cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Climate Applications of  Geodetic Tropospheric Parameters
Creators: name: Pacione, Rosa
name: Pottiaux, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Geodesy
Climate
Water Vapour

description: Geodesy contributes to atmospheric science by providing water vapor, one of the essential climate variables of the Global Climate Observing System. Water vapour is the most important natural greenhouse gas and is responsible for the largest known feedback mechanism for amplifying climate change. It also strongly influences atmospheric dynamics and the hydrologic cycle through surface evaporation, latent heat transport and diabatic heating, and is a source of clouds and precipitation. Atmospheric water vapour is highly variable, both in space and in time. Therefore, measuring it remains a demanding and challenging task. The Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) estimated from GNSS observations, provided at a temporal resolution of minutes and under all weather conditions, can be converted into Integrated Water Vapour (IWV), if additional meteorological variables are available. The same parameter, even though not continuously, can be derived from the analysis of data collected at geodetic VLBI radio telescope. GNSS and VLBI observations are reaching the “maturity age” of 30 years when climate normal of ZTD/IWV (and horizontal gradients) can be derived. For doing this, the complete data set of the observations has to be reprocessed using the state-of-the-art models thus providing a consistent time series of tropospheric data, free from inconsistencies introduced from improved data processing algorithms and models. However, instrumental and environmental changes at GNSS stations has to be accounted for before making climate trend analyses. If not assimilated in numerical weather prediction model reanalyses, geodetic products can also be used as independent datasets to validate climate model outputs (ZTD/IWV). The following questions arise: what is the actual use of geodetic tropospheric parameters in climate monitoring? What are the advantages of using them for climate monitoring? In addition, what would be the best ZTD time series to serve the climate community?

The presentation will provide a review of the progress made in and the status of using geodetic  tropospheric datasets for climate research, highlighting the challenges and pitfalls. Examples demonstrating the benefits for climate monitoring brought by using GNSS ZTD and/or IWV datasets in complement to other observations will be shown.
The nature of GRB980425 and the search for off-axis GRB signatures in nearby type Ib/c supernovae emission
Creators: name: Waxman, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The identification of type Ib/c supernovae as GRB progenitors is motivated by the association of GRB980425 with SN1998bw and of GRB030329 with SN2003dh. While the gamma-ray luminosity of GRB030329 was typical to cosmological GRBs, the luminosity of the nearby (40 Mpc) GRB980425 was ~5 orders of magnitude lower. The large luminosity difference is commonly explained by hypothesizing that either SNe Ib/c produce two different classes of GRBs, or that GRB980425 was a typical cosmological GRB jet viewed off-axis. In the latter scenario, strong radio emission, ~10^{30} erg/s Hz, is expected at ~1 yr delay due to jet deceleration to sub-relativistic speed, as observed from GRB970508. The radio luminosity of SN1998bw was 3 orders of magnitude lower than this value. We show that the low radio flux may be consistent with the off-axis jet interpretation, if the density of the wind surrounding the progenitor is lower than typically expected, \dot{m}=(\dot{M}/10^{-5} M_sun/yr)/(v/10^3 km/s)~0.1 instead of \dot{m}>=1. The lower value of \dot{m} is consistent with the observed radio emission from the supernova shock driven into the wind. This interpretation predicts transition to sub-relativistic expansion at ~10 yr delay, with current \~1 mJy 10GHz flux and m_V~23 optical flux, and with ~10 mas angular source size. It also implies that in order to search for the signature of off-axis GRBs associated with nearby Ib/c supernovae, follow up observations should be carried on a multi-yr time scale.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure; 2 references added; ApJ, in press
Deep Thinking
Creators: name: สมชาย ศุภธาดา
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2021
Subjects: n/a

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 17, 56 (ธันวาคม 64), 94
VPLYV PRACOVNEJ VYBAVENOSTI PODNIKOV NA PRODUKTIVITU PRACE
INFLUENCE OF WORKING EQUIPMENT IN ENTERPRISES ON LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY
Creators: name: VICEN, Michal
name: VICEN, Michal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: labour productivity
subject: structure of workers
subject: system of rewards
subject: regress analysis

description: A study on the influence of selected factors of the structure of workers on labour productivity level as expressed by volume of outputs in Slovak korunas per worker per year points at the different effect of individual factors. The research included a set of 41 agricultural enterprises in Slovakia during the period of 1995- 1998. The level of rewarding (monthly earnings) has the dominant positive influence, especially in manual workers. The negative effect on labour productivity was observed in the structure of workers (an increase in a number of manual workers per technic-economic worker). A share of men and women of different branches in total worker number was found to be indifferent with relation to labour productivity.
Additional file 2 of International tuberculosis contact-tracing notifications in Germany: analysis of national data from 2010 to 2018 and implications for efficiency
Creators: name: Glasauer, Saskia
name: Kröger, Stefan
name: Haas, Walter
name: Perumal, Nita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. International contact-tracing notification form for tuberculosis during non-flight related exposure. Template for the notification of international contact-tracing for tuberculosis during non-air travel developed by the Tuberculosis Team at RKI.
Additional file 1 of Accountability strategies for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in humanitarian settings: a scoping review
Creators: name: Schaaf, Marta
name: Boydell, Victoria
name: Sheff, Mallory C.
name: Kay, Christina
name: Torabi, Fatemeh
name: Rajat Khosla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Online Annex A. List of codes.
Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus Shelley and Mercurio 2005
Creators: name: Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopocryptopidae
Ectonocryptoides
Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus

description: Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus Shelley and Mercurio, 2005
 Type locality. México: Jalisco, Field Station (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) at Chamela. The site is approximately 59 km N Barra de Navidad on Highway 200, the coastal highway.
 Exemplars examined. Oaxaca: 3 km SE Chivela, 20/III/ 2011, 218 m elev., 16° 41’ 44.9” N– 94° 57’ 59.8” W, dunes, colls. G. Montiel, G. Contreras, D. Barrales, 1 ex., (new state record).
 Geographical distribution. México.
 Distribution in México. Jalisco, Puebla (Shelley 2009; Cupul-Magaña and Shelley 2011), and Oaxaca.
 Remark. Cupul-Magaña and González-Salazar (2011) used ecological niche modeling to predict the distribution of E. quadrimeropus in Oaxaca (and in some other states of south and southwestern México).
description: Published as part of Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2013, An annotated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) in the National Collection of Arachnids, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Addendum: Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha, pp. 1-10 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (282) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645582
Finite-emittance Wigner crystals in the bubble regime
Creators: name: Reichwein, Lars
name: Thomas, Johannes
name: Pukhov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of finite emittance electron bunches in the bubble regime of laser-driven wakefield acceleration onto the microscopic structure of the bunch itself. Using resilient backpropagation (Rprop) to find the equilibrium structure, we observe that for realistic and already observed emittances the previously found crystalline structures remain intact and are only widened marginally. Higher emittances lead to larger electron displacements within the crystal and finally its breaking.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Thesis_m16d10l_pdf.pdf
Creators: name: Tanzeem, Fatima Noor
name: Rahman, Dr. Syarifah Aisyafaznim Bt. Sayed Abdul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: 60307 Host-Parasite Interactions
subject: Molecular Biology

description: The purpose of this study was to isolate a mature 16D10L peptide gene sequence (Meloidogyne incognita parasitism gene) from pUC57 in order to clone it to pET11a-link-NGFP: m16D10L vector. The main objective was to clone M. incognita 16D10 parasitism gene for subsequent BiFC assay using recombinant DNA technology and molecular biology tools. The main aim of this study is to elucidate nature of protein-protein interaction between banana proteins and M.incognita parasitism gene to allow for identification of the molecular pathway of plant defence against nematode infestation. Thus, providing essential groundwork for establishment of improve resistant crops.
Theoretical isochrones in several photometric systems II. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugriz system
Creators: name: Girardi, L.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Odenkirchen, M.
name: Chiosi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following Paper I, we provide extended tables of bolometric corrections, extinction coefficients, stellar isochrones, and integrated magnitudes and colours of single-burst stellar populations, for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ugriz photometric system. They are tested on comparisons with DR1 data for a few stellar systems, namely the Palomar 5 and NGC 2419 globular clusters and the Draco dSph galaxy.
description: 11 pages, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics, data files are available in http://pleiadi.pd.astro.it/isoc_photsys.01/isoc_photsys.01.html
EUROPEAN UNION - CENTRAL EUROPE: AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD INTEGRATION
EUROPSKA UNIA — STREDNA EUROPA: INTEGRACIA V OBLASTI POL'NOHOSPODARSTVA A POTRAVINARSTVA
Creators: name: BOJNEC, Stefan
name: BOJNEC, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: integration
subject: agriculture
subject: European Union
subject: Central Europe

description: The paper places the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) in the context of relations of the EU with Central European countries (CECs), identifying possible approaches to the accession of food and agricultural commodities to the CAP. The size of economies, the level of economic development and costs of accession are the main determinants, which will likely cause the agricultural policy adjustment and integration of CECs into the CAP. Political, internal (e.g. budgetary expenditures) and external factors (e.g. the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/GATT multilateral rules) may likely be important as well, suggesting that a convergence of agriculture on both sides and a more global approach in an enlarged EU will likely occur.
Additional file 1 of International tuberculosis contact-tracing notifications in Germany: analysis of national data from 2010 to 2018 and implications for efficiency
Creators: name: Glasauer, Saskia
name: Kröger, Stefan
name: Haas, Walter
name: Perumal, Nita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. International contact-tracing notification form for tuberculosis during air travel. Template for the notification of international contact-tracing for tuberculosis during air travel developed by the Tuberculosis Team at RKI.
Orphnaeus Meinert 1870
Creators: name: Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Oryidae
Orphnaeus

description: Orphnaeus sp.
Figs. 15, 17
 Material examinado. 1 ej., 26/II/1985, col. E. Ramírez. EBCH.
 Distribución en México. El género Orphnaeus Meinert, 1870, se ha registrado en Jalisco y Tamaulipas, representado por la especie Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845) (Pocock 1895-1910; Cupul-Magaña 2010c). Primer registro del género para la EBCH.
description: Published as part of Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2012, Los ciempiés escutigeromorfos (Scutigeromorpha), escolopendromorfos (Scolopendromorpha) y geofilomorfos (Geophilomorpha) de la selva tropical caducifolia de la reserva de Chamela, Jalisco, México, pp. 1-17 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (208) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645542
Additional file 1 of Improving the usability and comprehensiveness of microbial databases
Creators: name: Loeffler, Caitlin
name: Karlsberg, Aaron
name: Martin, Lana S.
name: Eleazar Eskin
name: Koslicki, David
name: Mangul, Serghei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Material; Detailed methods. Figure S1. Overlap of complete genomes; A venn diagram showing the distribution of complete chromosome coverage for the four fungal databases.
Non-Poisson distribution of the time distances between two consecutive clusters of earthquakes
Creators: name: Palatella, L.
name: Allegrini, P.
name: Grigolini, P.
name: Latora, V.
name: Mega, M. S.
name: Rapisarda, A.
name: Vinciguerra, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the help of the Diffusion Entropy technique we show the non-Poisson statistics of the distances between consecutive Omori's swarms of earthquakes. We give an analytical proof of the numerical results of an earlier paper [cond-mat/0212529, Mega et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 188501]
description: Frontiers of Science 2003, Pavia,Italy
IDENTIFYING FACTORS IMPACTING HOUSEHOLDS' DEMAND FOR ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FLOUR IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Poghosyan, Armine
name: Bakhtavoryan, Rafael
name: Poghosyan, Armine
name: Bakhtavoryan, Rafael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: organic and conventional flour, household demand, probit model

description: A probit model is estimated using the 2014 Nielsen Homescan Panel data on household purchases to empirically analyze the influence of demographic variables on the probability of households purchasing organic and conventional flour. A number of demographic variables are found to be statistically significant impacting the likelihood of purchasing organic and conventional flour. In particular, household head’s employment status, education level, marital status, and geographic region are the statistically significant factors impacting the probability of purchasing organic flour. Also, household size, household head’s age, employment status, education level, marital status, race, and geographic region are the statistically significant factors influencing the probability of purchasing conventional flour.
title: Understanding spatial priorities for conservation and restoration in Kenya
Creators: name: Gibbon, Gwili Edward Morgan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Human actions are having widespread, profound, and growing impacts on the global environment. This is converting habitats, driving biodiversity loss, and eroding ecosystem functions that support human livelihoods, health, and well-being. Protected areas remain a cornerstone of efforts to abate environmental destruction, safeguard biological diversity and maintain ecosystem functions, but they must formalise and incorporate other effective area-based conservation measures into conservation planning and monitoring frameworks. Given the rapid onset of anthropogenic climate change and the failure to halt environmental destruction, there is also a widely recognised need to restore ecosystems based on their benefits to biodiversity, ecosystems and people. This has the potential to revolutionise conservation actions, moving away from a protectionist history into a paradigm of creation and co-existence that puts local communities, industries and wider civil society at the forefront of efforts. This requires a future where multifunctional ecological networks are equitable, effective and well connected and therefore resilient to climatic and broader environmental change. I focus this thesis on the Republic of Kenya, a country that is going through a sustained period of economic growth and committed to protecting its wealth of biodiversity and to ecological restoration. First, I provide a novel method to map functional connectivity within Kenya's Central Highlands using expert opinion validated with empirical data. I use this to identify areas of restricted movement and investigate how they would change under stakeholder-defined future land-use options, finding where restoration would be most beneficial. Second, I investigate stakeholder preference for these options using structured decision-making and a multi criteria decision analysis, finding broad support for habitat conservation and restoration that changed little as I built more consensus into the process. Third, I use a novel application based on the principles of systematic conservation planning to integrate spatial priorities for biodiversity conservation and restoration, meeting representation targets across terrestrial Kenya. I measure the contribution of Kenya's different protected area types and use scenarios to show how meeting targets by restoring large patches of habitat, instead of conserving small fragments, produces more ecologically viable but more expensive ecological networks. This thesis helps provide an understanding of the benefits of integrating national-level priorities for conservation and restoration. However, governments must develop context-specific approaches to target interventions that put local communities at the forefront of efforts, promoting multifunctional landscapes of human-wildlife co-existence and enabling environmental stewardship.
Comparison of Agriculture Biotechnology and its Spatial Diversification among Different Countries of the World
Creators: name: Andrzejuk, Adam
name: Andrzejuk, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agriculture biotechnology
subject: biotech crops
subject: biotechnology
subject: research and development
subject: genetically modified crops
subject: R&D expenditures
subject: countries

description: The importance of biotech crops have risen dramatically in the last two decades since their first commercialization. The area of those crops is increasing fast. Soybeans, maize, canola and cotton represent almost 100 percent of area cultivated with biotech crops globally. The number of countries growing biotech crops is also increasing, however currently the United States, Brazil and Argentina are responsible for the largest share of biotech crops among all countries. In 2016, those countries accounted for more than 81% of total world biotech crop area. Judging the potential to introduce new biotechnology, currently the country with the highest number of biotechnology companies is the US followed by Spain and France. In terms of spending on R&D the US is followed by France, Switzerland and South Korea. It must be noted that the highest number of biotech companies and the highest spending is concentrated in the US. Agricultural biotechnology constitute only a small percentage of all biotechnology R&D expenditures.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Investigating the Compositional Structure Of Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Craighero, Francesco
name: Angaroni, Fabrizio
name: Graudenzi, Alex
name: Stella, Fabio
name: Antoniotti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The current understanding of deep neural networks can only partially explain how input structure, network parameters and optimization algorithms jointly contribute to achieve the strong generalization power that is typically observed in many real-world applications. In order to improve the comprehension and interpretability of deep neural networks, we here introduce a novel theoretical framework based on the compositional structure of piecewise linear activation functions. By defining a direct acyclic graph representing the composition of activation patterns through the network layers, it is possible to characterize the instances of the input data with respect to both the predicted label and the specific (linear) transformation used to perform predictions. Preliminary tests on the MNIST dataset show that our method can group input instances with regard to their similarity in the internal representation of the neural network, providing an intuitive measure of input complexity.
Rural Tourism as a Factor Stimulating the Development of Border Areas – The Case of Lubelskie Voivodeship
Creators: name: Bronisz, Urszula
name: Jakubowski, Andrzej
name: Bronisz, Urszula
name: Jakubowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: rural tourism
subject: border areas
subject: Lubelskie Voivodeship
subject: Poland

description: This article aims to evaluate the level of tourism potential for the communities located in the eastern border region of the Lubelskie Voivodeship in Poland. The analysis was based on a three factor model consisting of separate interrelated components of tourism potential i.e. tourist attractiveness, tourist function and tourist traffic. Using a multidimensional comparative analysis, a Tourist Attractiveness Index, Tourist Function Index and Tourist Traffic Index were composed. This enabled to identify the territorial units for which rural tourism can become a real factor stimulating socio-economic development. It appears that rural tourism can be perceived as a chance for improving the local economy for the areas located in the northern part of the borderland, whereas for communities situated in the southern part, it is not a significant issue.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Chiral effective action of QCD: Precision tests, questions and electroweak extensions
Creators: name: Moussallam, Bachir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk first discusses some aspects of the chiral expansion with three light flavours related to the (non) applicability of the OZI rule. Next, the extension of ChPT to an effective theory of the full standard model is considered. Some applications of a systematic description of the coupling constants by sum rules (e.g. to the determination of quark masses and $K_{l3}$ decays) are presented.
description: 6 pages, plenary talk at the International Conference on QCD and Hadronic physics, Beijing 16-20 June 2005
title: Methane Emissions From Wetland Trees: Controls and Variability
Creators: name: Pangala, Sunitha Rao
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Methane (CH4) produced in wetland soil generally is thought to be released to the atmosphere primarily via diffusion, ebullition and transport through aerenchyma of herbaceous plants adapted to waterlogged soils. The role of trees as a conduit for CH4 export from soil to the atmosphere has received limited attention despite laboratory studies of saplings demonstrating that wetland trees have a significant capacity to transport soil-produced CH4 to the atmosphere.

In order to investigate the role of trees in transporting soil-produced CH4 to the atmosphere and assess its ecosystem contributions, tree-mediated CH4 flux was measured in situ from a temperate forested wetland (Flitwick Moor, UK) dominated by Alnus glutinosa and Betula pubescens and from a tropical forested wetland (Borneo, Indonesia). Mesocosm experiments complemented in situ data, in which CH4 emissions were measured from Alnus glutinosa saplings subjected to two water-table treatments. In both the in situ and mesocosm studies, CH4 emissions from trees were compared to CH4 emissions from the soil surfaces.

Both temperate and tropical tree species released significant quantities of CH4 from stem surfaces throughout the observation period. In Alnus glutinosa, CH4 emissions from leaf surfaces were not detected and stem surfaces were the principle point of CH4 egress. Stem-CU4 emissions from both Alnus glutinosa and Betula pubescens were less sensitive to small changes in water-table variations when compared to CH4 emissions from soil surfaces, however, the quantity, temporal variability and CH4 transport mechanisms differed between the two tree species. Stem-CH4 emissions were controlled by a number of factors including tree physiology, abiotic factors and gas transport mechanisms. Wetland trees contributed significantly to ecosystem CH4 flux (6-87%), with tropical trees dominating ecosystem level CH4 fluxes. The results demonstrate that exclusion of tree-mediated CH4 emissions from flux measurement campaigns conducted in forested wetlands can significantly underestimate ecosystem-wide CH4 flux.
Defining Social Sustainability in a University Context
Creators: name: Blair, Erik
name: Hunt, Christianne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The New Silk Road: Seeking Opportunities for Polish Exports in the Chinese Market
Creators: name: Cieślik, Ewa
name: Cieślik, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China
subject: Poland
subject: economic relations
subject: New Silk Road

description: The paper presents preliminary studies related to the problems of the New Silk Road and its influence on the Polish economy. The aim of the report is to define tendencies in the trade exchange between Poland and China and to evaluate the capacity of Polish exports to the Chinese market. The paper tries to answer the question whether the contemporary structure of Polish exports to the Chinese market allows for the full use of the potential of the Middle Kingdom market. In the study, the indicative trade potential was used.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Critical properties of the double exchange ferromagnet Nd0.4Pb0.4MnO3
Creators: name: Sahana, M.
name: Roessler, U. K.
name: Ghosh, Nilotpal
name: Elizabeth, Suja
name: Bhat, H. L.
name: Doerr, K.
name: Eckert, D.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Mueller, K. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of a study of dc-magnetization M(T, H), performed on a Nd0.6Pb0.4MnO3 single crystal in the temperature range around T_C (Curie temperature) which embraces the critical region | epsilon | = |T -T_C |/T_C <= 0.05 are reported. The magnetic data analyzed in the critical region using the Kouvel-Fisher method give the values for the T_C =156.47 +/- 0.06 K and the critical exponents, beta = 0.374 +/- 0.006 (from the temperature dependence of magnetization), and gamma = 1.329 +/- 0.003 (from the temperature dependence of initial susceptibility). The critical isotherm M(T_C, H) gives delta = 4.547 +/- 0.1. Thus the scaling law gamma+beta=delta beta is fulfilled. The critical exponents obey the single scaling-equation of state M(H, epsilon) = epsilon^b f_+/- (H/epsilon^(beta + gamma)) where, f_+ for T > T_C and f_- for T< T_C. The exponent values are very close to those expected for the universality class of 3D Heisenberg ferromagnets with short-range interactions.
description: 19 pages, including 6 figures
Glaresis Erichson 1848
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Key to species groups of American Glaresis
 1. Surface of pronotum and elytra with small, widely spaced, round tubercles, each bearing long, semi-erect seta (Fig. 1A); posterolateral pronotal angle produced, flanged (Fig. 1E); South America................................................................................  Glaresis - Pardoalcaidei Group
 — Surface of pronotum and elytra with somewhat elongate tubercles, usually with ridges rather than tubercles; posterolateral pronotal angle not produced; north of Panama...................... 2
 2(1). Clypeal apex straight, widely flattened, smooth, angled posteriorly (Fig. 2B); pronotal foveae completely lacking (Fig. 2C); metatibia deeply incised apically on inner and outer margins (Fig. 2G).......................................................................................  Glaresis - Ecostata Group
 — Clypeal apex usually medially emarginate or sinuate, not angled posteriorly; pronotal foveae distinctly visible or deeply impressed; metatibia not incised apically on inner and outer margins..................................................................................................................................................... 3
 3(2). Pronotal fovea deeply impressed (Fig. 27C); elytral striae strongly, nearly continuously carinate (Fig. 21A); metatasternal groove distinct, shallow or deep (Fig. 21D, 27D); posterolateral emargination of mesotibia with 3 or 4 short, widely spaced spines (Fig. 28D).................................................................................................................................  Glaresis - Mendica Group
 — Pronotal foveae weakly impressed (Fig. 13C) or strongly impressed (inducta group); elytral striae rounded or weakly carinate (except G. inducta and G. canadensis); metasternal groove indistinct or not discernable (except G. sabulosa); posterolateral emargination of mesotibia with more than 4 or more spines, spines usually long............................................................................... 4
 4(3). Clypeal apex flat (Fig. 7B); Mesotibial apex strongly produced, apex somewhat acute (except G. clypeata) (Fig. 8D); posterior margin of metafemur usually with tooth or angulation next to trochanter (Fig. 7G)...................................................................  Glaresis - Phoenicis Group
 — Clypeal apex narrowly, weakly raised (Fig. 17B): Mesotibial apex weakly produced, apex rounded (Fig. 17D); posterior margin of metafemur without tooth or angulation next to trochanter (Fig. 17G)........................................................................................  Glaresis - Inducta Group
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2014, Systematic revision of American Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), pp. 1-91 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (333) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645613
Low-Q scaling, duality, and the EMC effect
Creators: name: Arrington, J.
name: Ent, R.
name: Keppel, C. E.
name: Mammei, J.
name: Niculescu, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High energy lepton scattering has been the primary tool for mapping out the quark distributions of nucleons and nuclei. Data on the proton and deuteron have shown that there is a fundamental connection between the low and high energy regimes, referred to as quark-hadron duality. We present the results of similar studies to more carefully examine scaling, duality, and in particular the EMC effect in nuclei. We extract nuclear modifications to the structure function in the resonance region, and for the first time demonstrate that nuclear effects in the resonance region are identical to those measured in deep inelastic scattering. With the improved precision of the data at large $x$, we for the first time observe that the large-x crossover point appears to occur at lower $x$ values in carbon than in iron or gold.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Glaresis Erichson 1848
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Glaresis - Pardoalcaidei Group
 Description. Size large, length 4.0 to 5.7 mm. Clypeal apex truncate with small tubercles, medially angled posteriorly (Fig. 1B). Pronotal foveae completely lacking except for small anterolateral depression, surface with round tubercles, each tubercle bearing semi-erect seta; elytral striae flat, with round, seta bearing tubercles (Fig. 1D. Metasternum with surface ridges unmodified, with faint trace of metasternal groove. Mesotibia with posterolateral flange covering setal bases, with 5 spines, apex produced (Fig. 1C). Posterior metatrochanteral margin somewhat serrate or with large tooth at outer angle (Fig. 1G). Metatibia without lateral armature, apical margin not incised. Apex of 5th abdominal ventrite unmodified. Sexually dimorphic; males have large, median tubercles on metasternum (Fig. 1C), outer apical angle of metatrochanter with long, curved tooth, females lack median tubercle on metasternum, outer angle of metatrochanter without tooth.
 Remarks. This monotypic South American group is the only known Glaresis taxon to exhibit gross sexual dimorphism and is not closely similar to any other group of American Glaresis.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2014, Systematic revision of American Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), pp. 1-91 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (333) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645613
Additional file 1 of Health behaviors of caregivers of childhood cancer survivors: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Cho, In Young
name: Nack-Gyun Chung
name: Baek, Hee Jo
name: Lee, Ji Won
name: Sung, Ki Woong
name: Shin, Dong Wook
name: Yoo, Jung Eun
name: Song, Yun-Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Characteristics of childhood cancer survivors.
Glaresis Erichson 1848
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Glaresis - Ecostata Group
 Description. Size large, length 3.0 to 5.0 mm. Clypeal apex straight, smooth, angled posteriorly (Fig. 2B). Pronotal fovea completely lacking (Fig. 2C). Elytral striae flat or weakly convex. Metasternum with surface ridges unmodified (Fig. 2D). Metatasternal surface with ridges unmodified. Metasternal groove absent. Mesotibia with about 5 spines on outer margin, mesotibial apex not produced; posterior metatrochanteral margin tridentate (Fig. 3F). Metatibia deeply incised apically on inner and outer margins (Fig. 2G). Apex of 5th abdominal ventrite truncate in both sexes.
 Remarks. The ecostata group contains 3 species and is the most easily recognized group within the genus.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2014, Systematic revision of American Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), pp. 1-91 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (333) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645613
Towards highly efficient thin-film solar cells with a graded-bandgap CZTSSe layer
Creators: name: Ahmad, Faiz
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
name: Anderson, Tom H.
name: Monk, Peter B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A coupled optoelectronic model was implemented along with the differential evolution algorithm to assess the efficacy of grading the bandgap of the CZTSSe layer for enhancing the power conversion efficiency of thin-film CZTSSe solar cells. Both linearly and sinusoidally graded bandgaps were examined, with the molybdenum backreflector in the solar cell being either planar or periodically corrugated. Whereas an optimally graded bandgap can dramatically enhance the efficiency, the effect of periodically corrugating the backreflector is modest at best. An efficiency of 21.74% is predicted with sinusoidal grading of a 870-nm-thick CZTSSe layer, in comparison to 12.6% efficiency achieved experimentally with a 2200-nm-thick homogeneous CZTSSe layer. High electron-hole-pair generation rates in the narrow-bandgap regions and a high open-circuit voltage due to a wider bandgap close to the front and rear faces of the CZTSSe layer are responsible for the high enhancement of efficiency.
Scaling law of Wolff cluster surface energy
Creators: name: Hsiao, Pai-Yi
name: Monceau, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scaling properties of the clusters grown by the Wolff algorithm on seven different Sierpinski-type fractals of Hausdorff dimension $1 < d_f \le 3$ in the framework of the Ising model. The mean absolute value of the surface energy of Wolff cluster follows a power law with respect to the lattice size. Moreover, we investigate the probability density distribution of the surface energy of Wolff cluster and are able to establish a new scaling relation. It enables us to introduce a new exponent associated to the surface energy of Wolff cluster. Finally, this new exponent is linked to a dynamical exponent via an inequality.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures. To appear in PRB
Glaresis Erichson 1848
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Key to species of Glaresis - Ecostata Group
 1. Elytral striae convex (Fig. 4E), setae distinctly visible; length 3.0 to 3.75 mm; pronotal surface with elongate ridges bearing setae slightly shorter than tubercles; Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah.....................................................................................................  G. costata, n. sp.
 — Elytra striae flat (Fig. 2E), setae short; length 3.24 to 5.0 mm; pronotal surface with short, widely spaced seta-bearing ridges; not known from New Mexico, Texas, Utah...................... 2
 2(1). Clypeal surface and apical 1/2 of frons with large, closely spaced punctures (Fig. 2B); frons densely rugulose; clypeal apex with smooth area wide, posterior margin thickened (Fig. 2B); pronotal surface with small, slightly elongate ridges bearing short, nearly invisible setae (Fig. 2C); southwestern Arizona, southern California, Mexico..............................  G. ecostata Fall
 — Clypeal surface and frons with small, dense punctures (Fig. 3B); frons densely microreticulate; clypeal apex with smooth area narrow, posterior margin not thickened (Fig. 3B); pronotal surface with closely spaced, long ridges bearing short setae (Fig. 3C); Baja California................................................................................................................................  G. bajaensis, n. sp.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2014, Systematic revision of American Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), pp. 1-91 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (333) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645613
Paradigm of Financial Provision of the Agricultural Land Restoration in Ukraine
Creators: name: Davydenko, Nadiya
name: Wasilewska, Natalia
name: Davydenko, Nadiya
name: Wasilewska, Natalia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: financial provision of agricultural land restoration
subject: state strategy
subject: agrarian sector
subject: agrarian enterprises
subject: restoration of land resources
subject: financing programs
subject: preferential loans

description: The purpose of the research was to determine the system of measures aimed at financial provision of restoration and improvement of the fertility of the agricultural lands, which are an important part of the state strategy for the development of the Ukrainian economy agrarian sector. Characteristics of land use in European countries and Ukraine were presented. The sources of financial provision of agricultural land restoration were analyzed. The measures aimed at successful restoration of fixed assets of agrarian enterprises, in particular land resources are proposed.
description: eISSN 2544-0659
Life Cycle Assessment of Vanier Residence in University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Shiu, Laurent
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
NN correlations and final-state interactions in (e,e'NN) reactions
Creators: name: Boffi, S.
name: Giusti, C.
name: Pacati, F. D.
name: Schwamb, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief overview of relevant studies on one-nucleon knockout showing the importance of quantitatively understanding the origin of the quenched spectroscopic factors extracted from data, attention is focussed on two-nucleon emission as a suitable tool to investigate nucleon-nucleon correlations inside complex nuclei. In particular, direct (e,e$'$pp) and (e,e$'$pn) reactions are discussed, and the role of final-state interactions is studied. The influence of the mutual interaction between the two outgoing nucleons is shown to depend on the kinematics and on the type of the considered reaction.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of 2nd Int. Conf. on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, Dubrovnik, 26-31 May 2003, to be published on Fyzika B
Formation of complex molecules in translucent clouds: Acetaldehyde, vinyl alcohol, ketene, and ethanol via nonenergetic processing of C2H2 ice
Creators: name: Chuang, K. -J.
name: Fedoseev, G.
name: Qasim, D.
name: Ioppolo, S.
name: Jäger, C.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Palumbo, M. E.
name: van Dishoeck, E. F.
name: Linnartz, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex organic molecules (COMs) have been identified toward high- and low-mass protostars as well as molecular clouds, suggesting that these interstellar species originate from the early stage(s) of starformation. The reaction pathways resulting in COMs described by the formula C$_2$H$_\text{n}$O are still under debate. In this work, we investigate the laboratory possible solid-state reactions that involve simple hydrocarbons and OH-radicals along with H$_2$O ice under translucent cloud conditions (1$\leq$A$_V$$\leq$5 and \textit{n}$_\text{H}$$\sim$10$^3$ cm$^{-3}$). We focus on the interactions of C$_2$H$_2$ with H-atoms and OH-radicals, which are produced along the H$_2$O formation sequence on grain surfaces at 10 K. Ultra-high vacuum (UHV) experiments were performed to study the surface chemistry observed during C$_2$H$_2$ + O$_2$ + H codeposition, where O$_2$ was used for the in-situ generation of OH-radicals. Reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) was applied to in situ monitor the initial and newly formed species. After that, a temperature-programmed desorption experiment combined with a Quadrupole mass spectrometer (TPD-QMS) was used as a complementary analytical tool. The investigated 10 K surface chemistry of C$_2$H$_2$ with H-atoms and OH-radicals not only results in semi and fully saturated hydrocarbons, such as ethylene (C$_2$H$_4$) and ethane (C$_2$H$_6$), but it also leads to the formation of COMs, such as vinyl alcohol, acetaldehyde, ketene, ethanol, and possibly acetic acid. It is concluded that OH-radical addition reactions to C$_2$H$_2$, acting as a molecular backbone, followed by isomerization (i.e., keto-enol tautomerization) via an intermolecular pathway and successive hydrogenation provides a so far experimentally unreported solid-state route for the formation of these species without the need of energetic input.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables