cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recursion and Hamiltonian operators for integrable nonabelian difference equations
Creators: name: Casati, Matteo
name: Wang, Jing Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K10 (primary), 37K05, 39A35

description: In this paper, we carry out the algebraic study of integrable differential-difference equations whose field variables take values in an associative (but not commutative) algebra. We adapt the Hamiltonian formalism to nonabelian difference Laurent polynomials and describe how to obtain a recursion operator from the Lax representation of an integrable nonabelian differential-difference system. As an application, we propose a novel family of integrable equations: the nonabelian Narita-Itoh-Bogoyavlensky lattice, for which we construct their recursion operators and Hamiltonian operators and prove the locality of infinitely many commuting symmetries generated from their highly nonlocal recursion operators. Finally, we discuss the nonabelian version of several integrable difference systems, including the relativistic Toda chain and Ablowitz-Ladik lattice.
description: 32 pages. Version accepted for publication in Nonlinearity (2020)
The Effect of Aspirations on Agricultural Innovations in Rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Daniel
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Mekonnen, Daniel
name: Gerber, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Development
subject: Aspirations
subject: innovations
subject: agriculture
subject: Ethiopia

description: Previous studies on innovation in agriculture focus mainly on identifying observable and resource related deprivation or ‘external’ constraints. Yet, related literature suggests that ‘internal’ constraints, such as lack of aspirations, could reinforce external constraints and this may lead to a self-sustaining trap of poverty and lack of proactive behavior. Since both aspirations and innovations are future oriented they are likely to be intimately linked. Aspirations are motivators which can enhance innovations. On the other hand, aspirations are also affected by one’s level of achievement implying that aspirations and innovations are simultaneously determined. To identify the effect of aspirations on adoption of agricultural innovations, we conduct both plot level and household level analysis using a purposely collected data from sample households in rural Ethiopia. Using econometric strategies that account for the endogenous nature of the variable of interest, we find that low aspirations (and having very-narrow/wide aspirations gap) are strongly associated with low innovativeness of farm households and low adoption of innovation products such as improved seed, and low involvement in row-planting and sustainable natural resource management practices. Results suggest that the effect of aspirations is stronger on the intensity of use of innovations (e.g. fertilizer use per hectare of land) than its effect on access to or use of individual innovations if those innovations are widely adopted in the study areas. We also find other internal factors such as self-esteem, internal locus of control, trust in others, subjective wellbeing, and perception on causes of poverty to be strongly correlated with aspirations and expectations.
Gewalt auf den zweiten Blick : Queere Beziehungsgewalt im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Machtverhältnisse
Creators: name: Knoop, Jo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Queere Beziehungsgewalt
subject: Gewalt in queeren Beziehungen
subject: Queerfeindlichkeit
subject: Häusliche Gewalt
subject: Partnerschaftsgewalt
subject: Risikofaktoren
subject: 300

description: Vor dem Hintergrund der hohen Wahrscheinlichkeit als queere Person Gewalt in Beziehungen zu erfahren, widmet sich die vorliegende Masterarbeit der Frage nach den Risikofaktoren, die ermöglichen, dass queere Beziehungsgewalt stattfindet und aufrechterhalten wird. Anschließend an den vorherrschenden Erklärungsansatz Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis, der das Gewaltausüben von Männern in heterosexuellen Beziehungen mit ihrer strukturellen Überlegenheit gegenüber Frauen und den Normen patriarchaler Gesellschaften begründet, setzt diese Arbeit den Fokus auf machtspezifische Risikofaktoren für Gewalt in queeren Beziehungen. Hierfür wurden zwölf qualitative Interviews mit queeren Betroffenen von Beziehungsgewalt geführt und diese anschließend mit der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Kuckartz (2022) ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Machtverteilungen zwischen den Partner*innen innerhalb gewaltvoller queerer Beziehungen, ähnlich wie für hetero Beziehungen angenommen, die Tendenz einer überlegenen Position der Gewalt ausübenden Person aufweisen. Allerdings tritt dieses Machtgefälle deutlicher auf der Verhaltens- als auf der strukturellen Ebene in Erscheinung. Im Gegensatz zu dominierenden Analysen wird die geschlechtliche Aufteilung der Rollen im Gewaltgeschehen nicht bestätigt, vielmehr stellen binäre Geschlechter- sowie Opfer-Täter-Konstruktionen erhebliche Risikofaktoren dar. Den relevantesten in dieser Arbeit herausgearbeiteten Erklärungsansatz für queere Beziehungsgewalt stellt die heteronormative Gesellschaft selbst dar. Deren vielfältig zusammenhängende Risikofaktoren werden abschließend in einem multifaktoriellen Modell dargestellt. Mit diesem Modell schließt die Arbeit eine Forschungslücke und regt die Durchführung weiterer machtspezifische Analysen queerer Beziehungsgewalt an.
Peer assessment in medical communication skills training in programmatic assessment: A qualitative study examining faculty and student perceptions
Creators: name: Dohms, M. C.
name: Rocha, A.
name: Rasenberg, E.
name: Dielissen, P.
name: Thoonen, B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Current literature recommends assessment of communication skills in medical education combining different settings and multiple observers. There is still a gap in understanding about whether and how peers assessment facilitates learning in communication skills training. We designed a qualitative study using focus group interviews and thematic analysis, in a medical course in the Netherlands. We aimed to explore medical students’ and teachers’ experiences, perceptions, and perspectives about challenges and facilitating factors in PACST (Peer assessment in medical communication skills training). Most of the participants reported that peer feedback was a valuable experience when learning communication skills. The major challenges for the quality and credibility of PACST reported by the participants are the question whether peer feedback is critical enough for learning and the difficulty of actually engaging students in the assessment process. Teachers reviewing students’ peer assessments may improve the quality and their credibility and the reviewed assessments can best be used for learning purposes. We suggest to pay sufficient attention to teachers’ roles in PACST, ensuring a safe and trustworthy environment and additionally helping students to internalize the value of being vulnerable during the evaluation process.
Lehrstuhl Öffentliche Bibliotheken / Professorship in Public Libraries / La chaire universitaire “bibliothèques publiques”
Creators: name: Umlauf, Konrad
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hochschule
subject: Veröffentlichung
subject: Lehrbuch
subject: University
subject: publications
subject: text books
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
subject: Université
subject: publication
subject: traité

description: Neben der Lehre steht die Produktion von Lehr- und Handbüchern sowie Nachschlagewerken des Faches im Fokus des Lehrstuhls. Die Forschungsleistungen sind überwiegend Beiträge dazu. Anders als die Denomination des Lehrstuhls vermuten lässt, umfasst er ein breites Spektrum an Sparten übergreifenden Lehrgebieten wie z. B. Informationsaufbereitung, Management, Bestandsmanagement, Marktforschung.
description: The focus of the professorship is writing and publishing text books and handbooks as for many years there was a lack of good study materials in the discipline in Germany. Research is mostly close connected to this field. Teaching covers, in contrast to the denomination of the professorship, broad areas of the discipline including information organization, management, costing, collection building, and market research.
description: L’enseignement, ainsi que la production de livres de cours, de manuels et d’ouvrages de référence se trouve au centre de la chaire. Les résultats de recherche y contribuent principalement. Contrairement à ce que laisse sous-entendre la dénomination de la chaire, celle-ci couvre un large éventail de secteurs comme le traitement et la gestion de l’information, la gestion des stocks ou les études de marché.
Superluminal Localized Solutions to the wave equation, in (vacuum or) dispersive media, for arbitrary frequencies and with adjustable bandwidth
Creators: name: Zamboni-Rached, M.
name: Nobrega, K. Z.
name: Hernandez-Figueroa, H. E.
name: Recami, Erasmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we set forth new exact analytical Superluminal localized solutions to the wave equation for arbitrary frequencies and adjustable bandwidth. The formulation presented here is rather simple, and its results can be expressed in terms of the ordinary, so-called "X-shaped waves". Moeover, by the present formalism we obtain the first analytical localized Superluminal approximate solutions which represent beams propagating in dispersive media. Our solutions may find application in different fields, like optics, microwaves, radio waves, and so on. [PACS nos.: 03.50.De ; 41.20.Jb ; 83.50.Vr ; 62.30.+d ; 43.60.+d ; 91.30.Fn ; 04.30.Nk ; 42.25.Bs ; 46.40.Cd ; 52.35.Lv. Keywords: Wave equation; Wave propagation; Optics; Localized beams; Superluminal waves; Bessel beams; X-shaped waves; Acoustics; Mechanical waves; Dispersion compensation; Seismology; Geophysics; Gravitational Waves; Elementary particle physics].
description: plain LaTeX file (16 pages), plus 9 figures
Water quality information, WATSAN-agriculture hygiene messages and water testing with school students: Experimental evidence for behavioral changes in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Saha, Ratnajit
name: Chowdhury, Priyanka
name: Khan, Tahsina
name: Mohammad, Ikhtiar
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Saha, Ratnajit
name: Chowdhury, Priyanka
name: Khan, Tahsina
name: Mohammad, Ikhtiar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Water quality information/testing
subject: WATSAN-agriculture hygiene messages
subject: school students
subject: randomized control trial
subject: behavioral changes
subject: Bangladesh

description: This paper attempts to reveal the effectiveness of the package of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with the school students’ network “student brigades” in terms of their impacts on water and sanitation (or WATSAN) behavior of household members both in household and farm level and on their health and productivity outcomes. We conduct Randomized Control Trial (RCT) with students’ brigades in six WATSAN hotspots (sub-districts) of Bangladesh in several phases: a water quality census, baseline survey, treatment implementation at treatment areas and end line survey. Our treatment consists of three actions: informing the households about the prior water testing results, delivering hygiene messages through a poster and equipping the student brigades with water testing toolkits and letting them test water at different points and communicate the results back to their households. Impression from the implemented treatments indicates that the suggested intervention package can be an effective strategy to motivate households and communities, particularly by using school students as the agents of change.
Beyond adoption: the welfare effects of farmer innovation in rural Ghana
Creators: name: Tambo, Justice
name: Wunscher, Tobias
name: Tambo, Justice
name: Wunscher, Tobias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Farm Management
International Development

description: With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the impact of farmer innovation is lacking. We address this issue by analyzing the effect of farmer innovation on household welfare, measured by income, consumption expenditure, and food security. Using household survey data from northern Ghana and applying endogenous switching regression, we find that farmer innovation significantly increases household income and consumption expenditure, and reduces food insecurity. However, we find that the positive productivity and income effects of farmer innovation do not significantly translate into nutritious diet, measured by household dietary diversity. Overall, our results show positive and significant welfare effects of farmer innovation, hence, support increasing arguments on the need to promote farmer innovation as a complement to externally promoted technologies in food security and poverty reduction efforts.
Incorporating artificial intelligence into a workshop on scientific and scholarly report writing for preclinical medical students
Creators: name: Prachnakorn, Natdanai
name: Preecha, Kongsit
name: Sri-u-thai, Thanapon
name: Jaroenyod, Thanat
name: Sawang, Kanokpitch
name: Patwong, Natthakamol
name: Wattanapisit, Apichai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This article presents the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool (ChatGPT) to transform a didactic lecture to an interactive workshop. The workshop on scientific and scholarly report writing was conducted for preclinical medical students. The functions of the AI as teaching assistance and documentation were expected to support the workshop. In this workshop, the AI was used to summarise and generate the summary notes based on students’ inputs throughout the interactive activities during the workshop. Future research should focus on potential functions of AI in medical education and its impacts on student’s learning outcomes.
Is There a Merit to the Continuum Tenure Approach? A Case of Demand for Land Rights Formulation in Rural Mozambique
Creators: name: Ghebru, Hosaena
name: Ghebru, Hosaena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land rights
subject: Land registration
subject: tenure security
subject: community land delimitation
subject: Mozambique

description: Despite the general consensus on the need for land reforms to boost agricultural development, the lack of blueprint on required actions to safeguard land rights forces many countries to pilot various policy measures with mixed results. Using the TIA (Trabalho de Inquérito Agrícola) 2008 household and parcel level data from Mozambique, this study shows how demand for formalization of individual land rights depends on the source and type of tenure security risks. Empirical results reveal that demand for individual titles (DUAT) is higher among households where tenure insecurity is associated with private/idiosyncratic tenure risks and lower among those with higher collective tenure risks (such as eviction by the government).
DODS Programmer's Guide The Client and Server Toolkit Version 1.6
Creators: name: Gallagher, James
name: Sgouros, Tom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002

description: This document describes how to use the Distributed Oceanographic Data System toolkit software to build both DODS data servers and client-libraries. Using the objects and functions contained in the toolkit, you can create programs to serve data over the internet as well as programs that can request data from any DODS server.

This document covers release 3.2 and later of the DODS software.
Erstellung eines Konzeptes für ein Wasserstrahl-Schneid-Zentrum zur Realisierung von Konturen an ebenen Teilen aus metallischen Werkstoffen
Creators: name: Jiang, Wenqi
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Wasserstrahlschneiden
subject: Anlagentechnik in der Materialbearbeitung
subject: DDC::6** Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::67* Industrielle Fertigung

description: Im Rahmen der Bachelorarbeit sind, gemäß der o. g. Themenstellung, das Maschinenkonzept zu konzipieren, deren Struktur darzustellen sowie dazugehörige maschinenbautechnische und organisatorische Besonderheiten aufzuzeigen und deren Einbindung in den Prozessablauf zu analysieren.
Enabling Large-Scale Condensed-Phase Hybrid Density Functional Theory Based $Ab$ $Initio$ Molecular Dynamics I: Theory, Algorithm, and Performance
Creators: name: Ko, Hsin-Yu
name: Jia, Junteng
name: Santra, Biswajit
name: Wu, Xifan
name: Car, Roberto
name: DiStasio, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By including a fraction of exact exchange (EXX), hybrid functionals reduce the self-interaction error in semi-local density functional theory (DFT), and thereby furnish a more accurate and reliable description of the electronic structure in systems throughout biology, chemistry, physics, and materials science. However, the high computational cost associated with the evaluation of all required EXX quantities has limited the applicability of hybrid DFT in the treatment of large molecules and complex condensed-phase materials. To overcome this limitation, we have devised a linear-scaling yet formally exact approach that utilizes a local representation of the occupied orbitals (e.g., maximally localized Wannier functions, MLWFs) to exploit the sparsity in the real-space evaluation of the quantum mechanical exchange interaction in finite-gap systems. In this work, we present a detailed description of the theoretical and algorithmic advances required to perform MLWF-based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of large-scale condensed-phase systems at the hybrid DFT level. We provide a comprehensive description of the exx algorithm, which is currently implemented in the Quantum ESPRESSO program and employs a hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization scheme to efficiently utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources. This is followed by a critical assessment of the accuracy and parallel performance of this approach when performing AIMD simulations of liquid water in the canonical ensemble. With access to HPC resources, we demonstrate that exx enables hybrid DFT based AIMD simulations of condensed-phase systems containing 500-1000 atoms with a walltime cost that is comparable to semi-local DFT. In doing so, exx takes us closer to routinely performing AIMD simulations of large-scale condensed-phase systems for sufficiently long timescales at the hybrid DFT level of theory.
description: 34 pages and 10 figures
MOESM3 of Fluorescent protein-tagged Vpr dissociates from HIV-1 core after viral fusion and rapidly enters the cell nucleus
Creators: name: Tanay Desai
name: Marin, Mariana
name: Chetan Sood
name: Shi, Jiong
name: Nawaz, Fatima
name: Aiken, Christopher
name: Melikyan, Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental results (Figures S1 to S10) showing the nuclear accumulation of labeled Vpr under different conditions, including reverse transcriptase inhibitors, as well as the kinetic of loss of GFP-Vpr from single particles following image deconvolution and calibration of FCS setup.
Milk quota and the development of Irish dairy productivity: a Malmquist index using a stochastic frontier approach
Creators: name: Gillespie, Patrick
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Thorne, Fiona
name: Hennessy, Thia
name: Gillespie, Patrick
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Thorne, Fiona
name: Hennessy, Thia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: TFP
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: Malmquist
subject: Stochastic Frontier
subject: Milk Quota
subject: Dairy
subject: Efficiency

description: Several studies of the Irish dairy productivity and efficiency have been carried out in recent history, but none have been able to use Irish farm level data going back before milk quota’s implementation. This study uses recently digitized data going back as far as 1979 to examine trends in an index of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) constructed from the parameters of Greene’s ‘true random effects’ specification of the stochastic frontier. There is some evidence that the implementation of milk quota was associated with a general decrease in TFP, and the series also moves in line with changes in the policy which liberalised quota trade. Technical efficiency and scale efficiency are dominated by movements of the frontier as represented by the technical change component of the index.
Detection of a vibration-rotation emission line of hydrogen deuteride toward Orion Peak 1: excitation coupling of HD to H_2
Creators: name: Howat, S. K Ramsay
name: Timmermann, R.
name: Geballe, T. R.
name: Bertoldi, F.
name: Mountain, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2.46um v=1-0 R(5) line of deuterated molecular hydrogen, HD, has been detected in the Orion Peak~1 shock emission region, at a surface brightness of (8.5 +/- 2.1) x 10^(-9) W m^(-2)sr^(-1) over a 6 arcsec^2 area. Comparison of the column density of HD(v=1,J=6) with the column density of HD(v=0,J=6) previously observed from ISO and the H_2 level column densities toward the same region implies that the excitation of HD is similar to that of H_2 for these energy levels, despite much higher spontaneous transition rates for HD. We suggest that this rough equality is caused by the coupling of the HD levels to those of H_2, due to strong reactive collisions, HD + H -> H_2 + D, in warm, partially dissociated gas. The deuterium abundance implied by the combined ISO and UKIRT measurements toward Orion Peak 1 is [D]/[H] = (5.1 +/- 1.9)x10^(-6).
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Podaena Ordish 1984
Creators: name: Delgado, Juan A.
name: Palma, Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydraenidae
Podaena

description: Podaena Ordish, 1984: 12.
 Type species: Podaena trochanteralis Ordish, 1984
 For diagnoses and full descriptions of the genus Podaena, see Ordish (1984: 12) and Hansen (1991: 22).
description: Published as part of Delgado, Juan A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2010, A revision of the genus Podaena Ordish (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 2678 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5303297
Brane Gas Cosmology, M-theory and Little String Theory
Creators: name: Alexander, Stephon H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the Brane Gas Cosmological Scenario to M-theory degrees of freedom, namely $M5$ and $M2$ branes. Without brane intersections, the Brandenberger Vafa(BV) arguments applied to M-theory degrees of freedom generically predict a large 6 dimensional spacetime. We show that intersections of $M5$ and $M2$ branes can instead lead to a large 4 dimensional spacetime. One dimensional intersections in 11D is related to (2,0) little strings (LST) on NS5 branes in type IIA. The gas regime of membranes in M-theory corresponds to the thermodynamics of LST obtained from holography. We propose a mechanism whereby LST living on the worldvolume of NS5 (M5)-branes wrapping a five dimensional torus, annihilate most efficiently in 3+1 dimensions leading to a large 3+1 dimensional spacetime. We also show that this picture is consistent with the gas approximation in M-theory.
description: 8 pages
Addressing medical resident mistreatment: A resident-centred approach
Creators: name: Sahiti, Qëndresa
name: Shearer, Cindy
name: Thomson, Carolyn
name: Sutherland, Lisa
name: Bowes, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Mistreatment negatively impacts the wellbeing of medical learners and is related to worse patient outcomes and team functioning. Resident perspectives on improving mistreatment reporting structures and investigations have not been explored. We aimed to understand residents’ views on safe reporting structures, investigations, and resolution processes. We conducted an exploratory sequential mixed method study beginning with a series of qualitative interviews to inform an anonymous online survey to all Dalhousie University residents (N = 645). When interviewed, residents (N = 10) discussed personal experiences with mistreatment, barriers to reporting, and how these processes could better serve them. Themes from the interviews were imbedded in an anonymous online survey to explore their prevalence among a larger group. Residents (N = 120; 19%) completed the online survey and revealed that mistreatment was very common yet underreported. Barriers to reporting included confidentiality concerns, perceptions that reporting would not change anything, and fear of retaliation. Desired outcomes for perpetrators depended on the perpetrator’s position and incident severity, and most prefer a remedial approach. Resident mistreatment remains prevalent and current processes of dealing with reports may be inadequate. Residents have thoughtful insights for improving institutional policies and procedures and should be meaningfully engaged.
Integrated land and water management practices for rainwater harvesting: Joint estimation on the combined use of the practices in Azgo watershed, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Girma, Anteneh
name: Kassie, Menale
name: Bauer, Siegfried
name: Aurbacher, Joachim
name: Girma, Anteneh
name: Kassie, Menale
name: Bauer, Siegfried
name: Aurbacher, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Rainwater harvesting
subject: Combined use of practices
subject: Multivariate probit
subject: Ethiopia

description: Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has been practiced and promoted to address the temporal and spatial variability of rainfall, thereby enhance agriculture production in rainfed systems. The practices could also address the problem of land degradation. However, there is limited practice of approaching RWH from the perspective of managing both the water and land resources. This paper analyses the various combination rainwater harvesting practices (RWHP) on a single plot using multivariate probit. The result reveals that there is a significant correlation between the RWHPs and use of the practices is interdependent, depicting either complementarities or substitutabilities between the practices. The practices are influenced differently to the set of explanatory variables considered. This implies the different RWHP would require specific entry point and promotion strategy. This study suggests that policies that enhance the integration of RWHP would be central to exploit the full value of the land and water resource for livelihood support.
Heterogeneous preferences for nutritional and health attributes of Frozen Fried Potatoes: A developing country perspective
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Julia
name: Lacaze, M.
name: Gonzalez, Julia
name: Lacaze, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: frozen fried potatoes
subject: health and nutritional attributes
subject: discrete choice models
subject: demand elasticity
subject: heterogeneous preferences

description: This article intends to explore consumers’ heterogeneous preferences for health and nutritional attributes of frozen fried potatoes (FFP) by analyzing an important urban area of a Latin American country, Argentina, where FFP remain to be the most preferred side dish when people choose to eat fast food, among the available options of a growing market. Results shed light on what drive differences in consumers’ valuation and how demographic characteristics affect price sensitivity and substitution patterns, which are the main magnitudes considered when introducing any market regulation or public policy. By accounting for the heterogeneity-in-preferences estimation also provides insightful information for suppliers for optimally launch price differentiation strategies.
Gravity beyond linear perturbations in the braneworld
Creators: name: Kudoh, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, we briefly review recent studies of second-order gravitational perturbations in braneworld models. After we consider the possibility of pathological behavior of gravity at higher orders of perturbation, second-order perturbations are discussed in Randall-Sundrum braneworld models. Because the mass spectra in these braneworld models are different, we analyze them using different approaches. In the respective models, it is discussed that 4D Einstein gravity is approximately recovered at level of second-order perturbation, although there are some exceptional cases in the two-brane model.
description: 12 pages, typos corrected, Proceedings for YITP workshop "Braneworld -Dynamics of spacetime boundary -"
of Impact of RNA degradation on fusion detection by RNA-seq
Creators: name: Davila, Jaime
name: Numrah Fadra
name: Xiaoke Wang
name: McDonald, Amber
name: Nair, Asha
name: Barbara, Crusan
name: Xianglin Wu
name: Blommel, Joseph
name: Jen, Jin
name: Kandelaria Rumilla
name: Jenkins, Robert
name: Aypar, Umut
name: Klee, Eric
name: Kipp, Benjamin
name: Halling, Kevin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: of Impact of RNA degradation on fusion detection by RNA-seq
A Continuous Threshold Model of Cascade Dynamics
Creators: name: Zhong, Yaofeng Desmond
name: Leonard, Naomi Ehrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a continuous threshold model (CTM) of cascade dynamics for a network of agents with real-valued activity levels that change continuously in time. The model generalizes the linear threshold model (LTM) from the literature, where an agent becomes active (adopts an innovation) if the fraction of its neighbors that are active is above a threshold. With the CTM we study the influence on cascades of heterogeneity in thresholds for a network comprised of a chain of three clusters of agents, each distinguished by a different threshold. The system is most sensitive to change as the dynamics pass through a bifurcation point: if the bifurcation is supercritical the response will be contained, while if the bifurcation is subcritical the response will be a cascade. We show that there is a subcritical bifurcation, thus a cascade, in response to an innovation if there is a large enough disparity between the thresholds of sufficiently large clusters on either end of the chain; otherwise the response will be contained.
AGRICULTURAL TAXATION IN BANGLADESH: ITS EFFICIENCY AND ADEQUACY
Creators: name: Das, Nil Ratan
name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
name: Das, Nil Ratan
name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This note deals on the role of land development tax as existed before April 1982. It was found that fiscal significance of land revenue to the overall budget revenue of the Government is very small. The share of land revenue has fallen in relation to other taxes in recent years. The ratio of land tax to agricultural income also registered a decline in last few years. Empirical evidence showed that all the farm size groups had arrest land tax due and the highest per acre arrear was due to the larger farms. Lack of funds and readily available cash were reported as important reasons for non-payment of land development tax by the farmers. The inequitibility of the land tax structure as analysed here calls for thorough improvement in the overall land tax system ; its structure, collection and administration.
Femizide : verstehen und verhindern
Creators: name: Bach, Hannah
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Femizid
subject: Frauenmord
subject: Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt
subject: Gewaltschutz
subject: Hochrisikofälle
subject: DDC::3** Sozialwissenschaften::30* Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Frage, inwiefern es sinnvoll ist, Femizide auf-grund ihrer geschlechtsspezifischen Motive besonders zu benennen und auch in der Sozialen Arbeit durch spezifische Gewaltschutzkonzepte besonders zu berück-sichtigen, um sie zu verhindern. Ich verfolge damit das Ziel, Femizide mit ihrer ge-sellschaftlichen Relevanz ins Bewusstsein insbesondere von Sozialarbeitenden zu heben. Mit meiner Arbeit komme ich zu dem Ergebnis, dass der Begriff „Femizid“ das zu betrachtende Phänomen insofern am besten definiert, als dass er auf die Geschlechtsspezifik von Gewalt in einer patriarchalen Gesellschaftsstruktur eingeht und diese Geschlechtsspezifik als relevantes Erklärungsmuster zugrunde legt. Um Femiziden vorbeugen zu können, ist es daher unabdingbar, sich mit Gewaltstruktu-ren in engen sozialen Beziehungen zu beschäftigen. In der Sozialen Arbeit, insbe-sondere in Arbeitsfeldern des Gewaltschutz, muss daher mit spezifischen Gewalt-schutzkonzepten wie dem Hochrisikomanagement gearbeitet werden, um den be-sonderen Gewaltdynamiken, die zum Femizid führen können, entgegenzuwirken. Schließlich betrachte ich schlaglichtartig Lücken und Verbesserungspotentiale im Gewaltschutzsystem und entwickele Forderungen, um diese Lücken zu schließen.
Broiler industry performance and economic liberalization in Eighties
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: M. Rizk, R.
name: A. Ibrahim, A.
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: M. Rizk, R.
name: A. Ibrahim, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Broiler industry performance and economic liberalization in Eighties
subject: Broiler industry
subject: Broiler

description: Egyptian journal of Applied science, Vol. 7, No. 12, December 1992
Opening the black box of team-based learning (TBL): A study of verbal interactions in online application sessions
Creators: name: Roossien, Linda
name: Boerboom, Tobias
name: Spaai, Gerard
name: van Klaveren, Lisa-Maria
name: Dolmans, Diana
name: de Vos, Rien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In team-based learning (TBL), an instructional strategy that encourages in-depth team discussion and deep learning, interactions in terms of sharing, co-construction, constructive conflict and procedural interactions are important. Since TBL has also been applied online in recent years, the question is whether these interactions are sufficiently present in an online setting. Gain insight into the nature and extent of these types of interactions in online TBL application sessions and to what extent these vary between teams and sessions. We made audiovisual recordings of 12 TBL teams in two online application sessions during assignments. Transcripts were coded and analyzed using a framework derived. Teams spent more than 85% of their time on all four types of interactions in both sessions. The largest proportion of time was spent on sharing and co-construction. Constructive conflict occurred to a limited extent. We observed variation in proportion of time spent on and the distribution of the four types of interactions between teams and sessions. All interactions important for achieving deep learning occurred in online TBL application sessions. However, the effective use of these types of interaction should not be left to chance.
Superluminal Localized Solutions to Maxwell Equations propagating along a waveguide: The finite-energy case
Creators: name: Zamboni-Rached, M.
name: Fontana, Flavio
name: Recami, Erasmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper of ours [Phys. Rev. E64 (2001) 066603, e-print physics/0001039] we have shown localized (non-evanescent) solutions to Maxwell equations to exist, which propagate without distortion with Superluminal speed along normal-sized waveguides, and consist in trains of "X-shaped" beams. Those solutions possessed therefore infinite energy. In this note we show how to obtain, by contrast, finite-energy solutions, with the same localization and Superluminality properties. [PACS nos.: 41.20.Jb; 03.50.De; 03.30.+p; 84.40.Az; 42.82.Et. Keywords: Wave-guides; Localized solutions to Maxwell equations; Superluminal waves; Bessel beams; Limited-dispersion beams; Finite-energy waves; Electromagnetic wavelets; X-shaped waves; Evanescent waves; Electromagnetism; Microwaves; Optics; Special relativity; Localized acoustic waves; Seismic waves; Mechanical waves; Elastic waves; Guided gravitational waves.]
description: plain LaTeX file (12 pages), plus 10 figures
Modelling synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton emission of gamma-ray burst afterglows from radio to very-high energies
Creators: name: Joshi, Jagdish C.
name: Razzaque, Soebur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchrotron radiation from a decelerating blastwave is a widely accepted model of radio to X-ray afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GeV gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the duration of which extends beyond the prompt gamma-ray emission phase, is also compatible with broad features of afterglow emission. We revisit the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission model from a decelerating blastwave to fit multiwavelength data from three bright GRBs, namely GRB~190114C, GRB~130427A and GRB~090510. We constrain the afterglow model parameters using the simultaneous fit of the spectral energy distributions at different times and light curves at different frequencies for these bursts. We find that a constant density interstellar medium is favored for the short GRB~090510, while a wind-type environment is favored for the long GRB~130427A and GRB~190114C. The sub-TeV component in GRB~190114C detected by MAGIC is the SSC emission in our modelling. Furthermore we find that the SSC emission in the Thomson regime is adequate to fit the spectra and light curves of GRB~190114C. For the other two GRBs, lacking sub-TeV detection, the SSC emissions are also modeled in the Thomson regime. For the model parameters we have used, the $γγ$ attenuation in the blastwave is negligible in the sub-TeV range compared to the redshift-dependent $γγ$ attenuation in the extragalactic background light.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, Comments welcome
title: „Normalfall“ Neonazi – Oder: Gibt es eine zeithistorische Rechtsextremismus-Forschung?
Creators: name: Müller, Yves
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Zeitgeschichte online
Year: 2019

description: Die deutsche Zeitgeschichtsschreibung hat den Ruf, sich über Jahre hinweg nicht ernsthaft mit der extremen Rechten in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR beschäftigt zu haben, während Studien zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus ganze Bibliotheken füllen. Der zu früh verstorbene Zeithistoriker Axel Schildt bekundete, dass „die Geschichtswissenschaft bisher sehr wenig zur Analyse rechtsextremer Bewegungen nach 1945 beigetragen“ habe. Doch stimmt dieser Befund in seiner Pauschalisierung überhaupt?
Impacts of economic Liberalization on socio-economic factors affecting investment in livestock on traditional farms
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: F. Mashhour, Ahmed
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: F. Mashhour, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Impacts of economic Liberalization on socio-economic factors affecting investment in livestock on traditional farms
subject: farms
subject: investment
subject: livestock

description: Egyptian journal of Applied science, Vol. 15, No. 4, April 2000
Peer assessment in medical communication skills training in programmatic assessment: A qualitative study examining faculty and student perceptions
Creators: name: Dohms, M. C.
name: Rocha, A.
name: Rasemberg, E.
name: Dielissen, P.
name: Thoonen, B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Current literature recommends assessment of communication skills in medical education combining different settings and multiple observers. There is still a gap in understanding about whether and how peers assessment facilitates learning in communication skills training. We designed a qualitative study using focus group interviews and thematic analysis, in a medical course in the Netherlands. We aimed to explore medical students’ and teachers’ experiences, perceptions, and perspectives about challenges and facilitating factors in PACST (Peer assessment in medical communication skills training). Most of the participants reported that peer feedback was a valuable experience when learning communication skills. The major challenges for the quality and credibility of PACST reported by the participants are the question whether peer feedback is critical enough for learning and the difficulty of actually engaging students in the assessment process. Teachers reviewing students’ peer assessments may improve the quality and their credibility and the reviewed assessments can best be used for learning purposes. We suggest to pay sufficient attention to teachers’ roles in PACST, ensuring a safe and trustworthy environment and additionally helping students to internalize the value of being vulnerable during the evaluation process.
Additional file 3: Table S1. of Impact of RNA degradation on fusion detection by RNA-seq
Creators: name: Davila, Jaime
name: Numrah Fadra
name: Xiaoke Wang
name: McDonald, Amber
name: Nair, Asha
name: Barbara, Crusan
name: Xianglin Wu
name: Blommel, Joseph
name: Jen, Jin
name: Kandelaria Rumilla
name: Jenkins, Robert
name: Aypar, Umut
name: Klee, Eric
name: Kipp, Benjamin
name: Halling, Kevin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Total read depth, percent of reads mapping to the human genome and average read depth on exome region for samples used. Table S2. RIN values, decay rates and R 2 and p values for the model log(median coverage) = decay rate/1000 × distance + offset for chemically degraded cell lines. UHR was chemically degraded in-house and U251 was available from the literature (9). Table S3. List of genes involved in fusions. Information for each gene includes gene symbol, transcript id and gene description. Table S4. RIN values, decay rates and R 2 and p values for the model log(median coverage) = decay rate/1000 × distance + offset, where median coverage is only calculated for expressed genes in the fusion list, for normal and tumor tissue samples with different levels of RNA degradation. Sample type (either tissue or cell line), histology and anatomical site is provided. Table S5. Number of fusion supporting reads per 50 million reads for different fusions occurring in UHR at different levels of RNA degradation. The distance of the breakpoint from the 3′ end is also provided. Table S6. List of fusions detected in tumor samples from Additional file 3 Table S3. The sample type, histologic diagnosis, RIN value, distance of the gene fusion breakpoint from the 3′ end, estimated sensitivity for the corresponding distance from the 3′ end to the breakpoint (calculated as in Fig. 3a) are also provided. For fusions whose distance is over 5 kb, we included the estimated sensitivity at 5 kb and denoted with the symbol *. (DOCX 69 kb)
A Radiomics Approach to Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Cardiac Cine-MRI
Creators: name: Cetin, Irem
name: Sanroma, Gerard
name: Petersen, Steffen E.
name: Napel, Sandy
name: Camara, Oscar
name: Ballester, Miguel-Angel Gonzalez
name: Lekadir, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Use expert visualization or conventional clinical indices can lack accuracy for borderline classications. Advanced statistical approaches based on eigen-decomposition have been mostly concerned with shape and motion indices. In this paper, we present a new approach to identify CVDs from cine-MRI by estimating large pools of radiomic features (statistical, shape and textural features) encoding relevant changes in anatomical and image characteristics due to CVDs. The calculated cine-MRI radiomic features are assessed using sequential forward feature selection to identify the most relevant ones for given CVD classes (e.g. myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, abnormal right ventricle). Finally, advanced machine learning is applied to suitably integrate the selected radiomics for final multi-feature classification based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). The proposed technique was trained and cross-validated using 100 cine-MRI cases corresponding to five different cardiac classes from the ACDC MICCAI 2017 challenge \footnote{https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/acdc/index.html}. All cases were correctly classified in this preliminary study, indicating potential of using large-scale radiomics for MRI-based diagnosis of CVDs.