cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Αγωγή περί κλήρου γενικότερα και η σύγκρισή της με τη διεκδικητική αγωγή
Creators: name: Μήττα, Μαρία Παντελή
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αγωγή περί κλήρου
Σε σύγκριση με
Διεκδικητική αγωγή
Inheritance lawsuit
In comparison with
Claim lawsuit

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της περί κλήρου αγωγής καταρχήν, στη συνέχεια η μελέτη της διεκδικητικής αγωγής και τέλος γίνεται μία αναφορά στις ομοιότητες και διαφορές που προκύπτουν στις ως άνω αγωγές. Ειδικότερα, αναφερθήκαμε στην έννοια, την νομική φύση της αγωγής περί κλήρου και σε κάποια δικονομικά ζητήματα και εν συνεχεία εστιάσαμε την προσοχή μας στην ευθύνη του εναγόμενου όσον αφορά τα ωφελήματα και επιπλέον την ανταξίωση του για τις δαπάνες. Επιπλέον, έγινε μία αναφορά στην έννοια, την νομική φύση της διεκδικητικής αγωγής για να καταλήξει η μελέτη μας στη ρύθμιση των άρθρων 1096-1100 ΑΚ δίνοντας έμφαση κυρίως στην ευθύνη όσον αφορά τα ωφελήματα, την αξίωση αποζημίωσης λόγω καταστροφής, χειροτέρευσης των κληρονομιαίων και την ανταξίωση του εναγόμενου για τις δαπάνες. Τέλος, έγινε μία αναφορά στις ομοιότητες και διαφορές μεταξύ των δύο αυτών αγωγών με σκοπό τη σύγκρισή τους, καταλήγοντας έτσι στο συμπέρασμα ότι ο νόμος αναγνωρίζει ευρύτερα δικαιώματα στον νομέα που ενάγεται με την περί κλήρου αγωγή από ότι στον νομέα που ενάγεται με τη διεκδικητική αγωγή, με αποτέλεσμα η περί κλήρου αγωγή να παρέχει στον κληρονόμο μεγαλύτερη προστασία από εκείνη που παρέχει στον κύριο η διεκδικητική αγωγή
description: The purpose of this dissertation was the study of the inheritance lawsuit at first, then the study of the claim lawsuit and finally a reference is made to the similarities and differences that arise in the above lawsuits. In particular, we referred to the concept, the legal nature of the inheritance lawsuit and some procedural issues and then we focused our attention on the defendant's liability in terms of benefits and in addition his worth for the costs. Furthermore, a reference was made to the concept, the legal nature of the claim lawsuit in order to conclude our study in the regulation of articles 1096-1100 of the Civil Code, emphasizing in particular liability for benefits, claim for damages for destruction, deterioration of inheritance and the defendant's claim for costs. Finally, a reference was made to the similarities and differences between these two lawsuits in order to compare them, thus concluding that the law recognizes wider rights to the nominee who sued with the inheritance lawsuit than the nominee who sued with the claim lawsuit. As a result, the claim for inheritance provides the heir with greater protection than that provided by the claimant to the owner
title: Fluoroscopy: post-operative assessment of the upper gastrointestinal tract
Creators: name: Oliveira, Tiago
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Fistula
subject: Surgery
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss and emphasize the role of fluoroscopy in the post-surgical evaluation of patients undergoing interventions of the upper digestive tract. To review some of the most common postoperative complications with illustrative images from our...
Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria
Creators: name: Edewor, S. E.
name: Dipeolu, A.O.
name: Ashaolu O., F.
name: Akinbode, S.O.
name: Ogbe, A. O.
name: Edewor, A.O.
name: Tolorunju, E. T.
name: Oladeji, S.O.
name: Edewor, S. E.
name: Dipeolu, A.O.
name: Ashaolu O., F.
name: Akinbode, S.O.
name: Ogbe, A. O.
name: Edewor, A.O.
name: Tolorunju, E. T.
name: Oladeji, S.O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
subject: Agricultural Productivity
subject: GDP
subject: Exchange Rate

description: Over the past few years, Nigeria has been faced with a series of policy changes and political instability that has somewhat led to the incidence of capital flight from Nigeria. This study sought to examine the contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the Agricultural Sector. The study made use of annual time series of some macroeconomic variables and agricultural productivity spanning the period 1990 to 2016. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and Multiple Regression Model. The data was further tested for stationarity using the Augmented Dicky-Fuller unit root test where it was ascertained that the entire hypothesized variable were stationary were significant(p<0.01) at first difference. The study revealed that the amount allocated to agricultural sector declined steadily over the years with all-time highest in the 90's. Similarly, the determinants of agricultural productivity include exchange rate, interest rates, GDP and FDI inflow into the agricultural sector. The study therefore recommends that an enabling environment be created through stable macroeconomic policies (monitoring of interest and exchange rates) and political stability be promoted so as to attract both domestic and foreign investors to the country.
The MUSE view of the planetary nebula NGC 3132
Creators: name: Monreal-Ibero, Ana
name: Walsh, Jeremy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ABRIDGED: 2D spectroscopic MUSE data for the whole extent of NGC3132 have been reduced and analised. The dust extinction, electron densities and temperatures of the ionised gas and abundances were determined. The nebula presents a complex reddening structure with high values (c(Hb)~0.4) at the rim. Density maps are compatible with an inner high-ionisation plasma at moderate high density (~1000cm^-3) while the low-ionisation plasma presents a structure in density peaking at the rim with values ~700 cm^-3. Median Te using different diagnostics decreases according to the sequence [NII],[SII]->[SIII]->[OI]->HeI->PJ. Likewise the range of Te covered by recombination lines is much larger than those obtained from CELs, with large spatial variations within the nebula. If these differences were due to the existence of high density clumps, these spatial variations suggest changes in the properties and/or distribution of the clumps within the nebula. We determined a median He/H=0.124. The range of measured ionic abundances for light elements are compatible with literature values. Our kinematic analysis nicely illustrates the power of 2D kinematic information in many emission lines to shed light on the intrinsic structure of the nebula. Our derived velocity maps support a geometry for the nebula similar to the previously propose diabolo model, but oriented with its major axis at P.A.~-22^o. We identified two low-surface brightness arc-like structures towards the northern and southern tips of the nebula, with high extinction, high helium abundance, and strong low-ionisation emission lines. They are spatially coincident with some extended low-surface brightness mid-IR emission. The characteristics of the features are compatible with being the consequence of precessing jets caused by the binary star system. This study illustrates the enormous potential of IFS for the study of Galactic PNe.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables; accepted by A&A
Torrenticola thori
Creators: name: Pesic, Vladimir
name: Saboori, Alireza
name: Asadi, Mahdieh
name: Vafaei, Reza
name: Sanatgar, Elham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Torrenticolidae
Torrenticola
Torrenticola thori

description: Torrenticola thori (Halbert, 1944)
(Figs. 31–32)
 Material examined: IR49 Tehran Province, Elburs Mt., small tributary stream of Shahrestanak River, 18.08.2003, leg. Pesic & Saboori (1/0/0).
 Remarks: T. thori is characterized by the slender shape of body and mouthparts (Figs. 31–32), with particularly long cheliceral claws (ratio basal segment/claw <2.0).
 Distribution: Western, Southern and Central Europe, Turkey (Pesic et al. submitted.), Iran (new for Iran).
description: Published as part of Pesic, Vladimir, Saboori, Alireza, Asadi, Mahdieh, Vafaei, Reza & Sanatgar, Elham, 2006, Water mites of the genus Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Iran, with description of two new species, pp. 45-59 in Zootaxa 1133 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1133.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5057890
Importance Sampling-based Transport Map Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Bayesian Hierarchical Models*
Creators: name: Osmundsen, Kjartan Kloster
name: Kleppe, Tore Selland
name: Liesenfeld, Roman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose an importance sampling (IS)-based transport map Hamiltonian Monte Carlo procedure for performing a Bayesian analysis in nonlinear high-dimensional hierarchical models. Using IS techniques to construct a transport map, the proposed method transforms the typically highly complex posterior distribution of a hierarchical model such that it can be easily sampled using standard Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. In contrast to standard applications of high-dimensional IS, our approach does not require IS distributions with high fidelity, which makes it computationally very cheap. Moreover, it is less prone to the notorious problem of IS that the variance of IS weights can become infinite. We illustrate our algorithm with applications to challenging dynamic state-space models, where it exhibits very high simulation efficiency compared to relevant benchmarks, even for variants of the proposed method implemented using a few dozen lines of code in the Stan statistical software. The paper is accompanied by supplementary material containing further details, and the computer code is available at https://github.com/kjartako/TMHMC
title: Benign Mimickers Of Breast Malignancy: Imaging Pearls
Creators: name: Garg, Pragya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: Infection
subject: Abscess
subject: Staging
subject: Localisation
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe a few common and rare breast masses which were reported as BIRADS 4.But,subsequently a benign diagnosis was made following tissue sampling. Thus highlighting the importance of imaging...
Policies and Agribusiness Development: The Nigerian Experience
Creators: name: Tijani, I.A.
name: Alawode, O.O.
name: Fawehinmi, O.O.
name: Gafar, A.O
name: Kolade, O.A.
name: Tijani, I.A.
name: Alawode, O.O.
name: Fawehinmi, O.O.
name: Gafar, A.O
name: Kolade, O.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Policies
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Constraints
subject: Development

description: Thi~ paper aims at highlighting the peculiarity of agribusiness to economic growth and development. It comprehensively examines factors (policies and regulations) that hinder and or aids agribusiness development. This exercise will help put into perspective factors that are relevant for specific stages of agribusiness and agro-industrial development, via the creation of an enabling environment, by examining and identifying policies, and regulations that have bearing on agribusiness. The paper equally aims at promoting investments in agro-enterprises and agro-based value chain development.
title: The Electrical Charge Characteristics of Muscle Proteins
Creators: name: Jennison, Katy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: In this study, muscle proteins were extracted, and concentrated gels of these proteins were produced. Microelectrode techniques were developed in order to measure the electrical charge in these gels. Results of the charge measurements confirm that myosin and actin, respectively, are the principle contributors of the charge found in the A- and I-bands of intact muscle fibres. Results also generally accord with the charge predicted by the amino-acid composition of these proteins. However, the charge on myosin in particular is lower than that found in the A-band. Myosin charge was measured under a variety of experimental conditions. Only in combination with C-protein did the charge approach that found in intact muscle. Gels of F-actin were measured at both high and low concentrations. The low-concentration gel (23-75 mg/ml) was found to change charge upon stirring. Further work is indicated to elucidate this phenomenon. The results of this study suggest that variations in charge may be related principally to two factors. First, conformational changes in the protein molecule are likely to affect ion binding. Second, different experimental conditions and protein combinations are likely to affect the degree of order of the protein gel.
QED corrections to the evolution of parton distributions
Creators: name: Roth, Markus
name: Weinzierl, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the systematic inclusion of QED corrections in the evolution of parton distributions. O(alpha) corrections modify the evolution equation for parton distributions. They introduce additional parton distributions, like the photon distribution in the nucleon, and lead to additional mixing effects. We discuss the modifications for a realistic model of N_f,up up-type flavours and N_f,down down-type flavours. We have implemented these corrections into a numerical program and we quantify the size of these effects in a toy model. The corrections reach the order of 1%.
description: 11 pages
title: Congenital inferior vena cava anomalies
Creators: name: Vshivkova, Tatyana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Veins / Vena cava

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To summarize imaging findings of inferior vena cava (IVC)...
Coal from the Nation: Household Demand for Electricity
Creators: name: McKean, John R.
name: Green, John W.
name: McKean, John R.
name: Green, John W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: electricity
subject: demand econometrics
subject: coal
subject: households
subject: model

description: This report summarizes the econometric theory surrounding estimation of residential demand functions and describes the methodology used to develop residential electricity demand function for 136 utility service areas. A single equation function is described; its functional form is log-linear. Special treatment is given cost- of-living differences and climatic variables. The demand equations were estimated in two stages. The selected model contained humidity as a second weather variable, is adjusted for heteroskedasticity, and has all variables correct in sign and approximate magnitude. Elasticites are reported for income and prices and compared to previous studies. Price and income projections are then used to predict 1985 electricity sales.
All-at-once versus reduced iterative methods for time dependent inverse problems
Creators: name: Kaltenbacher, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65J22, 65M32

description: In this paper we investigate all-at-once versus reduced regularization of dynamic inverse problems on finite time intervals $(0,T)$. In doing so, we concentrate on iterative methods and nonlinear problems, since they have already been shown to exhibit considerable differences in their reduced and all-at-once versions, whereas Tikhonov regularization is basically the same in both settings. More precisely, we consider Landweber iteration, the iteratively regularized Gauss-Newton method, and the Landweber-Kaczmarz method, the latter relying on cyclic iteration over a subdivision of the problem into subsequent subintervals of $(0,T)$. Part of the paper is devoted to providing an appropriate function space setting as well as establishing the required differentiability results needed for well-definedness and convergence of the methods under consideration. Based on this, we formulate and compare the above mentioned iterative methods in their all-at-once and their reduced version. Finally, we provide some convergence results in the framework of Hilbert space regularization theory and illustrate the convergence conditions by an example of an inverse source problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation.
Biomechanical factors during common agricultural activities: Results of on-farm exposure assessments using direct measurement methods
Creators: name: Fethke, Nathan B.
name: Schall, Mark C.
name: Chen, Howard
name: Branch, Cassidy A.
name: Merlino, Linda A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Agricultural work is associated with increased risk of adverse musculoskeletal health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to quantify exposure to biomechanical factors among a sample (n = 55) of farmers in the Midwest region of the U.S. while they performed a variety of routine agricultural activities, and to compare exposure levels between these activities. Surface electromyography was used to estimate activity levels of the erector spinae, upper trapezius, forearm flexor, and forearm extensor muscle groups. Simultaneously, inertial sensors were used to measure kinematics of the trunk, upper arm, and wrist. In general, lower muscle activity levels, less extreme postures, and slower movement speeds were observed during activities that involved primarily the use of agricultural machinery in comparison to manual activities, suggesting a potential advantage of mechanization relative to musculoskeletal health. Median wrist movement speeds exceeding recently proposed exposure thresholds were also observed during many manual activities, such as milking animals and repairing equipment. Upper arm postures and movement speeds did not appear to confer excessive risk for shoulder-related outcomes (on the whole), but interpretation of the results is limited by a sampling approach that may not have captured the full extent of exposure variation. Not surprisingly, substantial variation in exposure levels were observed within each agricultural activity, which is related to substantial variation in the equipment, tools, and work practices used by participants. Ultimately, the results of this study contribute to an emerging literature in which the physical demands of routine agricultural work have been described on the basis of sensor-based measurements rather than more common self-report or observation-based approaches.
Gilpinia frutetorum
Creators: name: Hara, Hideho
name: Smith, David R.
name: Shinohara, Akihiko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diprionidae
Gilpinia
Gilpinia frutetorum

description: Gilpinia frutetorum (Fabricius, 1793)
(Figs 5M, N, 8C, D, 9B, C)
 Ovipositor. Lance dorsally without median furrow, with short apical cleft (often difficult to see), in lateral view with dorsal margin nearly straight (Figs 8C, D); posterior projection on processus articularis apically not extending to most basal annular suture of lance, mostly fused with main body of lance, in dorsal view narrow, and in lateral view ventrally slightly expanded beyond main body of lance. Lancet ventrally slightly convex at second annulus (Figs 9B, C); sclerotized band of radix angularly bent and wider than olistheter at twisted part (arrowed part); lamnium with 10–11annuli and length from ventral end of first ctenidium to apex 2.5–2.8 × maximum width; sclerite before first annulus narrow; ctenidia slightly arched; first annulus without serrula, with ctenidium widely separated from ventral margin of lancet; serrula of second annulus somewhat larger than other serrulae, with precalcar distinct.
 Material examined. 1♀ (Figs 5M, N), Sweden, “SW. Skizzi ????[illegible] 11/7 1950 Karl-Johan Hedqvist leg.”; 1♀ (Fig. 9B), Germany, Gross Schönebeck NE 8km, J. Golldack; 2♀ (Figs 8C, D), Germany, Darmstadt, Krampe; 1♀, Germany, Landsberg, R. Meyer; 1♀ (Fig. 9C), “ POLAND: 1959. H. Pschorn-Walcher. B.M.1960- 386.”; 1♀, Austria, Vienna.
 Remarks. The ovipositor of this species is similar to those of G. laricis and G. hakonensis and similar species in having the posterior projection on the processus articularis of lance relatively large, narrow in the dorsal view, and ventrally expanded slightly beyond the main body of lance in the lateral view (Figs 5Q–U, 8C–F), but it is similar to those of G. abieticola, G. socia, G. polytoma and G. hercyniae in having the sclerotized band of the radix of lancet wide and sharply bent at the twisted part (Figs 9A–C, F, G, I, J).
description: Published as part of Hara, Hideho, Smith, David R. & Shinohara, Akihiko, 2021, Gilpinia hakonensis and similar species in Japan and ovipositors of five European Gilpinia species (Hymenoptera, Diprionidae), pp. 471-491 in Zootaxa 4995 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5057385
title: Von Hippel Lindau disease and renal tumors: Unveiling the role of percutaneous CT guided ablation in their management.
Creators: name: Charalambous, Christofis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Congenital
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe an educational guide for percutaneous ablation in order to treat renal tumors in patients with Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL). To demonstrate the alternative methods of ablation and evaluate the factors affecting their effectiveness. To...
Eucnemidae Eschscholtz 1829
Creators: name: Westcott, Richard L.
name: Parsons, Gary L.
name: Johnson, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eucnemidae

description: EUCNEMIDAE    Dromaeolus badius (Melsheimer) . This primarily eastern species was found for the first time in Oregon, Umatilla Co., 9 mi SE Echo, above Umatilla River, ex wood Populus trichocarpa Torrey & Gray collected 6­V­87, emgd. 11­V to 8­VI­87, RLW (ODAC, OSAC, & J. Muona coll.). The wood was from trees infested with Agrilus granulatus populi Fisher (Buprestidae). Of interest is that Muona (2000) recorded it “bred from poplar” in Idaho, then later (Muona 2002) stated that the genus is “absent from western regions”.
  Hylis irvinei Muona . Muona (2000) listed two specimens from 5 mi NW of Newberg, Washington Co., as being deposited in RLWE. In fact, these are paratypes in the ODAC.
description: Published as part of Westcott, Richard L., Parsons, Gary L. & Johnson, Paul J., 2006, New records and other notes for Oregon Coleoptera, pp. 1-33 in Zootaxa 1142 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1142.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5057935
title: The Predictory Role of Feature-tracking Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Technique for Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Patients with Chronic Coronary Artery Disease
Creators: name: Khaleghi, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: CAD
subject: MR
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the role of feature-tracking cardiac magnetic resonance (FT-CMR) for assessment of viability of myocardial segments in patients with chronic coronary artery disease...
Drought of 1976-77 Central Valley, California
Creators: name: Piper, Daniel G.
name: Piper, Daniel G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: California Central Valley
subject: San Joaquin Valley
subject: San Joaquin Basin
subject: Tulare Basin
subject: Sacramento Basin
subject: Delta-Central Sierra
subject: State Water Project
subject: Central Valley Project
subject: drought analysis
subject: linear programming
subject: applied irrigation water
subject: irrigated crop sector
subject: ground water overdraft

description: This study examines the economic effects of the 1976-77 California Drought with emphasis on the Central Valley. 1976-77 was the driest two-year period in California's recorded weather history and severe economic losses were expected. But increased use of groundwater and reallocation of surface water by farmers and State and Federal authorities reduced the effects on crop yields. Also, prices of farm products rose because of lower production. So that, while individual farmers were adversely affected, net farm income was more than $2.5 billion, only 9% below the record high income of $2.8 billion in 1974.
Crystallization of the outer crust of a non-accreting neutron star
Creators: name: Fantina, A. F.
name: De Ridder, S.
name: Chamel, N.
name: Gulminelli, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interior of a neutron star (NS) is usually assumed to be made of cold catalyzed matter. However, the outer layers are unlikely to remain in full equilibrium during the formation of the star and its cooling, especially after crystallization. We study the cooling and equilibrium composition of the outer layers of a NS down to crystallization. Here the impurity parameter, usually a free parameter in cooling simulations, is calculated self-consistently using a microscopic model for which a unified equation of state has recently been determined. We follow the evolution of the nuclear distributions of the multi-component Coulomb liquid plasma (MCP) fully self-consistently, adapting a general formalism originally developed for the description of supernova cores. We calculate the impurity parameter at the crystallization as determined in the one-component plasma (OCP) approximation. Our analysis shows that the sharp changes in composition obtained in the OCP approximation are smoothed out when a full nuclear distribution is allowed. The Coulomb coupling parameter at melting is found to be reasonably close to the canonical value of 175, except for specific pressures for which supercooling occurs in the OCP approximation. Our MCP treatment leads to non-monotonic variations of the impurity parameter with pressure. Its values can change by several orders of magnitude reaching about 50, suggesting that the crust may be composed of an alternation of pure (highly conductive) and impure (highly resistive) layers. The results presented here complement the recent unified equation of state obtained with the same model. Our self-consistent approach to hot MCP shows that the presence of impurities in the outer crust of a NS is non-negligible and may have a sizeable impact on transport properties. In turn, this may have important implications for the cooling of NS and their magneto-rotational evolution.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: The value of radiological report in aortic dissection, by cardiac surgeon's perspective..the power in the union
Creators: name: Lama, Niki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dissection
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our study is to highlight the importance of CT findings in acute aortic syndrome and their implication in surgical planning. We realised that even minor changes in radiological reports can provocate major changes in surgical planning....
Federal Funds in 1980: Geographic Distribution and Recent Trends
Creators: name: Reid, J. Norman
name: Whitehead, Eleanor
name: Reid, J. Norman
name: Whitehead, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Federal outlays
subject: Federal spending
subject: Federal aid
subject: Federal programs
subject: expenditure analysis
subject: public policy
subject: program analysis
subject: rural development
subject: urban policy

description: This report summarizes the distribution of Federal dollars in 1980 and assesses recent trends. Federal per capita funding remains unevenly divided among the regions; however, the advantage of the West and South may be moderating somewhat. The spread of some Federal programs into more rural counties may have peaked and there is evidence that the nonmetro funding gap has widened. Major differences remain in the way specific categories of programs are allocated. Nonmetro areas are behind urban areas in defense funding, but lead in agricultural and income security programs. Poorer nonmetro counties are especially reliant on public assistance programs.
title: A review of the use of magnetic seeds for localisation of non-palpable breast lesions
Creators: name: Brown, Adam Harry 
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CAD
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Mammography
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this poster is to evaluate the use of the magnetic seeds to localise non-palpable breast lesions prior to surgery. As well as a pictorial review of the steps included in deployment of the device, this poster will also discuss its major...
Strategic Exploration in Reinforcement Learning - New Algorithms and Learning Guarantees
Creators: name: Dann, Christoph
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Reinforcement learning (RL) focuses on an essential aspect of intelligent behavior – how an agent can learn to make good decisions given experience and rewards in a stochastic
world. Yet popular RL algorithms that have enabled exciting successes in domains with good simulators (Go, Atari, etc) still often fail to learn in other domains because they rely on
simple heuristics for exploration. This provides additional empirical justification for essential questions around RL, specifically around algorithms that learn in a provably efficient manner through strategic exploration in any considered domain. This thesis provides new algorithms
and theory that enable good performance with respect to existing theoretical frameworks for evaluating RL algorithms (specifically, probably approximately correct) and introduces new stronger evaluation criteria, that may be particularly of interest as RL is applied to more real world problems.
For the first line of work on probably approximately correct (PAC) RL algorithms, we introduce a series of algorithms for episodic tabular domains with substantially better PAC
sample complexity bounds that culminate in a new algorithm with close to minimax optimal PAC and regret bounds. Look up tables are required by most sample efficient and computationally tractable algorithms, but cannot represent many practical domains. We therefore also present a new RL algorithm that can learn a good policy in environments with high dimensional observations and hidden deterministic states; unlike predecessors, this algorithm provably
explores not only in a statistically but also computationally efficient manner assuming access to function classes with efficient optimization oracles. To make progress it is critical to have the right measures of success. While empirical
demonstrations are quite clear, we find that for theoretical properties, two of the most commonly used learning frameworks, PAC guarantees and regret guarantees, each allow undesirable algorithm behavior (e.g. ignoring new observations that could improve the policy). We present
a new stronger learning framework called Uniform-PAC that unifies the existing frameworks and prevents undesirable algorithm properties. One caveat of all existing learning frameworks is that for any particular episode, we do not
know how well the algorithm will perform. To address this, we introduce the IPOC framework that requires algorithms to provide a certificate before each episode bounding how suboptimal the current policy can be. Such certifications may be of substantial interest in high stakes scenarios when an organization may wish to track or even pause an online RL system should the potential expected performance bound drop below a required expected outcome.
title: Patient perceptions of communication with diagnostic radiographers from private imaging departments
Creators: name: Abrantes, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Outcomes
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: MR
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Radiographers
subject: Professional issues
subject: Management

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Effective communication is at the heart of quality in healthcare provision. The improvement of results in healthcare through the transmission of information to the patient within a relation of empathy and trust is already a veriﬁed hypothesis. In...
Enrollment in Use Value Assessment Programs in the United States
Creators: name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Gustafson, Greg
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Gustafson, Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Property tax
subject: Use-value assessment
subject: Landownership

description: Data showing estimated enrollments in State and local programs which provide a use-value assessment for farmland were summarized. About 450,000 owners, with holdings made up of farmland only, knowingly receive property tax relief under such a program. These owners control 8 percent of the Nation*s farmland base.
Energy dependence of {\rm K}$^0_{\rm S}$ and hyperon production at CERN SPS
Creators: name: Elia, D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on K$^0_{\rm S}$ and hyperon production in Pb-Pb collisions at 40 and 158 $A$ GeV/$c$ beam momentum from the NA57 experiment at CERN SPS are presented. Yields and ratios are compared with those measured by the NA49 experiment, where available. The centrality dependence of the yields and a comparison with the higher collision energy data from RHIC are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of QM2004 conference
Corporate Social Responsibility and Gamification in influencing communication and engagement for Greek and Small and Medium Enterprises
Creators: name: Ορφανίδης, Αγγελος Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Εταιρική Κοινωνική Ευθύνη
Παιχνιδοποίηση
Σχεδίαση UX
Corporate Social Responsibility
Gamification
UX Design

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία εκπονήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του Μεταπτυχιακού Προγράμματος Σπουδών Digital Media Culture and Communication. Λαμβάνοντας υπόψη την αδυναμία των εταιρειών να επικοινωνούν αποτελεσματικά με τα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη τους, καθώς και την ταυτόχρονη εξέλιξη και ανάδυση νέων μέσων και τεχνολογιών, οι εταιρείες οφείλουν να προσαρμόσουν τη στρατηγική επικοινωνίας τους. Η παραπάνω πραγματικότητα έρχεται σε συνάρτηση με τις αναφορές με τις οικολογικές, κοινωνικές και κυβερνητικές πτυχές της επιχείρησης, γνωστές και ως Εταιρική Κοινωνική Ευθύνη (CSR). Με στόχο τη βελτίωση του πλαισίου επικοινωνίας που έχει τεθεί μέχρι τώρα και σχετίζεται με τις παραπάνω πτυχές, σε συνδυασμό με την ολοένα ισχυροποίηση των μικρών και μεσαίων επιχειρήσεων, το πεδίο της διατριβής είναι να εξετάσει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι εφαρμογές που βασίζονται σε στοιχεία Παιχνιδοποίησης θα μπορούσαν να χρησιμοποιηθούν για την καλλιέργεια βιώσιμων πρακτικών και την ενασχόληση των εργαζομένων σε θέματα βιωσιμότητας. Συγκεκριμένα, θα τεθεί υπό μελέτη μέσα από τη δημιουργία ενός διαδραστικού περιβάλλοντος και την ενσωμάτωση στοιχείων παιχνιδιού. Με αυτό τον τρόπο θα εξεταστεί ενδελεχώς η σχέση μεταξύ Παιχνιδοποίησης και αλληλεπίδρασης μεταξύ των μερών
description: This dissertation was written as part of the requirements for the Master's degree in Digital Media, Communication, and Journalism. Considering the inability of companies to effectively communicate with their interested parties, as well as the concurrent emergence of mobile media and content options, companies should effectively communicate with all parties. These major themes include the debates about the business's ecological, social, and governance aspects, also known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, or stakeholder communication. To enhance the aforementioned while also increasing employee engagement in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), the dissertation's scope is to scrutinize how gamification-based applications could be used to cultivate sustainable practices and get employees more engaged in sustainability issues. The preceding will be examined in terms of creating an impactful game environment and integrating engaging game elements. This will illustrate the connection between gamification and interaction. A case study of a gamified application that focuses on CSR in SMEs is presented and analyzed
title: Imaging mediastinal lesions in pediatrics : Beyond lymphomas
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, Aarthi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Lymphoma
subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Lymph nodes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1.To familiarize the audience with the spectrum of pediatric mediastinal masses by a pictorial review Describe the characteristic imaging findings of these conditions with histological...
Linkages Between Landownership and Rural Land: Appendix Data
Creators: name: Lee, Linda K.
name: Lee, Linda K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land Use
subject: Landownership
subject: Potential Cropland
subject: Prime Farmland

description: Cross-classification tables linking rural landownership patterns with land use, land quality, and potential cropland are presented. Data for this analysis were obtained from a merger of the 1977 National Resource Inventories (NRI) conducted by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and the 1978 Landownership Survey (LOS) conducted by the Natural Resource Economics Division (NRED), Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA.
On the high-low method for NLS on the hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Staffilani, Gigliola
name: Yu, Xueying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we first prove that the cubic, defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the two dimensional hyperbolic space with radial initial data in $H^s(\mathbb{H}^2)$ is globally well-posed and scatters when $s > \frac{3}{4}$. Then we extend the result to nonlineraities of order $p>3$. The result is proved by extending the high-low method of Bourgain in the hyperbolic setting and by using a Morawetz type estimate proved by the first author and Ionescu.
description: The result is extended to general nonlineraities
title: A Question Of Language Disorder: Studies Of Assessment, Management And Parent Attitude.
Creators: name: Sage, Rosemary J. W.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1991

description: Children labelled "language disordered" failed to make academic progress in schools promoting investigations into the nature of their problems, attendant attitudes and contextual influences.

Studies find differences in haptic, auditory and visual processing between normal and language disordered children. Individual management does not acknowledge this range of modality input problems and selectively targets language form for systematic development. The approach does not result in better school attainments. Perhaps the label "language disorder" limits perception of the extent of difficulties in other areas. In contrast, an interactive method is described, taking account of "inside" and "outside" the child factors. Educational success is produced by inter-relating the language system with the learning context.

Full implementation of the interactive model seems unlikely given the present styles of professional training and existing institutional constraints. However, consumer dissatisfaction with current language Learning provision suggests this procedure offers a promising alternative.
PHENIX cold QCD highlights
Creators: name: Patel, Milap
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: aum20
phenix
qcd
gluon
spin
polarization
pion
longitudinal spin asymmetry
direct photon
jet
p+p
transverse spin asymmetry
π0
η
neutron
forward-rapidity
mid-rapidity

description: Talk presented at the RHIC/AGS Annual Users Meeting 2020, Cold QCD workshop
Το δόγμα της επέμβασης μετά από πρόσκληση: Η στρατιωτική παρουσία της Σαουδικής Αραβίας και των συμμάχων της στην Υεμένη
Creators: name: Σαλονικίδης, Παύλος Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Επέμβαση
Πρόσκληση
Σαουδική Αραβία
Intervention
Invitation
Saudi Arabia

description: Με την παρούσα εργασία θα επιχειρήσουμε να αναλύσουμε το δόγμα της στρατιωτικής επέμβασης μετά από πρόσκληση. Μετά από μία μικρή εισαγωγή, ως προς ως προς τη νόμιμη χρήση βίας μετά από πρόσκληση και την αρχή της απαγόρευσης χρήσης βίας (Κεφάλαιο 1), θα αναφερθούμε στις προϋποθέσεις εφαρμογής του δόγματος, όπως τον ανεπιφύλαχτο και σαφή χαρακτήρα της πρόσκλησης και το δικαίωμα υπαναχώρησης (Κεφάλαιο 2). Έπειτα, θα ακολουθήσουν τα δύο μεγαλύτερα προβλήματα όσον αφορά το δόγμα, δηλαδή το ποιος προσκαλεί και εάν είναι δυνατόν να επέμβει νόμιμα τρίτος σε ένα κράτος σε καιρό εμφυλίου (Κεφάλαιο 3). Μετά την συνέχιση εφαρμογής του δόγματος στη σύγχρονη εποχή (Κεφάλαιο 4), θα περάσουμε στην ανάλυση δύο υποθέσεων μελέτης. Η πρώτη αφορά την επέμβαση της Αιγύπτου στην Υεμένη το 1962 (Κεφάλαιο 5) και η δεύτερη την στρατιωτική παρουσία προς Σαουδικής Αραβίας και των συμμάχων προς στην Υεμένη (Κεφάλαιο 6). Τέλος, θα καταλήξουμε σε κάποια συμπεράσματα, τόσο ως προς την κρατική πρακτική, όσο και ως προς την σχέση του δόγματος με το συλλογικό σύστημα ασφάλειας του Ο.Η.Ε (Κεφάλαιο 7)
description: In the present dissertation thesis we will attempt to analyze the doctrine of intervention by invitation. After a short introduction regarding the aforementioned doctrine and the prohibition of the use of force (Chapter 1), we will refer to the conditions for the application of the doctrine, such as the explicit invitation and the right to withdraw from the invitation (Chapter 2). Afterwards, the two most controversial issues regarding the doctrine will be examined, namely the entity that calls for the invitation and the legality of intervention by invitation in the case of a civil war (Chapter 3). After the doctrine’s application in the present era is analyzed (Chapter 4), we will examine two study cases. The first one is about the military intervention of Egypt in Yemen in 1962 (Chapter 5) and the second is about the military presence of Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen (Chapter 6). Finally, we will draw to some conclusions regarding the state practice and the relevance of the doctrine to the collective security system of the U.N. (Chapter 7)
The Brandt Commission Report: The U.S. Response to the Food and Agricultural Issues
Creators: name: Vogt, Donna U.
name: Vogt, Donna U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Brandt Commission
subject: North/South relations
subject: New International Economic Order
subject: Food
subject: Agriculture
subject: U.S. Food Policy

description: Suggestions for alleviating poverty around the world through new policies are the basis for the Brandt Commission Report entitled North-South; A Program for Survival. This paper describes those issues that deal with food production and development assistance, food security proposals, liberalization of international food trade, and balance-of-payments problems raised by the Brandt Commission Report. The commission made policy recommendations for action, and this paper presents a description of the Carter and Reagan administration's reactions to these suggested policies.