτη σκελετικών καταλοίπων από τον Νεολιθικό Κλείτο Κοζάνης
Creators: name: Αθανασιάδης, Νικόλαος Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Σκελετικά κατάλοιπα
Νεολιθική
Δυτική Μακεδονία
Skeletal remains
Neolithic
Western Macedonia

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία έχει ως αντικείμενο την μελέτη των σκελετικών καταλοίπων από την θέση του Κλείτου Κοζάνης, η οποία αποτελείται από δύο οικιστικές φάσεις (Κλείτος Ι και ΙΙ) που χρονολογούνται στην πρώιμη Νεότερη Νεολιθική και στην Τελική Νεολιθική αντίστοιχα. Το υπό μελέτη υλικό αποτελείται από 17 σκελετούς (14 από τον Κλείτο Ι και 3 από τον Κλείτο ΙΙ), καθώς και από ένα σύνολο διάσπαρτων ανθρώπινων οστών από τις επιχώσεις του Κλείτου Ι. Πραγματοποιήθηκε η συλλογή των δεδομένων και η μελέτη των ζητημάτων ταφονομίας και παλαιοδημογραφίας από τις δύο οικιστικές φάσεις της θέσης. Στη συνέχεια, έγινε παρουσίαση των ταφικών πρακτικών των δύο φάσεων (πρωτογενείς ταφές, καύσεις και ενδείξεις δευτερογενούς μεταχείρισης) σε συνδιασμό με τα ανασκαφικά και οστεοαρχαιολογικά δεδομένα, καθώς και σύγκριση με άλλες θέσεις της ίδιας περιόδου της Μακεδονίας, αλλά και των Βαλκανίων. Τέλος, πραγματοποιήθηκε η μελέτη των παλαιοπαθολογικών δεδομένων σχετικά με τις σκελετικές και οδοντικές παθήσεις με στόχο την ανασύσταση της εικόνας των επιπέδων υγείας του πληθυσμού του Κλείτου Ι και ΙΙ
description: The aim of this present thesis is the study of skeletal remains from the neolithic site of Kleitos, Kozani, which consists of two main habitational phases (Kleitos I and II) that date to early Late Neolithic and Final Neolithic respectively. The material under study consists of 17 skeletons (14 from Kleitos I and 3 from Kleitos II), and of an assemblage of stray human bones from the deposits of Kleitos I. Collection of data and study of taphonomy and palaeodemography was conducted from the two habitational phases of Kleitos. Subsequently, the burial practices of the two habitational phases (primary burials, cremation and evidence of secondary treatment) were presented, in combination with the archaeological and osteoarchaeological data, as well as a comparison with other sites of same date from Macedonia and the Balkans. Finally, the study of palaeopathology concerning skeletal and dental disease was conducted, for the reconstitution of health patterns of the population from Kleitos I and II
Author Correction: Structural basis for pre-tRNA recognition and processing by the human tRNA splicing endonuclease complex
Creators: name: Butay, Kevin John U.
name: Krahn, Juno M.
name: Perera, Lalith
name: Hayne, Cassandra K.
name: Stanley, Robin E.
name: Matera, A. Gregory
name: Petrovitch, Robert M.
name: Borgnia, Mario J.
name: Stewart, Zachary D.
name: Deterding, Leesa J.
name: Williams, Jason G.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: N/A
Findbuch der Videosammlung Stadtkino an der Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien
Creators: name: Stumpf, Markus
name: Bräuhofer, Günter
Year: 2019
Subjects: Videosammlung, Stadtkino

description: Verzeichnis der aufgenommenen Videos in der Sammlung Stadtkino
MyGTAP Data Program: A Program for Customizing and Extending the GTAP Database for Multiple Households, Split Factors, Remittances, Foreign Aid and Transfers
Creators: name: Minor, Peter
name: Walmsley, Terrie
name: Minor, Peter
name: Walmsley, Terrie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The GTAP standard model has proved a useful analysis tool and data source for over 20 years. The GTAP model has been updated overtime, but it maintains the structure of a single regional household, with income distributed into three components: government, private and savings-investment expenditures. There has been a need for a more detailed accounting system, especially as it relates to estimating the potential impacts of policies and global shocks on poverty, sustainable and inclusive growth. This paper (and its companion paper) present a method for splitting the GTAP regional household and linking these households to factor incomes and taxes. It introduces a user friendly GEMPACK based application, MyGTAP, for splitting the GTAP regional household based on basic data and splitting shares which may be obtained from a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); this greatly reduces the development requirements for introducing multiple households into the GTAP model. The introduction of a split regional household (which does not require splitting data for every region) supports economic analysis based on detailed households, government, factor income, remittances, foreign aid and income transfers. The splitting method is based on the normalized GTAP database found in SplitCom, however, it is shown in the paper that this approach is easily reconciled and is consistent within a SAM framework. The code can be modified to include multiple split regions with unique household structures. This paper is a guide to employing the data tools and programs for splitting the regional household and factors of production in the GTAP database. It is intended to be used in tandem with a complimentary paper detailing the theory, accounting and model code "MyGTAP Model: A Model for Employing Data from the MyGTAP Data Program: Multiple Households, Split Factors, Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Transfer", GTAP Working Paper No. 78, by Walmsley and Minor 2013.
Magneto-optics of quantum wires with D(-)-centers
Creators: name: Krevchik, V. D.
name: Grunin, A. B.
name: Aringazin, A. K.
name: Semenov, M. B.
name: Kalinin, E. N.
name: Mayorov, V. G.
name: Marko, A. A.
name: Yashin, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impurity magneto-optical absorption for the cases of longitudinal and transversal light polarization with respect to the quantum wire axis has been theoretically studied. Analytical expressions for the corresponding D(-)-centers photo-ionization cross sections under the action of longitudinal magnetic field have been obtained, and their spectral dependences for InSb quantum wires have been investigated.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, PDF only, 150 Kb. To appear in Hadronic J
Bursting the Bubble: A Long Run Perspective on Crop Commodity Prices
Creators: name: Baldos, Uris Lantz C.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Baldos, Uris Lantz C.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Bioenergy
subject: Climate impacts
subject: Technological change
subject: Food prices and food security
subject: crop commodity prices
subject: long run projections
subject: population growth
subject: income growth
subject: biofuels
subject: crop productivity

description: Contrary to the opinions expressed by many commentators, the recent price spike in agricultural commodities is a transitory phenomenon. Using projections from SIMPLE “ a global model of the farm and food system “ we argue that, in the long run, food prices will most likely resume their historical downward trend. We begin with an evaluation of the historical period 1961 to 2006 wherein the growth in agricultural productivity outpaced that of global crop demand, the latter being fueled by rising population and incomes. As a consequence, we observed a historical decline in global crop prices, which the SIMPLE model faithfully reproduces. Moving forward to 2051, we establish a set of projections in global crop prices given expected developments in population, incomes, agricultural productivity and biofuel use. We project that global crop prices will continue their long run decline in the coming decades, albeit at a slower pace. However, we recognize that, under some circumstances, global crop prices could still increase by mid-century. To formally assess the likelihood of future price changes, we conduct Monte Carlo simulations given distributions in the growth rates of both drivers and economic responses. Results show that 72% of the realizations produce price declines from 2006 to 2051.
title: The measurement of small ionic currents in living organisms by means of sensitive magnetometry
Creators: name: Lennard, Rosemary F
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: Recent research on developing and healing tissues suggests that small quasl-d. c Ionic currents (of magnitude 10-20/iA) may play a controlling role In the Initiation and organisation of growing tissues, but the difficulties of measuring such small currents has led to confusing results. Sensitive magnetometry provides a method of demonstrating, and, to some extent, locating such currents. A novel SQUID magnetometer system has been built and used to Investigate the magnetic fields around the uninjured human leg, and the developing chick embryo In ovo. Analysis of the magnetic fields around the human leg reveals the presence of macroscopic current loops (of magnitude up to 12/iA) within the leg. These currents are broadly similar In all subjects, and show day-to-day reproducibility In Individuals. They change predictably with time of muscle relaxation, and revert to the original signal on muscular exertion. These currents are of significance when considering the therapeutic use of Injected current for the healing of non-union in bone. The magnetic fields around eggs are detectable from day two of Incubation, and Increase In magnitude until day four or five, by which time there Is a magnetic field pattern with a null line over or near the centre of the egg. After day five the magnetic field Is reduced In size and of more complex pattern. The magnetic fields disappear If the egg Is cooled, and reappear on rewarmlng. Mathematical analysis suggests that the magnetic fields have a source deeper within the egg than the embryo Itself, probably the extra- embryonic membranes.
title: The meaning of the help received from social workers in social services departments by people with physical disabilities: the consumer's view
Creators: name: Jeffery, George
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: This study examines the meaning of the help received from social workers in social services departments by people with physical disabilities. The main thrust of the study focuses on these meanings and is underpinned by Symbolic Interaction Theory. The study begins with an historical sketch which reviews the period from 1601 to 1979 with reference to the nature of welfare provision in Britain for people with physical disabilities, and the changing role of the social worker in both the statutory and voluntary sectors. This is followed by an examination of Symbolic Interaction Theory, through its historical development, to modern schools of thought, and, in particular, to the Chicago School and the work of Herbert Blumer. This section closes with balanced criticisms of Symbolic Interaction Theory. The research methodology draws freely on the work of Herbert Blumer, particularly his premises, root images and key concepts which suggest a qualitative research design using an interview schedule for data collection. The interview schedule uses two samples of respondents, people with physical disabilities and social workers in social services departments. It is structured through three stages of the career of people with physical disabilities through a social services department, namely the referral, the active and the termination stages, and through two levels of interaction, namely between them and social workers, and between them and the social context. A discussion follows which examines the findings from these interviews, and compares the meanings held by people with physical disabilities with those held by social workers. Other research studies are reviewed in the light of these findings. Finally, once more drawing on the work of Herbert Blumer, the study presents a summary and conclusions along with suggestions for a way forward for people with physical disabilities.
Probing New Physics with Long-Range Neutrino Interactions: An Effective Field Theory Approach
Creators: name: Bolton, Patrick D.
name: Deppisch, Frank F.
name: Hati, Chandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate forces induced by the exchange of two light neutrinos between Standard Model (SM) fermions in the presence of effective operators parametrising physics beyond the SM. We first set up a general framework in which we derive the long-range potential mediated by weakly interacting neutrinos in the SM, retaining both spin-independent and spin-dependent terms. We then derive neutrino-mediated potentials when there are vector, scalar and tensor non-standard interactions present as well as an exotic neutrino magnetic moment. Examining the phenomenology of such long-range potentials in atomic scale laboratory experiments, we derive upper bounds on the Wilson coefficients of the effective operators and compare these to those from processes such as charged lepton flavour violation.
description: 60 pages, 6 figures
Inhibition of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms by centipede oil and linoleic acid
Creators: name: Yong-Guy Kim
name: Lee, Jin-Hyung
name: Park, Jae Gyu
name: Jintae Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Microbial biofilms are associated with persistent infections because of their high tolerance to antimicrobial agents and host defenses. The effects of centipede oil from Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans and its main components were investigated to identify non-toxic biofilm inhibitors. Centipede oil and linoleic acid at 20 µg ml−1 markedly inhibited biofilm formation by two fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans strains and three Staphylococcus aureus strains without affecting their planktonic cell growth. Also, both centipede oil and linoleic acid inhibited hyphal growth and cell aggregation by C. albicans. In addition, centipede oil and linoleic acid showed anti-biofilm activities against mixed C. albicans and S. aureus biofilms. Transcriptomic analysis showed that centipede oil and linoleic acid downregulated the expressions of several hypha/biofilm-related genes in C. albicans and α-hemolysin in S. aureus. Furthermore, both compounds effectively reduced C. albicans virulence in a nematode infection model with minimal toxicity.
Theory of Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Creators: name: Yanase, Yoichi
name: Jujo, Takanobu
name: Nomura, Takuji
name: Ikeda, Hiroaki
name: Hotta, Takashi
name: Yamada, Kosaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we review essential natures of superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems (SCES) from a universal point of view. After summarizing experimental results on typical materials such as high-$T_{\rm c}$ cuprates, BEDT-TTF organic superconductors, and ruthenate Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, we review theoretical results for the analyses of superconducting properties of these materials based on the Fermi-liquid framework in the single- and multi-band Hubbard model. It is emphasized that the Coulomb interaction induces various types of anisotropic superconductivity, $d$- or p-wave, through the momentum dependence of quasi-particle interaction. While some inter-orbital interactions exist in the multi-orbital system, anisotropic superconductivity is induced by essentially the same mechanism, namely the momentum dependence of quasi-particle interaction. This is the understanding of the mechanism of superconductivity in SCES. Another important purpose of this article is to review anomalous electronic properties of SCES near the Mott transition. Especially, we focus on pseudogap phenomena observed in under-doped cuprates and organic superconductors. According to the recent theory, superconducting fluctuations, inherent in the quasi-two-dimensional and strong-coupling superconductors, are the origin of the pseudogap formation. Based on the microscopic theory of the superconducting fluctuations, we discuss the magnetic and transport properties as well as the single-particle spectra in the pseudogap state. As for heavy-fermion superconductors, experimental results are reviewed and several theoretical analyses on the mechanism are provided based on the same viewpoint as explained above.
description: 120 pages. 32 PNG figures. To appear in Physics Reports. PDF figures are obtained in http://www9.plala.or.jp/cmtg/review.html
Acoustic Ground Coupling Experiment: Dataset Description
Creators: name: Fuchs, Florian
name: Novoselov, Artemii
name: Bokelmann, Götz
Year: 2020
Subjects: seismo acoustic coupling, ground coupling, infrasound, near surface
ÖFOS 2002, Geophysics
ÖFOS 2002, Geophysik
EuroVoc 4.2, geophysics
EuroVoc 4.2, Geophysik
EuroVoc 4.2, geofisica
ÖFOS 2012, Applied geophysics
ÖFOS 2012, Angewandte Geophysik
Basisklassifikation, Geophysik: Allgemeines

description: This document contains a comprehensive description of the 2019 Acoustic Ground Coupling Experiment performed by the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, and the related waveform dataset.
Using continental grids to improve our understanding of global land supply responses: Implications for policy-driven land use changes in the Americas
Creators: name: Villoria, Nelson
name: Liu, Jing
name: Villoria, Nelson
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Calibration and parameter estimation
subject: Bioenergy
subject: Land use
subject: Central America
subject: North America
subject: South America

description: Global economic models with explicit treatment of global land markets are crucial to understanding the consequences of different policy choices on global food and environmental security. However, these models rely on parameters for which there is little econometric evidence. A fundamental parameter in these models is the land supply elasticity. We provide a novel set of land supply elasticities estimated using gridded data for the American continent, and we use them in exploring previous work on the indirect land-use effects of US ethanol policy. Our estimates provide a basis for better-informed simulations of global land-use transitions under different economic and policy scenarios.
Factors Shaping Culture at the Unit Level in Hospitals (Hospital Subcultures)
Creators: name: Clark, Cynthia Anne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Health care in general is slow at adopting change and implementing evidence into practice. With health care organizations, such as hospitals, striving to improve clinical outcomes through quality improvement initiatives and implementation of evidence-based practices, an array of factors have been identified as being important in successfully implementing these initiatives.
Should we be concerned about right-wing extremist infiltration into law enforcement?
Creators: name: Dikici Bilgin, Hasret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Right-wing extremism
Law enforcement

description: Blog Post titled "Should we be concerned about right-wing extremist infiltration into law enforcement?" at Istanbul Bilgi University PRIME Youth Website. https://bpy.bilgi.edu.tr/en/blog/should-we-be-concerned-about-right-wing-extremist/
Preliminary Study of a Google Home Mini
Creators: name: Park, Min Jin
name: James, Joshua I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many artificial intelligence (AI) speakers have recently come to market. Beginning with Amazon Echo, many companies producing their own speaker technologies. Due to the limitations of technology, most speakers have similar functions, but the way of handling the data of each speaker is different. In the case of Amazon echo, the API of the cloud is open for any developers to develop their API. The Amazon Echo has been around for a while, and much research has been done on it. However, not much research has been done on Google Home Mini analysis for digital investigations. In this paper, we will conduct some initial research on the data storing and security methods of Google Home Mini.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables