cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Technical efficiency in Brazilian citrus production
Creators: name: Clemente, Felippe
name: Lírio, Viviani
name: Gomes, Marília
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the technical efficiency of citrus producing properties in Sao Paulo state, in 2009 and 2010. For this, producers were interviewed; non–parametric data envelopment analysis approach was applied to calculate levels of technical efficiency, and an econometric approach was applied to establish technical efficiency determinants. The results showed that a great part of Sao Paulo citrus producing properties works inefficiently and the variables that mostly contribute to increase efficiency are “producer schooling “ and “experience as rural producer”.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 4 No 2 (2015)
Students Adding Value: Improving Patient Care Measures While Learning Valuable Population Health Skills
Creators: name: Fedoriw, Kelly Bossenbroek
name: Golding, Julie
name: Steiner, Beat
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
name: Helgeson, Erika S.
name: Khachaturyan, Susanna
name: Beck Dallaghan, Gary L.
name: Byerley, Julie S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Medical students are potential resources for ambulatory primary care practices if learning goals can align with clinical
needs. The authors introduced a quality improvement (QI) curriculum in the ambulatory clinical rotation that matched
student learning expectations with practice needs. In 2016-2017, 128 students were assigned to academic, university
affiliated, community health, and private practices. Student project measures were matched with appropriate outcome
measures on monthly practice dashboards. Binomial mixed effects models were used to model QI measures. For
university collaborative practices with student involvement, the estimated odds of a patient being screened for breast
cancer in March 2017 was approximately 2 times greater than in 2016. This odds ratio was 36.2% greater than the
comparable odds ratio for collaborative practices without student involvement (95% confidence interval = 22.7% to
51.2% greater). When student curriculum and assignments align with practice needs, practice metrics improve and
students contribute to improvements in real-world settings.
Credence goods, consumers’ trust in regulation and high quality exports
Creators: name: Cuffaro, Nadia
name: Di Giacinto, Marina
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2015

description: We analyze the impact of the effectiveness of internal regulation for the development of internal and export markets for credence goods, focusing on food products, particularly for a developing country which is an exporter (or a potential exporter). In the model, since goods of actual different quality can be sold as high quality goods, expected quality is a function of consumers’ beliefs about the effectiveness of regulation. Foreign consumers, who cannot observe foreign regulation as closely as domestic ones, may partly base their expectations on the level of development of the exporting country. Low effectiveness, negative stereotype and low consumers’ trust may cause a failure in the market for high quality, and there may be a trap of underdevelopment and no high quality exports. The main policy implications are that increasing the effectiveness of regulation improves export prospects; standard setting and enforcement by external actors, such as supermarkets, or NGOs in the case of certain niche markets, is likely to be beneficial.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 4 No 2 (2015)
Sclerococcum glaucomarioides Ertz & Diederich
Creators: name: Meng, Qing-Feng
name: Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini
name: Ertz, Damien
name: Worthy, Fiona Ruth
name: Saichana, Natsaran
name: Fu, Shao-Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Dactylosporaceae
Sclerococcum
Sclerococcum glaucomarioides

description: Sclerococcum glaucomarioides (Willey ex Tuck.) Ertz & Diederich, The Bryologist 121 (3): 398 (2018) [MB#827718]. Figure 2
Family: Sclerococcaceae Réblová, Unter. & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr. 16(1): 35 (2016).
 = Dactylospora glaucomarioides (Tuck.) Hafellner.
 = Buellia glaucomarioides Tuck.
 Lichenicolous, grows on the thallus of crustose lichen Ochrolechia akagiensis
 Description: Sexual morph: Apothecia superficial, growing dispersed on the lichen tuberculates or in the gap between the tuberculates, adpressed to sessile, disc black, 0.4–0.6 (0.8) mm diam., round to irregularly round, flat or not. Epihymenium blackish, paraphysis tips bond in cluster with brown-blackish granular structure, excipulum thin 2 – 4 μm thick. Hymenium with brownish color, 25–40 μm high. Hypothecium brownish-black, hymenium transparent with somewhat brownish hyphae tissue. Paraphyses thin, 1.5–2 μm wide, with apices expanded, mostly 2–3 μm wide. Exciple dark brownish to blackish, pseudoparenchymatous, 8–15μm thick. Asci broadly cylindrical to crassly clavate, 20–30 × 10–15 μm, 8-spored. Ascospores ellipsoid or oblong, brownish, 3–4-locules with 2–3 lenticular or linear transverse septate, occasional with one longitudinal septate, (6) 8 – 12 × 5–7 μm, overlapping, multiseriate in asci.
 Asexual morph: Not observed.
 Specimens examined: Yuexi country, Anqing city, Anhui Province: Yangtianwo, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, elev. 1160m, E116°4’10”, N30°58’11”, 15 th October 2020, collected by Qiang Ren, Collection No. 8260 (KUN-L 88756). The host lichen grows with moss on siliceous rock.
description: Published as part of Meng, Qing-Feng, Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini, Ertz, Damien, Worthy, Fiona Ruth, Saichana, Natsaran & Fu, Shao-Bin, 2024, Sclerococcum glaucomarioides: a new geographical record from China, pp. 95-103 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on pages 100-101, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13214199
The State of Ambulatory Undergraduate Internal Medicine Medical Education: Results of the 2016 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Annual Survey
Creators: name: Kisielewski, Michael
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
name: Hingle, Susan T.
name: Alexandraki, Irene
name: Packer, Clifford D.
name: Lo, Margaret C.
name: Jasti, Harish
name: Fazio, S.B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Ambulatory care is qualitatively different and valuable
to the health system. Given the shifts in health care
that prioritize ambulatory care, internal medicine educators
see benefits to learning in this environment.
Internal medicine education teaches the skills necessary
for managing complex patients, including those
with multiple illnesses, medications, and social needs,
all of which are encountered in the practice of ambulatory
internal medicine.
Self-efficacy Mediates Perceived Threat and Preventive.pdf
Creators: name: Bisda, Lance Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social psychology

description: The Philippines has drastically changed its methods in raising public awareness where fear appeals largely dominated health-related information regarding the threat of COVID-19. The role of self-efficacy roughly received enthusiasm with the current bodies of literature contextualized during the pandemic and only focused between threat and compliance. This quantitative study utilized Hayes’ simple mediation analysis in determining the relationship between the perceived threat and preventive health behaviors and the indirect effect of self-efficacy in that relationship among the chosen 321 Filipino citizens in NCR. Results showed that there is a significant relationship among the variables. Perceived threat, self-efficacy, and preventive health behaviors are positively correlated with each other. Further, the mediation analysis elucidated that the Filipino’s self-efficacy indirectly affects the perceived threat of the COVID-19 virus and the successful adherence to preventive health behaviors, whereas perceived threat does not directly affect such desired behavior
The Common Agricultural Policy as a driver of water quality changes: the case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (southern Spain)
Creators: name: Salmoral, Gloria
name: Garrido, Alberto
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2015

description: Several studies have analysed the effects of European environmental policies on water quality, but no detailed retrospective analysis of the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on observed water quality parameters has been carried out. This study evaluates the impact of the CAP and other drivers on the concentrations of nitrates and suspended solids in the Guadalquivir River Basin (southern Spain) over the 1999-2009 period. The most important drivers that are degrading both water quality indicators are exports from upland areas and agricultural intensification. Water quality conditions have improved in regions where there has been abandonment and/or deintensification. The decoupling process has reduced the concentration of nitrates and suspended solids in a number of subbasins. Although agricultural production and water efficiency in the basin have improved, high erosion rates have not yet been addressed.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 4 No 2 (2015)
Labour constraints on choosing profitable products for part-time farmers in Swiss agriculture
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Mann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2015

description: In this paper we suggest that low labour availability on part-time farms may limit part-time farmers’ choice of production enterprises, and as a consequence those farmers may be forced to engage in less profitable enterprises. This proposition is illustrated by a conceptual framework based on the assumption that products with high returns to labour are labour intensive. An empirical analysis for the period 1996-2004 based on aggregated yearly data from the Swiss Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) did not fully confirm the proposition. This may suggest the existence of a joint determination of the choice of production enterprise and of the choice to work off the farm. In addition, our assumption that highly profitable enterprises are labour intensive may not hold for specific products or contexts.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 4 No 2 (2015)
ML5 Replication of E van Dijk, GA van Kleef, W Steinel, I van Beest (2008) Basic Info
Creators: name: Hartshorne, Joshua
name: Skorb, Lauren
name: Nave, Gideon
name: Jimenez-Leal, William
name: Montealegre, Andres
name: Schultze, Thomas
name: Schulz-Hardt, Stefan
name: Rentzsch, Katrin
name: Kauff, Mathias
name: Fedor, Anna
name: Manfredi, Dylan
name: Feinberg, Lily
name: Ravid, Jon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is an independent replication as part of Many Labs 5
Reference Scenarios for Self-aware Computing
Creators: name: Kephart, Jeffrey O.
name: Maggio, Martina
name: Diaconescu, Ada
name: Giese, Holger
name: Hoffmann, Henry
name: Kounev, Samuel
name: Koziolek, Anne
name: Lewis, Peter
name: Robertsson, Anders
name: Spinner, Simon
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Subjects: Virtual Machine
Smart Grid
Smart Home
Reference Scenario
Virtual Resource

description: This chapter defines three reference scenarios to which other chapters may refer for the purpose of motivating and illustrating architectures, techniques, and methods consistently throughout the book. The reference scenarios cover a broad set of characteristics and issues that one may encounter in self-aware systems and represent a range of domains and a variety of scales and levels of complexity. The first scenario focuses on an adaptive sorting algorithm and exemplifies how a self-aware system may adapt to changes in the data on which it operates, the environment in which it executes, or the requirements or performance criteria to which it manages itself. The second focuses on self-aware multiagent applications running in a data center environment, allowing issues of collective behavior in cooperative and competitive self-aware systems to come to the fore. The third focuses on a cyber-physical system. It allows us to explore many of the same issues of system-level self-awareness that appear in the second scenario, but in a different context and at a potentially even larger (potentially planetary) scale, when there is no one clear global objective.
Cora Ginsburg
Creators: name: LLC, Cora Ginsburg
Publisher: name: Cora Ginsburg LLC: A catalogue of rare works of art including 17th to 20th century costume, textiles, and needlework
Year: 2023

description: Cora Ginsburg LLC: A catalogue of rare works of art including 17th to 20th century costume, textiles, and needlework, 2021: Cora Ginsburg - Summer 2021. Material Translation
The Impact of Letters of Recommendation on UC Berkeley Admissions in the 2016-17 Cycle
Creators: name: Rothstein, Jesse
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: California Policy Lab
subject: college admissions
subject: college application
subject: letter of recommendation
subject: UC Berkeley

description: This is a report conducted by Jesse Rothstein and the California Policy Lab for the Committee on Admissions, Enrollment, and Preparatory Education (AEPE) at the University of California, Berkeley. It examines the impact of invitations to submit letters of recommendation, issued to some undergraduate applicants, on admissions outcomes, with particular attention to impacts on the diversity of admitted students. This is part of a larger project by Rothstein and CPL examining the role of letters of recommendation in admissions.
Aligning Medical Student Curriculum with Practice Quality Goals: Impacts on Quality Metrics and Practice Capacity for Students
Creators: name: Khachaturyan, Susanna
name: Golding, Julie
name: Byerley, Julie S.
name: Fedoriw, Kelly Bossenbroek
name: Beck Dallaghan, Gary L.
name: Steiner, Beat
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The practice of medicine occurs primarily in the ambulatory environment where providers have many competing demands, including health record documentation and patient volume expectations. Subsequently, medical student education has not been a priority for providers, health systems, or community practices. Yet, accrediting and professional organizations, such as the Association of American Medical Colleges, American Academy of
Family Physicians, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, recommend education in ambulatory settings.
Composizione dell’impresa agricola familiare e accesso alle politiche di sviluppo rurale
Creators: name: Adinolfi, Felice
name: Bartoli, Luca
name: De Rosa, Marcello
name: Fargione, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: The aim of the paper is the analysis of the ‘consumption’ of rural development policies (Rdp) as the result of entrepreneurial behaviours adopted by family run farms. The underlying hypothesis is that family run farm’s characteristics influence the consumption of rural development policies. By suggesting a family run farm perspective, we support the idea that any boundary between productive and reproductive work in the farm household is artificial thus conditioning farm strategy and aptitude to invest. Therefore, a relevant aspect to be examined concerns family size, localization in life cycle, and the presence of assistants within the family run farms.The results of our analysis permit to emphasize the importance of family context in the access to Rdp and the relevance of the family assistants on farm’s propensity to get funded.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
A National Survey of Undergraduate Clinical Education in Internal Medicine
Creators: name: Pincavage, Amber T.
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
name: Ismail, Nadia
name: Curren, Camilla
name: Fagan, Mark J.
name: Osman, Nora Y.
name: Szauter, Karen
name: DeWaay, Deborah
name: Leizman, Debra S.
name: Kiselewski, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: BACKGROUND: In the present milieu of rapid innovation
in undergraduate medical education at US medical
schools, the current structure and composition of clinical
education in Internal Medicine (IM) is not clear.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the current composition of undergraduate
clinical education structure in IM.
DESIGN: National annual Clerkship Directors in Internal
Medicine (CDIM) cross-sectional survey.
PARTICIPANTS: One hundred twenty-nine clerkship
directors at all Liaison Committee on Medical Education
accredited US medical schools with CDIM membership as
of September 1, 2017.
MAIN MEASURES: IM core clerkship and post-core clerkship
structure descriptions, including duration, educational
models, inpatient experiences, ambulatory experiences,
and requirements.
KEY RESULTS: The survey response rate was 83% (107/
129). The majority of schools utilized one core IM clerkshipmodel
(67%) and continued to use a traditional block
model for a majority of their students (84%). Overall 26%
employed a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship model and
14% employed a shared block model for some students.
The mean inpatient duration was 7.0 ± 1.7 weeks (range
3–11 weeks) and 94% of clerkships stipulated that students
spend some inpatient time on general medicine. IM-specific
ambulatory experiences were not required for
students in 65% of IM core clerkship models. Overall
75% of schools did not require an advanced IM clinical
experience after the core clerkship; however, 66% of
schools reported a high percentage of students (> 40%)
electing to take an IM sub-internship. About half of
schools (48%) did not require overnight call or night float
during the clinical IM sub-internship.
CONCLUSIONS: Although there are diverse core IM clerkship
models, the majority of IM core clerkships are still
traditional block models. The mean inpatient duration is
7 weeks and 65% of IM core clerkship models did not
require IM-specific ambulatory education.
Inflation and cosmological evolution with $F(R,G)$ gravity theory
Creators: name: Saha, Dalia
name: Saha, Jyoti Prasad
name: Sanyal, Abhik Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last decade Planck PR4 data together with ground-based experimental data such as, BK18, BAO and CMB lensing, tightened constraint of the tensor to scalar ratio, starting form $r < 0.14$ to $r < 0.032$, while the spectral index lies within the range $0.9631 < n_s < 0.9705$. Viability of modified gravity theories, proposed as alternatives to the dark-energy issue, should therefore be tested in the light of such new result. Here, we explore $F(R,G)$ gravity theory in regard of the early universe and have shown that, it is not compatible with newly released constraints on $r$ and $n_s$ simultaneously. Further, it also fails to produce a feasible radiation dominated era. It therefore questions the justification of using the model for resolving the cosmic puzzle.
description: 34 pages, 1 figure
Influence of the Common Agricultural Policy on the livestock number reared. Evidence from selected European regions
Creators: name: Viscecchia, Rosaria
name: Giannoccaro, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: Over the past 20-30 years European livestock farming and the spatial distribution of livestock across Europe have been largely shaped by reforms of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Generally, for the coming years a decrease in livestock numbers is expected in regions that are characterized by high livestock densities. To this regards, most studies examined the influence of CAP changes at a regional level while literature encompassing a broader range of European regions is still scarce. The study aims at assessing the influence of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on farmers’ decision about on-farm numbers of livestock reared. To do this, farmers’ stated intentions are analysed against the event of a CAP abolishment after 2013.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Current and Optimal Training in High-Value Care in the Internal Medicine Clerkship: A National Curricular Needs Assessment
Creators: name: Lang, Valerie J.
name: Harrell, Heather
name: Cayea, Danelle
name: Pahwa, Amit
name: Tartaglia, Kim
name: Shaheen, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The clinical skills needed to practice high-value care (HVC) are core to all medical disciplines. Medical students form practice habits early, and HVC instruction is essential to this formation. The purpose of this study was to describe the state of HVC instruction and assessment in internal medicine clerkships and identify needs for additional curricula.

Method: In 2014, the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine conducted its annual survey of 121 U.S. and Canadian medical schools. The authors evaluated a subset of questions from that survey asking clerkship directors about the perceived importance of HVC instruction, type and amount of formal instruction and assessment, achievement of student competence, prioritization of topics, and barriers to curriculum implementation. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize responses, and chi-square tests were used to examine associations between response categories.

Results: The overall response rate was 77.7% (94/121). The majority (85; 91.4%) agreed that medical schools have a responsibility to teach about HVC across all phases of the curriculum. Of respondents, 31 (32.9%) reported their curricula as having some formal instruction on HVC, and 66 (70.2%) felt the amount was inadequate. Highest-priority topics for inclusion included overuse of diagnostic tests and treatments, defining value and its application to clinical reasoning, and balancing benefit and harm. Only 11 (17.8%) assessed students’ competence in HVC.

Conclusions: Internal medicine clerkship directors reported that HVC is insufficiently taught and assessed in medical school, despite relevance to practice. Developing generalizable curricular materials, faculty development, and dedicated curricular time may enhance HVC education.
The Effectiveness of Prompts on Self-Regulated Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Pupaleska, Larisa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this review is to determine the effectiveness of digitally embedded cognitive, metacognitive, or mixed prompts on self-regulated learning (SRL). Since evidence concerning the effects of such prompts are inconsistent across the SRL literature, this review aims to identify the underlying mechanisms of each prompt condition that work to yield positive learning outcomes.
An ex-post evaluation of the 2000-2006 Rural Development Plan of the Lazio Region using farm-level data
Creators: name: Russo, Carlo
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: The paper evaluates the 2000-2006 Rural Development Plan of the Lazio Region. It applies a difference in difference analysis to a dataset composed of data from the V and VI agricultural census, and administrative data about rural development payments. The total sample is composed by 46,021 farms. The empirical analysis shows that farms receiving rural development payments (treatment) increased their competitive capability more than those with no payments (control group). The data supported the hypothesis of a selection effect: farms with higher competitive capability were more likely to obtain payments. A regression approach confirmed the results of the non-parametric difference in difference analysis.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
FACTOR AFFECTING EFFECTIVENESS OF PHARMACUTICAL DISTRBUTIONTHE CASE OF ETHIOPIAN PHARMACEUTICALS SUPPLY AGENCY ADDIS ABABA BRANCH
Creators: name: DEMEKE ALEMU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The main purpose of this study was to analysis the effectiveness of pharmaceutical distribution in EPSA AA hub. The research develops on three key dimensions of pharmaceutical distribution effectiveness (Storage and inventory control practice, Order fulfillment, communication and customer service management, Transport and distribution system) to test effectiveness of distribution in the organization. Both descriptive and exploratory research design was employed. The total population of the study is 286; the researcher used stratified simple random sampling and purposefully sampling technique. The data for the study was collected from 90 employs who work in EPSA AA hub and health facility with 95.7% of respondent rate. the effectiveness of pharmaceutical distribution data were in filled using the five point linkert-scale while the cronbach Alpha was used to check the data for reliability of measurement scale.
Strengthening the sustainability of rural areas: the role of rural tourism and agritourism
Creators: name: Fiume Fagioli, Filippo
name: Diotallevi, Francesco
name: Ciani, Adriano
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: The European territory is characterized by a strong presence of rural areas. While the primary sector still plays a major role in some regions, the importance of agriculture in the economic system of the EU-28 is declining. The inability in generating sufficient revenue has led the farmers, in many cases, at diversifying from the agricultural base, by engaging in a pluriactivity. In this context, Rural Tourism is one of the key opportunities in terms of potential growth for rural areas, in the wider context of the Sustainable Management and Promotion of Territory activities. This paper aims at studying the Rural Tourism, with the purpose to overcome the difficulties in defining analytically the Rural Tourism and Agritourism, by setting up a comprehensive body of knowledge and a theoretical framework for future analysis and studies.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Capitale sociale e approccio LEADER: dalla teoria all’applicazione
Creators: name: Pisani, Elena
name: Secco, Laura
name: Da Re, Riccardo
name: Franceschetti, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: Intangible resources like social capital (SC), if supported by proper governance mechanisms, can positively influence rural development processes. Within the EU LEADER Approach, through the stakeholders’ cooperation and the creation of networks, Local Action Groups (LAGs) should generate SC. This paper, on the basis of empirical evidences collected through questionnaires to 9 LAGs (case-studies) in 4 Italian regions, provides a set of 96 innovative indicators for understanding how the structural and cognitive SC contribute to increasing LEADER performance. Results consist of analytical descriptions of indicators’ values for different LAGs and comparisons among indicators, which allow stressing causes of excellence in each explored dimension of SC.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Food waste, consumer attitudes and behaviour. A study in the North-Eastern part of Italy
Creators: name: Marangon, Francesco
name: Tempesta, Tiziano
name: Troiano, Stefania
name: Vecchiato, Daniel
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: Reducing the amount of wasted food is a key element in developing a sustainable food system. Large quantities of produced food are discarded and, to a large extent, the waste is avoidable. The wastage of food occurs at all stages of the food life cycle, starting from harvesting, through manufacturing and distributing and finally consumption, but the largest contribution to food waste occur at home. In the past, several studies investigated the amount of food waste in Italy. Nevertheless there is a substantial lack in the knowledge of the reasons linked to waste food at households. The aim of this paper is to focus on the consumption food waste for exploring the reasons of food waste on family level, which is a significant fraction of total, in order to overcome food wasting behaviour and point out options to design prevention measures.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Tackling the Problem of Ambulatory Faculty Recruitment in Undergraduate Medical Education: An AAIM Position Paper
Creators: name: Fazio, Sarah B.
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
name: Amin, Alpesh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Historically, training within internal medicine has
offered a comprehensive and deep understanding of
adult medical issues, with a particular emphasis on critical
thinking as well as diagnosis and management of
complex medical disease. However, as hospital admissions
decline and length of stay shortens, it is not possible
to learn the breadth of internal medicine on the
basis of inpatient service alone. The management of
diseases in the inpatient setting and in the outpatient
setting is significantly different. For example, management
of diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease are very distinctive in
inpatient versus outpatient settings. Some conditions,
such as asthma and human immunodeficiency virus,
are no longer seen frequently enough in the inpatient
setting to guarantee learning opportunities. The ability
to see the course of illness over time as well as appreciate
the relational aspects of care and prevention of
complications requires ambulatory training. The Liason
Committee on Medical Education and the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
endorse ambulatory training for these reasons.
Despite the need for robust ambulatory education,
internal medicine educators face well-documented difficulties
in recruiting ambulatory training sites for both
students and residents.
Symptom improvement and remission in untreated anxiety disorders: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Scott, Amelia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mental Disorders
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychological Phenomena and Processes

description: This registration is for a systematic review and meta-analysis of no-treatment control conditions in randomised controlled trials for anxiety disorders. The details of the registration are contained in the attached document.
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder, (2011), in American Economic Review
Creators: name: Tutor, Melba
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We selected the claim that there is considerable seller shading in flexible contracts in the good state. In contrast, there is almost no shading in rigid contracts. This reflects the following statement from the paper’s abstract: “Flexible contracts—-which would dominate rigid contracts under standard assumptions—-cause significant shading in ex post performance, while under rigid contracts much less shading occurs.” The claim was tested by a nonparametric signed rank test between rigid and flexible contracts on price paid, which resulted in the difference in the frequency of shading between the two contract types being statistically significant (nonparametric signed rank test, p-value = 0.031 (one-sided)). The focal test in the original paper is: The difference in the frequency of shading between the two contract types being statistically significant (nonparametric signed rank test, p-value = 0.031 (one-sided)).
Evaluating italian attitude and behaviour toward Fair Trade products
Creators: name: Panico, Teresa
name: Del Giudice, Teresa
name: Amato, Mario
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Verneau, Fabio
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: In the context of food consumption, several issues have been widely discussed in reference to a large array of attributes and product types used as evidence of growing consumer feeling toward ethical issues linked to moral and social consciousness. Animal welfare, fair prices for farmers, social aspects of production, and preservation of cultural features, are some of the product attributes for which consumer behaviour has been analyzed in the context of ethical consumerism. This paper aims at providing insights into consumer motivational systems and their relations with fair trade product purchasing behaviour. In order to pursue this goal, the effectiveness of two alternative approaches, proposed in the literature and tested in Belgium and Germany, were formally assessed in Italy. The two sets of scales were tested for predicting purchasing behaviour by using a sample of Italian consumers.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Toward New Assessment Systems and the Role of Indicators Therein: Where We Are and Where We Are Going / Responsible Metrics
Creators: name: Pölönen, Janne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Research assessment
CoARA
Scientometrics
Bibliometrics
Peer review

description: This talk presented at the European Summer School on Scientometrics discusses the role of scientometrics from the perspective of the reform of research assessment, including CoARA, the context, purpose, bias considerations, and  the movement towards a more holistic assessment of institutions and researchers.
Barriers to Implementing Food Service Guideline Strategies among REACH Grantees
Creators: name: Duckworth, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Nutrition Standards need to play an increasingly larger role in Policy, Systems, and Environmental Interventions to reach the scope needed to support a healthy diet. This paper examines the frequency of types of barriers REACH grantees experienced when implementing Nutrition Standards/Food Service Guidelines and in what settings those barriers are most frequently encountered.
Representations of integers by systems of three quadratic forms
Creators: name: Pierce, Lillian B.
name: Schindler, Damaris
name: Wood, Melanie Matchett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is classically known that the circle method produces an asymptotic for the number of representations of a tuple of integers $(n_1,\ldots,n_R)$ by a system of quadratic forms $Q_1,\ldots, Q_R$ in $k$ variables, as long as $k$ is sufficiently large; reducing the required number of variables remains a significant open problem. In this work, we consider the case of 3 forms and improve on the classical result by reducing the number of required variables to $k \geq 10$ for "almost all" tuples, under appropriate nonsingularity assumptions on the forms $Q_1,Q_2,Q_3$. To accomplish this, we develop a three-dimensional analogue of Kloosterman's circle method, in particular capitalizing on geometric properties of appropriate systems of three quadratic forms.
description: 64 pages, minor edits to exposition to agree with published version
Dai distretti alle reti d’impresa: soluzioni chiave per lo sviluppo territoriale
Creators: name: Zecca, Francesco
name: Al Am, Aline
name: Capocchi, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: The district concept has born with the need to overcome the conditions of insufficient competitiveness increasing production advantages and integrating the different phases of the production cycle in a geographical space. On the other hand, the fundamental principle of the network is the organized relationship between firms. The two models share the basis organization form (a net between different actors) but, unlike districts and consortia, the network exceeds the logic of territoriality district and hierarchical organization by introducing a new method of asset management. While the district will continue to be the territorial unit of reference, the network contract will have to join it in order to integrate the functionality.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 69 No 2-3 (2014)
Capturing the Dynamics of Pedestrian Traffic Using a Machine Vision System
Creators: name: Ngoho, Louie Vincent A.
name: Pabico, Jaderick P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We developed a machine vision system to automatically capture the dynamics of pedestrians under four different traffic scenarios. By considering the overhead view of each pedestrian as a digital object, the system processes the image sequences to track the pedestrians. Considering the perspective effect of the camera lens and the projected area of the hallway at the top-view scene, the distance of each tracked object from its original position to its current position is approximated every video frame. Using the approximated distance and the video frame rate (30 frames per second), the respective velocity and acceleration of each tracked object are later derived. The quantified motion characteristics of the pedestrians are displayed by the system through 2-dimensional graphs of the kinematics of motion. The system also outputs video images of the pedestrians with superimposed markers for tracking. These visual markers were used to visually describe and quantify the behavior of the pedestrians under different traffic scenarios.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, appeared in Proceedings (CDROM) of the 7th National Conference on IT Education (NCITE 2009), Capitol University, Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines, 21-23 October 2009
The Mexican Migrant Mothers’ Health Miracle
Creators: name: Cabello-De la Garza, Ana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The Mexican Migrant Mothers' Health Paradox is an experiential training that focuses on the fact that during the first weeks of life when more than 50% of all deaths occur, infants born to Mexican women in the US exhibit mortality rates that are statistically equal or even better than babies born to white women. The paradox was coined for the Latinx population because it went against the belief that wealth equaled health. Besides better birth outcomes, Mexican migrants have a lower incidence of mental health issues, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Since 1986, this epidemiological trend has been studied because it provides an opportunity to learn best practices, validate as well as reinforce healthy behaviors and attitudes, and further improve as well as take up to scale healthy outcomes. Indeed, this population's socio-cultural resilience has helped the community members overcome the usual risk factors that lead to poor health. However, these protective factors seem to be threatened by an expiration date negotiated by the degree of acculturation. In order to respect, protect, and optimize these positive outcomes according to the ideal of health as a human right, it is important to apply strengths-based, structurally competent, and patient-centered approaches. This training is the first step in health system transformation that builds synergistic capacity among participants who will learn how to apply tools to sustainably promote health equity.
Snow profile alignment and similarity assessment---Data and Code
Creators: name: Herla, Florian
name: Horton, Simon
name: Mair, Patrick
name: Haegeli, Pascal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Avalanche forecasting
subject: Dynamic Time Warping
subject: Snowpack Modeling

description: This repository contains the data and the analysis scripts to reproduce Herla et al (to be submitted), Snow profile alignment and similarity assessment for aggregating, clustering, and evaluating of snowpack model output for avalanche forecasting.
PatchBackdoor: Backdoor Attack against Deep Neural Networks without Model Modification
Creators: name: Yuan, Yizhen
name: Kong, Rui
name: Xie, Shenghao
name: Li, Yuanchun
name: Liu, Yunxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Backdoor attack is a major threat to deep learning systems in safety-critical scenarios, which aims to trigger misbehavior of neural network models under attacker-controlled conditions. However, most backdoor attacks have to modify the neural network models through training with poisoned data and/or direct model editing, which leads to a common but false belief that backdoor attack can be easily avoided by properly protecting the model. In this paper, we show that backdoor attacks can be achieved without any model modification. Instead of injecting backdoor logic into the training data or the model, we propose to place a carefully-designed patch (namely backdoor patch) in front of the camera, which is fed into the model together with the input images. The patch can be trained to behave normally at most of the time, while producing wrong prediction when the input image contains an attacker-controlled trigger object. Our main techniques include an effective training method to generate the backdoor patch and a digital-physical transformation modeling method to enhance the feasibility of the patch in real deployments. Extensive experiments show that PatchBackdoor can be applied to common deep learning models (VGG, MobileNet, ResNet) with an attack success rate of 93% to 99% on classification tasks. Moreover, we implement PatchBackdoor in real-world scenarios and show that the attack is still threatening.
description: accepted by ACM MM 2023
Biofuel sustainability: review of implications for land use and food price
Creators: name: Bentivoglio, Deborah
name: Rasetti, Michele
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: This article reviews the main findings, obtained from the literature, on two aspects that question first generation biofuel sustainability: the consequences of increased biofuel production on indirect land use change (ILUC) and related emissions and the impact of biodiesel on food-commodities prices. The measurement of ILUC, although necessary, is currently highly uncertain as demonstrated by the wide variation in estimates; in any case it seems that none of the first generation biofuels will be able to fulfill the sustainability criteria imposed by the RE Directive. Regarding the food-fuel debate, even if discrepancies in results have been observed, this review suggests that changes in biofuel prices have little impact on food prices. On the other hand, the impact of an increasing production of biofuel on food prices is not negligible.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 70 No 1 (2015)
Flowers dataset TFRecord
Creators: name: Tung, KC
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering

description: This is a dataset consists of five types of flowers. Images are open source and available from Python's distribution. Images are converted to TFRecord format for streamlined ingestion provers during TensorFlow workflow. The objective is to use this dataset for research and development of data ingestion pipeline for cloud based machine learning image classification model.
Analytical solutions for the Bohr Hamiltonian with the Woods-Saxon potential
Creators: name: Capak, M.
name: Petrellis, D.
name: Gonul, B.
name: Bonatsos, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximate analytical solutions in closed form are obtained for the 5-dimensional Bohr Hamiltonian with the Woods-Saxon potential, taking advantage of the Pekeris approximation and the exactly soluble one-dimensional extended Woods-Saxon potential with a dip near its surface. Comparison to the data for several gamma-unstable and prolate deformed nuclei indicates that the potential can describe well the ground state and gamma-1 bands of many prolate deformed nuclei corresponding to large enough "well size" and diffuseness, while it fails in describing the beta-1 bands, due to its lack of a hard core, as well as in describing gamma-unstable nuclei, because of the small "well size" and diffuseness they exhibit.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables
Input-Output Analysis for agricultural and livestock sector in the Brazilian economy
Creators: name: Smaniotto Silveira, Tania
name: Rodrigues Fabris, Diuslene
name: Nogueirra Neto, Antonio
name: Gonçalves Jùnior, Carlos Alberto
name: Cardoso, Barbara Françoise
name: Assis Shikida, Pery Francisco
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2015

description: This paper aims at assessing the behaviour’s evolution in the agricultural and livestock sectors in the Brazilian economy by domestic input-output matrix for 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2009. These matrices were used to calculate the forward and backward linkages indices as well as the production, employment and income generators, enabling the analysis of the relationship among the agricultural and livestock sector and other sectors. The results showed that the agricultural and livestock sector is gaining importance in the Brazilian economy, especially as input for other sectors. Furthermore, the production, employment and income generators corroborated the importance of this sector, especially the employment generator, which depicts that this sector is the major employment generator among the sectors.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 70 No 1 (2015)
BADIIY GIMNASTIKADA ISTE'DODLARNI TARBIYALASH
Creators: name: Farhodova, Maftuna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola badiiy gimnastikada iste'dodli sportchilarni aniqlash va tarbiyalash jarayonini o'rganadi. Tadqiqot natijalariga ko'ra, erta yoshdan boshlab kompleks tayyorgarlik, maxsus jismoniy va psixologik mashg'ulotlar, hamda individual yondashuvni qo'llash eng samarali usullar hisoblanadi. Maqolada iste'dodli gimnastlarni tanlash mezonlari, ularni rivojlantirish bosqichlari va yuqori natijalarga erishish uchun zarur bo'lgan omillar tahlil qilinadi.