cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WordPress as Data, 5 Years In
Creators: name: White, K. Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: WordPress
Open Source

description: Slides from a talk delivered in May, 2021. Abstract: In 2016, WordPress introduced a REST API to expose site content as JSON. Also in 2016, we had the opportunity to present at csv,conf about this paradigm shift: what would it mean for all the content in any WordPress website to be accessible as data? Since then, WordPress has fundamentally reinvented itself using that new API. The project has been reimagined from the inside out, with the humble content block as the foundational unit of site data. But, where was that explosion of data-driven WordPress applications we hoped for? In this talk we will look at what worked as we integrated this new API into WordPress, and at where we stumbled. We'll explore how roles, access, and authentication limit the utility of data. We'll candidly discuss how burnout affects project stewardship. And we'll also celebrate a tremendous, successful change of course for a venerable open source project, and think ahead to what "WordPress as Data" may mean in five more years' time!
DDI: does it have a life beyond IASSIST?
Creators: name: Boyko, Ernie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) has been welcomed and even embraced by the IASSIST community. For those who sought a way of producing machine processable codebooks, it is a dream come true. For those who were searching for a data/survey preservation format, it seems to be an answer. But like all standards, it must have tools that support it and expanding user acceptance in order to survive and thrive. Some tools (such as NESSTAR) have been built to embrace DDI and others have been adapted to read DDI files. But is this enough for the DDI to survive, or better yet, thrive? Is there scope for applying these tools and standards beyond the data library/archives community? And what will be the impact of other (competing?) standards such as ISO 11179 and SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange). This paper will explore these issues, attempt to clarify relations and speculate on possible future directions.
Changes document
Creators: name: Karimov, Ayaz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document is prepared to define the changes to redesign the localization process of Khan Academy Azerbaijani within the academic research titled "Business process optimization in online educational platforms within the scope of localization and its impact on the learning experience of students: localization of Khan Academy content into Azerbaijani" by Ayaz Karimov, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Nolte
Local bifurcation structure of a bouncing ball system with a piecewise polynomial function for table displacement
Creators: name: Okishio, Yudai
name: Ito, Hiroaki
name: Kitahata, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The system in which a small rigid ball is bouncing repeatedly on a massive at table vibrating vertically, so-called the bouncing ball system, has been widely studied. Under the assumption that the table is vibrating with a piecewise polynomial function of time, the bifurcation diagram changes qualitatively depending on the order of the polynomial function. We elucidate the mechanism of the difference in the bifurcation diagrams by focusing on the two-period solution. In addition, we derive the approximate curve of the branch close to the period-doubling bifurcation point in the case of the piecewise cubic function of time for the table vibration. We also performed numerical calculation, and we demonstrate that the approximations well reproduce the numerical results.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Marking the skin tattooing the soul : the art, history and spirituality of traditional tattooing in Thailand
Creators: name: Hill, Deborah Bonita
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: GT2346.T5 H55 2010
subject: Tattooing HistoryThailand
subject: Thailand Social life and customs

description: Marking the Skin, Tattooing the Soul is a study of the traditional tattoo imagery in Thailand, a practice that involves the use of non-mechanical styli to puncture and insert ink under the skin. This study examines a range of popular motifs -figurative, diagrammatical and textual. It identifies historical and contemporary differences in style, placement, form and meaning across northern and central Thailand. For the tattooed Thai, the imagery and design have specific meaning and purpose and are the result of a ritualised process performed by a tattoo master. Through a close examination of historical and contemporary sources, combined with field research in Thailand in 2004 I develop a framework for understanding the meaning and variation in Thai tradition tattoo motifs. Key to this study is the identification of three kinds of tattoo practitioner. The variations in their practice and the tattoo imagery they create are found to be directly related to the cultural and particularly the religious backgrounds of the tattooists. This is explored in the extensive analysis of three types of tattooist -northern Shan shaman, central Thai Buddhist monk and the Brahmanic urban lay tattooist of Bangkok. This examination of the spiritual and cultural practice of different tattoo masters against a close visual analysis of the tattoo imagery they create allows me to develop an innovative and valuable framework for understanding Thai traditional tattooing imagery and practice historically and as it is practised in Thailand today.
DDI and data
Creators: name: Marker, Hans Jørgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: Essentially the DDI is about documentation. The name says that much. But when you have data documentation, you propably also some data somewhere. Documentation would not make much sense otherwise. It would usually be possible to place those data in an xml-structure. Having gone so far you might want to have data an codebook in the same xml-document. This again is certainly a possibility (and the reference to the CALS tables.dtd in the current DDI shows that it is not a new idea). This paper will present an analysis of some of the issues involved in integrating data with the DDI and propose solutions to some of the problems. Hopefully this will create some discussion as there are a number of possible solutions and the best solutions will only be found though cooperation.
The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers
Creators: name: Thurner, Stefan
name: Liu, Wenyuan
name: Klimek, Peter
name: Cheong, Siew Ann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is demand from science funders, industry, and the public that science should become more risk-taking, more out-of-the-box, and more interdisciplinary. Is it possible to tell how interdisciplinary and out-of-the-box scientific papers are, or which papers are mainstream? Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. We show that the network clusters into scientific fields. The position of individual papers with respect to these clusters allows us to estimate their degree of mainstreamness or interdisciplinary. We show that over the past decades the fraction of mainstream papers increases, the fraction of out-of-the-box decreases, and the fraction of interdisciplinary papers remains constant. Studying the rewards of papers, we find that in terms of absolute citations, both, mainstream and interdisciplinary papers are rewarded. In the long run, mainstream papers perform less than interdisciplinary ones in terms of citation rates. We conclude that to avoid a trend towards mainstreamness a new incentive scheme is necessary.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Suprathermal electron acceleration by a quasi-perpendicular shock: simulations and observations
Creators: name: Kong, F. -J.
name: Qin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The acceleration of suprathermal electrons in the solar wind is mainly associated with shocks driven by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). It is well known that the acceleration of electrons is much more efficient at quasi-perpendicular shocks than at quasi-parallel ones. Yang et al. (2018, ApJ, 853, 89) (hereafter YEA2018) studied the acceleration of suprathermal electrons at a quasi-perpendicular ICME-driven shock event to claim the important role of shock drift acceleration (SDA). Here, we perform test-particle simulations to study the acceleration of electrons in this event, by calculating the downstream electron intensity distribution for all energy channels assuming an initial distribution based on the averaged upstream intensities. We obtain simulation results similar to the observations from YEA2018 as follows. It is shown that the ratio of downstream to upstream intensities peaks at about 90$^\circ$ pitch angle. In addition, in each pitch angle direction the downstream electron energy spectral index is much larger than the theoretical index of diffusive shock acceleration. Furthermore, considering SDA, the estimated drift length is proportional to the electron energy but the drift time is almost energy independent. Finally, we use a theoretical model based on SDA to describe the drift length and time, especially, to explain their energy dependence. These results indicate the importance of SDA in the acceleration of electrons by quasi-perpendicular shocks.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Bittium rubanocinctum Glibert 1958
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cerithiidae
Bittium
Bittium rubanocinctum

description: Bittium rubanocinctum Glibert, 1958 (Fig. 5F 1-F 3)
Bittium rubanocinctum Glibert, 1958: 7, pl. 2, figs 3a-c.
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 6.1 mm, width 1.8 mm. — RGM.1364907 (2), leg. WG; RGM.1364972 (46), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365268 (1), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365072 (70), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365284 (1), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365375 (1), leg. AWJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Robust turriform shell with pronounced suture. Broad paucispiral protoconch of two smooth whorls. Teleoconch whorls with three spirals cords and slightly prosocline axials ribs forming low tubercles at intersections.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pliocene: NSB, Kattendijk Formation, Belgium (Glibert 1958), Oosterhout Formation, the Netherlands (RGM collections). — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, France (this paper).
REMARKS
The Selsoif specimens have more robust axials and lower tubercles that make it slightly different from the specimens illustrated by Glibert (1958) that tend to have finer ribs and less pronounced knobs. Otherwise, the number and organisation of the ribs and cords of the Early Pliocene North Sea Basin (NSB) specimens and the Selsoif material are identical. The geographical and temporal distribution gap between the NSB Early Pliocene and French Gelasian occurrences is remarkable. A Bittium species illustrated by Harmer (1916: pl. 41, fig.4) as B. reticulatum trinodosa (Etheridge & Bell) from St Erth also has three prominent spirals.However, the spirals and axials are very regularly spaced and form an evenly reticulated surface pattern. The synonymisation of B. rubanocinctum with B. neerlandicum (Beets) by Wesselingh et al. (2012: 42) is not substantiated.
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on pages 50-52, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
First search for $2\varepsilon$ and $\varepsilonβ^+$ decay of $^{174}$Hf
Creators: name: Danevich, F. A.
name: Hult, M.
name: Kasperovych, D. V.
name: Kovtun, G. P.
name: Kovtun, K. V.
name: Lutter, G.
name: Marissens, G.
name: Polischuk, O. G.
name: Stetsenko, S. P.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first ever search for $2\varepsilon$ and $\varepsilonβ^+$ decay of $^{174}$Hf was realized using a high-pure sample of hafnium (with mass 179.8 g) and the ultra low-background HPGe-detector system located 225 m underground. After 75 days of data taking no indication of the double beta decay transitions could be detected but lower limits for the half-lives of the different channels and modes of the decays were set on the level of $\lim T_{1/2}\sim 10^{16}-10^{18}$ a.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 3 Tables
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)
Creators: name: Silva, Tiago
name: Kartalis, Yani
name: Lobo, Marina Costa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This article examines, using automated text analyses, the EU politicisation in the media of six Eurozone countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain), between 2002 and 2017. By contrasting creditor and debtor countries, the article analyses how the Eurozone crisis affected the politicisation of the EU and its institutions using a unique dataset of 165,341 articles from 12 newspapers. The results show that the Eurozone crisis increased the politicisation of the EU, particularly in the countries that were at the forefront of the Eurozone bailouts. Importantly, the crisis contributed as well to a more multifaceted news coverage of the European Union, namely with a greater emphasis given to supranational institutions vis-à-vis intergovernmental ones. Yet, this supranational coverage was associated with the increasingly negative tone of articles. To that extent, this study shows that greater mention of EU institutions may not necessarily contribute to a Europeanisation of public debates. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1910778 .
Classification of countries by selected accounting system for IFRS
Creators: name: Liudmyla Shkulipa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: 150104 International Accounting

description: This document extends the classification of previous IFRS accounting systems to a wider range of 28 countries that have already adopted IFRS, plus the United States of America (USA). Based on the fact that differences in accounting practices can still be detected even in the era of IFRS, we seek to confirm this point of view by analyzing a wider range of important countries, namely non-European countries and those who do not adopt IFRS (USA). The results classify countries into three groups based on the similarity of their accounting methods: 1) Australia and New Zealand, 2) countries influenced by the United States (USA, Canada, Korea, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Kuwait, Turkey and Israel) and 3) South Africa, Oman and other European countries. This study contains a combination of alternative explanations for the existence of accounting options with other types of analysis. In particular, economic proximity to the United States provides important evidence of American influence on accounting practices
CENTER-TBI gene-expression imputation, singularity container and definition file
Creators: name: Kunzmann, Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This repository contains the pre-build singularity [1] container (.sif) and the singularity definition file used for building it (.def).
 The actual imputation is done using PrediXcan [2], for other installed software, check the definition file. [1] https://sylabs.io/guides/3.3/user-guide/
 [2] Gamazon ER†, Wheeler HE†, Shah KP†, Mozaffari SV, Aquino-Michaels K, Carroll RJ, Eyler AE, Denny JC, Nicolae DL, Cox NJ, Im HK. (2015) A gene-based association method for mapping traits using reference transcriptome data. Nat Genet. doi:10.1038/ng.3367.
Rotating Black Holes with Monopole Hair
Creators: name: Kleihaus, B.
name: Kunz, J.
name: Navarro-Lerida, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study rotating black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. These black holes emerge from static black holes with monopole hair when a finite horizon angular velocity is imposed. At critical values of the horizon angular velocity and the horizon radius, they bifurcate with embedded Kerr-Newman black holes. The non-Abelian black holes possess an electric dipole moment, but no electric charge is induced by the rotation. We deduce that gravitating regular monopoles possess a gyroelectric ratio g_el=2.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
The Origin of inequality: isolated formation of a 30+10Msun binary black-hole merger
Creators: name: Olejak, A.
name: Fishbach, M.
name: Belczynski, K.
name: Holz, D. E.
name: Lasota, J. -P.
name: Miller, M. C.
name: Bulik, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LIGO/Virgo collaboration has reported the detection of GW190412, a BH-BH merger with the most unequal masses to date: 24.4-34.7 Msun and 7.4-10.1 Msun (a mass ratio of q=0.21-0.41). Additionally, GW190412's effective spin was estimated to be Xeff=0.14-0.34, with the spin of the primary BH in the range a=0.17-0.59. Based on this and prior detections, about 10 percent of BH-BH mergers have q<0.4. Major BH-BH formation channels tend to produce BH-BH mergers with comparable masses (typically with q>0.5). Here we test whether the classical isolated binary evolution channel can produce mergers resembling GW190412. We show that our standard binary evolution scenario, with the typical assumptions on input physics we have used in the past, produces such mergers (masses and spins). For this particular model of the input physics the overall BH-BH merger rate density in the local Universe (z=0) is: 73.5 Gpc^-3 yr^-1, while for systems with q<0.41 the rate density is: 6.8 Gpc^-3 yr^-1. As GW190412 shows some weak evidence for misaligned spins, we provide distribution of precession parameter in our models and conclude that if among the new LIGO/Virgo detections the evidence of system precession is strong and more than 10 percent of BH-BH mergers have large in-plane spin components (Xp>0.5) then common envelope isolated binary BH-BH formation channel can be excluded as their origin.
description: ApJ Letters: accepted
Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries
Creators: name: Boer, Daniel
name: Mulders, P. J.
name: Pijlman, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions in space-like and time-like hard processes involving at least two hadrons, in particular 1-particle inclusive leptoproduction, the Drell-Yan process and two-particle inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation. As is well-known, transverse momentum dependence allows for the appearance of unsuppressed single spin azimuthal asymmetries, such as Sivers and Collins asymmetries. Recently, Belitsky, Ji and Yuan obtained fully color gauge invariant expressions for the relevant matrix elements appearing in these asymmetries at leading order in an expansion in the inverse hard scale. We rederive these results and extend them to observables at the next order in this expansion. We observe that at leading order one retains a probability interpretation, contrary to a claim in the literature and show the direct relation between the Sivers effect in single spin asymmetries and the Qiu-Sterman mechanism. We also study fragmentation functions, where the process dependent gauge link structure of the correlators is not the only source of T-odd observables and discuss the implications for universality.
description: 29 pages, Revtex, 26 Postscript figures; abstract, introduction and section VIIC significantly modified and appendix B replaced
Трансформація фінансової звітності на IFRS: сучасні питання
Creators: name: Liudmyla Shkulipa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: 150105 Management Accounting

description: In the article the most major issues emerging in today's the national enterprises on stage of transition to international accounting system are opened. The highlights of choosing a method of transition to IFRS, their advantages and disadvantages are considered. The situational examples of application the chosen method of transformation; major adjustments, which accounting practitioner must always remember, are considered too. Also it shows a real consolidated balance sheet, prepared in accordance to IFRS by the national enterprise, well as fragments of audit reports confirming accordance IFRS. It allows to confirm the importance and simultaneously problematical transformation of financial statements to IFRS, the demand for specialists in this area, the need for trainings and IFRS’s accounting courses for employees of their own companies.
Pyxine philippina Vain., The Philipp. Journ. Sci., C
Creators: name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Meesim, Sanya
name: Poengsungnoen, Vasun
name: Kalb, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Teloschistales
Physciaceae
Pyxine
Pyxine philippina

description: 13.  Pyxine philippina Vain. , The Philipp. Journ. Sci., C, 8 (2): 110 (1913).
 Lectotype (selected by Kashiwadani 1977: 163):— PHILIPPINES. Luzon; Benguet, ad corticem arborum frondosarum, May 1911, E. D. Merrill 7934 (TUR-VAIN 8707!).— Pyxine glaucescens Vain. The Philipp. Journ. Sci., C, 8: 109 (1913). Holotype: PHILIPPINES. Comiran Island, Sulu Sea, ad corticem arboris frondosae, September 1910, E. D. Merrill s.n. (TUR-VAIN 8705!).
 Thallus corticolous, 2–5 cm wide, adnate to loosely adnate. Lobes radiating or irregular, contiguous to imbricate, plane to partly convex, 0.5–1.4 mm wide, subrotund at the apices. Upper surface whitish to pale greenish grey or yellow-grey, faintly pruinose towards the lobe tips or epruinose; polysidiangia, isidia and soralia absent. Pseudocyphellae marginal and laminal, irregular, linear or becoming reticulate. Medulla uniformly white. Lower surface black in the centre, paler towards the margin; rhizines ± dense, furcate. Apothecia common, obscurascens - type, 1–3 mm wide; disc black, not pruinose. Internal stipe distinct, white to pale brown, K-, P-. Ascospores 15–23 × 6–8 µm. Pycnidia not seen.
 Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ yellow, UV-; medulla K+ yellow → red, C-, P+ orange; containing atranorin (minor), chloroatranorin (minor), norstictic acid (major), testacein (minor), unknown terpenes showing the same array as P. retirugella Nyl. (minor).
 Distribution and habitat:—Very rare on bark in a mixed deciduous forest. Also in Australia, Asia, Africa, South America and the Pacific (Hawaiian Islands and Micronesia).
 Notes:— Pyxine philippina is characterized by the adnate thallus, the absence of soredia, isidia and polysidiangia, the uniformly white medulla, cortical atranorin and obscurascens - type apothecia with an internal stipe that is brownish in the upper part. P. schmidtii Vain., which also produces testacein, is morphologically very similar in lacking any vegetative propagules, but can easily be distinguished by the absence of norstictic acid in the medulla. P. profallax is morphologically also very similar, but this species differs by a different suite of terpenes.
 Material from Thailand examined:— Pitsanulok; Phu Hin Rongkla National Park, air raid shelter point, on the bark of unidentified tree in mixed deciduous forest, 560 m, 18 September 2006, S. Meesim 21506 (RAMK).
description: Published as part of Mongkolsuk, Pachara, Meesim, Sanya, Poengsungnoen, Vasun & Kalb, Klaus, 2012, The lichen family Physciaceae in Thailand-I. The genus Pyxine, pp. 32-54 in Phytotaxa 59 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.59.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5061495
Measuring 'the quantum of happiness': ensuring access to the first ( second) Statistical Account
Creators: name: Burnhill, Peter
name: Matheson, Ann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: When setting out to assess 'the quantum of happiness' in the late 18th Century, Sir John Sinclair, child of the Scottish Enlightenment and the first Secretary of the (British) Board of Agriculture, was the first to use the term statistics in its modern sense. His survey of 166 queries to each of the church ministers in the 938 parishes resulted in two Statistical Accounts of Scotland. The first covered the 1790s and the second ('New') covered 1830s; together they represent the best contemporary 'repeat survey' of life at the beginning of the first industrial nation: topics include wealth, class and poverty, climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. With the formation of the British State underway, the contrast in the presentation of numerical information in text and as tables in the two Accounts serves as a reminder that Sinclair can be credited with the foundations of the 'Blue Book' and of the tradition of 'official statistics' adopted widely today. Just over two hundred years later, in 1996, Henry Heaney (former Librarian of the University of Glasgow) secured support to fund a digitisation plan to protect the relatively rare and fragile volumes of the Statistical Accounts, which had become regarded as a key resource, and agreement that EDINA set up means to access the scanned pages. There followed subsequent keying of text, experimentation with cross-sectoral 'ownership', with name entity extraction from text and use of GIS, as well as focus on maintaining and developing access to a 'national treasure'. A revision of the user interface to a service, accessed by scholars, genealogists and the Scottish Diaspora world-wide, will be available as part of the presentation.
The determinants of recent soybean expansion in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Creators: name: De Melo Celindonio, Otavio Lemos
name: Werner, Liane S.
name: Bernardes Gil, Juliana Dias
name: De Melo Celindonio, Otavio Lemos
name: Werner, Liane S.
name: Bernardes Gil, Juliana Dias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: land use change
subject: agricultural expansion
subject: soybean
subject: Brazil

description: Understanding what drives, catalyzes or constraints land use change in the Brazilian agricultural frontier is a condition for effective policy design at the local level, which in turn might have implications for food production, environmental conservation and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. We analyzed the process of agricultural expansion observed in the state of Mato Grosso, the country’s largest agricultural producer, by mapping and quantifying the incorporation of new farming areas and the conversion of existing ones into mechanized soybean fields at the farm-level. Through statistical modelling we also investigated the influence of key economic, biophysical, environmental and logistics variables on this process while accounting for recent changes in the Brazilian environmental legislation. We found that the area converted to soybean production increased almost 1.5 million hectares between 2009 and 2013, more than 70% of which in farms that already had some soybean in previous years. By comparing the explanatory power of eight regression models involving different groups of variables, we found that soybean expansion is strongly associated with the presence of other soybean fields and warehouses within 50-100 km. The model with the largest explanatory power suggests that soybean expansion is also likely to occur in areas of high conservation value. Finally, the sensitivity of soybean expansion to soybean prices indicated the potential for further agricultural growth in Mato Grosso while highlighting how crucial smart logistics investments are for regional development with environmental protection.
The history of the social survey – the social survey in history
Creators: name: Fink, Anne Sofie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: The social survey as we know it today has roots far back in modern history. It dates back to the idea of the Enlightenment that careful description of natural species, formations of clouds, the population etc. could give an insight that was worth getting. The paper will outline the history of the social survey starting from the studies of the poor in the UK carried out by philanthropists up till the social surveys carried out continuously in the modern welfare state. One aspect of this history is the formation of data archives in a wide range of nation states around the world since the 1960s. The data archives were given the obligation of storing and distributing social survey data sets, as governments acknowledged the great scientific value of social survey data sets. In many respects, to tell the history of the social survey is to tell the history of the development of the modern welfare state. The argument of the paper will be that the two have walked hand in hand. As we debate the challenges, limitations, and responsibilities of the welfare state so we as data archivists must be aware of the challenges, limitations, and responsibilities of the social survey as a tool for public administration and social science.
Assessment of Barriers Contributing to Presentation of Breast Cancer Patients in Jamaica
Creators: name: Yeung, Lorenz
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This report is a summary of the project “Assessment of Barriers Contributing to Presentation of Breast Cancer Patients in Jamaica” conducted Feb 2020 – Mar 2020. Study overview, initiation, and conduct are described, along with observed cultural context and its interplay with the project. Immediate impact of the study and opinions on any future research engagements are also summarized.
Semi-metric Behavior in Document Networks and its Application to Recommendation Systems
Creators: name: Rocha, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.3.0; H.3.3, H.3.4; H.3.6; H.3.7; I.2.11; H.3.5

description: Recommendation systems for different Document Networks (DN) such as the World Wide Web (WWW) and Digital Libraries, often use distance functions extracted from relationships among documents and keywords. For instance, documents in the WWW are related via a hyperlink network, while documents in bibliographic databases are related by citation and collaboration networks. Furthermore, documents are related to keyterms. The distance functions computed from these relations establish associative networks among items of the DN, referred to as Distance Graphs, which allow recommendation systems to identify relevant associations for individual users. However, modern recommendation systems need to integrate associative data from multiple sources such as different databases, web sites, and even other users. Thus, we are presented with a problem of combining evidence (about associations between items) from different sources characterized by distance functions. In this paper we describe our work on (1) inferring relevant associations from, as well as characterizing, semi-metric distance graphs and (2) combining evidence from different distance graphs in a recommendation system. Regarding (1), we present the idea of semi-metric distance graphs, and introduce ratios to measure semi-metric behavior. We compute these ratios for several DN such as digital libraries and web sites and show that they are useful to identify implicit associations. Regarding (2), we describe an algorithm to combine evidence from distance graphs that uses Evidence Sets, a set structure based on Interval Valued Fuzzy Sets and Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence. This algorithm has been developed for a recommendation system named TalkMine.
A structural equation model of cooperative member satisfaction and long-term commitment
Creators: name: Grashuis, Jasper
name: Cook, Michael Lee
name: Grashuis, Jasper
name: Cook, Michael Lee
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agricultural cooperative
subject: member satisfaction
subject: structural equation model

description: The organizational growth of farmer cooperatives is tied to increased heterogeneity in member attitudes and perceptions. To inform possible solutions, a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of member attitudes and perceptions is necessary. Using survey responses from 1,116 members of an organic marketing cooperative in the United States, this paper develops a structural equation model of six factors: organic lifestyle, mission support, participation, trust, satisfaction, and long-term commitment. The final model illustrates nine significant relationships, including satisfaction and long-term commitment. The result suggests the long-term survival or viability of farmer cooperatives is not only dependent on its financial performance but also the utility of its members. In terms of member attitudes and perceptions, trust and mission support may offer the best opportunities for farmer cooperatives to foster member satisfaction and thus address the negative consequences of heterogeneity.
Tracking Quintessence Would Require Two Cosmic Coincidences
Creators: name: Bludman, Sidney
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Good tracking requires that the quintessence energy fraction slowly increase while the roll $λ\equiv -d\ln V/\varkappa dϕ$ slowly decreases, but is not yet truly slow-rolling. The supernova bound on the present quintessence equation of state requires either (1) a cosmological constant or other fine-tuned "crawling quintessence" or (2) "roll-over quintessence" that tracked until recently, but now became slow rolling, because of a sharp increase in potential curvature. Thus, fine-tuning is required by constant equation of state and inverse power potentials, but can be avoided by the SUGRA and Skordis-Albrecht potentials and other good trackers, provided quintessence energy domination and slow roll {\em both} began only recently. This makes the time in which we live special in {\em two} respects.
description: 10 pages, including 2 figures, 3 tables
At their disposal : Options for disposing untreated blackwater from boats in the Great Bear Sea
Creators: name: Davis, Katy
name: Liu, Amy
name: Santo, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The Great Bear Sea stretches along British Columbia's coast from Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border. Marine vessels passing through this area generate waste that can be harmful to aquatic life and humans, including sewage. This report explores the question: What is the feasibility of implementing a "No Discharge Zone" in the Great Bear Sea to prohibit sewage discharges from boats? We present results from a literature review and eight semi-structured interviews with boating and/or wastewater management experts. Specifically, we share lessons learned from other jurisdictions that have implemented No Discharge Zones, identify priority areas for sewage pumpout facilities along British Columbia's coast, and discuss relevant considerations for marinas and harbours who may want to install pumpouts. We recommend that the federal and provincial government support prompt installation of wastewater treatment facilities and sewage pumpouts in coastal communities, including suggestions for key locations for infrastructure investments. We also recommend pursuing No Discharge Zones near Prince Rupert and the northeastern side of Vancouver Island in addition to exploring alternative designations to reduce marine sewage pollution in the region.
How fast do quantum walks mix?
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Shantanav
name: Luh, Kyle
name: Roland, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The fundamental problem of sampling from the limiting distribution of quantum walks on networks, known as \emph{mixing}, finds widespread applications in several areas of quantum information and computation. Of particular interest in most of these applications, is the minimum time beyond which the instantaneous probability distribution of the quantum walk remains close to this limiting distribution, known as the \emph{quantum mixing time}. However this quantity is only known for a handful of specific networks. In this letter, we prove an upper bound on the quantum mixing time for \emph{almost all networks}, i.e.\ the fraction of networks for which our bound holds, goes to one in the asymptotic limit. To this end, using several results in random matrix theory, we find the quantum mixing time of Erdös-Renyi random networks: networks of $n$ nodes where each edge exists with probability $p$ independently. For example for dense random networks, where $p$ is a constant, we show that the quantum mixing time is $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{3/2 + o(1)}\right)$. Besides opening avenues for the analytical study of quantum dynamics on random networks, our work could find applications beyond quantum information processing. Owing to the universality of Wigner random matrices, our results on the spectral properties of random graphs hold for general classes of random matrices that are ubiquitous in several areas of physics. In particular, our results could lead to novel insights into the equilibration times of isolated quantum systems defined by random Hamiltonians, a foundational problem in quantum statistical mechanics.
description: 4 pages + Supplementary Material, 1 Figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Uses the results of Sec. VIII of arXiv:1904.11895v1 and focuses on the mixing of quantum walks on random graphs. For a comparison between different notions of quantum mixing refer to arXiv:1904.11895v2
Соціальність – необхідна якісна характеристика фінансової звітності
Creators: name: Liudmyla Shkulipa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150106 Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified

description: Стаття присвячена об’єктивному аналізу якісних характеристик фінансової звітності за міжнародними та національними стандартами бухгалтерського обліку з акцентом на соціальну складову господарської діяльності. Виходячи з цього та враховуючи ринкові умови господарювання, вперше запропоновано нове тлумачення принципу бухгалтерського обліку з урахуванням соціального призначення бухгалтерського обліку. Наводяться основні розбіжності якісних характеристик фінансової звітності згідно з національним та міжнародним стандартами бухгалтерського обліку. Проведено порівняння нового і старого порядків складання фінансової звітності з точки зору розширення ступеня відображення облікової інформації соціального характеру. Запропонована автором нова якісна характеристика фінансової звітності «соціальність» допоможе поєднати ті якісні характеристики, що за рекомендацією міжнародних стандартів не враховані до національних (суттєвість, правдивість, нейтральність), та розширити соціальний зміст під час відображення облікової інформації на рахунках бухгалтерського обліку, господарських операцій та у фінансовій звітності.
Pyxine profallax Kalb, Bibl. Lichenol.
Creators: name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Meesim, Sanya
name: Poengsungnoen, Vasun
name: Kalb, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Teloschistales
Physciaceae
Pyxine
Pyxine profallax

description: 14.  Pyxine profallax Kalb , Bibl. Lichenol. 99: 243 (2009).
 Holotype: PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Central District; around Woitape, ca. 1600 m, 19 October 1975, Kurokawa 9309 (TNS!).
 Thallus corticolous, 3–5 cm wide, adnate. Lobes radiating, discrete to ± imbricate, plane to slightly concave, 0.8–1.0 mm wide, subrotund to truncate at the apices. Upper surface whitish to grey or brownish grey, sparsely pruinose at the lobe tips or epruinose; polysidiangia, isidia and soralia absent. Pseudocyphellae distinct, marginal and laminal, irregular, becoming reticulate on the upper surface. Medulla uniformly white. Lower surface black in the centre, paler towards the margin; rhizines ± dense, furcate. Apothecia common, obscurascens - type, 0.5–1.0 mm wide; disc black, not pruinose. Internal stipe distinct, white, K-, P-. Ascospores 16–22 × 6–8 μm. Pycnidia laminal, immersed to slightly sessile, black; conidia bacilliform, 3–4 × 1 µm.
 Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ yellow, UV-; medulla K+ yellow → red, C-, P+ orange; containing atranorin (minor), chloroatranorin (minor), norstictic acid (major), testacein (submajor), unknown terpenes showing the same array as P. fallax (minor).
 Distribution and habitat:—A very rare species, corticolous in a lower montane scrub. Also in Papua New Guinea (holotype).
 Notes:— Pyxine profallax is characterized by the adnate thallus, the absence of soredia, isidia and polysidiangia, the uniformly white medulla with norstictic acid, cortical atranorin, and obscurascens - type apothecia. P. philippina and P. schmidtii are very similar as both lack vegetative propagules and contain additional testacein, but the latter lacks norstictic acid and the former contains a different array of terpenes.
 Material from Thailand examined:— Loei; Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, Lan Suriyan, on bark in a lower montane scrub, 1473 m, 17°16'44'' N, 31°07'02'' E, 25 June 2008, S. Meesim 29 (RAMK 17620).
description: Published as part of Mongkolsuk, Pachara, Meesim, Sanya, Poengsungnoen, Vasun & Kalb, Klaus, 2012, The lichen family Physciaceae in Thailand-I. The genus Pyxine, pp. 32-54 in Phytotaxa 59 (1) on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.59.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5061495
Amending sodic soils using sub-soil manure: economic analysis of crop trials in the high rainfall zone of Victoria
Creators: name: Sale, Peter
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Sale, Peter
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: sodic soil
subject: sub-soil manure
subject: cropping systems
subject: economic analysis

description: In this paper the question is answered about how profitable it was to incorporate 10 and 20 tonnes of poultry litter (manure) per ha to amend sodic sub-soil used for high rainfall cropping on two farms in south western Victoria over the four years 2009 to 2012. The subsequent four crop yield responses were measured in plots from replicated field trials on the two farms, and the costs and benefits analysed. The costs of growing crops using sub-soil manure were high. Incorporating the full rate of 20 tonnes of manure cost $1244 and $1345/ha at the two farms, with the difference resulting from the distance the manure was transported. Applying half the rate of manure at 10 tonnes/ha greatly reduced the cost of the sub-soil treatment. Despite the high costs, the practice was profitable at both sites, because significant increases in crop yields were achieved in each crop over the four years from 2009 to 2012. Incorporating 20 t/ha of manure in the sub-soil resulted in an extra annual net return of $419 or $546/ha, in present value equivalent terms at 8% nominal discount rate, above the return from conventional cropping each year for the four years. This extra net return represents a return to the extra capital invested above a cost of capital of 8% nominal per annum. Cumulative net cash flows were from $1800-$2400/ha over the four years. Incorporating 10 t/ha of manure in the sub-soil resulted in an extra annual net return of $309 to $336/ha above the conventional cropping for each year for the four years. Cumulative net cash flows were $1300-$1400/ha.
Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Electroweak Symmetry
Creators: name: Querts, E. Rodriguez
name: Rojas, H. Perez
name: Martinez, A. Perez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the effect of a strong magnetic field in the behavior of the symmetry of an electrically neutral electroweak plasma. We analyze the case of a strong field and low temperatures as compared with the W rest energy. If the magnetic field is large enough, it is self-consistently maintained. Charged vector bosons play the most important role, leading only to a decrease of the symmetry breaking parameter, the symmetry restoration not being possible.
description: Presented in the First International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA 2003), Olinda, Brazil
Establishing a data service: The Numeric GeoSpatial Data Service Proposal
Creators: name: Conner, Tiffani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: Creating a new service within an academic library can be an arduous process even for a seasoned data librarian. For this new librarian, with data services part of the job description and a renowned public opinion center located on campus, investigating, designing, and creating the new service required more than an investigation and reporting of the findings. This paper includes an environmental scan of Association of Research Libraries ranked institutions within 3 distinct peer groups, comparisons and evaluations between the subjects, a rationale for the Numeric and GeoSpatial Data Service and its proper placement within the organization, and a 4 year plan for the new service. Included in the paper are elements often overlooked in the proposal and planning stages, including training for the new data librarian(s), likely partners from the campus and community, technological tools to investigate, costs of time and equipment, and a vision for the future.